- Vic Toews
Victor "Vic" Toews, PC, MP [teıvz] (born September 10, 1952) is a Canadian politician. He has represented Provencher in the Canadian House of Commons since 2000, and currently serves in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper as President of the Treasury Board. Toews previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1995 to 1999, and was a senior cabinet minister in the government of Gary Filmon. He is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. - 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". - Adam Beck
Sir Adam Beck, (June 20, 1857 - August 15, 1925) was a politician and hydro-electricity advocate who founded the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. Beck was born in Baden, Ontario to German immigrants, Jacob Beck and Charlotte Hespler. He attended school at the Rockwood Academy in Rockwood, Ontario. As a teenager he worked in his father's foundry, and later established a cigar-box manufacturing company in Galt (now Cambridge, Ontario) with his brother William. - Chuck Cadman
Charles "Chuck" Cadman, (February 21, 1948 - July 9, 2005) was a Canadian politician and Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2005, representing the riding of Surrey North in Surrey, British Columbia. He was born in Kitchener, Ontario and grew up in North Bay, Ontario. He was a guitarist with a band called The Fringe, which toured Canada. He also played backup to The Guess Who on CBC Television. - Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman (born as Philip Edward Hartmann) (September 24, 1948 - May 28, 1998) was a Canadian/American actor, voice artist, comedian, graphic artist and writer. He first came to widespread attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his roles on the sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live", afterwards going on to motion pictures, frequent roles on the animated "The Simpsons", … - Scott Niedermayer
Robert Scott Niedermayer (born August 31, 1973, in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman, currently playing for and captaining the NHL's Anaheim Ducks. Niedermayer is known for his outstanding skating stride, and knack for leading or joining the offensive rush. Standing 6 ft 1 in (185 cm), 200 pounds (91 kg), Niedermayer is considered to be one of the top defensemen in the league. Though he was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Niedermayer grew up in Cranbrook, … - Gary Doer
Gary Albert Doer, MLA (born March 31, 1948) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He has been the province's premier since 1999, leading a New Democratic Party government. - Sandra Schmirler
Sandra Schmirler, SOM (July 11, 1963-March 3, 2000) was a Canadian curler, an Olympic and triple World Champion. Born in Biggar, Saskatchewan, Schmirler learned curling at high school. Her first major successes in the sport came in 1991, when she won the provincial championships as the "skip" (captain) of her team. Only two years later, in 1993, Schmirler's Regina-based team also won the Canadian Championships, and were sent out to the World Championships, … - Mike Weir
Michael Richard Weir O.Ont. (born May 12, 1970) is a professional golfer on the PGA Tour. Weir was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University (majoring in Recreation Management), and he turned pro in 1992. His first PGA Tour win came at the 1999 Air Canada Championship in Surrey, British Columbia. The victory made him the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event in Canada in 45 years. - K.D. Lang
Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC (born November 2, 1961), best known by the stage name k.d. lang, is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian singer and songwriter. - Dorothy Stratten
Dorothy Stratten (born Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten was a Canadian model and actress. She found fame as the "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for August 1979 and Playmate of the Year for 1980. Stratten afterwards began a modestly successful acting career. She was murdered at age 20 by her estranged husband, an act that was the basis of two motion pictures. - Randy Bachman
Randolph Charles Bachman, OM, D.Mus (hon.) (born September 27, 1943, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) was lead guitarist and songwriter of the 1970s rock bands, The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Bachman was also a member of the band Brave Belt with Chad Allan and has recorded numerous solo albums. - Cindy Klassen
Cindy Klassen (born August 12, 1979 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian skater and Canada's all-time most decorated Olympian. Klassen is a descendant of Mennonite immigrants to Manitoba and is a graduate of Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute in Winnipeg. She started her sports career as an ice hockey player; in her youth she played for the Canadian National Youth Team. When she wasn't selected for the 1998 Winter Olympics, … - Allan Gotlieb
Allan Ezra Gotlieb, CC, LL.D, LL.B, MA (born February 28, 1928) is a Canadian public servant and author. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Gotlieb received his BA from the University of California at Berkeley, his MA from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and his LL.B degree from Harvard University, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review. In 1957 he joined the Department of External Affairs. From 1967 to 1968 he was assistant undersecretary and legal adviser. - Heinz Lehmann
