Jerome Ch en
1919 - 2019
Historian of modern China
Jack Leonard Warner
1892 - 1978
President
David Oancia
1929 - 1995
Journalist and correspondent for The Globe
John Bottomley
1960 - 2011
Singer-songwriter
James Naismith
1861 - 1939
Physical educator and sports coach
John Graham Lake
1870 - 1935
Missionary
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott
1821 - 1893
He was the first Canadian born prime minister
Gerald Bull
1928 - 1990
Long-range artillery
Stephen Irwin
1944 - 2019
Architect and urbanist
Tommy Douglas
1904 - 1986
Politician and socialist
John Edward Broadbent
1936 - 2024
Politician, Political Scientist
Shirley Rose Eikhard
1955 - 2022
Singer, Songwriter
Etienne Gaboury
1930 - 2022
Architect and urbanist
Bernard John Ebbers
1941 - 2020
CEO of WorldCom
William Samuel Clouston Stanger
1897 - 1989
Spymaster
Karl Tremblay
1976 - 2023
Singer, Composer, Video Game Developer
Doug Henning
1947 - 2000
Magician, Illusionist, Escape Artist
Edward Plunket Taylor
1901 - 1989
Chairman of Argus Corporation
John Weir Foote
1904 - 1988
Military Chaplain, Politician
Ellen Louks Fairclough
1905 - 2004
Politician
George-Etienne Cartier
1814 - 1873
Father of Confederation
Doreen Kimura
1933 - 2013
Psychologist and neuropsychologist
Billy Bishop
1894 - 1956
Pilot and war hero
Frank Herbert Dedrick Pickersgill
1915 - 1944
SOE Agent
Morley Safer
1931 - 2016
Broadcast journalist, reporter and correspondent
Henry Norwest
1881 - 1918
Military Sniper
Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt
1908 - 2000
Soldier
David H. Hubel
1926 - 2013
Neurophysiologist
Jean Pouliot
1923 - 2004
Founder and CEO of CFCF Inc. and Télé-Capitale
Qamar Gula
1952 - 2022
Musician
Arthur Erickson
1924 - 2009
Architect and urbanist
Jack Kent Cooke
1912 - 1997
Owner of Los Angeles Lakers, Kings
Peter Munk
1927 - 2018
Founder and chairman of Barrick Gold Corporation
Ronald Vaughan Joyce
1930 - 2019
Co-founder of Tim Hortons
John Cabot
1450 - 1500
he discovered a new foundland CANADA
Kenneth Stuart
1891 - 1945
Chief of the General Staff
Joseph-Armand Bombardier
1907 - 1964
Snowmobile and Ski-Doo
John Gilbert Layton
1950 - 2011
Leader of the NDP
Jean Vanier
1928 - 2019
Creating communities for people
Kenneth Douglas Taylor
1934 - 2015
he was the Canadian ambassador to Iran.
Henry Woodward
1832 - 1910
Inventor of the electric light bulb
Ammo Baba
1934 - 2009
Iraq national football team manager
Lionel Groulx
1878 - 1967
Historian, Priest
Sandford Fleming
1827 - 1915
Railway and standard time
Samuel Benfield Steele
1849 - 1919
Mountie and Military Leader
Seta Hagopian
1950 - 2018
Singer and songwriter of Iraqi music
Nelly Arcan
1973 - 2009
writer
Leonard Norman Cohen
1934 - 2016
Singer, songwriter, poet, novelist
William Osler
1849 - 1919
Physician and educator
Simon McTavish
1750 - 1804
Founding partner of the North West Company
William Lyon Mackenzie
1795 - 1861
Journalist, Politician
Ian Dawson Tyson
1933 - 2022
Singer-songwriter, Guitarist
William Harding le Riche
1916 - 2010
Physician and epidemiologist
Wilfred Bigelow
1913 - 2005
Heart surgeon and scientist
John McCrae
1872 - 1918
Poet, Physician, Soldier
Paul Desmarais
1927 - 2013
Chairman and CEO of Power Corporation
Alfred John Scow
1927 - 2013
First Aboriginal lawyer and judge in BC
Edgar Bronfman
1929 - 2013
Former CEO of Seagram president of World Jewish
Harry Crerar
1888 - 1965
General and soldier
Arthur Wellington Clah
1831 - 1916
Chief, Diarist, Missionary
Peter Dmytruk
1920 - 1943
Sergeant in the Royal Canadian Air Force
Thomas Ahearn
1855 - 1938
Electrical engineer
Allan Napier MacNab
1798 - 1862
Politician, Lawyer
Chad Allan
1943 - 2023
Singer-songwriter
Erik Bruhn
1928 - 1986
Ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director
Len Norris
1913 - 1997
Editorial cartoonist for the Vancouver Sun
Basil Boulton
1913 - 2005
Heart surgeon and scientist
Jean de Brebeuf
1593 - 1649
Jesuit priest and missionary to the Huron people
Gordon Edgar Downie
1964 - 2017
singer
James TC Liu
1919 - 1993
Historian of modern China
Lois Marshall
1925 - 1997
Soprano Singer
Ramsey Muir Withers
1930 - 2014
Chief of Defence Staff
Leonard Warren Murray
1896 - 1971
Naval Officer
Peter Trueman
1934 - 2021
