4. The national flag of Canada
The red and white Canadian
flag shows a leaf of the maple
tree, which grows in North
America. The maple leaf is the
official emblem of Canada.
8. Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital
of Canada, and the fourth
largest city in the country.
The city stands on the
south bank of the Ottawa
River in the eastern
portion of Southern
Ontario. Ottawa
borders Gatineau, Quebec,
and together they form
the National Capital Region.
9. Toronto
Toronto is the most
populous city in Canada
and the provincial capital
of Ontario. It is located in
Southern Ontario on the
northwestern shore of
Lake Ontario. The history
of Toronto began in the
late 18th century when
the British Crown
purchased its land from
the Mississaugas of the
New Credit.
10. Vancouver
Vancouver , officially
the City of Vancouver, is
a coastal seaport city on
the mainland of British
Columbia, Canada. The
2011 census recorded
603,502 people in the
city, making it the
eighth largest Canadian
municipality. Vancouver
is one of the most
ethnically and
linguistically diverse
cities in Canada
11. Montreal
Montreal is a city
in the Canadian
province of
Quebec. It is the
largest city in the
province, the
second-largest in
Canada and the
fifteenth-largest
in North
America.
20. CC FRSC (March 22, 1909
– July 13, 1983) was a
French Canadian author
Gabrielle Roy
21. David Paul
Cronenberg
OC OOnt FRSC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian
filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the
principal originators of what is commonly known as
the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style
of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily
transformation and infection. In his films, the
psychological is typically intertwined with the
physical.
22. Bryan Adams
C OBC (born 5
November 1959) is
a Canadian singer-
songwriter,
musician, producer,
actor, social
activist, and
photographer.
23. He was the 14th Prime Minister of Canada
from 22 April 1963 to 20 April 1968, as the
head of two back-to-back Liberal minority
governments following elections in 1963 and
1965.
Lester Bowles
"Mike" Pearson, PC, OM, CC, OBE (23
April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was
a Canadian professor, historian, civil
servant, statesman, diplomat, and
politician, who won the Nobel Prize
for Peace in 1957 for organizing the
United Nations Emergency Force to
resolve the Suez Canal Crisis.
24. Gordon Howe
OC (born March 31, 1928) is a Canadian retired professional
ice hockey player who played for the Detroit Red Wings and
Hartford Whalers of the National Hockey League (NHL), and
the Houston Aeros and New England Whalers in the World
Hockey Association (WHA). Howe is often referred to as Mr.
Hockey, and is generally regarded as one of the greatest
hockey players of all time.
25. "Steve" Nash, OC, OBC (born 7 February 1974) is a Canadian-British
professional basketball player who currently plays for the Los Angeles Lakers
of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After a successful high-school
basketball career in British Columbia, he earned a scholarship to Santa Clara
University in California. In his four seasons with the Broncos, the team made
three NCAA Tournament appearances, and Nash was twice named the West
Coast Conference (WCC) Player of the Year.
Stephen John
26. Banting shared the award money with his colleague, Dr.
Charles Best. As of September 2011, Banting, who received
the Nobel Prize at age 32, remains the youngest Nobel
laureate in the area of Physiology/Medicine. The Canadian
government gave him a lifetime annuity to work on his
research. In 1934 he was knighted by King George V. In
2004, Frederick Banting was voted fourth place on The
Greatest Canadian.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
KBE, MC, FRS, FRSC (November 14, 1891 –
February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical
scientist, doctor, painter and Nobel laureate noted
as the first person that used insulin on humans.
In 1923 Banting and John James Rickard Macleod
received the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
27. (born October 7, 1957) - singer, songwriter, musician,
composer and actor. He is one of the most influential
artists in contemporary Christian music. Three times he
was awarded the Grammy Award and 34 times Dove. Sold
more than 13 million of his discs recorded 29 songs, took
first place in the charts, 14 gold albums and five platinum
albums. Magazine "People" included him in the list of
most beautiful people.
Michael W. Smith
28. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has been known for
his TV and radio series and books about nature
and the environment. He is best known as host
of the popular and long-running CBC Television
science magazine, The Nature of Things, seen in
over forty nations. He is also well known for
criticizing governments for their lack of action to
protect the environment.
David Takayoshi Suzuki
CC OBC (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian
academic, science broadcaster and
environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D
in zoology from the University of Chicago in
1961, and was a professor in the genetics
department at the University of British
Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in
2001.
29. CC OOnt FRSC (born November 18,
1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist,
literary critic, essayist, and
environmental activist. She is a winner
of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and
Prince of Asturias Award for
Literature, has been shortlisted for the
Booker Prize five times, winning once,
and has been a finalist for the
Governor General's Award several
times, winning twice. She is also a
founder of the Writers' Trust of
Canada, a non-profit literary
organization that seeks to encourage
Canada's writing community.
Margaret Eleanor
Atwood
