80 Notable alumni of
Royal Military College of Canada
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The Royal Military College of Canada is 1068th in the world, 387th in North America, and 24th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 80 notable alumni from the Royal Military College of Canada sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Alex Trebek
- Occupations
- television presentersports commentatorjournalistgame show hostactor
- Biography
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George Alexander Trebek was a Canadian and American game show host and television personality. Regarded as a pop culture icon, he was best known for hosting the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy! for 37 seasons from its revival in 1984 until his death in 2020. Trebek also hosted a number of other game shows, including The Wizard of Odds, Double Dare, High Rollers, Battlestars, Classic Concentration, and To Tell the Truth. He made appearances, usually as himself, in numerous films and television series.
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Chris Hadfield
- Enrolled in the Royal Military College of Canada
- 1980-1982 graduated with Bachelor of Engineering in mechanical engineering
- Occupations
- guitaristexecutive producercamera operatorsongwritersinger
- Biography
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Chris Austin Hadfield is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot, musician, and writer. As the first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space, he has flown two Space Shuttle missions and also served as commander of the International Space Station (ISS). Prior to his career as an astronaut, he served in the Canadian Armed Forces for 25 years as an Air Command fighter pilot.
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Erin O'Toole
- Occupations
- military officerlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Erin Michael O'Toole PC CD is a Canadian lawyer, former military officer and politician who was the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of the Official Opposition from 2020 to 2022. O'Toole was elected as a member of Parliament (MP) in 2012, representing Durham until 2023. O'Toole served in the Canadian Armed Forces for 12 years, before becoming a lawyer and entering politics.
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Roméo Dallaire
- Occupations
- autobiographerhuman rights defenderwritermajor generalmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Roméo Antonius Dallaire is a retired Canadian politician and military officer who was a senator from Quebec from 2005 to 2014, and a lieutenant-general in the Canadian Armed Forces. He notably was the force commander of UNAMIR, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda between 1993 and 1994, during the Rwandan genocide. Dallaire was a Senior Fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) and co-director of the MIGS Will to Intervene Project.
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Marc Garneau
- Occupations
- engineerastronautpolitician
- Biography
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Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau was a Canadian Armed Forces officer, astronaut and politician. Garneau served as a naval officer before being selected as an astronaut as part of the 1983 NRC Group. He became the first Canadian in space on October 5, 1984, and flew on three Space Shuttle missions. From 2001 to 2005, Garneau was president of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Garneau entered politics and was elected to the House of Commons in 2008, serving as a Montreal-area member of Parliament (MP) until 2023. A member of the Liberal Party, Garneau served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from January to October in 2021 and as Minister of Transport from 2015 to 2021.
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Billy Bishop
- Occupations
- aircraft pilotmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Air Marshal William Avery Bishop, VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED was a Canadian flying ace of the First World War. He was officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian and British Empire ace of the war, and also received a Victoria Cross. During the Second World War, Bishop was instrumental in setting up and promoting the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
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Jeremy Hansen
- Occupations
- air force officerastronautphysicistfighter pilot
- Biography
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Jeremy Roger Hansen CD FRCGS is a Canadian astronaut, fighter pilot, physicist and former aquanaut. He was selected to join the Canadian Space Agency in the 2009 CSA selection along with David Saint-Jacques. Prior to his selection as one of Canada's astronauts, Hansen was a Royal Canadian Air Force captain, piloting the CF-18 fighter jet at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta. He has since been promoted to the rank of colonel.
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Dai Vernon
- Occupations
- silhouette artistmagician
- Biography
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David Frederick Wingfield Verner, better known by his stage names Dai Vernon (pronounced alternatively as "DIE" or as "DAY" as in David) or The Professor, was a Canadian magician.
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Harry Crerar
- Enrolled in the Royal Military College of Canada
- Studied in 1909
- Occupations
- diplomatmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Henry Duncan Graham Crerar, PC, CH, CB, DSO, CD was a senior officer of the Canadian Army who became the country's senior field commander in the Second World War as commander of the First Canadian Army in the campaign in North West Europe in 1944–1945, having rapidly risen in rank from brigadier in 1939 to full general in 1944.
