Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)

The list Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada) includes Pierre Trudeau, Terry Fox, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard and David Thompson (explorer). The list consists of 761 members and 3 sublists.

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Pierre Trudeau

15th Prime Minister of Canada

Overview: Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau PC CC CH QC FRSC ( TROO-doh, troo-DOH, October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000), also referred to by the initials PET, was a Canadian politician who was the 15th ...

Date of birth: 18 October 1919

Date of death: 28 September 2000

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Head of State

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Lawyers from Montreal 104T

20th-century memoirists 804T

Academics from Montreal 71T
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Terry Fox

Canadian athlete and cancer activist

Overview: Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox CC OD (July 28, 1958 – June 28, 1981) was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated, he embarked on ...

Date of birth: 28 July 1958

Date of death: 28 June 1981

Age: 22 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Personality

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Sportspeople from Winnipeg 858T

People from Port Coquitlam 24T

Canadian disabled sportspeople 19T
3.

Marie-Anne Gaboury

French explorer

Overview: Marie-Anne Lagimodière (née Gaboury; 15 August 1780 – 14 December 1875) was a French-Canadian woman noted as both the grandmother of Louis Riel, and as the first woman of European descent to travel to ...

Date of birth: 2 August 1780

Date of death: 14 December 1875

Age: 95 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Relative

Gender: Female

Partner: Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière (Married)

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Louis Riel 11T

Female explorers 87T

Pre-Confederation Alberta people 27T
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Glenn Gould

Canadian classical pianist

Overview: Glenn Herbert Gould (25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist. He was one of the best known and most celebrated pianists of the 20th century, and was renowned as an i ...

Date of birth: 25 September 1932

Date of death: 4 October 1982

Age: 50 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Pianist

Gender: Male

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Male classical pianists 1,919T

Canadian male classical composers 97T

Canadian male pianists 129T
5.

Harriet Tubman

African-American abolitionist and Union spy

Overview: Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue a ...

Date of birth: 1820

Date of death: 10 March 1913

Age: 92 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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African-American heroes and icons 14T

Christian abolitionists 358T

20th-century African-American women 87T
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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Canadian fiction writer

Overview: Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book ...

Date of birth: 30 November 1874

Date of death: 23 April 1942

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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Writers from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan 4T

Canadian women non-fiction writers 669T

Canadian Officers of the Order of the British Empire 98T
7.

James Cook

British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728-1779)

Overview: Captain James Cook (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific ...

Date of birth: 27 October 1728

Date of death: 14 February 1779

Age: 50 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Explorer

Gender: Male

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Military personnel from North Yorkshire 116T

Royal Navy captains 454T

English explorers of the Pacific 27T
8.

Mabel Gardiner Hubbard

Wife of Alexander Graham Bell

Overview: Mabel Gardiner Hubbard (November 25, 1857 – January 3, 1923), was the daughter of Boston lawyer Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who was the first president of the Bell Telephone Company. As the wife of Alexander ...

Date of birth: 25 November 1857

Date of death: 3 January 1923

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Spouse

Gender: Female

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Deaf people from the United States 176T

Gardiner family 39T

People from Baddeck, Nova Scotia 27T
9.

Louis Cyr

CAnadian strength athlete

Overview: Louis Cyr (born Cyprien-Noé Cyr, October 10, 1863 - November 10, 1912) was a French Canadian strongman with a career spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His recorded feats, including lifting ...

Date of birth: 11 October 1863

Date of death: 10 November 1921

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Other

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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People associated with physical culture 287T

Canadian male sport wrestlers 133T

Strength athletes 70T
10.

Anna Haining Bates

CAnadian sideshow performer

Overview: Anna Haining Bates, born Anna Haining Swan (August 6, 1846 – August 5, 1888), was a Canadian from Mill Brook, New Annan (near present-day Tatamagouche), Colchester County, Nova Scotia, famed for her great ...

