- Gordon O'Connor
Gordon James O'Connor, PC, OMM, CD, BA, B.Sc., MP (born May 18, 1939) is a retired Brigadier-General, current Canadian Member of Parliament and the Minister of National Defence. He is one of a few Defence Ministers to have served in the military, the last being Gilles Lamontagne. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he has a B.Sc Mathematics and Physics from Concordia University and BA in Philosophy from York University. He served over 30 years in the Canadian Army, … - Laurie Hawn
Laurie D. Hawn, CD, MP (born May 11, 1947 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Canadian Air Force (1964-1994), business person, and federal politician from Edmonton, Alberta. In the session of Parliament following the 39th general federal election of January 23, 2006, he is the Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre and was sworn in on February 6, 2006. He ran as a Conservative candidate in riding of Edmonton Centre in the 2004 federal election. - Maurice Baril
Joseph Gérard Maurice Baril, C.M.M., CD (born September 22 1943) is a former General in the Canadian Forces, a Military Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General & head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations from 1992 to 1997, and Chief of the Defence Staff in Canada from 1997 to 2001. He was born in Saint-Albert-de-Warwick, Quebec in 1943 and studied at the University of Ottawa from 1961 to 1964, … - Alex Morrison
William Alexander (Alex) Morrison (born 1941) is a former Lieutenant Colonel of the Canadian Forces. Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968 from Mount Allison University. He joined the Canadian Forces in 1959 and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1990. While in the CF, he received a Master of Arts in war studies degree from Royal Military College of Canada, student #G0053 in 1980. - Chris Hadfield
Chris Austin Hadfield (born August 29, 1959) was the first Canadian to walk in space. Hadfield was born in Sarnia, Ontario. He attended Montclair Senior School in Oakville and White Oaks High School in Oakville, both near Toronto. In 2005, Colonel Hadfield revisited Montclair to talk to the students about dreams and determination. In Milton, Hadfield was a Wolf Cub and later joined the Royal Canadian Air Cadets' 820 Blue Thunder Squadron. - Robert Bertrand
Robert "Bob" Bertrand is a Canadian politician. He was a federal member of Parliament for the riding of Pontiac—Gatineau—Labelle. He ran and won in the 1993, 1997 and 2000 Canadian federal elections with significant majorities under the banner of the Liberal Party of Canada. Although considered a backbencher, he was very active in Parliament, … - Jean Victor Allard
General Jean Victor Allard, CC, CBE, GOQ, DSO, ED, CD (June 12, 1913 - April 23, 1996) was the first French-Canadian to become Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest position in the Canadian Forces from 1966–1969. He was also the first to hold the accompanying rank of (full, four-leaf) general. Allard served as an officer in the Régiment de Trois-Rivières prior to World War II. He was mobilized in the rank of major. - Michelle Douglas
Michelle Douglas (born December 30, 1963 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian human rights activist who was involved in a landmark case around lesbian and gay equality rights in the Canadian military. After graduating from Carleton University in 1985, Douglas joined the Canadian Forces in 1986, and was soon promoted to the Special Investigations Unit. In 1989, however, she came under investigation and was constructively dismissed because she is a lesbian. - Denis Lortie
Denis Lortie is a former Canadian army corporal. In 1984, he stormed into the National Assembly of Quebec building and killed three Quebec government employees. A corporal with the Royal 22<sup>e</sup> Régiment of the Canadian Forces, Lortie was disgruntled with a number of policies of the Quebec and federal governments. He planned a killing spree as a means of broadcasting his discontent. - Raymond Villeneuve
Raymond Villeneuve was a founding member of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorist organization. Beginning in the early 1960s, the FLQ was responsible for more than two hundred bombings and numerous armed robberies that led to the events in 1970 known as the October Crisis. On April 20, 1963, Raymond Villeneuve and his terrorist associates planted a bomb at a Canadian Army recruitment centre that killed 65-year-old night watchman Wilfred O'Neill. - Dyane Adam