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Jonathan Vance
- Occupations
- skydivermilitary officer
- Biography
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General Jonathan Holbert Vance is a retired Canadian Forces officer who served as a general in the Canadian Army. Vance was the Chief of the Defence Staff from 2015 to 2021.
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Guy Simonds
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Lieutenant-General Guy Granville Simonds, CC, CB, CBE, DSO, CD was a senior Canadian Army officer who served with distinction during World War II. Acknowledged by many military historians and senior commanders, among them Sir Max Hastings and Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, as one of the best Canadian generals of the war, Simonds, after serving the first few years of the Second World War mainly as a staff officer, commanded the 1st Canadian Infantry Division with distinction in Sicily and Italy from July 1943 until January 1944, and later II Canadian Corps during the Battle of Normandy from June−August 1944 and throughout the subsequent campaign in Western Europe from 1944, towards the end of which he temporarily commanded the First Canadian Army during the Battle of the Scheldt, until victory in Europe Day in May 1945. The historian J. L. Granatstein states about Simonds: "No Canadian commander rose higher and faster in the Second World War, and none did as well in action. Simonds owed his success wholly to his own abilities and efforts—and those of the men who served under him".
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Sam Steele
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Major-general Sir Samuel Benfield Steele KCMG CB MVO was a Canadian soldier and policeman. He was an officer of the North-West Mounted Police, head of the Yukon detachment during the Klondike Gold Rush, and commanding officer of Strathcona's Horse during the Boer War.
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Wayne Eyre
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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General Wayne Donald Eyre is a retired Canadian Forces officer who served as the chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) from 2021 to 2024. Eyre was named acting CDS on February 24, 2021, and appointed to the full position on November 25, 2021. He was also the commander of the Canadian Army and chief of the Army Staff.
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Leona Alleslev
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- military personnelbusinesspersonmanagement consultantpolitician
- Biography
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Leona Alleslev-Krofchak is a Canadian politician and former military officer who served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill. She was elected as a Liberal in the 2015 federal election, and crossed the floor to join the Conservative Party in 2018, citing disagreements with the Liberal government over their handling of economic and foreign affairs. On October 21, 2019, she was re-elected as a Conservative. Alleslev was defeated in the 2021 federal election.
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Paul Wynnyk
- Occupations
- military engineermilitary officer
- Biography
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Lieutenant General Paul Francis Wynnyk, CMM, MSM, CD is a former Canadian Army officer who served from 2016 to 2018 as Commander of the Canadian Army. On July 16, 2018, he was named Vice Chief of the Defence Staff, until his resignation and retirement in July 2019.
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Joshua Kutryk
- Occupations
- test pilotengineerastronautairman
- Biography
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Joshua Kutryk CD is a Canadian astronaut, test pilot, fighter pilot and engineer. He was selected by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) as one of the two members of the 2017 CSA Group alongside Jenni Sidey.
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Sylvain Charlebois
- Enrolled in the Royal Military College of Canada
- In 1992 graduated with Bachelor of Commerce
- Occupations
- researchereconomistwriter
- Biography
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Sylvain Charlebois is a Canadian professor and researcher of food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is a former dean of the university's Faculty of Management. Charlebois, who goes by the moniker "The Food Professor," is the director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie. Since December 2010, he has been the lead author of Canada's Food Price Report.
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Rod Keller
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Major General Rodney Frederick Leopold Keller CBE was a Canadian Army officer who rose to divisional-level command in the Second World War. He commanded the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division which was assigned to take Juno Beach during the D-Day invasion.
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Dany Fortin
- Born in
- Canada
- Enrolled in the Royal Military College of Canada
- In 1991 graduated with Bachelor of Science in physics
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Dany Fortin CMM MSC CD is a retired Canadian Armed Forces officer who held the rank of major general in the Canadian Army. He has served in commanding roles in the War in Afghanistan and the ISIL insurgency in Iraq, and commanded the 1st Canadian Division Headquarters. He served as the Public Health Agency of Canada's vice president of logistics and operations from November 27, 2020 to May 14, 2021, leading the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine rollout, but was removed from that role after the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service initiated an investigation into him following an allegation of sexual assault between January 1 and April 30, 1988 while he was a student at Royal Military College Saint-Jean. The investigation resulted in a charge in August 2021 of one count of sexual assault. A judge in a Gatineau, Québec court acquitted Fortin on December 5, 2022. Fortin released from the military in July 2023, after 38 years of service.
