- Rick Hillier
Born in Newfoundland and Labrador, General Rick Hillier joined the Canadian Forces as soon as he could. Having enrolled in the Canadian Forces in 1973 through the Regular Officer Training Plan program, he graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science Degree. After completing his armour officer classification training, he joined his first regiment, the 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's) in Petawawa, Ontario. - 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, … - C. P. Stacey
Colonel Charles Perry Stacey (30 July 1906 - 17 November 1989) O.C., O.BE., CD, BA, AM, Ph.D., LL.D., D.Litt, D.Sc Mil, FRSC, was the official historian of the Canadian Army in the Second World War and has been published extensively on matters both military and political. - Desmond Morton
Desmond Morton, OC, Ph.D., FRSC (born 1937) is a Canadian historian who specializes in the history of the Canadian military, as well as the history of Canadian political and industrial relations. Born in Calgary, Alberta, Morton is a graduate of the Collège Militaire Royal de St-Jean, the Royal Military College of Canada, a Rhodes Scholar, the University of Oxford (where he received his PhD), and the London School of Economics. - Guy Simonds
Lieutenant-General Guy Granville Simonds, CC, CB, CBE, DSO, CD, (April 23, 1903 - May 15, 1974) was a Canadian Army officer who commanded the II Canadian Corps during World War II. Additionally, he served as acting commander of the Cdn. 1st Army, leading the Allied forces to victory in the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944. After the war, in 1951, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff, the head officer of the Canadian Army. - John Smith
John Smith (February 18 1894 - November 8 1977) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Lincoln in the Canadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative member from 1957 to 1962. He was born in Scotland in 1894, the son of Daniel Smith, and grew up there. Smith was a building contractor. He served in the Canadian Army during World War I. In 1924, he married Jean Wood. - Charles Foulkes
Charles Foulkes, CC, CB, CBE, DSO, CD, LL.D (January 3, 1903 - September 12, 1969) was a Canadian soldier, and an officer of The Royal Canadian Regiment. He was born in Stockton-on-Tees, England and joined the Canadian Army in 1926. In 1937 he attended the Staff College in Camberley, England. He fought in World War II as a member of the First Canadian Army. - Alex Colville
Born on August 24, 1920 in Toronto, Ontario and moved with his family to Nova Scotia in 1929. Studied art at Mount Allison University, N.B. and on graduating in 1942 joined the Canadian Army and served in Europe as a member of the War Art program. He paints people and places he knew. Although realistic style, his paintings have a timeless and monumental quality. - 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, … - Ainsworth Dyer
Corporal Ainsworth Dyer (July 29 1977 - April 17 2002) was one of 4 Canadian soldiers killed in a friendly fire incident near Kandahar in Afghanistan ("see" Tarnak Farm incident). Dyer was born in Montreal in 1977 and grew up in Toronto. He joined the Canadian Army in October 1997. He served with Canadian peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2000. - Brent Beardsley
Major Brent Palmer Beardsley, M.S.C., C.D., is an Infantry Officer in The Royal Canadian Regiment of the Canadian Army currently with 26 years of continuing service. After joining the Canadian Forces in 1978, he served internationally with his Army regiment in London, Norway, Cyprus, and Germany. - 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. - Bert Hoffmeister
Major General (Ret'd) Bertram Meryl (Bert) Hoffmeister, O.C., C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., E.D. (May 15, 1907 - December 4, 1999) was a Canadian Army officer, businessman, and conservationist. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was a sales manager with the Canadian White Pine Co. Ltd. in Vancouver. He enlisted with the Non-Permanent Active Militia (the Canadian Army Reserve Force) in 1927. He was promoted Captain in 1934. After he was promoted to Major, in 1939, … - Richard Green
Private Richard A. Green (May 26 1980-April 17 2002) was a Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan in what became known as the Tarnak Farm incident in which a U.S. plane dropped a laser-guided bomb on the 3rd Battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. The infantry was participating in a training exercise which involved live firing of anti-tank and machine-gun rounds on an authorized training range. - Charles Merritt
Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt, VC (November 10, 1908 - July 12, 2000) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Merritt was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on November 10, 1908, the elder son of Major Cecil Merritt, who was killed at Ypres in the First World War. He entered the Royal Military College of Canada, … - Dwight Wilson
Percy "Dwight" Wilson was the second-to-last surviving Canadian veteran of the First World War and the last one still living in Canada. Born in Vienna, Elgin County, Ontario, he signed up as a 15-year old boy in 1916. When asked about his actual age he told the recruiting officer 16, but faced with soaring casualty rates for each meager yard of territory won and lost, that was good enough for the Canadian Army. On the two week voyage crossing the North Atlantic to England, … - Monty Hall
Maurice "Monty Hall" Halperin, O.C., B.Sc., LL.D (born on August 25, 1921 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian-born actor, singer and sportscaster, best known as the host of the long-running television game show "Let's Make a Deal" - Earle Birney
Earle Alfred Birney, OC, Ph.D, FRSC (13 May 1904 - 3 September 1995) was a distinguished Canadian poet and twice winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature (for "David and Other Poems", 1942, and for "Now Is Time", 1945). Born in Calgary, Alberta, and raised on a farm in Erickson, near Creston, his childhood was somewhat isolated. After working as a farm hand, a bank clerk, and a park ranger, … - 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. - Brian Reid
Brian A. Reid was born in Fort Erie, Ontario and presently resides in Ottawa, Ontario. He was a Canadian soldier and is a military historian. He joined the Canadian Army in 1957 as a gunner and was commissioned as an officer in 1961. He served in regimental, staff and liaison appointments in Canada, Europe and the United States during his long career. His last appointment, before his retirement as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1994, … - Jacques Dextraze
General Jacques Alfred Dextraze, CC, CMM, CBE, DSO, CD, LL.D (August 15, 1919-May 9, 1993) was a Canadian soldier and Chief of the Defence Staff from 1972–1977. Born in Montreal, Québec, the son of Jacques Dextraze and Armanda (Bond) Dextraze, he joined Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal in 1940 as a Private, and was soon commissioned to Lieutenant. He studied at Le Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean Royal Military College of Canada. In 1942, he married Frances Helena Pare. - Kenneth Stuart
Lieutenant-General Kenneth Stuart (September 9 1891 - November 3 1945) CB DSO MC was a Canadian soldier and Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Army from 24 December1941 until 27 December1943. - Jack Shadbolt
Jack Leonard Shadbolt (February 4 1909 - November 22, 1998) was a Canadian painter. Born in Shoeburyness, England, he came to Canada with his parents in 1912, and was raised in Victoria, British Columbia. From 1928 to 1937, he taught in high schools in Duncan, British Columbia and Vancouver, British Columbia. He studied with Frederick Varley at the Vancouver School of Art. - John Carroll
John Benson Carroll (born October 13, 1921 in The Pas, Manitoba; died December 1986) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1958 to 1969, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir. Carroll received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Manitoba. He served in the Canadian Army from 1942 to 1945, reaching the rank of Lieutenant. - Humphrey Cobb
Humphrey Cobb (September 5, 1899 - April 25, 1944) was a screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for writing the novel "Paths of Glory", which was made into an acclaimed 1957 movie by Stanley Kubrick. Cobb was also the lead screenwriter on the 1937 movie "San Quentin", starring Humphrey Bogart. - Donald Graves
Donald Graves is a writer and historian specializing in Canadian military history. Educated at University of Saskatchewan, he has worked as a historian for the National Historic Sites Service, the National Archives of Canada and the Canadian Forces. He is currently the Managing Director of the Ensign Heritage Group. He served briefly in the Canadian Army militia. His work has been widely praised. - William Dillon Otter
General Sir William Dillon Otter (December 3, 1843 - May 6, 1929) KCB, CVO, VD was a professional Canadian soldier who became the first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Army. He began his military career in the Non-Permanent Active Militia in Toronto in 1864. Captain William Otter was Adjutant of the Queen's Own Rifles in 1866. He first saw combat with them at the Battle of Ridgeway during the Fenian Raids. - George G. Blackburn