Heinz Edgar Lehmann (July 17 1911 - April 7 1999) was a German born Canadian psychiatrist best known for his use of chlorpromazine for the treatment of schizophrenia in 1950s. Born in Berlin, Germany, he was educated at the University of Freiburg, the University of Marburg, the University of Vienna, and the University of Berlin. He emigrated to Canada in 1937. In 1947, he was appointed Clinical Director of Montreal's Douglas Hospital. - Sarah Chalke
Sarah Cassandra Chalke (born August 27, 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian television and movie actress best known for portraying Dr. Elliot Reid on the NBC sitcom "Scrubs" and also for portraying the second Becky Conner-Healy on ABC's "Roseanne". - Michael Kaeshammer
Michael Kaeshammer is a boogie woogie pianist, vocalist, composer, and arranger living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He also plays blues and jazz. His first album, "Blue Keys", was produced in 1996. Michael is noted for creating elaborate arrangements. He also known for changing musical styles within a piece and making use of irregular time signatures and mixed meters. - Dany Heatley
Daniel "Dany" James Heatley (born January 21, 1981, in Freiburg, West Germany) is a Canadian professional hockey player who currently plays for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League. Heatley was born in Germany to Murray and Karin Heatley as his Canadian father, Murray Heatley, was then playing in a German hockey league. His mother is German. When Murray retired from hockey, the family settled in Calgary, where Dany was raised. - Almuth Lütkenhaus
Almuth Lütkenhaus was a sculptor. From 1948 until 1952 she studied art at schools in Dortmund and Münster. She married Erich Lütkenhaus, an artist, in 1952, from whom she later separated. She lived in Soest from 1962 until 1966, when she moved to Canada, where she died in 1996. - Fred Penner
Frederick (Fred) Ralph Cornelius Penner (born November 6, 1946 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian children's entertainer who gives appearances throughout North America. He also had a CBC show called "Fred Penner's Place", which aired from 1985-1997 and also once aired on Nickelodeon. Fred's musical career practically began as soon as he could harmonize. As early as the age of four, he would make up songs while travelling on the bus with his mother. - Yasmeen Ghauri
Yasmeen Ghauri (born March 23, 1971 in Montreal, Canada) is a Canadian supermodel. Her modeling career began at the age of 17, after she had made an appointment at a Montreal modeling agency. Her father is a Muslim cleric from Pakistan, and her mother is German. Yasmeen served as a longtime model for Victoria's Secret and was admired as a great runway model. Yasmeen was reportedly discovered in 1989 while working in a McDonalds. - Elisabeth Mann-Borgese
Elisabeth Mann-Borgese (April 24 1918, Munich, Germany - d. February 8 2002, St. Moritz, Switzerland) was the youngest daughter of Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Pringsheim, sister to Klaus, Erika Auden, Golo, and Michael Mann, sister-in-law to W. H. Auden, and niece of the novelist Heinrich Mann. The Mann family left Germany after Hitler came to power, moving first to Switzerland, and, in 1938, to the United States. She became a United States citizen in 1941, … - R. Murray Schafer
R. Murray Schafer is Canada's pre-eminent composer and is known throughout the world. In an era of specialization, R. Murray Schafer has shown himself to be a true renaissance man. Born in Sarnia, Ontario in 1933, Murray Schafer has won national and international acclaim not only for his achievement as a composer but also as an educator, environmentalist, literary scholar, visual artist and provocateur. - Father David Bauer
Father David William Bauer, OC, CSB, (November 2, 1924 - November 9, 1988), a native of the Kitchener-Waterloo area of Ontario, was a professional ice hockey player, builder, and hockey pioneer. - Sir John Johnson 2nd Baronet
Sir John Johnson, 2nd Baronet (5 November 1741 - 4 January 1830) was a loyalist leader during the American Revolution. He was the son of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, who had promoted the British settlement of the Mohawk Valley and founded the community of Johnstown in Tryon County in the Province of New York. In 1774, John Johnson inherited his father's title and estates, making him a wealthy landowner. - Susan Auch
Susan Auch (born March 1, 1966 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian speed-skater and five-time Olympian who trained initially out of Winnipeg, and later in Calgary, Alberta. Auch competed in several Winter Olympics games, winning the bronze in the 3000 m. relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and the silver in the 500 m. events at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway and the 1998 games at Nagano, Japan. - Deborah Kara Unger
Deborah Kara Unger (born May 12, 1964 or 1963 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress. Before becoming an actress, she studied economics and philosophy at University of British Columbia. She later became the first Canadian to be accepted into Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art. Her mother is a real estate agent and father is a gynaecologist. When Unger is not working, she resides in either Vancouver or Los Angeles, California, USA. - Lars Hirschfeld