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Art McDonald
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Admiral Arthur Gerard McDonald is a Royal Canadian Navy admiral who served as Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Armed Forces from January 14, 2021, until February 24, 2021, when he voluntarily stepped aside due to an investigation by the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service. On November 25, 2021, McDonald was formally relieved of his command and replaced permanently by General Wayne Eyre, who had held the post during the interim.
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Tim Cook
- Enrolled in the Royal Military College of Canada
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Timothy Raleigh Brown Cook CM FRSC was a Canadian military historian and author. Cook was a historian at the Canadian War Museum and the author of thirteen books about the military history of Canada. Having written extensively about World War I, Cook's focus shifted to Canada's involvement in World War II with the 2014 publication of the first volume in a two-volume series chronicling Canada's role in that war. He won the Charles Taylor Prize in 2009 for his book Shock Troops. He was a two-time recipient (2000 and 2015) of the C.P. Stacey Prize, a two-time recipient of the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, and a three-time winner of the Ottawa Book Prize. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2019. He was a member of the Order of Canada.
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William Bridges
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, KCB, CMG was a senior Australian Army officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Military College, Duntroon and who served as the first Australian Chief of the General Staff. During the First World War he commanded the 1st Australian Division at Gallipoli, where he died of wounds on 18 May 1915, becoming the first Australian general officer to be killed during the war. He was the first Australian officer—and the first graduate of Kingston—to reach the rank of major general, the first to command a division, and the first to receive a knighthood. He is one of only two Australians killed in action in the Great War to be interred in Australia.
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Leonard Birchall
- Occupations
- aircraft pilot
- Biography
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Air Commodore Leonard Joseph Birchall, CM, OBE, DFC, OOnt, CD, "The Saviour of Ceylon", was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) officer who warned of a Japanese attack on the island of Ceylon during the Second World War.
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Hartland Molson
- Occupations
- chartered accountantpolitician
- Biography
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Hartland de Montarville Molson, OC, OBE, OQ was an Anglo-Quebecer statesman, Canadian senator, military aviator, and a member of the Molson family of brewers.
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Bob McLeod
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert R. McLeod is a former Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 2007 to 2019, and served as the 12th premier of the Northwest Territories, from October 26, 2011 to October 24, 2019.
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John Hamilton Roberts
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Major General John Hamilton "Ham" Roberts CB DSO MC was a Canadian Army officer who served in both of the world wars.
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Pierre Lemieux
- Occupations
- business executivemechanical engineerconsultantpolitician
- Biography
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Pierre Lemieux is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell from 2006 to 2015, first elected in Canada's 39th general election and defeated in the 42nd. He represented the Conservative Party of Canada. While in office he served as deputy government whip as well as parliamentary secretary to the Ministers of Official Languages, Agriculture, and Veterans Affairs. He was a candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada in 2017.
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William Grant Stairs
- Occupations
- mountaineerexplorerengineerdiarist
- Biography
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William Grant Stairs was a Canadian-British explorer, soldier, and adventurer who had a leading role in two expeditions during the Scramble for Africa.
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Harry Wickwire Foster
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Major General Harry Wickwire Foster, CBE, DSO was a senior Canadian Army officer who commanded two Canadian divisions during World War II. He served in both the Pacific and European theatres.
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Charles Merritt
- Occupations
- lawyermilitary officersoldierpolitician
- Biography
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Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt VC, ED was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Dieppe Raid in 1942. Later he served as Member of Parliament.
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Jacques Duchesneau
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jacques Duchesneau, CM COM CQ MSM CD is a Canadian politician, civil servant, former chief of police, and former president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority. Duchesneau was a member of the Quebec National Assembly for the riding of Saint-Jérôme from 2012 to 2014, elected under the Coalition Avenir Québec banner.
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Bert Hoffmeister
- Occupations
- businesspersonmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Major General Bertram Meryl Hoffmeister, OC, CB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, ED was a Canadian Army officer, businessman, and conservationist. He served with distinction during the last two years of the Second World War, becoming, in Jack Granatstein's words, "the best Canadian fighting general of the war", rising from captain and a company commander in 1939 to major general and commander of the 5th Canadian (Armoured) Division in 1944.
