78 Notable alumni of
Royal Military College of Canada

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The Royal Military College of Canada is 1057th in the world, 386th in North America, and 24th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 78 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.

  1. Alex Trebek

    Alex Trebek
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1940-2020 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    sports commentatortelevision presenteractorgame show hostjournalist
    Biography

    George Alexander Trebek was a Canadian-American game show host and television personality. He is best known for hosting the syndicated general knowledge quiz game 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 also made appearances, usually as himself, in numerous films and television series.

  2. Chris Hadfield

    Chris Hadfield
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Enrolled in the Royal Military College of Canada
    1980-1982 graduated with Bachelor of Engineering in mechanical engineering
    Occupations
    camera operatorexecutive producerguitaristastronautaircraft pilot
    Biography

    Chris Austin Hadfield is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot, musician, and writer. 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.

  3. Erin O'Toole

    Erin O'Toole
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1973-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Erin Michael O'Toole is a Canadian former politician who served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Durham from 2012 to 2023. A member of the Conservative Party, O'Toole served as the party's leader and the leader of the Official Opposition from 2020 to 2022.

  4. Roméo Dallaire

    Roméo Dallaire
    Born in
    Netherlands Flag Netherlands
    Years
    1946-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    major generalwriterhuman rights activistautobiographerpolitician
    Biography

    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 ill-fated United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda between 1993 and 1994, and for trying to stop the genocide that was being waged by Hutu extremists against Tutsis. Dallaire is a Senior Fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) and co-director of the MIGS Will to Intervene Project.

  5. Billy Bishop

    Billy Bishop
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1894-1956 (aged 62)
    Occupations
    military personnelaircraft pilot
    Biography

    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.

  6. Marc Garneau

    Marc Garneau
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    astronautengineerinternational forum participantpolitician
    Biography

    Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau is a retired Canadian Member of Parliament, retired Royal Canadian Navy officer and former astronaut who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, Garneau was the minister of foreign affairs from January to October 2021 and minister of transport from November 2015 to January 2021. He was an MP in Westmount, Montreal for 15 years.

  7. Dai Vernon

    Dai Vernon
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1894-1992 (aged 98)
    Occupations
    magiciansilhouette artist
    Biography

    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.

  8. Jonathan Vance

    Jonathan Vance
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    military officerskydiver
    Biography

    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.

  9. Jeremy Hansen

    Jeremy Hansen
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1976-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    aircraft pilotastronaut
    Biography

    Jeremy Roger Hansen 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.

  10. Harry Crerar

    Harry Crerar
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1888-1965 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    military personneldiplomat
    Biography

    General Henry Duncan Graham Crerar CH, CB, DSO, CD, PC 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. A graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada, in Kingston, Ontario, Crerar was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Non-Permanent Active Militia in 1909, serving with the 4th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, which was based in Hamilton, Ontario. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the artillery in the First World War, during which he was mentioned in despatches and made a member of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). Electing to remain in the army as a professional soldier after the war, he attended the Staff College, Camberley, from 1923 to 1924, and the Imperial Defence College in 1934. He was appointed Director of Military Operations & Military Intelligence in 1935 and Commandant of the Royal Military College of Canada in 1939.

  11. Guy Simonds

    Guy Simonds
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1903-1974 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    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 the following 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."

  12. Sam Steele

    Sam Steele
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1849-1919 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele 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.

  13. Wayne Eyre

    Wayne Eyre
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    General Wayne Donald Eyre, CMM, MSC, CD is a Canadian Forces officer serving as the chief of the Defence Staff (CDS). 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.

  14. Leona Alleslev

    Leona Alleslev
    Years
    1968-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  15. Paul Wynnyk

    Paul Wynnyk
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    military officermilitary engineer
    Biography

    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.

  16. Dany Fortin

    Dany Fortin
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Enrolled in the Royal Military College of Canada
    In 1991 graduated with Bachelor of Science in physics
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    Dany Fortin 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.

  17. Art McDonald

    Art McDonald
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    Admiral Arthur Gerard McDonald, CMM, MSM, CD is a Royal Canadian Navy admiral who served as Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian 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.

  18. Rod Keller

    Rod Keller
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1900-1954 (aged 54)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    Major General Rodney Frederick Leopold Keller CBE was a notable 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.

  19. Joshua Kutryk

    Joshua Kutryk
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1982-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    astronautengineertest pilotairman
    Biography

    Joshua Kutryk is a Canadian astronaut, fighter pilot and engineer. He was selected by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) one of the two members of the 2017 CSA Group alongside Jenni Sidey.

  20. William Bridges

    William Bridges
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1861-1915 (aged 54)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    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.

