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Originally posted by David B:
And these...
Scott Abbott and Chris Haney (inventors of game "Trivial Pursuit") _
Dan Aykroyd (movie actor; Elwood of "The Blues Brothers") _
Bryan Adams (musician and songwriter; Grammy award winner; writer of international hit "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You") _
Pamela Anderson (actress on "Baywatch") _
Paul Anka (singer and songwriter; writer of song "My Way") _
Louise Arbour (Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal, The Hague) _
Margaret Atwood (writer; author of "The Handmaid's Tale") _
Donovan Bailey (sprinter; 100m Olympic Gold Medalist, 1996) _
Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) (rock group; writers of songs "You Ain't Seen Nuthin' Yet" and "Takin' Care of Business") _
The Band (rock group; performed extensively with Bob Dylan) _
Frederick Banting and Charles Best (discoverers of diabetes drug insulin, 1921) _
Barenaked Ladies (rock group; writers of song "If I Had a Million Dollars) _
Norman Bethune (medical doctor; hero in Chinese civil war) _
Roberta Bondar (space shuttle astronaut) _
Paul Brandt (country singer; CMA 2005 Global Artist of the Year) _
Kurt Browning (figure skater; four-time world champion) _
Michael Bublé (pop/jazz singer; won 2007 Grammy award) _
Genevieve Bujold (movie actress; 1969 Academy Award nominee) _
Raymond Burr (actor; star of "Perry Mason" television show) _
James Cameron (director of movie "The Titanic") _
John Candy (comedic actor; police officer Burton Mercer of "The Blues Brothers") _
Jim Carrey (actor; star of such movies as "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective") _
Kim Cattrall (actress; co-star of "Sex and the City"; lived in Canada for most of ages three months to 16 years) _
Robert Charlebois (French-language singer and songwriter) _
John de Chastelain (general; overseer of IRA disarmament) _
Hayden Christensen (actor; Anakin Skywalker in the later "Star Wars" movies) _
Cirque de Soleil (acrobatic circus performers) _
Leonard Cohen (poet, singer, and songwriter) _
Holly Cole (jazz singer; especially popular in Japan) _
Douglas Coupland (writer; author of "Generation X") _
H.S.M. Coxeter (world-renowned mathematician; developer of Coxeter groups) _
David Cronenberg (movie director; Cannes Jury Prize winner, 1996) _
Robertson Davies (author; writer of "Fifth Business") _
Romeo Dallaire (general; commander of Rwanda international peacekeeping mission) _
Celine Dion (ballad singer; many huge hits including "Where Does My Heart Beat Now") _
The Dionne Quintuplets (first ever surviving quintuplets) _
Dennis Doherty (musician; founding member of "The Mamas & The Papas") _
James Doohan (actor; Scotty of "Star Trek") _
Atom Egoyan (movie director; 1998 Academy Award nominee) _
Percy Faith (composer and arranger, esp. for movie scores) _
J.C. Fields (mathematician; initiator of the Fields Medal) _
Sir Sandford Fleming (creator of Universal Standard Time, 1879 & 1884) _
Michael J. Fox (television and movie actor; star of "Family Ties" and "Back to the Future") _
Northrop Frye (ledendary literary critic) _
David Foster (prolific music producer of Whitney Houston, Barbara Streisand, The Corrs, etc.) _
Nelly Furtado (singer and songwriter) _
Yousuf Karsh (portrait photographer) _
John Kenneth Galbraith (economist; advisor to many U.S. presidents) _
Marc Garneau (space shuttle astronaut) _
William Gibson (science fiction author; inventor of "cyberpunk" genre) _
Malcolm Gladwell (writer and journalist; author of "The Tipping Point") _
James Gosling (author of Java computer language) _
Glenn Gould (classical piano player) _
Lorne Greene (actor; star of television show "Bonanza") _
Nancy Greene (skier; 1968 Olympic gold medalist) _
Wayne Gretzky (hockey superstar) _
Group of Seven (early twentieth century painters) _
The Guess Who (rock band; writers of song "American Woman") _
Monty Hall (host of television show "Let's Make a Deal") _
Paul Haggis (Academy Award-winning director of "Crash") _
Phil Hartman (comedian on Saturday Night Live) _
Keith Hastings (inventor of Metropolis-Hastings computer algorithm) _
Douglas Henning (magician, and advocate of Transcendental Meditation) _
Gordie Howe (hockey superstar) _
IMAX Corporation (group of Canadians that invented the IMAX movie format, 1970) _
Kenneth Iverson (author of APL computer language) _
Peter Jennings (ABC television news host) _
Norman Jewison (movie director; winner of 1999 Special Academy Award) _
Ben Johnson (former world-class sprinter) _
Lynn Johnston (creator of "For Better or For Worse" comic strip) _
