- 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. - 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. - 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. - David Naylor
Christopher David Naylor, D.Phil, MD (born 1954 in Woodstock, Ontario) is a medical researcher and president of the University of Toronto. A Rhodes Scholar, Naylor received an MD from the University of Toronto in 1978, proceeding to Hertford College, University of Oxford, where he earned a D.Phil in 1983 in the Department of Social and Administrative Studies. - David Peterson
David Robert Peterson, PC, LL.B, BA (born December 28, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario) was the twentieth Premier of the Province of Ontario, Canada, from June 26, 1985 to October 1, 1990. He was the first Liberal premier of Ontario in 42 years. Peterson is married to actress Shelley Peterson, and is the younger brother of Jim Peterson, currently a federal Liberal MP and former cabinet minister in the government of Paul Martin. Both his sister-in-law Deb Matthews and Tim Peterson, … - Lester B. Pearson
Lester Bowles Pearson, often referred to as "Mike", PC, OM, CC, OBE, MA, LL.D. (April 23, 1897 - December 27, 1972) was a Canadian statesman, diplomat and politician who was made a Nobel Laureate in 1957. He was the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963, until April 20, 1968, as the head of two back-to-back minority governments following elections in 1963 and 1965. - Adrienne Clarkson
Adrienne Louise Clarkson (née Poy, PC, CC, CMM, COM, CD, LL.D "(honoris causa)" (born February 10, 1939) is an accomplished Canadian journalist. From October 7, 1999 to September 27, 2005 she served as the 26th Governor General of Canada (representing Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada): she was the first Chinese Canadian (although she does not speak Chinese) and second woman to hold this position, the first being Jeanne Sauvé. - Bill Graham
William C. "Bill" Graham, PC, QC, LL.D, D.U., B.A.(Hon.), (born March 17, 1939, in Montreal, Quebec) is a former Canadian politician. In 2006, he was Canada's Leader of the Opposition as well as the interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada between the resignation of Paul Martin and the election of Stephane Dion as his successor. - 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. - Vivienne Poy
Vivienne Poy, MA née Lee (利德蕙; Cantonese Yale: Ley6 Dak1-way6; Mandarin Pinyin: Lì Déhuì), (born May 15, 1941 in Hong Kong) was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1998. Poy came to Canada as a university student in 1959. She is the first Canadian senator of Asian ancestry. She graduated from St. Paul's Co-educational College, McGill University, Seneca College and University of Toronto. For 14 years, Poy served as president of Vivienne Poy Mode, … - Arthur Meighen
Arthur Meighen, PC, QC, BA, LL.D (June 16, 1874 – August 5, 1960) was the ninth Prime Minister of Canada from July 10, 1920 to December 29, 1921 and June 29 to September 25, 1926. He was the first Prime Minister born after Confederation, and also the first (and to date only) to represent a riding in Manitoba (notwithstanding that he was born and lived most of his life in Ontario). Both of his terms of office were brief, … - 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. - Stephen Lewis
Stephen Henry Lewis, C.C. (born November 11, 1937) is a Canadian politician, broadcaster and diplomat. He is currently Social Science Scholar-in-Residence at McMaster University, having recently completed his term as United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of former federal New Democratic Party leader David Lewis, he attended Harbord Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto. - Michael Ignatieff
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF announced his candidacy on April 7, 2006. He is a Toronto-born academic and author, who left his post as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University in August 2005 to teach at the University of Toronto. He now represents the Toronto riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Ignatieff worked as a reporter for The Globe and Mail before going on to earn his PhD at Harvard. - David Shore
David Shore is a Canadian-born writer, best known for his work writing and producing in television. A former lawyer, Shore became known for his work on "Family Law" and "NYPD Blue". Shore also produced many episodes of the hit cult television series "Due South", before creating a show of his own, "House, M. D.". - 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. - Leslie Dan
Leslie Lewis Dan, CM, O.Ont, MBA, LL.D, B.Sc (born November 26, 1929) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. Born in Budapest, Dan came to Canada in 1947. He survived World War II by using false identity papers. He graduated from the University of Toronto School of Pharmacy in 1954 obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree. He completed his Master of Business Administration degree in 1959. In 1960, he founded a company which distributed over-the-counter drugs. - Charles Best
Dr. Charles Herbert Best, CC (February 27, 1899 - March 31, 1978) was a medical scientist. He was born in West Pembroke, Maine, USA to Canadian parents. While a 22-year-old student studying medicine at the University of Toronto, he worked as an assistant to Dr. Frederick Banting and played a role in the discovery of the pancreatic hormone insulin-one of the most significant advances in medicine at the time, enabling an effective treatment of diabetes. - John McCrae
Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 - January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist, soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the battle of Ypres. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". - Michael Wilson
Michael Holcombe Wilson, PC <small>OC</small> (born November 4, 1937) is a Canadian diplomat, politician and business leader. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Wilson attended Upper Canada College, Trinity College at the University of Toronto where he joined the Kappa Alpha Society, and the London School of Economics. - Robert Prichard
