- William Lyon MacKenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie (March 12, 1795 - August 28, 1861) was a Scottish-Canadian journalist, politician, and leader of an unsuccessful rebellion. Mackenzie was born in Dundee, Scotland and immigrated to Upper Canada in 1820. From 1824 to 1834 he published the newspaper the "Colonial Advocate" in York, Upper Canada (now Toronto, Ontario), … - Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson (September 12, 1570s - 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. His place of birth was London, England. He is presumed to have died in 1611 in Hudson Bay, Canada, after he was set adrift, along with his son and eight others, by mutinous crewmen. Hudson's early life is an unknown, but he is thought to have spent many years at sea. He is said to have begun as a cabin boy at 16 and gradually worked his way up to ship's captain. - Sam Steele
Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele, CB, KCMG, MVO (5 January 1849 - 30 January 1919) was a distinguished soldier and famous member of the North West Mounted Police. - Augustin Langlade
Augustin Langlade (c.1695-1771) was a French-born Canadian fur trader. He established the fur trading outpost that became Green Bay, Wisconsin. His son, Charles Michel de Langlade, was also involved in fur trading, and was a leader in the French and Indian Wars. - Charles Michel de Langlade
Charles Michel de Langlade was a Great Lakes fur-trader of French and Odawa heritage. His father was Augustin Langlade; his mother was a sister of Odawa war chief Nissowaquet. In 1752, Charles Langlade led the raid on Pickawillany, which paved the way for the French and Indian War. In 1755, he led a group from the Three Fires confederacy over Edward Braddock and George Washington at the Battle of Monongahela. He took part in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, … - Andrew Onderdonk
Andrew Onderdonk (30 August 1848 - 21 June,1905) was a construction contractor who worked on several major projects including the San Francisco seawall in California and the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia.He was born in New York to an established Dutch family. He received his education at the Troy Institute of Technology. He married Sarah Delia Hilman of Plainfield, New Jersey. After starting his career surveying townsites and roads in New Jersey, … - James Wolfe
General James Wolfe (2 January, 1727 - 13 September, 1759) was a British military officer, remembered mainly for his defeat of the French in Canada and establishing British rule there. - Frederick Marryat
Captain Frederick Marryat (July 10, 1792 - August 9, 1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel "Mr Midshipman Easy" and his children's novel "The Children of the New Forest". - Alexander Muir
Alexander Muir (5 April 1830 near Lanark - 26 June 1906) was a songwriter, poet and school headmaster. A childhood immigrant to Canada from his native Scotland, he grew up in the former township of Scarborough, Ontario, and studied at Queen's College, where he graduated in 1851. He taught in the Greater Toronto Area in such places as Scarborough, as well as in Newmarket, Beaverton, and in then suburban areas as Parkdale and Leslieville, where he lived on Laing Avenue. - Piapot
Piapot (c.1816 – 1908) was a Chief of First Nations people in southern Saskatchewan, Canada in the late 1800s. His name means "Hole-in-the-Sioux". He became a well known leader, diplomat, warrior, horse thief, and spiritualist. - John Henry
John Henry (c. 1776 - 1853), was a spy and adventurer of mysterious origins. It is reputed that he was born in Dublin, Ireland, probably between 1750 and 1775, although 1776 is the more accepted year. Henry came to Philadelphia about 1793, edited "Brown's Philadelphia Gazette", and afterward was commissioned a captain in the United States Army, in 1798, during the Quasi-War with France. Henry commanded an artillery company under General Ebenezer Stevens, … - Chief Pontiac
Pontiac or Obwandiyag, was an Ottawa leader who became famous for his role in Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–1766), an American Indian struggle against the British military occupation of the Great Lakes region following the British victory in the French and Indian War. Historians disagree about Pontiac's importance in the war that bears his name. Nineteenth century accounts portrayed him as the mastermind and leader of the revolt, … - Gabriel Dumont
Gabriel Dumont was a leader of the Métis people of what is now western Canada. In 1873 Dumont was elected to the presidency of the short-lived commune of St-Laurent; afterward he continued to play a leading role among the Métis of the South Saskatchewan River. He played a critical role in bringing Louis Riel back to Canada, in order to pressure the Canadian authorities to pay attention to the troubles of the Métis people. - Charles Ora Card
Charles Ora Card, founded the town of Cardston, Alberta in 1887, as the first Mormon settlement in Canada, under the direction of John Taylor. This was motivated in large part by strained relations the Mormons were then experiencing with the government of the United States of America over the practice of polygamy. Card went to Canada as a fugitive from the "raid" having jumped a train following his arrest. Charles Ora Card was a son-in-law of Brigham Young, … - William Henry Draper