Dyane Adam was the Canadian Official Languages Commissioner. She is responsible for promoting bilingualism within the government of Canada. She holds a Doctor's degree in psychology from the University of Ottawa and teaches at the university, as well as at Glendon College. After she had led a campaign to preserve bilingualism at York University and Montfort Hospital, then-Prime Minister Jean Chrétien appointed her Official Languages Commissioner. - Alex Shibicky
Alex Shibicky (b. May 19, 1914 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-d. 9 July, 2005 in South Surrey, British Columbia, Canada) was an ice hockey forward who played for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League from 1935 to 1946. Shibicky was also a Stanley Cup winner in 1940, and the vice-president of the first incarnation of the National Hockey League Players Association, but he is best known for being the first player to use a slapshot, which he did in 1937. - Dee Brasseur
Major (Retired) Deanna Marie (Dee) Brasseur (born September 9, 1953) is a retired Canadian military officer and one of the two first two female CF-18 Hornet fighter pilots in the world. Born in Pembroke, Ontario, a daughter to Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Lionel C. (Lyn) Brasseur and Marie Olive (Aucoin), she joined the Canadian Forces in 1972 as an administrative clerk at a dental unit detachment in Winnipeg. - Claude Morin
Claude Morin, born on August 10, 1953 in Saint-Gédéon de Beauce, Quebec, is a politician from Quebec, Canada, and the Action démocratique du Québec Member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of Beauce-Sud. Morin has a bachelor's degree in social sciences from the University of Ottawa. Before his election, he worked within the Canadian Armed Forces for over 15 years in Lille, France, Quebec and Chilliwack, British Columbia as an officer and director. - Yogi Huyghebaert
Delwood Frederick "Yogi" Huyghebaert, O.M.M., C.D. (Lt Colonel-Ret) (born in Lafleche, Saskatchewan) is the current Member of the Legislative Assembly for the riding of Wood River, Saskatchewan. He represents the Saskatchewan Party. Prior to his election to public office, he was a pilot in the Canadian Forces. His most notable duty was as commander of the Snowbirds Air Demonstration Team - 431 Squadron. In 1986, he was made an Officer of the Order of Military Merit. - Claude Bissell
Claude Thomas Bissell, CC, MA, FRSC, D.Litt (10 February 1916 - 21 June 2000) was a Canadian author and educator. He was the eighth president of the University of Toronto from 1958 to 1971. He played a major part in the expansion of the University of Toronto, tripling the size of the university during his tenure. He was born in Meaford, Ontario, the youngest of nine children. - Bruce Chown
Bruce Chown (November 10, 1893 - July 3, 1986) was a Canadian scientist who researched the blood factor known as the Rhesus factor and helped produced a Rh immune vaccine, Rh gamma globulin, which helps to prevent Erythroblastosis fetalis. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the son of Henry Havelock and Katherine (Farrel) Chown, he received a B.A. from McGill University in 1914. During World War I, he served in the Canadian Field Artillery and received the Military Cross. - Rick Miles
Rick Miles is a Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in New Brunswick, Canada, representing the constituency of Fredericton-Silverwood. Miles defeated former Progressive Conservative MLA and cabinet minister Brad Green in the September 18, 2006 general election for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick. Miles is a businessman in Fredericton and former member of the Canadian Forces. On November 28 2006 he was elected caucus chair for his Liberal Party. - Ramsey Muir Withers
Ramsey Muir Withers, CMM, CStJ, CD, LL.D (born 28 July 1930) is a past Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest ranking position in the Canadian Forces 1980–1983. Born in Scarborough, Ontario to Scottish immigrant parents, Ramsey was appointed to the position of Chief in 1980 following 32 years of distinguished military service. In all, Withers spent 35 years in uniform, serving in the Korean War and in command and staff positions throughout Canada and overseas. - Prudence Heward
Prudence Heward, born July 2, 1896 - died March 19, 1947, was a Canadian painter. Born Efa Prudence Heward in Montreal, Quebec, Canada into a well-to-do family, she was educated at private schools. At a young age, she showed an interest in art and, encouraged by her family, she attended the Art Association of Montreal school for training. - Gustave Biéler
