- Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian/American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. He was an original cast member of "Saturday Night Live", an originator of the Blues Brothers (with John Belushi), and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter. - Billy Bishop
Air Marshal William Avery "Billy" Bishop VC CB DSO & Bar MC DFC ED (8 February 1894 - 11 September 1956) was a Canadian First World War flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, the highest number for a British Empire pilot. - Frederick Banting
Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, MD, FRSC (November 14, 1891 - February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the co-discovers of insulin. Banting was born in Alliston, Ontario, Canada. After studying medicine at the University of Toronto and graduating in 1916, he served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War I. He won the Military Cross during the war. - J.D. Fortune
J.D. Fortune is the stage name of Jason Dean Fortune (born September 1, 1973 in Mississauga, Ontario), a Canadian rock singer, winner of the 2005 CBS reality television series "Rock Star: INXS", and the current singer of rock band INXS for their latest album "Switch". He was born in Mississauga, Ontario, and raised in Salt Springs, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. - Lloyd Axworthy
Lloyd Norman Axworthy, PC, OC, OM, Ph.D, MA (born December 21, 1939, in North Battleford, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian politician. He is best known for having served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Axworthy is currently President of the University of Winnipeg. He is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specificially on the link between exclusion, poverty and law. - J. Philippe Rushton
John Philippe (Phil) Rushton (born December 3, 1943) is a psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, who is most widely known for his work on intelligence and racial differences, particularly his book "Race, Evolution And Behavior". Rushton also researches altruism from a number of perspectives. Rushton is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American, British, and Canadian Psychological Associations. - Simon Whitfield
Simon St. Quentin Whitfield is an Olympic triathlon champion from Canada. He has dual Canadian and Australian citizenship. As a young boy he played soccer but at age 11 began triathlon and by age 15 was pursuing it on a serious competitive basis. Whitfield’s gold medal win in the triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia is one of the most memorable performances by an individual athlete in Canadian sporting history. - John Abbott
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, PC, KCMG, QC, BCL, DCL (March 12, 1821-October 30, 1893) was the third Prime Minister of Canada. He served in the office for seventeen months, from June 16, 1891 to November 24, 1892. He was also the great-grandfather of Canadian actor Christopher Plummer. - John Howe
John Howe (October 14, 1754 - December 27, 1835) was a loyalist printer during the American Revolution, a printer and Postmaster in Halifax, the father of the famous Joseph Howe, a spy prior to the War of 1812, and eventually a Magistrate of the Colony of Nova Scotia. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay colony, the son of Joseph Howe, a tin plate worker of Puritan ancestry, and Rebeccah Hart. - Michael Wincott
Michael Anthony Claudio Wincott (born January 21, 1958 or 1959) is a Canadian actor, known for appearing in several supporting roles in Hollywood films. He is highly recognized for his rough, gravelly voice. Wincott was born in Scarborough, Ontario. His father, an English immigrant from Blackpool, England, worked as a constructor, welder and salesman, and his mother was an Italian immigrant from Milan; the two met in England and immigrated to Canada in 1952. - Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams OC, OBC, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer, guitarist, songwriter and photographer. Some of his best-known albums are "Reckless", "18 til I Die", and "Waking Up the Neighbours". Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for his contribution to popular music and his philanthropic work. He was also inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998, … - Stephen Ames
Stephen Ames is a golfer on the PGA Tour holding dual citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada. Ames was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago and is of English/Trinidadian Portuguese descent, and much of his family resides in the Caribbean nation. His grandmother was Trinidad and Tobago Champion 20 times. He grew up in Pointe-à-Pierre and learned to play at the Petrotrin Pointe-à-Pierre Golf Club. - Gilles Duceppe
Gilles Duceppe, MP (born July 22, 1947 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Quebec nationalist and social democratic politician in Canada. He is a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons and the leader of the separatist "Bloc Québécois" party. He is the son of a well-known Québécois actor, Jean Duceppe, and Hélène Rowley. His maternal grandfather was John James Rowley, a Briton by birth. - Grant Allen
