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Upper Canada College
Upper Canada College (UCC) is an independent elementary and secondary school for boys in midtown Toronto, Canada. Students between Senior Kindergarten and Grade Twelve study under the International Baccalaureate program.
Founded in 1829, UCC is the oldest independent school in the province of...
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Robertson Davies
William Robertson Davies, CC, O.Ont, FRSC, FRSL (born August 28, 1913, at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best...
John Douglas Armour
John Douglas Armour (May 4, 1830 – July 11, 1903) was a Canadian Puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Born in the township of Otonabee, Upper Canada (now Ontario), the son of Samuel Armour, he was educated at Upper Canada College, and...
David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet
David Kenneth Roy Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet (born 12 June 1957) is a Canadian businessman. He is the son of the late Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet and his siblings are actress Taylor Thomson and Peter Thomson. David Thomson...
Harry Crerar
General Henry Duncan Graham "Harry" Crerar CH, CB, DSO, KStJ, CD, PC (April 28, 1888 - April 1, 1965) was a Canadian general and the country's "leading field commander" in World War II.
Born in Hamilton, Ontario to lawyer Peter Crerar and his wife...
D'Arcy Boulton
D’Arcy Boulton (March 29, 1825 – February 16, 1875) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and Orangeman.
He was born in Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1825 and educated at Upper Canada College. In 1847, he was admitted to the bar. In 1864, he became the...
John Julius Norwich
John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich CVO (born 15 September 1929) — known as John Julius Norwich — is an English historian, travel writer and television personality.
Norwich is the only child of the Conservative politician and diplomat Duff...
Stephen Clarkson
Stephen Clarkson, D de Rech, FRSC (born 1937) is one of Canada’s preeminent political scientists and a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto.
His current work focuses primarily on two areas: the evolution of North America as a...
Borys Wrzesnewskyj
Borys Wrzesnewskyj (pronounced /rɛzˈnɛvskiː/ rez-NEV-skee; born November 10, 1960) is a Canadian politician who represents the riding of Etobicoke Centre in the Canadian House of Commons. He is the member of the Liberal Party.
Born in Etobicoke, he...
Edward Samuel Rogers
Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers, Jr., OC, BA, LL.B (May 27, 1933 – December 2, 2008) was the President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., and the fourth richest person in Canada in terms of net worth. His father Edward S. Rogers, Sr. is regarded as...
Brendan Fraser
Brendan James Fraser (born December 3, 1968) is a Canadian-American actor of stage and screen. He has starred in many major Hollywood films, including The Mummy film series, Crash, Dudley Do-Right, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, George of the Jungle...
John Hillyard Cameron
John Hillyard Cameron (April 14, 1817 – November 14, 1876) was an Ontario lawyer, businessman and political figure. He was a Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons representing Peel from 1867 to 1872 and Cardwell from 1872 until his...
Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg (April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981), better known as Melvyn Douglas, was an American actor.
Douglas was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Lena Priscilla (née Shackelford), a Protestant Tennessee-born Mayflower descendant, and...
Ian Woods
Ian Woods is a Canadian publisher and political activist. He has run unsuccessfully for the Canadian House of Commons for the Canadian Action Party in the 1997, 2000 and 2004 federal elections in the Barrie, Ontario area where he lives.
Woods is the...
Robert Prichard
For the theologian at Virginia Theological Seminary, see Robert Prichard (theologian)
John Robert Stobo Prichard, OC, O.Ont (born 1949) is a Canadian lawyer, economist, and academic.
Born in London, England, Prichard attended prep school at Upper...
John Ridpath
John B. Ridpath, Ph.D. (born 1936) is a Canadian Objectivist intellectual historian and retired associate professor of economics and intellectual history at York University in Toronto. He also taught courses at Duke University. He attended Toronto's...
Addington Bruce
(Henry) Addington (Bayley) Bruce (1874–1959) was an American journalist and author, born in Toronto, Canada, and educated at Upper Canada College and Trinity College, Toronto. He was for a time on the Toronto Week, then came to the United States,...
Stafford Smythe
Conn Stafford Smythe (March 15, 1921 – October 13, 1971) was the son of Conn Smythe and president of Maple Leaf Gardens Ltd. and the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team from 1961–1969 and from 1970 until his death.
Born in Toronto, Smythe played hockey...
Leonard Dick
Leonard Dick is an award winning television writer and producer who is currently writing for the Fox hit, House, M. D.
Leonard was born in Toronto, Ontario, and attended high school at Upper Canada College, where he was elected head of Howard's...
John Marshall Harlan II
John Marshall Harlan (May 20, 1899 – December 29, 1971) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1955 to 1971. His namesake was his grandfather John Marshall Harlan, another associate justice who served...
David R. Beatty
David Ross Beatty, OBE, MA, CFA (born 1942) is an experienced global businessman with extensive Board experience, he is also the Conway Director of the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness at the Rotman School of Management at...
