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Banting, Frederick
Frederick Banting was the discoverer of insulin and winner of a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1923 shared with J.J.R. Macleod
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Bell, Alexander Graham
Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been ...
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Best, Charles H.
Charles Best was a medical scientist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin.
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Bethune, Norman
Dr. Bethune was a physician and medical innovator. He is best known for his service in war time medical units during the Spanish Civil War and with the People's Liberation Army during the Second ...
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Dafoe, Dr. Allan Roy
Dr. Dafoe was an obstetrician who was best known for delivering and caring for the Dionne quintuplets, the first quintuplets known to survive early infancy.
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Fleming, Sir Sandford
Sir Sandford Fleming was an engineer and inventor, known for proposing worldwide standard time zones, Canada's postage stamp, surveying and map making, engineering much of the Canadian Pacific R...
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Franklin, Sir John
Sir John Franklin, FRGS Born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England on April 16, 1786 Died on King William Island, Nunavut on June 11, 1847 Claim to fame: British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer who...
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Fraser, Simon
Simon Fraser was a fur trader and an explorer who charted much of what is now British Columbia. He was responsible for building that area's first trading posts, and, in 1808, he explored what is ...
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Kane, Paul
Paul Kane, an Irish-born painter famous for his depiction of Canadian First Peoples.
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Mackenzie, Alexander
Alexander Mackenzie was an explorer, North West Company partner; first person to cross the North American continent and reach the Pacific over land.
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Prince Rupert
Prince Rupert had a varied career but his impact on Canada was as the first Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company (1670), which included title to all lands draining into Hudson Bay.
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Simcoe, John Graves
John Graves Simcoe was the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. He founded York (now Toronto) and was instrumental in introducing courts, trial by jury, English common law and in abolishing slav...
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Traill, Catherine Parr
Catherine Parr Traill was an author famous for her books "The Backwoods Of Canada" (1835), "Canadian Crusoes" (1852), Ramblings In The Canadian Forest" (1854), "Stories O...
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Wilson, J. Tuzo
J. Tuzo Wilson is geologist who is best-known for his theory of continental drift or plate tectonics.
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