- Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter. Mitchell grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Mitchell's singing, over several decades, began in small nightclubs and busking on the streets of Toronto and in her native Western Canada. She subsequently became associated with the burgeoning folk music scene of the mid-1960s in New York City. - Paul Martin
Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, PC, MP, BA, LLB, LLD (h.c.) (born August 28, 1938) was the 21st Prime Minister of Canada and a former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. On November 14, 2003, Martin succeeded Jean Chrétien as leader of the Liberal Party and became Prime Minister on December 12, 2003. The 2004 election yielded a minority government in which the Liberals under Martin remained in power. - Bob Rae
Robert Keith (Bob) Rae, PC, OC, O.Ont, QC, B.A., LL.B, B.Phi., LL.D (h.c.) (born August 2, 1948) is a Canadian politician. A former member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), he was the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from February 7 1982 to June 22 1996, and the 21st Premier of Ontario from October 1 1990 to June 26 1995. He is the only NDP member to serve as premier of a province east of Manitoba. - William Lyon MacKenzie King
William Lyon Mackenzie King, OM, PC, LL.B, Ph.D, MA, BA (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950) was the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921, to June 28, 1926; September 25, 1926, to August 6, 1930; and October 23, 1935, to November 15, 1948. With over 21 years in the office, he was the longest serving Prime Minister in British Commonwealth history. - John Diefenbaker
John George Diefenbaker, CH, PC, QC, BA, MA, LL.B, LL.D, DCL, FRSC, FRSA, D.Litt, DSL, (18 September 1895 - 16 August 1979) was the 13th Prime Minister of Canada (1957 - 1963). Diefenbaker was known by several nicknames during his career, "J.G.D." and "The Leader" (a moniker that continued to be applied to him even after his leaving the post of prime minister), but most affectionately as "Dief the Chief" or simply "the Chief". - Norm MacDonald
Norman Gene Macdonald (born October 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He is known for his biting sarcasm, distinct muttering, slurred delivery (which may be accentual, due to his French-Canadian upbringing), and prevalent use of the word "crackwhore" which became well known during his three years anchoring "Saturday Night Live's" "Weekend Update". He performed as a stand up comedian in comedy clubs across Canada before moving to Los Angeles, … - Peter North
Peter North (also known as Mike Artley, Al Brown, Matt Ramsey) is a Canadian pornographic actor, director and producer of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. He is one of the most famous male performers in pornography. Like many pornography stage names, North's name is a pun: "Peter" is a common slang term for a penis, and "North" may refer to "Great White North". - Natalie MacMaster
Natalie MacMaster CM (born June 13, 1972) is an award-winning fiddler from the rural community of Troy in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is one of the best-known musicians in the tradition of Cape Breton fiddle music, and has made a highly successful career as a touring musician, travelling to Europe and Asia and doing as many as 250 shows in a year. MacMaster has toured with many famous performers, including the Chieftains, Faith Hill, … - Neve Campbell
Neve Adrianne Campbell (born October 3, 1973) is a Canadian actress. Beginning her career on stage, she came to fame on the 1990s television series "Party of Five" (1994-2000), and subsequently appeared in leading roles in several Hollywood films, including "Scream" (1996-2000), "The Craft" (1996) and "Wild Things" (1998). She has since appeared in smaller roles. - Neil Young
Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film director from Omemee, Ontario. His work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and an instantly recognizable nasal tenor (and frequently alto) singing voice. - Donald Sutherland
Donald McNicol Sutherland OC (born July 17, 1935) is a prolific Canadian actor with a film career spanning over 40 years. - 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. - Raymond Burr
Raymond William Stacey Burr (May 21 1917 - September 12, 1993) was an Emmy-nominated actor and vintner, perhaps best known for his roles in the television dramas "Perry Mason" and "Ironside". - Paul Kariya
Paul Tetsuhiko Kariya (born October 16, 1974 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), is a professional ice hockey player who plays for the St. Louis Blues. - Buck 65