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 - October 25, 1899) was a science writer, author and novelist; an able upholder of the evolution doctrine and an expounder of Darwinism. Born near Kingston, Ontario, Canada, the son of an emigrant Anglo-Scottish Protestant minister, he studied in the United Kingdom and France and in his mid twenties became a professor at Queen's College in Jamaica. Despite his religious father, Allen became an agnostic and a socialist. - Owen Hargreaves
Owen Lee Hargreaves (born 20 January 1981 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a professional football midfielder. He plays for Manchester United in the Premier League and at international level for England. - Robert Borden
Sir Robert Laird Borden, PC, GCMG, KC, DCL, LL.D (June 26, 1854 - June 10, 1937) was the eighth Prime Minister of Canada from October 10, 1911, to July 10, 1920, and the third Nova Scotian to hold this office. - Michael Jackson
Michael (Mike) Jackson (born November 8, 1970 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian actor. Jackson grew up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia where he currently lives. In addition to his acting role on "Trailer Park Boys", Jackson has contributed to the local music scene with many group and solo projects,including Moral Support, Aimless, Thruster, The Thursday Toads, Pink Kitten, Defense Andrew, The Sycamores, Rick of The Skins, El Groupo De Rock, Vavoom, T-Bag, … - Joseph Howe
Joseph Howe, PC (December 13, 1804 – June 1, 1873) was a ship builder and born the son of John Howe and Mary Edes at Halifax, Nova Scotia. In retrospect he is seen to be one of the Fathers of Canadian Confederation, even though he actually opposed the union. - Hal Foster
Harold ("Hal") Rudolf Foster (August 18, 1892 in Halifax, Nova Scotia - July 25, 1982) was a Canadian-American cartoonist most famous as the creator of the comic strip "Prince Valiant". He worked as a staff artist for the Hudson Bay Company and moved to Chicago in 1919, where he studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He subsequently worked as an illustrator before getting involved with "Tarzan", an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's novels. - Alice Munro
Alice Ann Munro, née Laidlaw is a Canadian short-story writer who is widely considered one of the world's premier fiction writers. Munro is a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. She has thus been referred to as "the Canadian Chekhov." - Sonija Kwok
Sonija Kwok (born 22 July 1974), or Kwok Sin-Nei (郭羨妮) in Cantonese (Mandarin Pinyin: Guo Xianni), is a Hong Kong-born actress. She is working for the major television station, TVB. - Ellen Page
Ellen Philpotts-Page (born February 21, 1987) is a Canadian female actor, perhaps best known for her starring role in "Hard Candy" and as Kitty Pryde in "X-Men: The Last Stand". She had previously received attention, particularly in her native Canada, for award-winning roles in "Pit Pony" and "Marion Bridge" and TV shows "Trailer Park Boys" and "ReGenesis". - Stan Rogers
Stanley Allison Rogers (November 29, 1949 - June 2, 1983) was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter. Rogers was noted for his rich, baritone voice and his finely-crafted, traditional-sounding songs which were frequently inspired by Canadian history and the daily lives of working people, especially those from the fishing villages of the Maritime provinces and, later, the farms of the Canadian prairies. - Susan Nattrass
Susan Marie Nattrass (born November 5, 1950 in Medicine Hat, Alberta) is a Canadian shooter. She started shooting at age 13 and was educated at the University of Alberta. In the 1976 Summer Olympics she became the first ever woman to participate in a shooting event at the Olympics, as shooting was open to both sexes until 1992. She won a silver medal at the 2001 world championships in Cairo, Egypt in the trap event. - Robert Stanfield
Robert Lorne Stanfield, PC, QC (April 11, 1914-December 16, 2003) was Premier of Nova Scotia and leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. He is sometimes referred to as "the greatest prime minister Canada never had", and earned the nickname "Honest Bob". As one of Canada's most distinguished and respected statesmen, he was one of several people granted the style "Right Honourable" who were not so entitled by virtue of an office held. - George Grant
George Parkin Grant OC, Ph.D, FRSC (Toronto, November 13, 1918 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 27, 1988) was a Canadian philosopher, teacher and political commentator, whose popular appeal peaked in the late 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for his nationalism, political conservatism, comments on technology, Christian faith, and his conservative views regarding abortion. Academically, his writings express a complex meditation on the great books, … - Nichola Goddard
Captain Nichola Kathleen Sarah Goddard MSM (May 2 1980 - May 17 2006) was the first female Canadian soldier killed in combat, and the 16th Canadian soldier killed in Canadian operations in Afghanistan. - Aaron Guiel