  21. Sylvain Charlebois

    Sylvain Charlebois
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1970-.. (age 54)
    Enrolled in the Royal Military College of Canada
    In 1992 graduated with Bachelor of Commerce
    Occupations
    researcherwritereconomist
    Biography

    Sylvain Charlebois is a Canadian researcher and professor in food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is a former dean of the university's Faculty of Management.

  22. Leonard Birchall

    Leonard Birchall
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1915-2004 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    aircraft pilot
    Biography

    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.

  23. Bob McLeod

    Bob McLeod
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1952-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  24. Hartland Molson

    Hartland Molson
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1907-2002 (aged 95)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  25. Pierre Lemieux

    Pierre Lemieux
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1963-.. (age 61)
    Occupations
    politicianmechanical engineer
    Biography

    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.

  26. John Hamilton Roberts

    John Hamilton Roberts
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1895-1962 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    Major General John Hamilton "Ham" Roberts was a Canadian Army officer who served in both of the world wars.

  27. Harry Wickwire Foster

    Harry Wickwire Foster
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1902-1964 (aged 62)
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    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.

  28. William Grant Stairs

    William Grant Stairs
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1863-1892 (aged 29)
    Occupations
    engineerexplorermountaineerdiarist
    Biography

    William Grant Stairs was a Canadian-British explorer, soldier, and adventurer who had a leading role in two of the most controversial expeditions in the Scramble for Africa.

  29. Charles Merritt

    Charles Merritt
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1908-2000 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyermilitary officer
    Biography

    Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt VC, ED was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross and Member of Parliament.

  30. Jacques Duchesneau

    Jacques Duchesneau
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Jacques Duchesneau, 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.

  31. Tim Cook

    Tim Cook
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    historian
    Biography

    Tim Cook is a Canadian military historian and author. Cook is an 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 is 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 is a member of the Order of Canada.

  32. Lawrence Lambe

    Lawrence Lambe
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1863-1919 (aged 56)
    Occupations
    geologistpaleontologist
    Biography

    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.

  33. Bert Hoffmeister

    Bert Hoffmeister
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1907-1999 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    military personnelbusinessperson
    Biography

    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.

  34. E. L. M. Burns

    E. L. M. Burns
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1897-1985 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    military personneldiplomat
    Biography

    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. He served as the first commander of the first United Nations peacekeeping force in 1956. His military career in war has, for the most part, been criticised by some historians as showing he was "simply incapable of commanding a higher formation."

  35. Charles Macpherson Dobell

    Charles Macpherson Dobell
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1869-1954 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    Lieutenant General Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell KCB, CMG, DSO was a Canadian soldier who served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army.

  36. George Hees

    George Hees
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1910-1996 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    George Harris Hees was a Canadian politician and businessman.

  37. Arthur Edward Grasett

    Arthur Edward Grasett
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1888-1971 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    engineermilitary personnel
    Biography

    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.

  38. Ronald R. Van Stockum

    Ronald R. Van Stockum
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1916-2022 (aged 106)
    Occupations
    writermilitary personnel
    Biography

    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.

  39. Kasturi Lal Chopra

    Kasturi Lal Chopra
    Years
    1933-.. (age 91)
    Occupations
    physicist
    Biography

    Kasturi Lal Chopra was an Indian materials physicist and a former 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 (though no patents anywhere are identifiable for any worth) 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.

  40. Kenneth Stuart

    Kenneth Stuart
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1891-1945 (aged 54)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    Lieutenant-General Kenneth Stuart 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.

  41. Wallace Lloyd Algie

    Wallace Lloyd Algie
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1891-1918 (aged 27)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    Lieutenant Wallace Lloyd Algie, 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.

  42. William Heneker

    William Heneker
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1867-1939 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    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.

  43. Garnet Hughes

    Garnet Hughes
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1880-1937 (aged 57)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    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.

  44. Earle Morris

    Earle Morris
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1945-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    curler
    Biography

    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.

  45. Simon Mailloux

    Simon Mailloux
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1983-.. (age 41)
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    Simon Mailloux 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.

  46. Herbert Cyril Thacker

    Herbert Cyril Thacker
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1870-1953 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    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.

  47. Paul David Manson

    Paul David Manson
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1934-2023 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    fighter pilot
    Biography

    General Paul David Manson was a Canadian Forces officer, fighter pilot and businessman.

  48. Brian Barder

    Brian Barder
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1934-2017 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    activistdiplomatblogger
    Biography

    Sir Brian Leon Barder was a British diplomat, author, blogger and civil liberties advocate.

  49. Dollard Ménard

    Dollard Ménard
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1913-1997 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    soldier
    Biography

    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.