Gustave Daniel Alfred Biéler (1904 - September 6, 1944), was a Special Operations Executive agent during World War II. Bieler was born in Lutry, Vaud, Switzerland. At the age of twenty, he emigrated to Canada where he settled in the city of Montreal working as a school teacher and then as an official translator for Sun Life Assurance and becoming a Canadian citizen. At the outbreak of World War II, although married with two children, … - Robert Hilborn Falls
Admiral Robert Hilborn Falls (April 24, 1924-) was Chief of Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces from 1977 to 1980. He first joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 as a pilot and later transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy after World War II. He served as commander of the Canadian Flotilla Atlantic, as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff from 1974 to 1977, and as chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1980 to 1983. - Don Cousens
W. Donald Cousens (born July 20, 1938 in Vankleek Hill, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1994, and briefly served as a cabinet minister in the government of Frank Miller. From 1994 to 2006, Cousens served as the Mayor of Markham, Ontario. Cousens was educated at Queen's University and Knox College at the University of Toronto. - E. L. M. Burns
Eedson Louis Millard "Tommy" Burns, CC, DSO, OBE, MC, CD (June 17, 1897 - September 13, 1985) was a Canadian Army Lieutenant-General and diplomat. “Tommy” Burns, student # 1032 graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario in 1914. He taught at the Royal Military College of Canada and attended the School of Military Engineering in Great Britain. He played a critical role in the Middle East peace process from 1954 to 1959. - Gerald Merrithew
Gerald Stairs "Gerry" Merrithew, PC, CD, BA, B.Ed, LL.D (September 23, 1931 - September 5, 2004), born at Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, was an educator, politician and statesman. Merrithew graduated from the New Brunswick Teachers' College, then obtained his BA & B.Ed degrees from the University of New Brunswick. With a lifelong interest in the Canadian Forces, he became an Officer Cadet and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. - Richard Gauthier
Richard Gauthier is a Canadian Métis musician from Kelowna, British Columbia. Born December 19, 1962 in St. Boniface, Manitoba to René Gauthier and Mary Jane Kipling, Richard was the middle of 9 children. Richard went to school in Winnipeg at Marion School, Nordale Elementary and Holy Cross Parochial. He completed his high school (1980) in St. Vital, attending Glenlawn Collegiate. After high school, he joined the Canadian Forces as a communications research operator. - Joe Benoit
Joe Benoit (born February 27, 1916, in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada - died October 191981) is a former National Hockey League right wing. He played for the Montreal Canadiens during the 1940s. He missed the 1943-44 season while serving with the Canadian Forces in World War II, and the 1944-45 season playing for the Calgary Army team. He is chiefly remembered as the man who preceded Maurice Richard on the "Punch Line" at right wing. - Lionel Chetwynd
Lionel Chetwynd (born January 1, 1940 in Hackney in London, England, UK) is a Canadian-American screenwriter, motion picture and television film director and producer. Although born in England, Chetwynd's family moved to Canada when he was eight years old. Problems within his dysfunctional family led to him quitting school at age fourteen. He returned the following year but was promptly expelled. - Frank Parker Day
Frank Parker Day (born 1881 at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, died 1950 at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia) was a Canadian fisherman and author. Since Day's father was a Methodist minister who moved to a new congregation every three years, Day spent his youth living throughout Nova Scotia, living in Wallace, Acadia Mines, Mahone Bay, Boylston, and Lockeport. When he was seventeen, Day attended Pictou Academy and from there went on to earn a BA from Mount Allison University. - Peter Dmytruk
Peter Dmytruk (b. May 27, 1920 in Radisson, Saskatchewan, Canada, d. December 9, 1943 at Les Martres-de-Veyre, Puy-de-Dôme in the Auvergne area of France) is a military hero of World War II. At the outbreak of World War II, Peter Dmytruk was living in Wynyard, Saskatchewan when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in July of 1941. Following his training, he was shipped overseas where he served as a tail gunner with the 405th Bomber Squadron. - Albert Ludwig
