- Jean de Brébeuf
Saint Jean de Brébeuf was a Jesuit missionary, martyred in Canada March 16 1649. - James Naismith
James A. Naismith, B.A., M.A., M.D., D.D, (November 6, 1861 - November 28, 1939) was the inventor of the sport of basketball and the first to introduce the use of a helmet in American football. He was also the first basketball coach to assemble a team of 5 players. He was born in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada, the eldest son of Scottish immigrants who had arrived in the area in 1851 and worked in the mining industry. - Isaac Jogues
Saint Isaac Jogues was a Jesuit missionary who travelled and worked among the Native Americans in North America. He gave the original European name to Lake George, calling it "Lac du Saint Sacrement", "Lake of the Holy Sacrament". He is regarded as a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. In 1930 Jogues, St. Jean de Brébeuf and six other martyred missionaries, all Jesuits or laymen associated with them, were canonized as "The North American Martyrs," or "St. - Tommy Douglas
Thomas Clement Douglas, PC, CC, SOM, MA, LL.D (hc) (October 20, 1904 - February 24, 1986) was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician. As leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1942 and the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, he led the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public medicare to Canada. - Egerton Ryerson
Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (24 March 1803 - 19 February 1882) was a minister, educator, politician, and public education advocate in early Ontario, Canada. He was born in Charlotteville, Norfolk County in the then-colony of Upper Canada. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church at 18, and was forced to leave the home by his Anglican father. Becoming an itinerant minister - or circuit rider - in the Niagara area, … - Norbert Provencher
Bishop Joseph-Norbert Provencher (February 12, 1787 - June 7, 1853) was an important figure in the history of the Franco-manitoban community, responsible for the St.-Boniface Cathedral and the College universitaire de Saint-Boniface. - Bill Phipps
Bill has worked as a poverty lawyer, pastor, community organizer, hospital chaplain and an adult educator. Between 1974 and 1983, Bill was minister of Trinity-St. Paul's United Church in downtown Toronto. He then served for ten years in an administrative position as Executive Secretary with the United Church's Alberta and Northwest Conference. Bill has been a minister at Scarboro United Church in Calgary since 1993. - James Endicott
The Right Reverend James Endicott (1865-1954) was a Canadian church leader and missionary. He was born in Devon, England the fourth of eleven children. His father was a farm worker. Endicott left England for Canada at the age of seventeen and worked with his brother as a house painter in southwestern Ontario. He met Sarah Diamond who introduced him to the Methodist church. - Brent Hawkes
Rev. Brent Hawkes, CM, D.Min (born in Bath, New Brunswick) is a Canadian clergyman. Since 1977, he has served as senior pastor of Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto for LGBT parishioners, and is one of Canada's leading gay rights activists. Born into a Baptist family, Hawkes has Bachelor of Science (1972) and Bachelor of Education (1973) degrees from Mount Allison University, and Master of Divinity (1986) and Doctor of Ministry (2001) degrees from Trinity College, … - Charles Albanel
Charles Albanel (1616 - 11 January 1696) was a French missionary explorer in Canada, and Jesuit priest. In 1649, he arrived in Canada, at Tadoussac. At the time when the Hudson's Bay Company was beginning operations, he was a leader of a French party that went by the Saguenay River, Lake Mistassini, and the Rupert River to Hudson Bay claiming the region for France. On another journey there he was captured in 1674 by the English and taken to England. - Alexander MacDonell
Alexander Macdonell, (July 17, 1762 - 14 January, 1840) was the first Roman Catholic bishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Macdonell was born Alexander McDonell in Glengarry, Scotland, in 1762. After ordination at Valladolid, his life was devoted to his Gaelic kinsmen in Lochaber and Canada. When they were evicted in 1792 he led them to Glasgow and later formed them into a British regiment, the "Glengarry Fencibles", … - Peter Short
The Very Rev. Peter Short was the 38th Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 2003 until 2006. He was elected Moderator in 2003 and his term expired at the United Church of Canada's 39th General Council in the summer of 2006. He is succeeded by The Rt. Rev. David Giuliano of Marathon, Ontario. Short was born July 22, 1948 in Kingston, Ontario and grew up in Arnprior and Braeside, Ontario. In 1978, he graduated from Emmanuel College, in Toronto, … - Stanley Knowles
Stanley Howard Knowles, PC, OC, BA, BD, LL.D (June 18, 1908 - June 9, 1997) was a Canadian parliamentarian. Knowles represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre from 1942 to 1958 on behalf of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and again from 1962 to 1984 representing the CCF's successor, the New Democratic Party (NDP). Knowles was widely regarded and respected as the foremost expert on parliamentary procedure in Canada, … - Michael Power
