- Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta ,(born 1950 in Amritsar Punjab, India) is a controversial Indian-Canadian film director and screenwriter who is based in Toronto and Delhi. - Russell Peters
Russell Dominic Peters (born 1970) is an Indian-Canadian stand-up comic from Brampton, Ontario, Canada. His parents are originally from Bombay and Kolkata in India. Russell Peters focuses primarily on various cultural backgrounds, including his own Indian background, as well as Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Arab, African, Hispanic, Italian, British, and other South and Southeast Asian communities. - Bob Singh Dhillon
Bob Singh Dhillon, (Born: 1965) a Punjabi Indian-Canadian Sikh billionaire property businessman. His family comes from Tallewal village near Barnala in Punjab. His grandfather left for Hong Kong for business reasons and set-up the North China Shipping Company to carry back between Japan. He was born in Japan in 1965. As a small child he was sent back to India for his schooling, he was educated at Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, he is a Punjabi speaker. - Anita Rau Badami
Anita Rau Badami (born 24 September 1961) an Indian-Canadian novelist. in Rourkela, Orissa, India, she was at the University of Madras and Sophia College in Bombay. She emigrated to Canada in 1991, and earned an M.A. at the University of Calgary. first novel, "Tamarind Mem" (1997), grew out of her university thesis. Her critically acclaimed novels deal with the complexities of Indian family life and with the cultural gap that emerges when Indians move to the west. - Sudi Devanesen
Sudarshan (Sudi) Devanesen, CM (born 1943), is an Indian-Canadian family physician and educator, public health activist, and member of the Order of Canada. Devanesen studied at Bishop Cotton Boy's School in Bangalore, Madras Christian College of the University of Madras, and the Christian Medical College in Vellore, all in India. Trained as a surgeon, began his medical practice in remote villages in Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan. In 1972, he immigrated to Canada. - Anosh Irani
Anosh Irani (born 1974) is an Indian-Canadian novelist and playwright. An Irani (like Parsi, but of recent Iranian extraction), he was born and raised in Mumbai, although he has indicated that he personally prefers the city's traditional English name, Bombay. After working in advertising in India, he moved to Vancouver in 1998 to study and pursue writing. His first full-length play, "The Matka King", premiered in October 2003 at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver. - Haroon Siddiqui
Haroon Siddiqui, C.M., O.Ont., (born June 1, 1942) is an Indian-Canadian newspaper journalist, columnist and a former editor. - Sunny Leone
Sunny Leone (born May 13, 1981 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is an Indian Canadian model and pornographic actress. She is best known for winning "Penthouse" magazine's Pet of the Year title for 2003. She is also noted for being one of the few pornographic actresses with an Indian background. - Irshad Manji
Irshad Manji (born 1968) is a Canadian feminist Muslim, author, journalist, and activist. She is a well-known critic of radical Islam and orthodox interpretations of the Qur'an, calling herself a "Muslim refusenik". "The New York Times" has described her as "Osama bin Laden's worst nightmare". Manji advocates a revival of critical thinking, known as "ijtihad" in Islamic tradition. - Anil Kaul
Anil Kaul (born December 25, 1964 in Amritsar, India) is a retired male badminton player from Canada, who won the gold medal in the inaugural men's doubles competition at the 1995 Pan American Games. He did so alongside Iain Sydie. A resident of Victoria, Manitoba, he represented Canada at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. - Raghav
Raghav Mathur (born April 2, 1981), is an Indian Canadian singer. - Darshan Singh Canadian
Darshan Singh Canadian (aka Darshan A. Sangha) (born 1917, Langeri, Punjab, India; died September 25, 1986) was a trade union activist and Communist organizer in Canada and India. He immigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1937. Upon his arrival his uncle attempted to get him a job at Dominion Sawmills resulting in the uncle being fired and Sangha being hired at five cents less pay an hour. - Lisa Ray
Lisa Ray (born April 4, 1972) is a Canadian Bollywood actress and former fashion model. She grew up in Toronto, is the daughter of a Bengali father and a Polish mother. Ray started her modelling career at age 16 and was the "brand ambassador" for Lakme cosmetics in India. She made numerous advertisements for various Indian companies before becoming involved in films. She began her acting career with the Bollywood film "Kasoor" in 2001 opposite Aftab Shivdasani. - Ujjal Dosanjh
Ujjal Singh Dosanjh, PC, MP, BA, LL.B (born September 9, 1947, Jalandhar) is a Canadian lawyer and politician, currently serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Vancouver South. He serves as critic for the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Offi ... - Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay, India in 1952 and immigrated to Canada in 1975 where he took employment working for a Toronto bank. After completing one year at York University, he transferred to the University of Toronto where he completed his B.A. as well beginning his career as a writer winning two Hart House literary prizes in 1983 and 1984 respectively and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributor's Prize in 1985 for his short stories. - Phil Fontaine