Richard Terfry (b. 1972), better known as Buck 65, is a Canadian Hip Hop artist, MC and turntablist. However he has recently moved away from Hip Hop in a stylistic context, and moving closer to Blues, Country, Rock, Folk and Avant Garde genres. That said, his new direction is seemingly still underpinned by an extensive background in abstract Hip Hop, … - Fred Wah
Frederick James Wah (born January 23, 1939) is a Canadian-Chinese poet, novelist, and scholar. Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but raised in the interior (West Kootenay) of British Columbia. His father was a Canadian-born Chinese-Scots-Irishman raised in China and his mother a Swedish-born Canadian who came to Canada at age 6. His diverse ethnic makeup figures significantly in his writings. Wah studied literature and music at the University of British Columbia. - Gerard Kennedy
Gerard Kennedy, (born July 24 1960 in The Pas, Manitoba) is a Canadian politician. While attending the University of Alberta in Edmonton, he became involved in the local food bank, eventually becoming its first executive director in 1983. In 1986, he moved to Toronto to run the Daily Bread food bank, which he did until entering politics in 1996. - Don Cherry
Donald Stewart "Grapes" Cherry, (born February 5, 1934 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada) is a hockey commentator for CBC Television. Cherry co-hosts the "Coach's Corner" intermission segment (with Ron MacLean) on the long running Canadian sports program "Hockey Night in Canada". Besides playing and coaching hockey, he is also well-known as an author, syndicated radio commentator for The Fan Radio Network, creator of the "Rock'em Sock'em Hockey" video series, … - Harrison McCain
Harrison McCain, CC, ONB, (November 3, 1927 - March 18, 2004) was a Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods Limited. Born in Florenceville, New Brunswick, he was the co-founder, along with his brothers Andrew, Robert and Wallace, of McCain Foods. Harrison was the 4th son and Wallace the 5th son of the family. Their father was a well respected seed potato farmer. - Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 - 2 August 1922) was a scientist, inventor, and innovator. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, he emigrated to Canada in 1870, and then to the United States in 1871, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1882. Bell was awarded the U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876; although other inventors had claimed the honor, the Bell patent remained in effect. - Leslie Hope
Leslie Hope (born May 6, 1965 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian actress. She has appeared in Canadian and American movies and television series. She graduated from St. Michael's University School at Victoria, British Columbia, in 1982. Her first movie role was in the Canadian movie "Ups and Downs", in 1981, which was filmed in Victoria. She played the role of Teri Bauer during the first season of the television show "24", from 2001 to 2002. - Oliver Mowat
Sir Oliver Mowat, GCMG, PC, QC (July 22, 1820 - 19 April, 1903) was a Canadian politician, and premier of Ontario from 1872 to 1896. He is one of the Fathers of Confederation. Mowat was born in Kingston, Ontario. Before entering politics, Mowat trained as a lawyer, and, on January 27, 1836, Mowat, not yet sixteen years old, articled in the law office of John A. Macdonald. He was called to the bar November 5, 1841. - Charles H. Mackintosh
The Honourable Charles Herbert Mackintosh (1843 - December 22 1931) was a journalist, mayor of Ottawa from 1879-1881, represented Ottawa City in the Canadian House of Commons from 1882 to 1887 and from 1890 to 1893, and served as Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories from 1893 to 1898. He was born in London, Ontario in 1843, the son of an Irish immigrant. He began the study of law but instead entered the trade of journalism. - Mike Myers
Michael John Myers (born May 25, 1963, in Scarborough, Ontario) is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian-British comedian, actor, screenwriter, and film producer, best known for his comedy work in "Saturday Night Live" and film roles including the title characters of "Wayne's World", the "Austin Powers" series, and "Shrek". - Todd MacCulloch
Todd Carlyle MacCulloch (born January 27 1976 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian former professional basketball player in the NBA. A Winnipeg, Manitoba native, the 7'0", 280 lb (2.13 m, 125 kg) center played four seasons in the NBA before being forced to retire prematurely due to a genetic neuromuscular disorder that affected his feet, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. In his first two seasons with the Philadelphia 76ers, MacCulloch played reserve center, … - 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. - Walter Huston