Broadcast journalist, reporter
Myles Francis Goodwyn
1948 - 2023
Musician, Songwriter, Producer
Louis Riel
1844 - 1885
Founder of Manitoba
Samuel Bronfman
1889 - 1971
Founder of Seagram Company
Hugh Le Caine
1914 - 1977
Electronic music and instruments
Romeo Sabourin
1923 - 1944
Spy
Alexander Graham Bell
1847 - 1922
Invention of the telephone
Lionel Guy d'Artois
1917 - 1999
SOE Agent, Military Officer
Jaime Royal Robertson
1943 - 2023
Musician, Songwriter, Guitarist
George Brock Chisholm
1896 - 1971
Psychiatrist
Ernest Cormier
1885 - 1980
Architect and engineer
Victor Kennedy Copps
1919 - 1988
Mayor
Roy Brown
1893 - 1944
Pilot and war hero
Dai Vernon
1894 - 1992
Magician, Sleight-of-Hand Artist
Edouard Percy Cranwill Girouard
1867 - 1932
Railway builder and colonial administrator
Roy Herbert Thomson
1894 - 1976
Founder of Thomson Corporation
Edward Oliver Wheeler
1890 - 1962
Surveyor General of India
Henry Ruttan
1792 - 1871
Legislator and author
Alfred Dudoward
1850 - 1914
Hereditary Chief
Joe Shuster
1914 - 1992
Comic book artist and writer
Ryan Larkin
1943 - 2007
animator, artist
Bruce Guthro
1961 - 2023
Singer-songwriter
Errol Flynn
1909 - 1959
known for his romantic swashbuckler roles
Mary John
1913 - 2004
Community Leader
John Molson
1763 - 1836
Founder of Molson Brewery
Frederick Grant Banting
1891 - 1941
Co discoverer of insulin
Harold Rogers
1899 - 1994
Founder of Kin Canada
Asmatullah Rohani
1937 - 2017
Judge and Educator
Charles Fenerty
1821 - 1892
Wood pulp paper
Donny George Youkhanna
1950 - 2011
Director of Iraq National Museum
Tommy Prince
1915 - 1977
Soldier and Advocate
Albert Lacombe
1827 - 1916
Missionary, Priest
Franklin Knight Lane
1864 - 1921
Secretary of the Interior
William Maxwell Aitken
1879 - 1964
Newspaper publisher and politician
Arthur William Currie
1875 - 1933
Commander of Canadian Corps
Willard Boyle
1924 - 2011
Co-inventor of charge-coupled device
Irving Layton
1912 - 2006
Poet
Henry Asbjorn Larsen
1899 - 1964
Arctic explorer and RCMP officer
Izaak Walton Killam
1885 - 1955
Investor in utilities, pulp and paper
Joseph Arthur Gosnell Sr.
1936 - 2020
Tribal Leader
James Layton Ralston
1881 - 1948
Politician and Soldier
William Beynon
1888 - 1958
Ethnographer, Hereditary Chief
Harrison McCain
1927 - 2004
Co-founder of McCain Foods Limited
Peter Lymburner Robertson
1879 - 1951
Inventor of the Robertson screw and screwdriver
Elijah McCoy
1844 - 1929
Lubricating cup
Robertson Davies
1913 - 1992
Willard Gordon Galen Weston
1940 - 2021
Chairman of George Weston Limited
Cluny MacPherson
1879 - 1966
Gas mask
Paul-Emile Leger
1904 - 1991
Cardinal, Archbishop
Albert Ross Tilley
1904 - 1988
Plastic surgeon and war hero
Elizabeth Bagshaw
1881 - 1982
Physician and educator
John Redpath
1796 - 1869
Founder and chairman of Redpath Sugar Corporation
Elijah Harper
1949 - 2013
Politician
Anthony Barringer
1925 - 2009
INPUT system
Sarah Hegazi
1989 - 2020
IT specialist
Win Mortimer
1919 - 1998
Comic strip artist and writer
Louis Hippolyte Menard
1807 - 1864
Premier
Thomas Francis Ryan
1872 - 1961
Businessman and sports promoter
Irene Ayako Uchida
1917 - 2013
Geneticist and scientist
George Lawrence Price
1892 - 1918
Soldier
Norman Bethune
1890 - 1939
Mobile blood-transfusion service
James Sewid
1913 - 1988
Chief councillor
Francis Pegahmagabow
1891 - 1952
Soldier, Politician, Activist
William Christopher Macdonald
1831 - 1917
Tobacco manufacturer and education benefactor
John Fitzwilliam Stairs
1848 - 1904
Founder and chairman of Nova Scotia Steel
Abraham Pineo Gesner
1797 - 1864
Kerosene
Thomas Ricketts
1901 - 1967
Soldier
James Alexander Cowan
1901 - 1978
Writer and public relations consultant
Chris Haney
1950 - 2010
Trivial Pursuit
Timothy Gregg Bachman
1951 - 2023
Guitarist, Singer
James Randi
1928 - 2020
Stage Magician, Scientific Skeptic
Wathiq Naji
1940 - 2014
Iraq national football team manager
John Willis Ambrose
1904 - 1974
First President of the Geological Association
Louis Joseph Papineau
1786 - 1871
Politician, Lawyer
Robert Campeau
1923 - 2017
Real estate developer and corporate raider
Reginald Fessenden
1866 - 1932
Radio and sonar
Nasrat Parsa
1968 - 2005
Singer, Composer
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