  50. Brian Macdonald

    Brian Macdonald
    Years
    20th Century
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  51. Archibald Cameron Macdonell

    Archibald Cameron Macdonell
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1864-1941 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    Sir Archibald Cameron Macdonell, was a Canadian police officer and soldier.

  52. Percy Girouard

    Percy Girouard
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1867-1932 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    governor
    Biography

    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.

  53. Zachary Taylor Wood

    Zachary Taylor Wood
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1860-1915 (aged 55)
    Biography

    Zachary Taylor Wood was Assistant Commissioner with the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) and the commissioner of Yukon.

  54. William Landymore

    William Landymore
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1916-2008 (aged 92)
    Enrolled in the Royal Military College of Canada
    Studied in 1936
    Occupations
    naval officer
    Biography

    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.

  55. John Keiller MacKay

    John Keiller MacKay
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1888-1970 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    judgelawyer
    Biography

    Lieutenant-Colonel John Keiller MacKay was a Canadian soldier, lawyer and jurist. MacKay served as the 19th lieutenant governor of Ontario from 1957 to 1963.

  56. Desmond Piers

    Desmond Piers
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1913-2005 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    Rear Admiral Desmond William Piers, 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.

  57. Charles Carroll Wood

    Charles Carroll Wood
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1876-1899 (aged 23)
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    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.

  58. David T. Johnson

    David T. Johnson
    Biography

    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.

  59. William Harbison

    William Harbison
    Years
    1921-2018 (aged 97)
    Occupations
    fighter pilot
    Biography

    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.

  60. Coningsby Dawson

    Coningsby Dawson
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1883-1959 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    novelistwriter
    Biography

    Coningsby Dawson was an Anglo-American novelist and soldier of the Canadian Field Artillery, born at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.

  61. Philip Primrose

    Philip Primrose
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1864-1937 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Philip Carteret Hill Primrose was a Canadian police officer and the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.

  62. Henry Edward Burstall

    Henry Edward Burstall
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1870-1945 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    Lieutenant General Sir Henry Edward Burstall, KCB, KCMG was a Canadian general.

  63. Brett Cairns

    Brett Cairns
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    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.

  64. Andrew Godefroy

    Andrew Godefroy
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    authorhistoriansoldier
    Biography

    Andrew Barrett Godefroy CD is a Canadian strategic analyst and science and technology historian.

  65. Aylesworth Bowen Perry

    Aylesworth Bowen Perry
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1860-1956 (aged 96)
    Biography

    Aylesworth Bowen Perry, C.M.G. served as the sixth Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, from August 1, 1900, to March 31, 1923.

  66. Dwight Ross

    Dwight Ross
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1907-1981 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    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.

  67. Thomas Vien

    Thomas Vien
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1881-1972 (aged 91)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Thomas Vien, was a Canadian politician.

  68. Charles Francis Constantine

    Charles Francis Constantine
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1883-1953 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    rugby union playerassociation football player
    Biography

    Major-General Charles Francis Constantine was a Canadian General and commandant of the Royal Military College of Canada from 1925 to 1930.

  69. George Napier Johnston

    George Napier Johnston
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1867-1947 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    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.

  70. William Henry Pferinger Elkins

    William Henry Pferinger Elkins
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1883-1964 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    Major General William Henry Pferinger Elkins, CB, CBE, DSO was a Canadian soldier. He was a commandant of the RMC.

  71. Douglas Gordon Cunningham

    Douglas Gordon Cunningham
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1908-1992 (aged 84)
    Biography

    Brigadier General Douglas Gordon Cunningham, CBE, DSO, ED, CD, QC was a Canadian lawyer and soldier.

  72. Kate Armstrong

    Kate Armstrong
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    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.

  73. Edmund Boyd Osler

    Edmund Boyd Osler
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1919-1987 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Edmund Boyd Osler was a Canadian politician and Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada.

  74. James White

    James White
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1863-1928 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    geographer
    Biography

    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.

  75. William Bethune Lindsay

    William Bethune Lindsay
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1880-1933 (aged 53)
    Enrolled in the Royal Military College of Canada
    Studied in 1897-1900
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    Major General William Bethune Lindsay was a Canadian military officer during World War I.

  76. Wilfrid Heighington

    Wilfrid Heighington
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1897-1945 (aged 48)
    Occupations
    politicianwriterpoet
    Biography

    Wilfrid Laurier Heighington, was a Canadian soldier, writer, lawyer and politician.

  77. Desmond Smith

    Desmond Smith
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1911-1991 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    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.

  78. Victor Williams

    Victor Williams
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1867-1949 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    Major-General Victor Arthur Seymour Williams 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.