Larry Phillip (Phil) Fontaine, OM, (born September 20, 1944) is an Aboriginal Canadian leader. He is currently serving his third term as National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Fontaine was born at the Sagkeeng First Nation on the Fort Alexander Reserve in Manitoba, Canada, about 150 kilometers north of Winnipeg, Manitoba. His first language is Ojibway. In his youth he attended a residential school operated by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate at Sagkeeng. - Jazzy B
Jaswinder Singh Bains (born April 1, 1975), better known by his stage name Jazzy B, is an Indian Bhangra artist. Jazzy B is easily recognized by fans of Bhangra with his spiky hair and the range and depth of his vocals. 'Ghugian Da Jorra', his successful debut album, was released in 1993 and instantly made him a star. Since then he has become the best-selling Bhangra artist in the world, helping bring the genre to the forefront of the Indian music scene. - Herb Dhaliwal
Harbance Singh (Herb) Dhaliwal, PC, B.Comm (born December 12 1952) is a Canadian politician. Born to a Sikh family in Punjab, India, Dhaliwal's family immigrated to Vancouver when he was six. He attended John Oliver Secondary School, graduating in 1972. After graduating from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Commerce degree, he started a maintenance company out of his basement. He's a top level executive of Dynamic Facility Services Ltd.. - Eric Peterson
Eric Peterson (born October 2, 1946 in Indian Head, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian actor, renowned for his roles in three major Canadian television series - Street Legal, Corner Gas and This is Wonderland. An actor for over 30 years, Eric Peterson has been associated with almost all of the major innovative theatres in Canada during their period of growth and establishment. He is an actor of great talent and professional integrity, wide accomplishment, … - John MacLean
John Maclean (b. 1851-1928), was a Wesleyan pastor amongst the Indians of the Canadian Northwest. He was born in Scotland, then moved to Canada. He learned the languages and customs of the Indians. He published: "Lone Land lights", (1890); "James Evans, Inventor of the Syllabic System of the Cree Language", (1890); "The Indians of Canada", (1892); "Canadian Savage Folk", (1896); "Language and Religion", … - William Hall
William Hall (April 28, 1827 - August 25 1904) was the first black person, the first Nova Scotian, and third Canadian-born recipient of the Victoria Cross. Born at Horton's Bluff, Nova Scotia, in 1827 as the son of a freed slave, at age 17 Hall joined the merchant navy as a seaman. Later, he volunteered for the Royal Navy at Liverpool, England, February 1852. When the Indian Mutiny broke out in May 1857, Hall was on HMS Shannon en route to China. - Matt Stairs
Matthew Wade Stairs (born February 27, 1968 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada) is a professional baseball player who plays for The Toronto Blue Jays. He has a wife, Lisa Stairs, and three daughters, Nicole, Alicia and Chandler. In the off-season, he calls Bangor, Maine his home while coaching hockey for John Bapst High School, a private high school located in the center of Bangor. - Joseph Brant
Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant (c. 1742 - 24 November 1807) was a Mohawk leader and British military officer during the American Revolutionary War. Brant was perhaps the most well-known North American Indian of his generation. He met many of the most significant people of the age, including George Washington and King George III. The American folk image emphasized the atrocities his forces committed against settlers on the western frontier. - Charles Stewart
Charles Stewart, PC (Strabane, Ontario August 26, 1868 - December 6, 1946 Ottawa) was a Canadian politician who was Premier of Alberta from 1917 to 1921. Stewart entered the provincial legislature as a Liberal MLA in the 1909 provincial election. In 1912, he was appointed to the provincial Cabinet, first as minister of municipal affairs, and later as public works minister. When Premier Sifton joined the federal government, Stewart became the new Premier. - Ravi Zacharias
Ravi Zacharias (full name Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias, born 1946) is an Indian-born, Canadian-American evangelical Christian philosopher, apologist and evangelist. Zacharias is a descendant of two rich religious traditions, first Hindu priests (of the Nambudiri Brahmin caste), and later as Christian ministers. In one of his lectures, Zacharias asserts that a Swiss-German priest spoke to one of his ancestors about Christianity, … - Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20 1941) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian First Nations musician, composer, visual artist, educator and social activist. "Artists are the people who are able to resist the school system fragmenting us because it's convenient to do so, when the art teacher is in competition with the music teacher, and all creativity is in competition with the 'real' curriculum." - Jane Stewart
