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This is a list of notorious people in Canada:

Explorers

• Jacques Cartier - early explorer
• Samuel Champlain - early explorer, allied with Hurons, Algonquin and Montagnais against Iroquois. Founder of Quebec city.^ref
• John (Jean) Cabot - first to map East coast, and to put the word "Canada" on a map.

Government and politicians

• Cartier - led Quebec into confederation. One of the fathers of confederation
• Louis-Hyppolyte La Fontaine - First premier of Province of Canada, first head of responsible government^ref
• John Simcoe (lt coln sir) - upper Canada first lt Governor, and founder of Toronto, initiated reform against slavery.
• Étienne-Paschal Taché - one of the fathers
• John MacDonald - first PM, born in Scotland
• Wilfrid Laurier - first French Canadian PM^ref
• Louis Riel - Father of Manitoba, Metis, Seized Fort Garry^ref
• Robert Barden - 8th PM during WW1^ref
• William Lyon Mackenzie King - 10th PM during WW2^ref
• John Buchan - 15th Governor, a champion of multi-culturalism^ref
• Agnes McPhail - first woman MP (1921)

Heroes

• Sam Steele (sir) - frontier hero, Mountie^ref
• Arthur Currie (General Sir) - greatest solider in WWI^ref
• Therese Casgrain - worked for women's right to vote
• Viola Desmond - black rights activist^ref
• Laura Secord - 19 miles in the forest in 1812 to warn of US invasion
• Isaac Brock (mjr - gl sir) - captured Detroit in 1812

Scientists

• Emilie Stowe (Dr) - First Canadian woman doctor
• Alexander Graham Bell - inventor of the phone
• Sanford Fleming (sir) - Standard time zones^ref
• Frederick Banting (Sir) and Charles Best - discovered insulin
• Wilder Penfield (dr) - pioneering brain surgeon
• Gerhard Herzberg, John Polanyi, Sidney Altman, Richard E. Taylor, Michael Smith, and Bertram Brockhouse - nobel prize receivers

Athletes

• Marjorie Turner-Bailey - an Olympian descendant of black loyalists
• James Naismith - inventor of Basketball

Incumbents as of 2020

incumbents

• Party in power: Liberal (Trudeau)
• Official Opposition: Conservative (Scheer)
• Governor: Julie Payette. Previous : David Johnston

In parties:

• conservative: Scheer
• NDP: Singh
• liberal: Trudeau
• Bloc Quebecois: Ouellet
• Green: May

In BC:

• PM: John Horgan (NDP)
• Lt Governor: Janet Austin
• Elections in 2017 ended up with the liberals in front (43 seats) but the NDP (41s) constituted a government with the Greens (3).

In North Van:

• Mayor Mike Little
• MP Jonathan Wilkinson

In Vancouver:

• Mayor Kennedy Stuart

links

• Canadian History