Lars Hirschfeld (born on October 17, 1978 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian football goalkeeper. Hirschfeld currently plays for Rosenborg B.K. in the Norwegian Premier League. He started his career with the Edmonton Drillers, playing indoor soccer. Hirschfeld also played with Energie Cottbus in Germany, Calgary Storm, and Vancouver Whitecaps before his big break with Canada in the 2002 Gold Cup, where he was named the best goalkeeper of the tournament, … - Abraham Pineo Gesner
Abraham Pineo Gesner, born May 2, 1797 in Cornwallis Township, Nova Scotia, Canada – died April 29, 1864 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was a physician and geologist who became the primary founder of the modern petroleum industry. While a practising physician, Gesner pursued his passion for geology. In 1836, he published a study on the mineralogy of Nova Scotia, … - Vanessa Lengies
Vanessa Lengies was born on July 21, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec. She is a Canadian actress best known for starring in the drama American Dreams as Roxanne Bojarski . She attended Evergreen Elementary and then went on to Hudson High School from 1997-2002. Lengies is fluent in French and English, and knows some Arabic. Her father is German and her mother is Egyptian. Some of her credits include Arthur, Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Radio Active. - John Vernon
John Vernon (February 24, 1932 - February 1, 2005) was a Canadian actor. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada. - Stan Hagen
Stan Hagen (born 1940) is a Canadian politician, representing the riding of Comox Valley in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a member of the BC Liberal Party. He is currently the Minister of Tourism, Sports and the Arts (British Columbia). He has previously served as Minister for Children and Family Development, Minister of Sustainable Resource Management, and Minister of Human Resources. - Hugh Kenner
Hugh Kenner (January 7, 1923 - November 24, 2003), was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor. Kenner was born in Peterborough, Ontario on January 7, 1923; his father taught classics. Kenner attributed his interest in literature to his poor hearing, caused by a bout of influenza during his childhood. Attending the University of Toronto, Kenner studied under Marshall McLuhan, who wrote the introduction to Kenner's first book "Paradox in Chesterton". - Wade Redden
Wade Redden (born June 12 1977, in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan) is a professional ice hockey defenceman for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League. As a youngster, Wade had played hockey but he was involved in fastball. Wade completed Kindergarten to grade nine at the Hillmond School. He then went to attend the Lloydminster Comprehensive School for grade ten, and then he completed grade 11, and lastly 12 in Brandon, Manitoba. - Albert Schultz
Albert Schultz (born 1963 in Port Hope, Ontario) is a Canadian actor, director and the founding artistic director of Toronto's celebrated Soulpepper Theatre Company. Schultz studied drama at Toronto's York University and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. His theatre career as an actor includes several roles at the Stratford Festival, including Romeo in Robin Phillips' production of "Romeo and Juliet", and at Soulpepper, … - Brendan Fehr
Brendan Jacob Joel Fehr (born October 29, 1977) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Michael Guerin on the WB television series "Roswell". He modeled to earn more pocket money and his pictures appeared in magazines. He was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where in 1996 he was cast in an early Internet soap opera, "CR6". He broke into television in 1997 when he was cast in "Breaker High". - Sarah Harmer
Harmer gained her first exposure to the musician's lifestyle as a teenager, when her older sister Mary started taking her to concerts by the then-unknown Tragically Hip . At the age of 17, she was invited to join a Toronto band, The Saddletramps . For three years, she juggled The Saddletramps with her studies in philosophy and women's studies at Queen's University . - Peter Schaefer
Peter Schaefer (born July 12, 1977 in Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian ice hockey left winger. He currently plays for the National Hockey League's Boston Bruins. He was drafted by the Vancouver Canucks in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. He was traded to the Senators in 2002 for Sami Salo. July 17th, 2007 Peter was traded to the Boston Bruins for RW Shean Donovan. - Emanuel Hahn
Emanuel Otto Hahn was a German-born Canadian sculptor and coin designer. Born in Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, he moved to Toronto in 1888 with his family. Among the coins of Canada, he designed the famous Voyageur Dollar design, which depicts a fur-trapper ("coureur des bois") from the Hudson's Bay Company and an Inuit in a canoe with the Northern Lights (aurora (astronomy)), the famous Nova Scotian racing schooner "Bluenose" on the 10c. - John Sebastian Helmcken
John Sebastian Helmcken (June 5, 1824 - September 1, 1920) was a British Columbia physician who played a prominent role in bringing the province into Canadian Confederation. He was also the founding president of the British Columbia Medical Association.
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