Albert Ludwig (born:Melfort, Saskatchewan 1919) was a long serving politician and World War II combat veteran, layer judge and current author from Alberta, Canada. Albert joined the Canadian Forces in 1940. Albert served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the Social Credit Party of Alberta through 4 terms from 1959 to 1975. In the 1975 Alberta general election he was defeated by John Kushner in a hotly contested election. - Ed Mandrake
Edward Charles Mandrake (born October 1, 1938 in Ethelbert, Manitoba) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1990, representing the west-end Winnipeg riding of Assiniboia for the Manitoba Liberal Party. Mandrake was educated at the Red River Community College, receiving a certificate in Motor Vehicle work. He worked in vehicle body repair before entering politics. - Robert Timbrell
Rear Admiral Robert Walter Timbrell, CMM, DSC, CD, Royal Canadian Navy (February 1 1920 – April 11 2006) was the first Canadian to be decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross during the Second World War. This followed his part in Operation Dynamo where he was personally responsible for the evacuation of 900 troops from the beaches of Dunkirk. Later in the war he served on destroyers escorting convoys across the North Atlantic, … - Budd Lynch
Budd Lynch is the Detroit Red Wings' public address announcer at Joe Louis Arena, a position he has held since the 1975-76 NHL season. He began his career in 1949 as the team's radio play-by-play announcer. Lynch had been with the Windsor Spitfires when Red Wings' general manager Jack Adams asked him to call the games for his organization. - Joshua Quagmire
Joshua Quagmire (sometimes shortened to JQ) is an American cartoonist for underground and more commercially popular comic books, best known for his creation Cutey Bunny. Quagmire's biographical information is a bit sketchy. It is not known whether or not "Joshua Quagmire" is a pseudonym. He was raised in the Los Angeles area, though he has remarked that his grandfather served in the Canadian Forces in World War I; Quagmire has dedicated a story, … - André Riedl
André Riedl, born in the Saint-Henri neighborhood in Montreal on October 10, 1940, is a politician from Quebec, Canada, and the Action démocratique du Québec Member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of Iberville. He once said that "unions are a necessary evil". Riedl went on a training course at the Canadian Armed Forces in 1957. He was later for nine years the president of BOC Gaz Canada, a gas and equipment supplier. - Sylvain Légaré
Sylvain Légaré is a politician in Québec, Canada, and an Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the Vanier riding. He studied financial planning at the Université Laval and TELUQ, graduating in 2000, and has worked as a financial advisor since 1999. He owned a financial service firm in 2003. He also worked at Environment Canada as a weather observer from 1997 to 1999. He was president of the Charlesbourg Arts Society, … - J. Conrad Lavigne
J. Conrad Lavigne was a pioneering Canadian media proprietor. Born in Chénéville, Quebec, Lavigne was raised in Cochrane, Ontario. He joined the Canadian Forces in 1942 and fought in World War II. When he returned to Canada following the war, he settled in Kirkland Lake, where he purchased the Prince George Hotel, working as joint owner from 1946 to 1948, then owner from 1948 to 1950 and then became a radio host for CJKL. - Albiny Paquette
Joseph-Henri-Albiny Paquette was a Quebec politician and radiologist. He was a Cabinet Minister under Maurice Duplessis' Union Nationale government for 17 years. Born in Marieville, Quebec, Paquette studied in medical sciences at Université Laval. After additionnal studies and training at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, Paquette worked first for the Canadian Red Cross in the Middle East, then in the Canadian Armed Forces as medical officier. - Mark Minenko
Mark Minenko (born March 29, 1957 in New York City, New York) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1990, representing the Winnipeg riding of Seven Oaks for the Manitoba Liberal Party. Minenko's father was the Very Rev. Tymofiy Minenko, a priest in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. He was raised in Winnipeg, and was educated at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba.
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