- 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, … - 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 . - 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. - Stephen Leacock
Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph.D, FRSC (30 December 1869 - 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and economist. - 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". - 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. - 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. - 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. - David Paul Cronenberg
David Paul Cronenberg OC, FRSC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director and occasional actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the "body horror" or "venereal horror" genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. - Charles Margrave Taylor
Charles Margrave Taylor, CC, GOQ, BA, MA, Ph.D, FRSC (born November 5, 1931) is a Canadian philosopher who has made significant contributions to political philosophy, philosophy of social science, and the history of philosophy. He is often classified as a communitarian, though he is uncomfortable with the label. He is a practicing Roman Catholic. Taylor was educated at the McGill University (B.A. in History in 1952) and at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. in Philosophy, … - 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. - 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. - Henry Taube
Professor Henry Taube, Ph.D, M.Sc, B.Sc, FRSC (November 30, 1915 - November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist noted for having been awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes," otherwise referred to as inner-sphere electron transfer. Taube was born in Neudorf, Saskatchewan and attended high school at Luther College in Regina. - Stephen Clarkson
Stephen Clarkson, Ph.d, FRSC (born 1937) is a Canadian political scientist. He is currently a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto. He was educated at Upper Canada College, graduating in 1955. He was married to Adrienne Clarkson, later to become a CBC Television broadcaster and Governor General of Canada, from 1963 to 1975. - 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 - Anthony Pawson
Anthony (Tony) James Pawson, OC, O.Ont, CH, FRS, FRSC, Ph.D., (born October 18 1952) is a British born Canadian scientist whose research has revolutionized the understanding of signal transduction, and the molecular mechanisms by which cells respond to external cues. - 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, … - Monique Bégin
Monique Bégin, PC, OC, FRSC, Ph.D, MA, BA (born March 1 1936) is an academic and former Canadian politician. Bégin was born in Rome and raised in France and Portugal before immigrating to Canada at the end of World War II. She received a Master of Arts in sociology from the Université de Montréal and a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne. In 1967, she became executive secretary of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, which published its report in 1970. - 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. - Ursula Franklin
Ursula Martius Franklin, CC, O.Ont, Ph.D, FRSC (born September 16, 1921 in Munich, Germany) is a German-Canadian metallurgist and research physicist. She is a Quaker and is a Member of Toronto Monthly Meeting. She has also been active in promoting pacifist and feminist causes. Franklin began her career during World War II, but was imprisoned in a Nazi work camp because her mother was Jewish. She spent the rest of the war repairing bombed buildings. - John Charles Polanyi
John Charles Polanyi,, PC, CC, FRSC, FRS, PhD, DSc, (born January 23, 1929) is a Hungarian-Canadian chemist. He was born in Berlin, son of distinguished Hungarian chemist Michael Polanyi and Magda Elizabeth Polanyi, and nephew of influential economist Karl Polanyi. The family moved to England in 1933 where Polanyi studied at Manchester Grammar School and the University of Manchester – his father's workplace – achieving his doctorate in 1952. - Antonine Maillet
Antonine Maillet, PC, CC, OQ, ONB, LL.D, FRSC, (born May 10,1929) is a Canadian Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick and lives in Montreal, Quebec. Following high school, she received her BA from the Université de Moncton, followed by an MA from the same institution. She then received her PhD in literature in 1970 from the Université Laval. She taught literature and folklore at Laval, then in Montreal between 1971 to 1976. - 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, … - Jack Granatstein
Jack Lawrence Granatstein, OC, PhD, LLD, FRSC (born 1939) is a Canadian historian who specializes in political and military history. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Granatstein received a graduation diploma from Le College militaire royal de Saint-Jean in 1959, his BA from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1961, his MA from the University of Toronto in 1962 and his Ph.D from Duke University in 1966. He served in the Canadian Army from 1956 to 1966. - 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. - Margaret Somerville
Margaret Anne Ganley Somerville, AM, FRSC (born April 13, 1942) is an Australian/Canadian ethicist and academic. She is the Samuel Gale Professor of Law, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and the Founding Director of the Faculty of Law's Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University. - John Tuzo Wilson
John Tuzo Wilson, Ph.D, CC, OBE, D.Sc, FRS, FRSC, FRSE (October 24, 1908-April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist and geologist who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics, the idea that the rigid outer layers of the Earth (crust and part of the upper mantle), the lithosphere, are broken up into numerous pieces or "plates" that move independently over the weaker asthenosphere. - Bertram Brockhouse
Bertram Neville Brockhouse, CC, Ph.D, D.Sc, FRSC (July 15, 1918 - October 13, 2003) was a Nobel prize-winning Canadian physicist. Brockhouse was born in Lethbridge Alberta, and was a graduate of the University of British Columbia (BA, 1947) and the University of Toronto (MA, 1948; Ph.D, 1950). From 1950 to 1962 he carried out research at Atomic Energy of Canada's Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory. In 1962, he became professor at McMaster University in Canada, … - 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, … - Jean-Pierre Wallot
Jean-Pierre Wallot, OC, FRSC, (born May 22, 1935) is a Canadian historian, educator, civil servant and the former National Archivist of Canada. Born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, he graduated from the Université de Montréal in 1954. He also received a Master's and Doctorate from the same university. Wallot worked as a journalist from 1954 to 1960. From 1966 to 1969, he was a historian with the National Museum of Man in Ottawa. - Morley Callaghan
Edward Morley Callaghan, CC, LL.B., LL.M., LL.D., FRSC (September 22, 1903 - August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, TV and radio personality. Callaghan was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School. He never practiced law, however. During the 1920s he worked at the "Toronto Daily Star" where he became friends with fellow reporter, … - 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. - 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. - 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. - Neil Towers
George Hugh Neil Towers FRSC (28 September 1923 - 15 November 2004) was Emeritus Professor of Botany at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He was awarded the Flavelle Medal in 1986 and was cited extensively for his work in medicinal phytochemistry and ethnopharmacology of medicinal plants. He was born in Bombay, India and was the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel George William Towers D.S.O., O.B.E. (Royal Engineers). - Richard E. Taylor
Professor Richard Edward Taylor, CC, FRS, FRSC, Ph.D., M.Sc, B.Sc (born November 2, 1929 in Medicine Hat, Alberta) is a Canadian-American professor (Emeritus) at Stanford University and the laureate of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Physics. - Gustave Lanctot
Gustave Lanctot, OC, FRSC, also spelled Gustave Lanctôt, (5 July 1883 - 2 February 1975) was a Canadian historian and archivist. Born in Saint-Constant, Quebec, he studied law at Université de Montréal and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1907. A Rhodes Scholar, he studied political science and history from 1909 to 1911 while at Oxford University. He was also a member of the Oxford Canadian Ice Hockey Team. - John Dick
Dr. John E. Dick PhD FRSC (born 1957) is an award-winning Canadian scientist, credited with first identifying cancer stem cells in certain types of human leukemia. His revolutionary findings highlighted the importance of understanding that not all cancer cells are the same and thus spawned a new direction in cancer research. Dick is also known for his demonstration of a blood stem cell's ability to replenish the blood system of a mouse, … - Rosalie Abella
Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella , one of Canada's leading jurists and an expert on human rights law, gave the 2007 commencement address on June 4th. Justice Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 2004 after 12 years as a justice on the Ontario Court of Appeal. Justice Abella was born on July 1, 1946 in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany and came to Canada as a refugee in 1950.
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