William Henry Draper (March 11 1801 - November 3 1877) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Upper Canada and Canada West. He was born near London, England in 1801 and ran away to sea at age 15. In 1820, he settled in Hamilton Township in Upper Canada. He moved to Port Hope, studied law and was called to the bar in 1828. In 1829, he secured a position in the office of John Beverley Robinson and then partnered with Christopher Alexander Hagerman, … - John Stuart
John Stuart (12 September 1780 - 14 January 1847) was a nineteenth century Canadian fur trader and explorer, employed by the North West Company. Stuart is best known as one of the two clerks (the other being James McDougall) who participated in Simon Fraser's explorations of present-day British Columbia, Canada from 1805 to 1808. After Fraser returned to his work in the Athabaska Department in 1809, … - 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, … - Albert Lacombe
Albert Lacombe (28 February, 1827 - 12 December, 1916), commonly known in Alberta simply as Father Lacombe, was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic missionary who lived among and evangelized the Cree and Blackfoot First Nations of western Canada. He is now remembered for having brokered a peace between the Cree and Blackfoot, negotiating construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway through Blackfoot territory, … - Marie-Anne Gaboury
Marie-Anne Lagimodière, née Gaboury was a French-Canadian woman noted as both the grandmother of Louis Riel, and as the first woman of European descent to travel to and settle in what is now Western Canada. - C. D. Howe
Clarence Decatur "C. D." Howe, PC (15 January 1886 – 31 December 1960) was a leading Canadian politician. In the 1940s and 1950s, he was known as the "Minister of Everything." - J. S. Woodsworth
James Shaver Woodsworth (July 29, 1874 - March 21, 1942) was a pioneer in the Canadian social democratic movement. Following more than two decades ministering to the poor and the working class, J. S. Woodsworth left the church to lay the foundation for, and become the first leader of, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), a social democratic party which later became the New Democratic Party (NDP). - Donald Mann
Sir Donald Mann (March 23, 1853 - November 10, 1934) was a Canadian railway contractor and entrepreneur. Born at Acton, Ontario, Mann studied as a Methodist minister but worked in lumber camps in Ontario and Michigan before moving to Winnipeg, Manitoba. During the 1880s he worked as a contractor building sections of the Canadian Pacific Railway across the prairies and through the Rocky Mountains. Partnering with William Mackenzie, Mann built railway lines in western Canada, … - William Pepperrell
Sir William Pepperrell, 1st Baronet (June 27, 1696 - July 6, 1759) was a merchant and soldier in Colonial Massachusetts. He is most remembered for organising, financing, and leading the expedition that captured the French establishment at Fortress Louisbourg during King George's War. William was a native of Kittery, Maine, then part of Massachusetts, and lived there all his life. Born to an English settler, William Pepperrell, and Margery Bray, … - Thomas Gage
Sir Thomas Gage (1719 - April 2, 1787) was a British general and commander in chief of the North American forces from 1763 to 1775 during the early days of the American Revolution. - Thomas Douglas 5th Earl of Selkirk
Thomas Douglas was the 5th Earl of Selkirk, born at Saint Mary's Isle, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. He was noteworthy as a Scottish philanthropist who sponsored immigrant settlements in Canada. - Henry Hamilton
Henry Hamilton (c.1734 - 29 September 1796) was an Irish-born official of the British Empire. He was captured during the American Revolutionary War while serving as the lieutenant governor at the British post of Fort Detroit. - Clark Finch
Clark Mackenzie Finch was a businessperson and settler credited with being the founder of Fort St. John, British Columbia. He owned a store, the C.M. Finch General Merchandise Farm Utilities Store, which was built in 1929. The town eventually developed around it. He also constructed a government building, the first one in Fort St. John. He donated ten acres (four hectares) of land for a hospital in Fort St. John, the first one there. - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm (February 28, 1712 - September 14, 1759) was the commander of the French forces in North America during the Seven Years' War (the North American phase of which is called the French and Indian War in the United States). He is most remembered for his role in the Fall of Quebec, and remains a controversial figure. - Norman Bethune
Dr. Henry Norman Bethune, MD (March 3, 1890 - November 12, 1939) was a Canadian physician, medical innovator, a member of the Communist Party of Canada, and humanitarian. In Chinese, he is known as "Bai Qiu-en" ([[:zh:白求恩 - Louis Riel Sr.