Barney Williams
Barney Guillermo Williams (born March 13, 1977 in San Martín de los Andes, Argentina) is a Canadian rower. He was educated at Upper Canada College, the University of Victoria and then at Jesus College, University of Oxford where he was President of...
Charles Arkoll Boulton
Charles Arkoll Boulton (April 17, 1841 – May 15, 1899) is noted for his role in the Red River and North-West Rebellions.
He was born in Cobourg, Canada West in 1841, the great-grandson of D’Arcy Boulton, and educated at Upper Canada College. He...
Edward Blake
Dominick Edward Blake PC QC (October 13, 1833 – March 1, 1912), known as Edward Blake, was Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1871 to 1872 and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1880 to 1887. He is one of only three federal Liberal leaders...
Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC(Can.), OC, KCSG (born 25 August 1944, Montreal, Quebec) is a historian, columnist and publisher who was for a time the third biggest newspaper magnate in the world. He is currently incarcerated at...
Dan Gibson
For the basketball player, see Daniel Gibson
Dan Gibson (Montreal, January 19, 1922 – March 18, 2006) was a Canadian photographer, cinematographer and sound recordist.
During the late 1940s, Dan Gibson took photographs and made nature films,...
Robert J. Flaherty
Robert Joseph Flaherty, F.R.G.S. (16 February 1884, Iron Mountain, Michigan – 23 July 1951, Dummerston, Vermont) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film, Nanook of the...
Eugène-Étienne Taché
Eugène-Étienne Taché (October 25, 1836 – March 13, 1912) was a French Canadian surveyor, civil engineer, illustrator and architect. He devised the Quebec's provincial coat-of-arms and motto Je me souviens.
As the son of cabinet minister (and future...
Foster Hewitt
Foster William Hewitt, OC (November 21, 1902 – April 21, 1985) was a Canadian radio pioneer.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Hewitt attended Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto. He was a champion boxer in his student years, winning the...
Lewis Wallbridge
Lewis Wallbridge (November 27, 1816 – October 20, 1887) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Canada West. In 1882, he was appointed Chief Justice of Manitoba.
He was born in Belleville in 1816. He studied at Upper Canada College, articled in...
Nicholas Campbell
Nicholas Campbell (born 24 March 1952), sometimes credited as Nick Campbell, is a Canadian actor and filmmaker, who has won three Gemini Awards for acting. The movies Naked Lunch, Prozac Nation and the TV series Da Vinci's Inquest are some examples...
Stephen Leacock
Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and economist.
Leacock was born in Swanmore, near Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire, England, and at the age of six moved to Canada with his family, which settled on a...
Thomas Symons
Thomas Henry Bull Symons, CC, O.Ont, FRSC (born May 30, 1929) is a Canadian professor and author in the fields of Canadian Studies.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Harry Lutz Symons and Dorothy Sarah Bull, Symons graduated from Upper Canada...
George Mara
George Edward Mara, CM (December 12, 1921 – August 30, 2006) was a Canadian businessman and Winter Olympics athlete.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was educated at Upper Canada College and played for the Toronto Marlboros junior hockey team. After...
William Johnston Tupper
William Johnston Tupper, (June 29, 1862–December 17, 1947) was a politician and office holder in Manitoba, Canada. He served as the province's Lieutenant-Governor from 1934 to 1940.
Tupper was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the son of Charles Tupper ...
Michael Snow
Michael Snow, CC (born December 10, 1929) is a Canadian artist working in painting, sculpture, video, films, photography, holography, drawing, books and music.
Michael Snow was born in Toronto and studied at Upper Canada College and the Ontario...
Raymond Massey
Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 – July 29, 1983) was a Canadian-born American actor.
Massey was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Anna (née Vincent) and Chester Daniel Massey, the wealthy owner of the Massey-Ferguson Tractor Company Massey...
Tom Wright
Thomas E.S. Wright, BPE, MBA (born 1953 in Toronto, Ontario) is the former Commissioner of the Canadian Football League. He was appointed the 11th commissioner of the CFL on November 2, 2002. Wright attended Upper Canada College, the University of...
Andrew Hutchison
Andrew Sandford Hutchison L.Th., D.D, D.C.L. (h.c.) (born in Toronto in 1938), is a retired Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. Prior to his election at the General Synod of 2004, he was the bishop of Montreal and metropolitan of the...
Arthur Gelber
Arthur Ellis Gelber, CC (June 22, 1915 – January 1, 1998) was a Canadian philanthropist.
Educated at Upper Canada College, from 1977 to 1980, he was Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Arts Centre.
In 1989, he established the Lionel...
George Connell
George Edward Connell, OC, FRSC (born June 20, 1930) is a Canadian academic.
Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Connell studied at Upper Canada College in Toronto and gradutated in 1947. He then attended the University of Toronto, earning an Honours B...