Date of birth: 6 August 1846

Date of death: 5 August 1888

Age: 41 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Entertainer

Gender: Female

Height: 7' 6" (229 cm)

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People from Seville, Ohio 8T

Pre-Confederation Nova Scotia people 102T

1888 deaths 1,540T
11.

David Thompson (explorer)

Canadian explorer

Overview: David Thompson (30 April 1770 – 10 February 1857) was a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer, known to some native peoples as Koo-Koo-Sint or "the Stargazer". Over Thompson's career ...

Date of birth: 30 April 1770

Date of death: 10 February 1857

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Explorer

Gender: Male

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Burials at Mount Royal Cemetery 118T

Canadian male canoeists 131T

English explorers of North America 64T
12.

A.Y. Jackson

Canadian artist

Overview: Alexander Young Jackson CC CMG RCA (October 3, 1882 – April 5, 1974) was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven. Jackson made a significant contribution to the development ...

Date of birth: 3 October 1882

Date of death: 5 April 1974

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Male

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Canadian male painters 409T

Canadian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George 102T

Artists from Montreal 320T
13.

Sitting Bull

Hunkpapa Lakota leader (1831–1890)

Overview: Sitting Bull (Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake c.– December 15, 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. He was killed by Indian ...

Date of birth: 1831

Date of death: 15 December 1890

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Male

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1890 murders in the United States 4T

Hunkpapa people 12T

Male murder victims 1,159T
14.

Lester B. Pearson

14th Prime Minister of Canada (1963–1968)

Overview: Lester Bowles Pearson PC OM CC OBE (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian scholar, statesman, soldier, and diplomat, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations ...

Date of birth: 23 April 1897

Date of death: 27 December 1972

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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20th-century memoirists 804T

Canadian members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom 46T

Canadian male non-fiction writers 791T
15.

John Buchan

British politician

Overview: John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC DL (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since ...

Date of birth: 26 August 1875

Date of death: 11 February 1940

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Politicians who died in office 2,943T

UK MPs who were granted peerages 853T

People who died in office 731T
16.

Margaret C. MacDonald

Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Nursing service band; first woman in the British Empire to reach the rank of major

Overview: Major Margaret Clothilde MacDonald RRC (26 February 1873 – 7 September 1948) was a Canadian military nurse. She is well known for being one of the first females to hold a position in the completely ma ...

Date of birth: 26 February 1873

Date of death: 7 September 1948

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Military

Gender: Female

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Florence Nightingale Medal recipients 87T

Canadian female military personnel 26T

Female nurses in World War I 135T
17.

William George Beers

Dentist and codifier of lacrosse

Overview: William George Beers (May 5, 1843 – December 26, 1900), a noted Canadian dentist and patriot, is referred to as the "father of modern lacrosse" for his work establishing the first set of playing rules ...

Date of birth: 5 May 1843

Date of death: 26 December 1900

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Inventor

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19th-century dentists 95T

Lacrosse people 2T

Sports inventors and innovators 17T
18.

Cairine Wilson

Canadian politician

Overview: Cairine Reay Mackay Wilson (February 4, 1885 – March 3, 1962) was Canada's first woman to become senator.

Date of birth: 4 February 1885

Date of death: 3 March 1962

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Politician

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20th-century Canadian women politicians 230T

20th-century women politicians 3,287T

Politicians from Montreal 477T
19.

Tom Longboat

Canadian distance runner

Overview: Thomas Charles Longboat (July 4, 1887 – January 9, 1949, Iroquois name: Cogwagee) was an Onondaga distance runner from the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario and, for much of his career ...

Date of birth: 4 June 1887

Date of death: 9 January 1949

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Track and Field

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Boston Marathon male winners 86T

Onondaga people 14T

Canadian male middle-distance runners 83T
20.

Ethel Catherwood

Athletics (sport) competitor

Overview: Ethel Hannah Catherwood (April 28, 1908 – September 26, 1987) was a Canadian athlete.

Date of birth: 28 April 1908

Date of death: 26 September 1987

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Track and Field

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Athletes from Saskatoon 12T

Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) 667T

Sportspeople from Haldimand County 20T