George Gideon Blackburn, C.M., M.C. (February 13 1917 - November 15 2006) was a Canadian veteran of World War II and author. Born in Wales, Ontario, Blackburn worked in the United States in railway construction as a steam shovel operator and, later, worked as a newspaper reporter for the "Ottawa Journal" in Pembroke, Ontario. He joined the Canadian Army in 1940, becoming a forward observation officer, and fought at the Battle of Normandy. - Charles H. Belzile
Lieutenant-General Charles H. Belzile (born March 12, 1933), CM, CMM, CD was a Canadian soldier and a former head of the Canadian Army. He is an honorary member of the Royal Military College of Canada student #H22547. Born in Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, he enrolled in the Canadian Army in 1951 and was commissioned in the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada (QOR of C) on graduation from the Université de Montréal in 1953. He was then assigned as a platoon commander in Korea. - Conrad Bain
Conrad Stafford Bain (born February 4, 1923) is a Canadian-American actor. Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Bain studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts before serving in the Canadian Army during World War II. He then studied in New York at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where his classmates included actor Charles Durning and comedian Don Rickles; he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1946 then he graduated in 1948. - Sinclair Ross
James Sinclair Ross (January 22, 1908 - February 29, 1996) was a Canadian banker and author, best known for his fiction about life in the Canadian prairies. Ross was born on a homestead near Shellbrook, Saskatchewan. At the age of seven, his parents separated, and he lived with his mother on a number of different farms during his childhood, going to a school in Indian Head, Saskatchewan. - Johnny Bower
John William Bower ("The China Wall") (b. November 8, 1924 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Hockey Hall of Fame goalie. Born in Prince Albert, Bower served with the Canadian Army during World War II in England from 1940 to 1944 and was discharged due to rheumatoid arthritis. - 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, … - Harold Pringle
Harold Joseph Pringle was a Private in the Canadian Army. He served in the the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment and was the "only" soldier of the Canadian Army to be executed during the Second World War for military crimes. When he first joined the army, he joined with his father. They trained together and neither got in any trouble. On medical examination he was accepted but his father was turned away due to poor eyesight, … - Guy D'Artois
Major Lionel Guy d'Artois, Croix de Guerre (born 1917) was a Canadian Army officer and SOE agent. d'Artois was born in Richmond, Quebec in 1917. He was a student at the Universite de Montreal. He joined the First Special Service Force during World War II. In 1943 he volunteered for SOE. He served in F section until 1945. Codename Dieudonne. He parachuted into Saone and Loire, France one month before D-Day. - Ron Gostick
Ronald A. Gostick (July 18 1918 - July 16 2005) was a long-time figure on the Canadian far right and founder of the anti-Semitic Canadian League of Rights. Gostick was involved in the Canadian social credit movement and later published far right and anti-Semitic material over the course of 50 years, including the "Canadian Intelligence Service" and "On Target!" and numerous books and pamphlets. - James Cowan
James Cowan (born September 5, 1914 in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba; died January 4, 1997) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1958 to 1969. Cowan was educated at the Manitoba Law School in Winnipeg, and worked as a barrister-at-law. He served in the Canadian Army during World War II, and was later president of the Canadian Legion Memorial Housing Foundation within Manitoba. - 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, … - Steinn O. Thompson
Steinn Olafur Thompson (born November 23, 1893; died August 19, 1972) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1945 to 1958. Thompson was a doctor, who moved to Riverton, Manitoba after serving overseas with the Canadian Army in World War I. Thompson was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1945 provincial election, … - 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.
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