Aaron Colin Guiel (born October 5, 1972 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is an outfielder on the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. His career began in 2002 with the Kansas City Royals, with whom he played for parts of five seasons before being claimed by the New York Yankees off waivers on July 5, 2006. - Mercedes McNab
Mercedes Alicia McNab (born March 14, 1980 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian-born actress perhaps best known for playing the role of Harmony Kendall on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spinoff "Angel". More minor television roles include a part on "Boston Public" where her character posed nude for an adult magazine. - Roark Critchlow
Roark Critchlow (born May 11, 1963 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is an actor, best known for appearing on the daytime US soap opera "Days of Our Lives" from 1994 to 1999 as Dr. Mike Horton. He also had a recurring role on the soap "Passions". More recently he was in the TV movie "The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story" as well as appearing in the Nickelodeon series "Drake & Josh" as Dr. Glazer. - Peter Aykroyd
Peter Hugh Aykroyd was born to Lorraine and Peter Aykroyd in Canada. He is the younger brother of comedian Dan Aykroyd. Along with his older brother he was in the Second City comedy troupe in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The two were also on the popular NBC sketch show "Saturday Night Live". Peter was a cast member and writer from 1979-1980, the fifth season. He is also a song writer and performer. - Johnny Devine
John Preston (J.P) Parsonage, better known by his ring name, "Hot Shot" Johnny Devine, is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is currently wrestling on the Canadian independent circuit and in the United States of America for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as Havok. - Justin Peroff
Justin Peter Papadimitriou (born October 13 1977 in Markham, Ontario), stage name Justin Peroff, is best known as the drummer for the Toronto based indie rock collective Broken Social Scene. He was also a member of Junior Blue, a collaboration with Dylan Hudecki of By Divine Right. He is a credited actor, appearing in the major motion picture How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and these Canadian television shows "Straight Up" and "Our Hero". - Gordie Sampson
Gordie Sampson is a singer and Grammy winning songwriter from Big Pond, Nova Scotia. - Joseph E. Atkinson
Joseph Edward Atkinson (December 23 1865 - May 7 1948) was a Canadian newspaper editor and activist. Under his leadership the Toronto Star became one of the most largest and most influential newspapers in Canada. Atkinson amassed a considerable fortune, eventually holding the controlling interest in the paper he edited. On his death control of the paper passed to the trustees of the Atkinson Foundation, a major canadian charity. - William Stevens Fielding
William Stevens Fielding, PC (Halifax November 24, 1848-June 23, 1929 Ottawa) was a Canadian journalist, politician, and Premier of Nova Scotia. Fielding became leader of the anti-confederation Nova Scotia Liberal Party. In 1884, he became Premier and won the 1886 election on a pledge to remove Nova Scotia from confederation. When he failed to do this, he turned to economic matters including developing the coal industry. - Leila Josefowicz
Leila Bronia Josefowicz (born October 20, 1977 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a classical violinist. Born into a Polish-English family, while a young child her family moved to Los Angeles, California where she started studying violin at the age of three and a half using the Suzuki method. Her father, physicist Jack Josefowicz, learned with her until "out of the mouths of babes" she told him that he wasn't very good. At five, she started formal lessons with Idel Low. - Tom Jackson
Tom Jackson, OC, (October 27,1948), is a popular Canadian Métis actor and musician. Jackson was born to Rose, a Cree and Marshall an Englishman on the One Arrow Reserve near Bathoche in Saskatchewan. Jackson moved with his family to Namao, Alberta at age seven. He voluntarily left his home and school at age 15, and lived on the streets of Winnipeg, Manitoba for several years. - Matt Minglewood
Matt Minglewood (born Roy Alexander Batherson, 31 January 1947 in Moncton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian musician whose style can be described as a blend of country, blues, folk, roots and rock. - Holly Cole
Holly Cole (born November 25, 1963 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian jazz singer, particularly popular in Canada and Japan for her versatile voice and her adventurous repertoire, which spans such divergent genres as show tunes, rock, and country music. In 1983, she travelled to Toronto to seek a musical career. In 1986, she founded a trio with bassist David Piltch and pianist Aaron Davis. Offered a record deal in 1989, the Holly Cole Trio released an EP, …
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