- John McMurtry
Professor John McMurtry, FRSC is a moral philosopher and ethicist who works at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. He is a strong advocate of monetary reform and vocal in the anti-globalization movement. He may be the single most influential Canadian voice in that movement, although Naomi Klein is better known. He was named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in June 2001.. He received his doctorate in 1975 from University College, London. - Gerhard Herzberg
Gerhard Herzberg , PC , CC , FRSC , FRS ( December 25 , 1904 a March 3 , 1999 ) was a pioneering physicist and physical chemist , and Nobel Laureate in chemistry . Born in Germany , he fled to Canada in 1935, where he continued his distinguished scientific career. Herzberg's main work concerned atomic and molecular spectroscopy . - Margaret Atwood
Many commend Margaret Atwood for her ability of depicting individual and worldly troubles of universal concern (Study Guide). Over thirty years, Atwood has written more than twenty volumes of verse, novels, and nonfiction. Although she is noted for all of these volumes, she is better known for her novels. In these work of fiction, themes such as feminism, mythology and power of language pervade. - 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. - Janice Stein
Janice Gross Stein, CM, FRSC is a Canadian academic. She currently serves as director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Trinity College, University of Toronto, as well as Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation within the University of Toronto's department of political science. Stein is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Stein regularly lectures on conflict management at home and abroad, … - Bora Laskin
Bora Laskin, PC, CC, LL.M, LL.B, MA, FRSC (October 5, 1912 - March 17, 1984) was a Canadian jurist, who served on the Supreme Court of Canada for fourteen years, including a decade as its Chief Justice. - Indira Samarasekera
Dr. Indira V. Samarasekera, OC, (born 1952) is currently President of the University of Alberta. She succeeded Roderick Fraser in this position. She was previously Vice-President Research at the University of British Columbia. She is the first female president of any university in Alberta. Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, of Tamil descent, she received a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ceylon in 1974, … - Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, PC, CC, CH, QC, MA, LLD, FRSC (18 October, 1919 – 28 September, 2000), usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April, 1968 to 4 June, 1979, and from 3 March, 1980 to 30 June, 1984. Trudeau was a charismatic figure who, from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, … - Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. - Stephen Leacock
Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph.D, FRSC (30 December 1869 - 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and economist. - Michael Ruse
Michael Ruse (born June 21, 1940 in Birmingham, England) is a philosopher of science, working on the philosophy of the biology, and is well known for his work on the argument between creationism and evolutionary biology. He was born in England, took his undergraduate degree at the University of Bristol (1962), his master's degree at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (1964), and Ph.D. at the University of Bristol (1970). - Carol Shields
Carol Ann Shields ,BA, MA, CC, OM, D.Litt., LL.D, FRSC (June 2, 1935 - July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her successful 1993 novel "The Stone Diaries", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award - Henry Mintzberg
The organizational configurations framework of Mintzberg is a model that describes six valid organizational configurations # Mutual adjustment, which achieves coordination by the simple process of informal communication (as between two operating employees) # Direct supervision, … - Charles G.D. Roberts
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, KCMG, FRSC, BA (January 10 1860 - November 26 1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. Roberts, his cousin Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott were known as the "Confederation poets". His brother Theodore Goodridge Roberts also became an author, as did his sister, Jane Elizabeth Gostwycke Roberts. Charles was born in Douglas, New Brunswick in 1860, … - Arthur Carty
Arthur J. Carty, O.C., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C. (born 1940), is a Canadian academic and the National Science Advisor to the Government of Canada. Born in Rowlands Gill, County Durham, England, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1962 and a Ph.D in Inorganic Chemistry in 1965 from the University of Nottingham. In 1965, he joined Memorial University of Newfoundland as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry. In 1967, he left for the University of Waterloo. - Michael Bliss
Professor Michael Bliss, CM, Ph.D, FRSC (born 1941) is a Canadian historian and public intellectual, considered by some to be "outspoken". Bliss entered the University of Toronto in 1958, and has been there ever since. He received his BA, MA, and Ph.D. there and since 1969 has been a professor in the department of history. One time a student asked him how long he had been at the U of T. "All my life," he said a bit mournfully. - Heather Munroe-Blum
Heather Munroe-Blum Principal and Vice-Chancellor McGill University - Henry Friesen
Henry G. Friesen, CC, OM, MD, FRSC (born July 31, 1934) is a Canadian endocrinologist, a distinguished professor emeritus of the University of Manitoba and the discoverer of prolactin, a hormone which stimulates lactation in mammary glands. Born in Morden, Manitoba, he obtained a Bachelor of Science in medicine and a medical degree from the University of Manitoba in 1958. - Bliss Carman
Bliss Carman, FRSC (April 15 1861 - June 8, 1929) was a preeminent Canadian poet. He was born William Bliss Carman in Fredericton, in the Atlantic Canadian province of New Brunswick. He published under the name "Bliss Carman," although the "Bliss" is his mother's surname. As with many Canadian poets, nature figures prominently as a theme in his work. In his time, he was arguably Canada's best known poet, … - Archibald Lampman
Archibald Lampman, FRSC (17 November 1861 - 10 February 1899) was a Canadian poet. He was born at Morpeth, Ontario, a village near Chatham. Lampman attended Trinity College (now part of the University of Toronto). In 1883, after a brief and unsuccessful attempt teaching high school in Orangeville, Ontario, Lampman took an appointment as a low-paid clerk in the Post Office Department, Ottawa, a position he held for the rest of his life. - Harry Arthurs