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Lawrence Lambe
- Occupations
- paleontologistgeologist
- Biography
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Lawrence Morris Lambe was a Canadian geologist, palaeontologist, and ecologist from the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). His published work, describing the diverse and plentiful dinosaur discoveries from the fossil beds in Alberta, did much to bring dinosaurs into the public eye and helped usher in the Golden Age of Dinosaurs in the province. During this period, between the 1880s and World War I, dinosaur hunters from all over the world converged on Alberta. Lambeosaurus, a well-known hadrosaur, was named after him as a tribute, in 1923. In addition to paleontology, Lambe discovered a number of invertebrate species ranging from Canada to the Pacific Northwest. Lambe's contemporary discoveries were published in works such as Sponges From the Atlantic Coast of Canada and Catalogue of the recent marine sponges of Canada and Alaska.
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E. L. M. Burns
- Occupations
- diplomatmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Lieutenant General Eedson Louis Millard "Tommy" Burns, CC, DSO, OBE, MC, CD was a senior officer of the Canadian Army and a diplomat. He saw active service in both World War I and World War II. His World War II command during the Italian campaign, although successful, sparked a sharp divide in military academic circles post-war. In the early 1950s, he was the deputy minister for the Veterans Affairs Canada department. He served as the initial commander of the first United Nations peacekeeping force in 1956. In the late 1950s, he became one of Canada's nuclear disarmament negotiators. In the late 1960s and into the 1970s, he taught strategic studies at Carleton University. He wrote several books about his war and peacekeeping experiences. Burns was honoured with several awards including the Order of Canada in 1967 and the Pearson Medal of Peace in 1981.
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Charles Macpherson Dobell
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- military personnel
- Biography
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Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell, KCB, CMG, DSO was a Canadian soldier who served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army.
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George Hees
- Occupations
- manufacturerbusinesspersongridiron football playermilitary personnelpolitician
- Biography
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George Harris Hees PC OC was a Canadian politician and businessman.
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Ronald R. Van Stockum
- Occupations
- military personnelwriter
- Biography
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Ronald Reginald Van Stockum was a decorated officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of brigadier general. A veteran of Bougainville, Guam and Iwo Jima campaigns, Van Stockum was most noted for his service as director of the Marine Corps Reserve and later as commanding general of the Fleet Marine Force, Pacific (Forward) on Okinawa during the Vietnam War.
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Kenneth Stuart
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Lieutenant-General Kenneth Stuart CB DSO MC was a senior Canadian Army officer who saw active service during both the First World War and, later, the Second World War. During the latter conflict, he served as Chief of the General Staff (CGS), the head of the Canadian Army, from December 1941 until December 1943, but he is perhaps most remembered today for his role in the Conscription Crisis of 1944.
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Kasturi Lal Chopra
- Years
- 1933-2021 (aged 88)
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Kasturi Lal Chopra was an Indian materials physicist and a director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He was the founder of the Thin Film Laboratory at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and the Microscience Laboratory at IIT, Kharagpur and held several US and Indian patents for his research findings. Author of a number of books on thin film technology, he was a recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian award in the science and technology categories. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2008, for his contributions to science and engineering.
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Walter L. Gordon
- Occupations
- chartered accountantlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Walter Lockhart Gordon PC CC CBE was a Canadian accountant, businessman, politician, and writer.
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William Heneker
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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General Sir William Charles Giffard Heneker, KCB, KCMG, DSO was a Canadian soldier who served with the British Army in West Africa, India, and then later on the Western Front during the First World War. A notable military strategist and tactician, he became one of the most experienced and highly decorated Canadians in the British Empire, and one of only a handful of Canadians to reach the rank of full general.
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Brian Macdonald
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Brian Thomas Macdonald is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2010 provincial election. He represented the electoral district of Fredericton West-Hanwell until 2018 as a member of the Progressive Conservatives.
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Wallace Lloyd Algie
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Lieutenant Wallace Lloyd Algie, VC was a Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. A soldier with the CEF during the First World War, he was posthumously awarded the VC for his actions on 11 October 1918, during the Hundred Days Offensive, exactly a month before the armistice with Germany.