Louis Riel Sr. ("père") was a farmer, miller, Métis leader, and the father of Louis Riel. Born in Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan, Riel was the eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Riel, "dit" L’Irlande, a voyageur, and Marguerite Boucher, a Franco-Ojibwa Métis. The Riel family moved back to Lower Canada while Louis was a child. He was educated in Quebec, learning the trade of carding wool. - Clifford Sifton
Sir Clifford Sifton, PC (March 10, 1861 - April 17, 1929) was a Canadian politician best known for being Minister of the Interior under Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He was responsible for encouraging the massive immigration to Canada which occurred in the first decade of the 20th Century. Born in Middlesex County, Upper Canada (now Ontario), Sifton moved with his family to Manitoba as a boy. He trained as a lawyer, and graduated from Victoria College in 1875. - Denis-Benjamin Papineau
Denis-Benjamin Papineau was Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada for Canada East from 1846 to 1848 with William Henry Draper and Henry Sherwood, premiers for Canada West. Papineau was a seigneurial agent, bookseller, seigneur, merchant, office holder, justice of the peace, and politician. Born in Montreal, he was the son of Joseph Papineau and Rosalie Cherrier. He studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. He oversaw the operation of the Seigneury of Petite-Nation, … - Jeanne Mance
Jeanne Mance was a French settler in Montreal. She was born in Langres, in eastern France. From the very beginning, Jeanne believed that God created her to serve Canada. Jeanne had little money so she persuaded a few wealthy women from France to lend her some money. She came to New France with Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve in 1641 with the intent of organizing a hospital, and so is considered one of the founders of Montreal. - Isobel Gunn
Isobel (Isabel or Isabella) Gunn (c. 1780? - 7 November 1861), also known as John Fubbister or Mary Fubbister, was a Scottish labourer employed by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), noted for having passed herself as a man, thereby becoming the first European woman to travel to Rupert's Land, now part of Western Canada. - Archibald Campbell
Archibald Campbell was a seigneur and notary in Lower Canada. Campbell was born in the town of Quebec in 1790, the son of merchant Archibald Campbell. He studied law with Jacques Voyer, qualified to practice as a notary in 1812 and set up practice at Quebec. He joined the local militia during the War of 1812. In 1817, Campbell married Agnes George. In 1821, he was named a King's Notary. The historian François-Xavier Garneau trained as a notary with Campbell and, … - Jacques Vieau
Jacques Vieau (or Vieaux) (May 5, 1757 - July 1, 1852) was a French-Canadian fur trader and first permanent white settler in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was born near Montreal, Canada and died in Howard, Wisconsin. Vieau married Angelique Roy in 1786, the granddaughter of Potawatomi indian chief, Anaugesa, at Green Bay, and later had at least twelve children together. - James Douglas
Sir James Douglas, KCB, (August 15, 1803 – August 2 1877), was an employee and officer of the Hudson's Bay Company and a British colonial governor. From 1851 to 1864, he was Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island. In 1858 he became, also, the first Governor of the Colony of British Columbia, in order to assert British authority during the Fraser River gold rush, which had the potential to turn the Mainland into an American state. - James Cross
James Richard Cross, CMG (born September 29 1921 in Ireland) was a British diplomat in Canada who was kidnapped by the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorist group during the October Crisis of October 1970. Known by his friends as "Jasper,", during World War II, Cross served with the British military and fought for the liberation of France. After the war he would join the diplomatic service and eventually served as a Trade Commissioner in India, Halifax, … - Robert Thorpe
Robert Thorpe ("c." 1764 - May 11 1836) was a judge and political figure in Upper Canada. He was born in Dublin, Ireland around 1764. He graduated with a degree in law from Trinity College, Dublin and was admitted to the bar in 1790. In 1801, he became chief justice for Prince Edward Island. Because he was not getting paid on time, he sailed to England in 1804 but was captured by a French privateer. - Alexis Lapointe
Alexis Lapointe, known as Alexis le Trotteur (June 4, 1860 - January 12, 1924) was a Quebec athlete in the early 20th century who has become a legendary character of "québécois" folklore.
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