Michael Power (October 17, 1804 - October 1, 1847) was the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Toronto. - Gabriel Lallemant
Saint Gabriel Lallemant was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and one of the eight Canadian Martyrs. He is a patron saint of Canada. In 1630 he joined the Jesuits and in 1632 took the vow to devote himself to foreign missions. Despite the vow, he spent 14 years in France before coming to Canada. Hetaught at the Collège in Moulins from 1632 to 1635. - Jean de Lalande
Saint Jean de Lalande (died October 18, 1646) was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and one of the eight Canadian Martyrs. Lalande was a member of a party lead by Jesuit Father Isaac Jogues as an envoy to the Mohawk lands to protect the precarious peace of the time. However, Mohawk attitudes towards this peace had soured during the men's journey and they were attacked by a Mohawk party en route. They were taken to the village of Ossernenon (Auriesville, … - René Goupil
Saint René Goupil was a French missionary and the first North American martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. He was baptized in St-Martin-du-Bois near Angers, France in 1608 on the 15th of May. He volunteered to work with the Jesuits in the hospitals of Quebec. In 1642, he travelled to the Huron missions in New York with Father Isaac Jogues. He was captured by the Iroquois and tortured. After teaching the native children the sign of the cross, … - James Evans
James Evans (January 18, 1801 - November 23, 1846) was a Canadian Methodist missionary and amateur linguist. He is best remembered for his creation of writing systems for several Aboriginal languages, including Ojibwe, Cree, and indirectly Inuktitut. Evans was born in Kingston-upon-Hull in England, but emigrated with his parents to Lower Canada in 1820, where he worked as a teacher. He later moved to Rice Lake and continued his teaching work. - George C. Pidgeon
The Very Reverend George Campbell Pidgeon (March 2 1872 - June 15 1971) was a Presbyterian Church in Canada and United Church of Canada minister. He was ordained in 1894 and earned his Doctor of Divinity from Montreal's Presbyterian College. Pidgeon served congregations first in Montreal West (now Montreal West United Church) and the Toronto area at Streetsville--Toronto Township (now Mississauga) then in West Toronto Junction, … - Pierre-Antoine Tabeau
Pierre-Antoine Tabeau was a Roman Catholic priest and vicar general. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Tabeau, a trader and militia man who was involved in the fur trade out of New France. He was a protégé of Joseph-Octave Plessis. - Aiden Wilson Tozer
Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 - May 12, 1963) was an American Protestant pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor. For his work, he received two honorary doctorates. - Albert Benjamin Simpson
Albert Benjamin Simpson was a Canadian preacher, theologian, author, and founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), an evangelical protestant denomination with an emphasis on global evangelism. - Jonathan Goforth
The Reverend Jonathan Goforth, DD, (Chinese: 顧約拿單), February 10, 1859 – October 8, 1936) was the first Canadian Presbyterian missionary to China with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission, with his wife, Rosalind (Bell-Smith) Goforth. Jonathan Goforth became the foremost missionary revivalist in early 20th century China and helped to establish revivalism as a major element in Protestant China missions. Goforth grew up on an Oxford County, Ontario farm, … - Charles Chiniquy
Charles P. Chiniquy (30 July 1809 - 16 January 1899) was a Canadian Catholic priest who converted to Presbyterianism and became an anti-Catholic preacher. In the period between 1885 and 1899, he was the focus of a great deal of discussion in the United States of America. During the 1880s he claimed to have exposed the Jesuits as the assassins of President Abraham Lincoln. He also warned, that if unchecked, the Jesuits could eventually politically rule the United States. - Northrop Frye
Herman Northrop Frye, CC, MA (Oxon), DD, D.Litt., FRSC (July 14, 1912 - January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished literary critics and literary theorists of the twentieth century. - Arthur B. B. Moore
The Very Rev. Arthur Bruce Barbour Moore (February 4, 1906 - September 9, 2004) was a Canadian Moderator of the United Church of Canada (1971 to 1972) and President and Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University in the University of Toronto (1950 to 1970). From 1977 to 1980, he was Chancellor of the University of Toronto. In 1976, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his services to the religious and educational life of our country". <sup></sup> - Neil McNeil
Neil McNeil (23 November 1851 - 25 May 1934) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto from 1912 to 1934. - Diane Fisher
Rev. Elder Diane Fisher serves as an elder (something broadly like a bishop) of the Metropolitan Community Church. She serves Region 5, which covers eastern Canada, the northeastern United States and much of central and eastern Europe. Fisher is based in Massachusetts, although she is a Canadian citizen. Prior to becoming an elder she served as pastor of a Metropolitan Community Church in Belleville, Ontario. She is a graduate of The Centre for Christian Studies, … - Jean de Quen