John Robert Stobo Prichard, OC, OOnt, LLM, PhD (born 1949) is a Canadian lawyer, economist, and academic. Born in London, England, Prichard attended prep school at Upper Canada College before studying economics at Swarthmore College, business at the University of Chicago, and law at the University of Toronto and Yale Law School. Prichard joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto in 1976. He served as Dean of the faculty from 1984 to 1990. - John Tory
John Howard Tory, LL.B, BA, MPP (born May 28, 1954) is a Canadian businessman, political activist and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (Ontario PC Party). Tory has been married to Barbara Hackett since 1978. The couple have four children (John, Christopher, Susan, and George). Tory is considered by some to be a Red Tory, and holds socially liberal views on a number of issues including same-sex marriage. His economic policies are less defined. - Bill Davis
William Grenville "Bill" Davis, PC, CC, O.Ont., QC, BA, LL.D., BAS (Hons) (born July 30, 1929 in Brampton, Ontario) was the Progressive Conservative Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1971 to 1985. - John Black Aird
John Black Aird, CC, O.Ont, QC, LL.B, LL.D (May 5, 1923 - May 6, 1995), was the 32nd Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, Canada, from 1980 to 1985. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. The grandson of Canadian financier Sir John Aird, John Black Aird was educated at Upper Canada College, Trinity College and Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. He practised law in Toronto and headed his own firm from 1974. - Rose Wolfe
Rose Wolfe (born 1938) is the former Canadian Chancellor of the University of Toronto. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1938 and a Diploma in social work in 1939 from the University of Toronto. She was elected Chancellor in 1991 and served for two terms until 1997. She was married to Ray Wolfe, the founder and CEO of the Oshawa Group Limited and the founding president of the "Canadian Jewish News". - Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan, OC (born July 19, 1960) is a critically acclaimed Canadian-Armenian film maker. His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power structures. Stylistically, Egoyan's films often follow non-linear plot-structures, in which events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information. - David Kilgour
David Kilgour, PC, BA, JD, D.D. (born February 18, 1941 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a former Canadian politician. Kilgour graduated from the University of Manitoba in economics in 1967 and the University of Toronto law school in 1971. From crown attorney in northern Alberta to Canadian Cabinet minister, Kilgour ended his 25 year tenure in the Canadian House of Commons as an Independent MP. Upon retirement, … - Michael Ondaatje
Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC,, (born 12 September, 1943) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist and poet, perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film, "The English Patient" - 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. - Roberta Bondar
Roberta Bondar , a medical doctor and Ph.D. in neurobiology, became the first Canadian woman astronaut and the world's first neurologist in space in 1992 on the International Microgravity Laboratory. She was elected to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame for her pioneering space medical research. - Michael Cassidy
Michael Morris Cassidy (born May 10, 1937) is a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1984, and in the Canadian House of Commons from 1984 to 1988. Cassidy was the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) from 1978 to 1982. He was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and was educated at the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics. He worked as a journalist before entering political life, … - Henry N. R. Jackman
Henry Newton Rowell "Hal" Jackman, OC, O.Ont, BA, LL.D (born June 10, 1932, Toronto, Ontario), served as the 25th Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario from 1991 to 1997. He is the son of former Member of Parliament Harry Jackman and philanthropist Mary Rowell Jackman (the daughter of another former Member of Parliament, Newton Wesley Rowell.) His sister, Nancy Ruth, is a philanthropist who was appointed to the Senate in 2005. Hal Jackman was educated at Upper Canada College, … - 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 - Stephen Leacock
Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph.D, FRSC (30 December 1869 - 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and economist. - Joseph Rotman
Joseph L. Rotman, OC, MA, LL.D (born January 6, 1935) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received his BA from the University of Western Ontario in 1957 and his MA from the University of Toronto in 1960. In 1987, he founded Clairvest Group Inc., a Canadian-based merchant bank. The University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management is named in his honour after he donated C$18 million toward the school. - 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. - Peter Godsoe
Peter Cowperthwaite Godsoe, OC, MBA, LL.D, FCA (born 1938) is a Canadian businessman and former Chairman and Chief executive officer of the Bank of Nova Scotia from 1992 to 2003. He is a member of the board of directors of multiple corporations, and serves as the Chairman of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and Sobeys. Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of J. Gerald "Gerry" and Margaret (Cowperthwaite) Godsoe, … - Paul Joseph James Martin
The Rt Hon. Paul Joseph James Martin, PC, CC, QC (June 23, 1903 - September 14, 1992), often referred to as Paul Martin, Sr, was a noted Canadian politician. He was the father of Paul Martin (Jr.), who served as Prime Minister of Canada from 2003 - 2006. - 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).
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