Dan George was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band located on Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver, British Columbia. He was also an Academy Award-nominated actor and an author. Dan George, Geswanouth Slahoot, Tsleil-Waututh (Salish), 1899-1981 From … Continued
Barbara Ann Scott, figure skater. One of Canada’s best-remembered athletes, Scott endeared herself to Canadians in winning the 1948 St Moritz Olympic Games figure-skating title. At age 9, she had begun a daily 7-hour training routine; a year later, she … Continued
Percy Williams was an Olympian who won 2 gold medals for Canada in the 1928 Olympic games. In 1930 he set a world record for the 100 yard dash at the British Empire Games (now known as the Commonwealth Games).
Marshall McLuhan’s work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. He is popularly known for the expressions “the medium is the message” and “global village”.
Born July 18, 1926 Died January 5, 1987 Margaret Laurence was a Governor General Award winning novelist for A Jest of God (1966) and The Diviners (1974). Her novel Stone Angel (1964) is also widely read in schools across Canada.She … Continued
Born: 1 February 1923 Died: 17 October 2008 (Jewish General Hospital, Montreal) Interred: Victorian Cemetery Association, de la savane WEIDER, BEN February 1, 1923 – October 17, 2008Ben Weider, sports leader, scholar, businessman, and philanthropist, known and honored worldwide for … Continued
Ernest Armstrong McCulloch was a cellular biologist, co-discoverer of the existence of stem cells. Born in Toronto, Ontario April 27, 1926; died there January 20, 2011. McCulloch was educated at the University of Toronto. He is interred at Mount Pleasant … Continued
Date of Birth 1907-04-16 Valcourt, QC Date of Death 1964-02-18 Sherbrooke, QC Joseph-Armand Bombardier, engineer, entrepreneur, inventor of the snowmobile and Ski-Doo (born 16 April 1907 in Valcourt, QC; died 18 February 1964 in Sherbrooke, QC). While Bombardier’s many inventions … Continued
A.Y. Jackson was a Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven.
Date of Birth1899-02-27, West Pembroke, Washington County, Maine Date of Death1978-03-31, Toronto, Ontario Also known as Charles Herbert Best Charles Best was a medical scientist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin. Dr. Charles Best and Dr. Frederick Banting discovered insulin.