Jean de Quen (May, c.1603 at Amiens, France - October 8, 1659 in Quebec) was a French Jesuit missionary, priest and historian who discovered Lac Saint-Jean. As head of the missions of the Jesuits of New France, he founded the missions to the Saguenay. - Alexandre-Antonin Taché
Alexandre-Antonin Taché was a Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Oblate order, author and the first Archbishop of Saint Boniface in the Canadian province of Manitoba. In late 1844 Taché entered the Oblate novitiate. He soon expressed an urge to preach to the native population of the west and was sent to Saint Boniface in the Red River Colony along with Father Pierre Aubert. They went to work with Bishop Joseph-Norbert Provencher. - Charles Garnier
St. Charles Garnier, baptised in Paris on May 25, 1606, was a Jesuit missionary, who was martyred at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons on December 7, 1649. The son of a secretary to King Henri III of France, Garnier joined the Jesuit seminary in Clermont in 1624 and was ordained in 1635. His father initially forbade him from travelling to Canada where he would face almost certain death as a missionary, … - Ken Campbell
Ken Campbell (January 19 1934 - August 28, 2006) was a Canadian fundamentalist Baptist evangelist and political figure. He was the final leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada from 1990 to 1993. He became prominent in the Toronto area in the 1970s as a crusader against homosexuals and abortion rights, founding "Renaissance Canada" to promote his views. He held frequent rallies against gay rights and regularly took out full page ads in newspapers, … - Bill Blaikie
William Alexander "Bill" Blaikie, PC, BA, M.Div. (born June 19, 1951) is the current Deputy Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1979, representing the Winnipeg riding of Elmwood—Transcona and its antecedents as a member of the New Democratic Party. He has the longest continuous record of service of any current member of the House of Commons, and in this capacity serves as the Dean of the House. - George Monro Grant
George Monro Grant (December 22, 1835 - May 10, 1902), principal of Queen's College, Kingston, Ontario, was born in Albion Mines (Stellarton), Pictou County Nova Scotia in 1835. He was educated in Pictou Academy, and West River in Nova Scotia, and from 1853 to 1860, in Scotland at the University of Glasgow, where he had a brilliant academic career; and having entered the ministry of the Church of Scotland in 1861, … - Roger Guindon
Roger Guindon (born September 26 1920) is a Canadian priest and former university administrator. Born in Ville-Marie, Quebec, he was ordained a priest in 1946. He joined the University of Ottawa as a Professor in the Faculty of Theology and later became Dean of the faculty. From 1964 to 1984, he was the Rector of the University of Ottawa. In 1973, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada "in recognition of his contribution to the development of university teaching". - Metropolitan Wasyly
His Beatitude Metropolitan Wasyly was the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCC) from 1985 until his death in 2005. Metropolitan Wasyly was born Wasyl’ Fedak on November 1, 1909 in Kadobivtsy, Ukraine. Together with his parents and five siblings, he immigrated to Canada and settled in Sheho, Saskatchewan. In young adulthood, he became a teacher: a career that lasted 14 years. He then studied at a seminary of the UOCC from 1941 to 1944. - Lois Miriam Wilson
The Very Reverend Dr. The Honourable Lois Miriam Wilson, C.C. (born Lois Freeman, April 8 1927) was the first female Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 1980 to 1982. She was ordained a United Church minister in 1965 and served in Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Kingston, Ontario and Hamilton, Ontario. From 1983 to 1989 she served as co-director of the Ecumenical Forum of Canada and also served as a co-president of the World Council of Churches. - Douglas E. Cowan
Douglas E. Cowan Ph.D, is a Canadian academic in religious studies and the sociology of religion and currently holds a teaching position at Renison College, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Prior to this appointment he was Assistant Professor of Sociology & Religious Studies at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. - Lorne Calvert
Lorne Albert Calvert, MLA (born December 24, 1954 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan) is the current premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. He is the leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party. In 1975, Calvert married Betty Sluzalo of Perdue, Saskatchewan. After attending the St. Andrew's College seminary in Saskatoon, he was ordained as minister of the United Church of Canada in 1976, Calvert served as minister of several rural congregations. - Frederick Henry
Frederick Henry (born April 11, 1943) is the seventh and current Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Calgary, in the province of Alberta, Canada. Bishop Henry is known as an outspoken critic of various trends in government, whether the rather libertarian policies of Alberta's Conservatives which often seem to leave the less fortunate behind, …
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