John Bosley
John William Bosley, PC (born May 4, 1947) is a former Canadian politician. He is best known for having been Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons from November 5, 1984 to September 29, 1986.
He received a BA in 1968 from the University of...
Timothy Eaton
Timothy Eaton (March 1834 – January 31, 1907) was a Canadian businessman who founded the Eaton's department store, one of the most important retail businesses in Canada's history.
He was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland, of a Protestant...
Arnold Smith
Arnold Cantwell Smith, CH, OC (January 18, 1915 – February 7, 1994) was a Canadian diplomat. He was the first Commonwealth Secretary-General, serving from 1965–1975.
A talented student, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford.
From 1958...
John Ross Robertson
John Ross Robertson (December 28, 1841 – May 31, 1918) was a Canadian newspaper publisher, politician, and philanthropist in Toronto, Ontario.
Born in Toronto, the son of son of John Robertson and Margaret Sinclair, Robertson was educated at Upper...
Montegu Black
George Montegu Black III (August 6, 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba – January 10, 2002 in Toronto, Ontario) was the older brother of media baron Conrad Black and son of Winnipeg, Manitoba businessman George Montegu Black II.
He along with his brother...
Shafiq Qaadri
Shafiq Qaadri is a family doctor and politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Etobicoke North for the Liberal Party.
Dr. Qaadri graduated from Upper Canada College in...
John Beverley Robinson
John Beverley Robinson (21 February 1821 – 19 June 1896) was elected mayor of Toronto in 1856. He was Lieutenant Governor of Ontario between the years 1880–1887.
He was born in York (Toronto) in 1821, the son of Sir John Robinson, an important...
Conn Smythe
Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe MC (February 1, 1895 – November 18, 1980) was a Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and horse racing. He is best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey...
Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet
Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet (September 1, 1923 – June 12, 2006), in Canada known as Ken Thomson, was a Canadian businessman and art collector who, at the time of his death, was the richest person in Canada, and the ninth richest...
John Craig Eaton
Sir John Craig Eaton (28 April 1876 – 30 March 1922) was a Canadian businessman, and member of the prominent Eaton Family.
Sir John was the youngest son of Toronto department store magnate Timothy Eaton, and his wife, Margaret Wilson Beattie Eaton....
Norm Kelly
Norman "Norm" Kelly (born August 11, 1941) is a Canadian politician. He is a city councillor in Toronto, Ontario representing one of two municipal wards that make up the jurisdiction of Scarborough—Agincourt.
Kelly is a trained Historian. He studied...
Ernest McCulloch
Dr. Ernest Armstrong McCulloch, OC, O.Ont, FRSC (born 1926) is a University of Toronto cellular biologist, best known for demonstrating – with James Till – the existence of stem cells.
McCulloch was born in Toronto, Canada on 21 April, 1926, and was...
Dan Heap
Daniel James Macdonnell "Dan" (or Don) Heap (born September 24, 1925) is a former Canadian politician with the New Democratic Party. He represented the Toronto, Ontario, Canada riding of Spadina, which, in 1988, was renamed Trinity—Spadina, from...
Walter L. Gordon
Walter Lockhart Gordon, PC, CC, FCA, LL.D (January 27, 1906 – March 21, 1987) was a Canadian accountant, businessman, politician, and writer.
Born in Toronto, he was educated at Upper Canada College and the Royal Military College of Canada in...
Ross Parmenter
Ross Parmenter, the varsity baseball coach at San Lorenzo Valley High School in Santa Cruz, CA, was the music editor for the New York Times, and author of twelve books, including:
The Awakened Eye
The Plant in my window
School of the Soldier
Week in...
Alexander Roberts Dunn
Alexander Roberts Dunn VC (15 September 1833 – 25 January 1868) was the first Canadian awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
John McNaught
John Charles Kirkpatrick McNaught (March 23, 1902-1970) was a Canadian radio broadcaster and writer. He was an announcer for CBC Radio and a host on CBC Television in the 1950s and 1960s. He was best known by the professional pseudonym James...
Bill Hewitt
Foster William Alfred "Bill" Hewitt (1928 – December 25, 1996) was a Canadian radio and television sportscaster. He was the son of Canadian hockey broadcasting pioneer Foster Hewitt and grandson of Toronto Star sports journalist, W. A. Hewitt. Both...
Stanley Brehaut Ryerson
Stanley Brehaut Ryerson (March 12, 1911-1998) was a Canadian historian, educator, political activist. There is very little information available concerning his parents, but Ryerson was born in 1911, into a well-off middle class family in Toronto....
George William Allan
George William Allan PC (January 9, 1822 – July 24, 1901) was a Canadian politician.
Allan's father, William, was a pioneer who settled what was then the Township of York during John Graves Simcoe's term as Governor. William Allan eventually became...
