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Profile | Category | Description |
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Margaret Atwood | Author (Private) | author, activist, etc. |
Samuel Cunard | Business | founded the Cunard Shipping Line |
Louis-François Lessard | Military | CB, Canadian General, Second Boer War veteran and Companion of the Military Order of the Bath |
Sir Samuel B. Steele | Military | KCMG CB, NWMP fame and Canadian General |
Charles William Drury | Military | Father of Modern Field Artillery in Canada. |
Peter Gzowski | Auhor | Author, broadcaster |
Tommy Prince | Military | MM, highly decorated Saulteaux veteran of WWII and Korea |
Dr. Alexander Milton Ross | Science | philanthropist, scientist and author has had a career of striking interest |
Dr. Abraham Pineo Gesner | Science | The Father of Kerosene.” pioneer geologist and the founder of the hydrocarbon refining industry |
Bora Laskin | Judicial | Supreme Court Justice, becoming the first Jewish justice, later Chief Justice - |
Alexander McKay | Business | fur trader and explorer with North West Company and the Pacific Fur Company, co-founded Fort Astoria on the Pacific coast |
William McGillivray | Business | North West Company fur trader, landowner, Justice of the Peace, office holder, politician, and militia officer, War of 1812 |
James McGill | Business | James McGill was a Scottish-born businessman, politician and philanthropist, best known as the founder of McGill University, Montreal |
Hon. Joseph Royal | Politics | Lieutenant-Governor for the North-West Territories, Lawyer, author, municipal official, MLA (1871-1874), MLA (1875-1878), MLA (1878-79), MP (1878-1882), MP (1882-1887), MP (1887-1891), Francophone rights |
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts KCMG | Arts | author, professor, declared a Person of National Historic Significance in 1945 |
William Shatner | Arts | Actor, author |
William Coaker | Private | union leader, politician |
Louis Cyr | Private | wrestler, weightlifter |
George Eulas Foster | Private | politician, academic (League of Nations) |
Archibald Fraser | Private | industrialist (lumber) |
William Francis Ganong | Private | botanist, cartographer, historian |
James Jerome Hill | Private | businessman (Red River Transportation Company, Great Northern Railway) |
James Isbister | Private | Métis leader |
Charles D.G. Roberts | Private | poet |
Alexander Ogilvie | Business | cofounder of A.W. Ogilvie & Company, member of the Quebec Legislative Assembly, senator |
John Ogilvie | Business | cofounder of A.W. Ogilvie & Company |
William Ogilvie | Business | cofounder of A.W. Ogilvie & Company |
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