Walter Huston (April 6, 1884 - April 7, 1950) was a Canadian-born actor. Born in Toronto, Ontario to an Irish Anglican father and a Scottish mother, he began his Broadway career in 1924, he achieved fame in character roles once talkies began in Hollywood. His first major role was in 1929's "The Virginian", opposite Gary Cooper. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1936 for "Dodsworth", which he had also performed on Broadway. - Peter Mackay
Peter Gordon MacKay, PC, QC, MP (born September 27, 1965) serves as the member of Parliament (MP) for Central Nova, Nova Scotia, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. MacKay was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC Party). On October 15, 2003, he and Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper agreed to merge the two parties, forming the Conservative Party of Canada. - Will Ferguson
Will Ferguson is a Canadian writer and novelist who is best known for his humorous observations on Canadian history and culture. His success as a writer can be attributed to an innate ability to view Canada much the same way an outsider would. Ferguson was born fourth of six children in the former trading post of Fort Vermilion, Alberta approximately 800 km north of Edmonton. His parents split up when he was 6 during a brief interlude in Regina. - Robert MacNeil
Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, known sometimes as Robin, (born January 19, 1931) is currently a novelist and formerly was a television news anchor and journalist who had paired with Jim Lehrer to create "The MacNeil/Lehrer Report" in 1975. Born in Montreal and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, MacNeil graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa in 1955. He began working in the news field at ITV in London, … - Harold Russell
Harold John Russell (b. January 14, 1914 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, d. January 29, 2002 in Needham, Massachusetts) was a Canadian-American World War II veteran who became one of only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award for acting. Harold Russell was born in Canada and moved to Massachusetts with his family in 1933. He was so profoundly affected by the attack on Pearl Harbor he enlisted in the Army on 1941-12-08. - Loreena McKennitt
Loreena McKennitt, C.M. (born February 17 1957) is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist and pianist most famous for writing, recording and performing world music with a New-Age/Celtic feel. - Beverley McLachlin
Beverley McLachlin, PC, LL.D, M.A., LL.B, BA (born September 7, 1943) is the Chief Justice of Canada, the first woman to hold that position. - Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland (born December 21, 1966 in London, England) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian television and film actor, well known for his role of Jack Bauer on the series "24". Sutherland also owns a recording studio and record label, called Ironworks. - Andrew Bonar Law
Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 - 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative Party statesman and Prime Minister. - James Creelman
James Creelman (November 12, 1859 - February 12, 1915), was a reporter during the height of yellow journalism. He was born in Montreal, Canada, the son of a boiler inspector, Matthew Creelman, and homemaker, Martha Dunwoodie. In 1872, Creelman moved to New York, where his interest in literature and law attracted the patronage of Thomas De Witt Talmage and Republican party boss Roscoe Conking. - Jim Hughson
Jim Hughson (born 1956 in Fort St. John, British Columbia) is a Canadian sportscaster, ice hockey play-by-play broadcaster, and host of "Snapshots" on Rogers Sportsnet. Hughson has won five Gemini Awards, the most recent coming in 2004, where he was named the best sports play-by-play or analyst. He is also the official play-by-play announcer for the EA Sports NHL series of video games, and has been since 1997. - Steve Kariya
Steven Tetsuo Kariya (born December 22, 1977 in North Vancouver, BC) is a professional ice hockey forward. He is one of Paul Kariya's younger brothers. - Amber MacArthur
Amber Dawn MacArthur (b. 27 June, 1976 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian television and podcasting personality who currently hosts "Webnation", and files the "Inside Popnology" segments for "CityNews International" (these segments appear on "CityNews at Six" and "HomePage"). Outside of her CityNews job, she creates vodcast "commandN" and co-hosts TWiT podcast "net@nite". - Matthew Good
Matthew Frederick Robert Good (born June 29, 1971, Burnaby, British Columbia) is a Canadian rock musician. He was the lead singer for the Matthew Good Band, one of Canada's most successful alternative rock bands in the 1990s, before dissolving the band in 2002. Other band members included drummer Ian Browne, guitarist/keyboardist Dave Genn, and original bassist Geoff Lloyd, later replaced by Rich Priske.
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