Harry William Arthurs, O.C., O.Ont., B.A., LL.M., LL.D., D.Litt., F.R.S.C., (born May 9 1935) is a Canadian lawyer, academic, and academic administrator. He is one of Canada's leading labour law scholars. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he attended the Oakwood Collegiate Institute, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1955 and a Bachelor of Law degree in 1958 from the University of Toronto. He received a Master of Law in 1959 from the Harvard Law School. - E. J. Pratt
Edwin John Dove Pratt, FRSC (February 4, 1882 - April 26, 1964), who published as E. J. Pratt, was a Canadian poet from Newfoundland. Born in Western Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Pratt grew up in a variety of Newfoundland communities in Newfoundland, as his Methodist minister father was posted to various communities around the colony. Pratt himself was also ordained as a Methodist minister, but never served in the church. - Lap-Chee Tsui
Professor Dr. Lap-chee Tsui BSc, MPhil, PhD, O.C., O.Ont. (born December 21, 1950) is a Hong Kong geneticist and is currently the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. - Sylvia Ostry
Sylvia Ostry, CC, FRSC is a Canadian economist and public servant. Born Sylvia Knelman in Winnipeg, Manitoba on June 3 1927, she received a Bachelor of Arts in economics from McGill University in 1948, a Masters of Arts from McGill in 1950, and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University and McGill in 1954. From 1952 to 1955 she was a lecturer at McGill, becoming an assistant professor from 1952 to 1955, … - 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. - John William Dawson
Sir John William Dawson, CMG, FRS, FRSC (October 13 1820 - November 19 1899), was a Canadian geologist, born in Pictou, Nova Scotia. Of Scottish descent, Dawson attended the University of Edinburgh to complete his education, and graduated in 1842, having gained a knowledge of geology and natural history from Robert Jameson. Dawson returned to Nova Scotia in 1842, accompanied by Sir Charles Lyell on his first visit to that territory. - Lorne Babiuk
Lorne Allan Babiuk, O.C., S.O.M., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C. (born January 25 1946) is a Canadian scientist specializing in immunology, pathogenesis, virology, molecular virology, and vaccinology. He is the Director of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan and holds the Canada Research Chair in Vaccinology and Biotechnology. - Armand Frappier
Dr. Armand Frappier CC (November 26, 1904 - December 17, 1991) was a physician, microbiologist and expert on tuberculosis from Quebec, Canada. Born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, the son of Arthur-Alexis Frappier and Bernadette Codebecq, his mother died in 1923 from tuberculosis. This greatly affected him and he pursued a career devoted to fighting this "tueuse de maman" (mother killer). In 1924, he received a Bachelor of Arts and, in 1930, … - John Charles Fields
John Charles Fields (May 14, 1863 - August 9, 1932) was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. First awarded in 1936, the medal has been awarded since 1950 every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians to two to four recipients under the age of 40. Born in Hamilton, Ontario to a leather shop owner, … - F. R. Scott
Francis Reginald Scott CC, commonly known as Frank Scott or F.R. Scott, (August 1 1899 - January 30 1985) was a Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert. Born and raised in Quebec City, Scott witnessed the riots in the city during the Conscription Crisis of 1917. Completing his undergraduate studies at Bishop's University, in Lennoxville, Quebec, … - 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. - Gabrielle Roy
Gabrielle Roy, CC, FRSC (March 22, 1909 – July 13, 1983) was a Canadian author. Born in Saint Boniface (now part of Winnipeg), Manitoba, Roy was educated at Saint Joseph's Academy. After training as a teacher at The Winnipeg Normal School, she taught in rural schools in Marchand and Cardinal and was then appointed to Provencher School in Saint Boniface. With her savings she was able to spend some time in Europe, … - Vincent Massey
Charles Vincent Massey, PC, CH, CC, CD (February 20, 1887 – December 30, 1967) was the eighteenth Governor General of Canada and the first who was born in Canada. - Bertha Wilson
Bertha Wilson, CC (September 18, 1923 - April 28, 2007) was a Canadian jurist and the first woman Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. - Stephen Cook
Stephen Arthur Cook (born 1939, Buffalo, New York) is a noted computer scientist. Cook formalised the notion of NP-completeness in a famous 1971 paper "The Complexity of Theorem Proving Procedures", which also contained Cook's theorem, a proof that the boolean satisfiability problem is NP-complete. The paper left unsolved the greatest open question in theoretical computer science - whether complexity classes P and NP are equivalent. - Robertson Davies
William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL (born August 28, 1913, at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is sometimes said to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate college at the University of Toronto. - James Till
Dr. James Edgar Till O.C., O.Ont., F.R.S.C. (born 1931) is a Canadian biophysicist, best known for demonstrating - with Ernest McCulloch - the existence of stem cells. - Douglas Lochhead
Douglas Lochhead , was born and raised in Guelph, Ontario in 1922. He served as an infantry officer in the Canadian Army during World War II. Over the course of his life he has had many "word jobs" including an advertising copywriter, librarian, bibliographer, professor, and anthologist. He attended McGill University and the University of Toronto. He has taught English and been a member of library staffs at universities in Canada, the United States, and Scotland. - Ernest McCulloch
Dr. Ernest Armstrong McCulloch O.C., O.Ont., F.R.S.C. is a Canadian cellular biologist, best known for demonstrating - with James Till - the existence of stem cells. - Dorothy Livesay
Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, OC, OBC, M.Ed, D.Litt, FRSC (12 October 1909 - 29 December 1996) was a Canadian poet. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the daughter of J.F.B. Livesay and Florence Randal Livesay, she moved to Toronto, Ontario with her family in 1920. Livesay received a BA in 1931 from Trinity College in the University of Toronto and received a diploma from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Social Work in 1934.
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