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Garnet Hughes
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Major General Garnet Burk Hughes CB, CMG, DSO was a Canadian military officer during the First World War. Although he had shown promise as a cadet officer and was politically well-connected, he was judged not to be an able combat officer and, in the latter half of the war, was shunted away from the front lines to administrative roles.
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Earle Morris
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Earle H. C. Morris is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. He is the first curler to have played for three different provinces at the Brier (since then, the feat has been duplicated by Ryan Fry and Morris' son John). He is the inventor of the "Stabilizer" curling delivery aid. He was named to the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 2016. He is currently the coach of the Elena Stern rink.
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Simon Mailloux
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Lieutenant Colonel Simon Mailloux, MSM, CD is a serving officer in the Canadian Forces. He was severely injured on 16 November 2007 in an IED incident in Afghanistan. As a result, his left leg was amputated.
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Arthur Edward Grasett
- Occupations
- military personnelengineer
- Biography
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Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Edward Grasett, KBE, CB, DSO, MC was a British-Canadian soldier who served with the British Army in Canada, the United Kingdom, British India and China.
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Brian Barder
- Occupations
- diplomatactivistblogger
- Biography
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Sir Brian Leon Barder KCMG was a British diplomat, author, blogger and civil liberties advocate.
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Herbert Cyril Thacker
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Major General Herbert Cyril Thacker CB, CMG, DSO was a Canadian soldier and Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Militia (later the Canadian Army) from 1927 until 1929.
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Dollard Ménard
- Occupations
- soldier
- Biography
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Brigadier Dollard Ménard DSO, GOQ, CD was a senior officer in the Canadian Army. As a lieutenant colonel, he was wounded five times during the Dieppe Raid in 1942 while leading Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal. His story inspired a famous Canadian World War II poster Ce qu’il faut pour vaincre (What it takes to win). He was later made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. Since all of the other commanding officers were either killed or captured, he was the only commanding officer who had landed at Dieppe to return to Britain after the raid.
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Paul David Manson
- Occupations
- fighter pilot
- Biography
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General Paul David Manson OC CMM CD was a Canadian Forces officer, fighter pilot and businessman.
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Zachary Taylor Wood
- Biography
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Zachary Taylor Wood CMG was Assistant Commissioner with the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) and the commissioner of Yukon.
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Archibald Cameron Macdonell
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Sir Archibald Cameron Macdonell, KCB CMG DSO was a Canadian police officer and soldier.
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Percy Girouard
- Occupations
- governor
- Biography
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Sir Édouard Percy Cranwill Girouard, KCMG, DSO was an Empire enthusiast, a Canadian railway builder, High Commissioner of Northern Nigeria and the East Africa Protectorate and British industrialist.
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William Landymore
- Enrolled in the Royal Military College of Canada
- Studied in 1936
- Occupations
- naval officer
- Biography
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Rear-Admiral William Moss Landymore, OBE, CD was a Canadian naval officer. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Landymore joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1936, but spent much of early career training with the Royal Navy. During World War II, Landymore returned to the Royal Canadian Navy and served aboard destroyers in the Battle of the Atlantic, surviving two sinkings. By the end of the war Landymore had taken a series of positions in Ottawa before returning to destroyer command during the Korean War. He was promoted through the ranks eventually becoming the first Commander of Maritime Command. Landymore became embroiled in a public feud with the Minister of National Defence following the Unification of the Canadian Armed Forces and resigned as a result. He died at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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John Keiller MacKay
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Lieutenant-Colonel John Keiller MacKay OC DSO VD KC was a Canadian soldier, lawyer and jurist. MacKay served as the 19th lieutenant governor of Ontario from 1957 to 1963.
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Charles Carroll Wood
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Lieutenant Charles Carroll Wood was the first Canadian Officer to die in the Second Boer War. As a member of a family that had distinguished itself in America, his great grandfather being Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States, he was buried with full military honours.
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Desmond Piers
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Rear Admiral Desmond William Piers, CM DSC CD was a rear-admiral in the Royal Canadian Navy. Born in Halifax and long-time resident of Chester, Nova Scotia, Piers served in the RCN from 1932 to 1967. In 1930, he was the first graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada (student # 2184) to join the RCN. He became agent general of Nova Scotia in the United Kingdom in 1977.