Brian Kernighan (co-author of C computer language) _
Margot Kidder (actress; Lois Lane of "Superman" movies) _
W.P. Kinsella (author of novel "Shoeless Joe", later made into movie "Field of Dreams")
Diana Krall (jazz singer) _
Guy LaFleur (hockey superstar) _
k.d. lang (rock/country singer and songwriter) _
Daniel Lanois (musician and producer of Bob Dylan, U2, etc.) _
Avril Lavigne (rock singer and songwriter) _
Stephen Leacock (comedic writer) _
Mario Lemieux (hockey superstar) _
Gordon Lightfoot (folk singer and songwriter) _
Art Linkletter (TV personality; co-host of "Kids Say the Darndest Things") _
Rich Little (voice impressionist) _
Guy Lombardo (big-band leader; 1929-62 performer of "Auld Lang Syne" in New York on New Year's Eve) _
Lewis MacKenzie (general; commander of Sarajevo international peacekeeping mission) _
Steve MacLean (space station astronaut) _
Robert MacNeil (U.S. television news commentator) _
Howie Mandel (comedic actor; host of "Deal or No Deal") _
Raymond Massey (movie actor; portrayed Abraham Lincoln) _
Rachel McAdams (movie actor; Regina of "Mean Girls") _
Loreena McKennitt (celtic-style musician) _
Sarah McLachlan (rock singer and songwriter; Lilith Fair organiser) _
Marshall McLuhan (communication theorist) _
David McTaggart (co-founder of Greenpeace) _
Deepa Mehta (Academy Award-nominated director of "Water") _
Mike Myers (comedic actor; writer and star of "Wayne's World" and "Austin Powers") _
Lorne Michaels (creator and producer of "Saturday Night Live") _
Joni Mitchell (folk singer and songwriter) _
Lucy Maud Montgomery (author of "Anne of Green Gables") _
Rick Moranis (comedic actor; co-star of movie "Ghost Busters") _
Alanis Morissette (rock singer and songwriter; won 7 Grammy awards) _
Carrie-Anne Moss (actress; Trinity in "The Matrix" movies) _
Farley Mowat (author and conservationist; writer of "Never Cry Wolf") _
Anne Murray (pop singer of e.g. mega-hit "You Needed Me") _
James Naismith (inventor of basketball, 1892) _
Steve Nash (NBA basketball star and two-time MVP) _
Daniel Nestor (tennis player; two-time Wimbledon doubles champion) _
Leslie Nielsen (comedic movie actor) _
Sandra Oh (actress; Dr. Cristina Yang on "Grey's Anatomy") _
Michael Ondaatje (author of "The English Patient") _
Bobby Orr (hockey superstar) _
Julie Payette (space shuttle astronaut) _
Lester Pearson (originator of U.N. Peacekeeping Forces; winner of 1957 Nobel Peace Prize) _
Matthew Perry (actor; Chandler of T.V. show "Friends") _
Oscar Peterson (legendary jazz piano player; won 7 Grammy awards) _
Mary Pickford (early movie actor) _
Christopher Plummer (actor; co-star of movie "The Sound of Music") _
John Polanyi (chemist; winner of 1986 Nobel Prize) _
Jason Priestly (television actor on "90210") _
Raffi (children's music performer) _
Keanu Reeves (movie actor; star of "The Matrix") _
Mordecai Richler (author; writer of "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz") _
Maurice "Rocket" Richard (hockey superstar) _
Stan Rogers (folk singer and songwriter) _
Greg Rusedski (professional tennis player, now plays for Britain) _
Rush (progressive rock / heavy metal group) _
Robert J. Sawyer (science fiction author; Nebula and Hugo Award winner) _
Myron Scholes (economist; winner of 1997 Nobel prize) _
Paul Shaffer (band leader on David Letterman's "Late Night" television show) _
William Shatner (actor; Captain Kirk of "Star Trek") _
Martin Short (comedic movie actor) _
Joe Shuster (creator of "Superman" character, 1938) _
Hank Snow (country singer; released mega-hit "I'm Movin' On" in 1950) _
Andrew Michael Spence (economist; winner of 2001 Nobel Prize) _
Elvis Stojko (figure skater) _
Donald and Kiefer Sutherland (father & son acting stars) _
Alan Thicke (TV actor, host, and theme song writer) _
Alex Trebek (host of television show "Jeopardy") _
Pierre Trudeau (politician and statesman) _
Shania Twain (country singer and songwriter) _
Nia Vardalos (writer and star of movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding") _
Gilles Vigneault (French-language singer and songwriter) _
Gilles and Jacques Villeneuve (father & son champion racecar drivers) _
Roch Voisine (French-language rock singer) _
Al Waxman (actor; Lt. Bert Samuels of "Cagney and Lacey") _
Mike Weir (golf champion) _
Neil Young (singer, musician, and songwriter) _
Robert Young (co-founder of Red Hat linux company)
You guys sure get a lot done with only a few people. This list is about 10% of the population.
Don't forget Jason Bay from BC who'd now a NY Met.
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