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Sir Sandford Fleming
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 Railway, and being a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Royal Canadian Institute.
Raymond Burr
Raymond William Stacy Burr, actor (b at New Westminster, BC 21 May 1917; d at Healdsburg, Ca 13 Sep 1993). Raymond Burr attended Willard Middle School in Berkeley, Ca, as a child and worked in stage and radio for several years, starring in 4 plays at the Pasadena Playhouse, where he taught acting. He also gave seminars in television acting technique at Sonoma State University. He made his first film in 1946, and was typecast as a figure of smooth menace. He arrived in Hollywood in the 1940s after a stint on the New York stage, and made a career...
Viola Desmond
Also known as: Viola Irene Davis Viola Irene Desmond was a Canadian civil rights activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre. For this, she was convicted of a minor tax violation for the one-cent tax difference between the seat that she had paid for and the seat that she used, which was more expensive. Desmond's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern...
Dame Emma Albani
Also known as Marie-Louise-Emma-Cécile Lajeunesse Dame Emma Albani was a leading soprano of the 19th century and early 20th century. She performed operas for audiences as prestigious as Queen Victoria, Kaiser Wilhelm I and Tsar Alexander II. Born Marie-Louise-Emma-Cecile Lajeunesse, in Chambly, Quebec she spent her early childhood in Plattsburgh, New York, but returned to Montreal following her mother Mélina Mignault's death in 1856. Emma, the eldest daughter in her family, studied at the Sacred Heart Convent where her father Joseph Lajeunesse, a professional musician, was Music Master, and on August 24, 1860, she partnered with Dame Adelina Patti in...