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Reuben Wells Leonard
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Lieutenant-Colonel Reuben Wells Leonard was a Canadian soldier, civil engineer, railroad and mining executive, and philanthropist.
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David T. Johnson
- Biography
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David Timothy Johnson is a member of the International Narcotics Control Board and retired United States diplomat and the former Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.
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Coningsby Dawson
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Coningsby Dawson was an Anglo-American novelist and soldier of the Canadian Field Artillery, born at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.
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William Harbison
- Years
- 1921-2018 (aged 97)
- Occupations
- fighter pilot
- Biography
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Air Vice Marshal William "Paddy" Harbison, CB, CBE, AFC, FBIM, was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot who served during the Second World War and the Korean War. He held senior command roles in the RAF and was the author of a noted technical report that evaluated the performance and tactics of jet combat during the Korean War.
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Henry Edward Burstall
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Lieutenant General Sir Henry Edward Burstall, KCB, KCMG was a Canadian general.
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Philip Primrose
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Philip Carteret Hill Primrose was a Canadian police officer and the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.
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Brett Cairns
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Brett Cairns is a retired Canadian Air Force general who served Canada with distinction from 1973 to 2008. He also served with United States Armed Forces for 10 years of that 35-year period.
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Aylesworth Bowen Perry
- Biography
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Aylesworth Bowen Perry, CMG served as the sixth Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, from August 1, 1900, to March 31, 1923.
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Andrew Godefroy
- Occupations
- historianauthorsoldier
- Biography
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Andrew Barrett Godefroy CD is a Canadian strategic analyst and science and technology historian.
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Dwight Ross
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Air Commodore Arthur Dwight Ross GC, CBE, CD was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Base Commander of No. 62 Base, No. 6 Group RCAF in Yorkshire, England during the Second World War. Ross received the George Cross for his actions on the night of 27/28 June 1944 at RAF Tholthorpe.
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Charles Francis Constantine
- Occupations
- major generalrugby union playerassociation football player
- Biography
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Major-General Charles Francis Constantine CB DSO ADC was a Canadian General and commandant of the Royal Military College of Canada from 1925 to 1930.
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Thomas Vien
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas Vien, PC QC was a Canadian politician.
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Kate Armstrong
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Kate Armstrong is a Canadian author. She won the Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award for her debut memoir, The Stone Frigate: The Royal Military College's First Female Cadet Speaks Out (Dundurn Press 2019) and was a finalist for the 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Nonfiction Prize.
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George Napier Johnston
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Major-General George Napier Johnston, CB, CMG, DSO was a senior officer of the British Army who served with the New Zealand Military Forces during the First World War.
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William Henry Pferinger Elkins
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Major General William Henry Pferinger Elkins, CB, CBE, DSO was a Canadian soldier. He was a commandant of the RMC.
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Douglas Gordon Cunningham
- Biography
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Brigadier General Douglas Gordon Cunningham, CBE, DSO, ED, CD, QC was a Canadian lawyer and soldier.
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Desmond Smith
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Major-General James Desmond Blaise "Des" Smith, CBE, DSO, KStJ, CD was a senior Canadian Army officer active in World War II, fighting in the Italian Campaign and Northwest Europe.
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Edmund Boyd Osler
- Occupations
- insurance executivewriterpolitician
- Biography
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Edmund Boyd Osler was a Canadian politician and Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) who represented the riding of Winnipeg South Centre in the House of Commons of Canada.
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James White
- Occupations
- geographer
- Biography
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James White was a Canadian geographer. White studied geology at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. In 1883, he became the Geographer and Chief Draftsman for the Geological Survey of Canada. White and a team of 20 cartographers produced the first edition of the Atlas of Canada in 1906.
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William Bethune Lindsay
- Enrolled in the Royal Military College of Canada
- Studied in 1897-1900
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Major General William Bethune Lindsay CB CMG DSO was a Canadian military officer during World War I.
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Victor Williams
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Major-General Victor Arthur Seymour Williams CMG was a Canadian general in the First World War and later the Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police. In June 1916 he was seriously wounded and captured by the Germans. He was one of the highest ranked Canadians ever made a prisoner of war.
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Wilfrid Heighington
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Wilfrid Laurier Heighington, KC was a Canadian soldier, writer, lawyer and politician.