Jane Stewart, PC (born April 25, 1955 in Brantford, Ontario) is a former Canadian politician who was the Minister of Human Resources Development from 1999 to 2003. In 2006, she briefly held the post of Chief of Staff to Bill Graham, Leader of the Opposition. Stewart was first elected to Parliament in the 1993 election. She was a close friend of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, and was soon appointed to the important position of Minister of Indian Affairs. - Bharati Mukherjee
Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940) was born in Calcutta and moved to Britain with family in the year of Independence. She did her graduation from the Universities of Calcutta and Baroda, and later from the University of Iowa after she moved to USA in 1961. - Jaspreet Singh
Jaspreet Singh is a Canadian writer. He grew up in India and moved to Canada in 1990. He is the author of "Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir". He holds a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University. His play, "Speak, Oppenheimer", written for Montreal's Infinite Theatre, involves three physicists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer. Singh is currently Markin-Flanagan Writer-in Residence at the University of Calgary. - Pauline Johnson
Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (10 March, 1861 - 7 March, 1913), commonly known as E. Pauline Johnson or just Pauline Johnson, was a Canadian writer and performer. She was born in Chiefswood, the family home built by her father on the Six Nations Indian Reserve outside of Brantford, Ontario and died in Vancouver, British Columbia. Pauline Johnson was the youngest of four children born to George Henry Martin Johnson (1816-1884), … - Bruce Boudreau
Bruce Boudreau (born January 9, 1955 in Toronto, Ontario) is one of the most successful coaches in minor professional hockey today. As a player, Boudreau played professionally for 20 seasons, logging 141 games in the National Hockey League and 30 games in the World Hockey Association. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, and Minnesota Fighting Saints. While Boudreau's major professional career was modest, he had a long career in the minor leagues, … - Susan Aglukark
Susan Aglukark OC, LL.D, DFA (Inuktitut syllabics: ᓲᓴᓐ ᐊᒡᓘᒃᑲᖅ) (born January 27, 1967), is a Canadian singer-songwriter whose blend of Inuit folk music traditions with pop songwriting has made her a major recording star in Canada. - John Lucas
John Herman Lucas (born 12 June 1922 in Barbados) is a former West Indian and Canadian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He began his career playing for Barbados, playing twelve first-class matches. He later emigrated to Canada and played three first-class matches for the Canadian national team. He finished his career with an impressive batting average of 53.70 with a highest score of 216 not out. - Sunil Gupta
Sunil Gupta is an Indian-born Canadian photographer whose work has been the subject of numerous exhibits. Major themes of his work include migration, sexuality, health/illness and architecture, both monumental and quotidian. - John Davison
John Michael Davison (born 9 May 1970 in Campbell River, British Columbia) is a well known Canadian cricket player. He is a hard-hitting right-handed batsman in the top or middle order, useful off spin bowler and good fielder. - Thomas White
Thomas White (7 August 1830 - April 21 1888) was a Canadian journalist and politician. He was born in Montreal, Lower Canada in 1830, the son of Thomas White, a leather merchant who came to Canada from Ireland in 1826. White worked at a number of jobs before entering the printing trade with the Queen's Printer in Toronto around 1850. He moved to Quebec City in 1851 when that office moved there. In 1852, he assisted Stewart Derbishire in editing the "Canada Gazette". - Sukh Dhaliwal
Sukh Dhaliwal, P.Eng., BCLS, MP (born November 1, 1960 in Punjab, India) is a businessman and politician in British Columbia, Canada. He is currently the Liberal Member of Parliament for Newton—North Delta, elected in the 2006 federal election. A Sikh, he emigrated from India in 1984 and became a Canadian citizen three years later. - Harinder Takhar
Harinder Jeet Singh Takhar is a politician in Ontario, Canada. Takhar was born to a Sikh family in the Indian state of Punjab, with a background in farming and civil service work. He moved to Canada in 1974, and arrived in Mississauga, Ontario in 1977. He currently lives with his family in his residence on O'Neil Gate, Mississauga. - Tara Singh Hayer
Tara Singh Hayer, O.B.C. (November 15, 1936–November 18, 1998) was a Sikh Canadian newspaper publisher and murder victim. Hayer was born in Paddi Jagir, a small village in Punjab, India. He emigrated to Canada in 1970, where he worked as a miner, teacher, truck-driver, manager of a trucking firm, and journalist before establishing a community newspaper, the "Indo-Canadian Times", in 1978. Hayer supported the creation of Khalistan, an independent, … - John Dossetor
John Beamish Dossetor is a Canadian physician and bioethicist who is notable for co–coordinating the first kidney transplant in Canada and the Commonwealth. Born in Bangalore, India, he received a B.M. and B.Ch. from University of Oxford in 1950. In 1955, he immigrated to Canada to accept a position at McGill University. In 1958, he co-ordinated the first kidney transplant. From 1960 to 1969, he worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital.
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