Famous Canadians

[ThunderFoot]

Originally Posted by Sideways

Jim Carrey and Mike Meyers you can keep. Please!

Along with Paul Shaffer

[Whippy]

Stan Rogers (1949-1983) is considered by many as the greatest songwriter that Canada has ever produced. His music captured the power of the human condition and many of his songs have become part of the Canadian folk repertoire.

Although he's no longer with us, his legacy continues to entertain, educate, and celebrate the Canadian experience in its raw and most honest forms.



RIP Stan!

[Sideways]

Gordon Lightfoot

[RiponredTJ]

Originally Posted by Sideways

His efforts were documented in the film "Hotel Rwanda". Play by Nick Nolte. Excellent movie.

See post #2 above

[RiponredTJ]

How about Billy Bishop. He shot down 72 enemy planes in WW 1.

[RiponredTJ]

Or Arthur Royal "Roy" Brown (1893-1944), another WW 1 ace who on April 21,1918 shot down Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron".

[RiponredTJ]

The there's Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915) The Father of Standard Time.

A surveyor, engineer, and the inventor of standard time zones. and one of the foremost railway engineers of his time. He was in charge of the initial survey for the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first Canadian railway to span the continent.

He was knighted in 1897 on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

[RiponredTJ]

Joe Shuster (1914-1992), who created Superman with American Jerome Siegel.

[RiponredTJ]

And let's not forget Linda Evangelista!!