Directory of Personages and Biography Resources

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Websites on important and/or interesting individuals in Canadian history. Should be primarily biographical in content.

Subcategories

• Blessed Marie-Anne Blondin
• Bouchard, Lucien
• Cartier, Jacques
• Champlain, Samuel de
• Douglas, Tommy
• Lévesque, René
• M. J. Coldwell
• Manning, Preston
• Parizeau, Jacques
• Prime Ministers
• Woodsworth, James S.

Resources in This Category

• Annie Arniel

  http://www.angelfire.com/space/kingstonroots/Menard/AnnieArniel.html
  Biography of Annie Arniel, a Canadian Suffragist, who made historical contributions to the women's right to vote movement with Alice Paul and Lucy Burns in Washington, D.C.

• Catherine de Hueck Doherty

  http://www.catherinedoherty.org/life/
  Pioneer of Catholic interracial and social justice, author, and foundress of the Madonna House Apostolate based in Combermere, Ontario.

• Charles Templeton (1915-2001)

  http://www.templetons.com/brad/cbt.html
  Biographical information, articles, and an online version of the memoirs of this former evangelist turned atheist, politician, editor, broadcaster, journalist, author, philosopher and raconteur.

• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

  http://www.biographi.ca/index-e.html
  An index of biographies that presents persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.

• Famous Canadians Theme Page

  http://www.cln.org/themes/famous.html
  Provides links to curricular resources and instructional materials (lesson plans) related to the study of famous Canadians.

• Joseph Whiteside Boyle

  http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/canadianhistory/josephboyle/josephboyle.html
  The legendary Canadian, Joseph W. Boyle (1867-1923); gold miner and adventurer.

• Louis Riel

  http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/louis-riel/
  Biography of the influential Metis leader and father of Manitoba, from The Canadian Encyclopedia.

• Nursing Sister Helen L. Fowlds

  http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm
  Biography, diary and pictures of Helen Fowlds, a Canadian nurse in World War I

• People - Canadian Confederation

  http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/023001-2300-e.html
  A collection of biographies for many of the people involved in the creation and building of Canada. Some of these people are well known, while others are relatively obscure.

• Richard B. Rogers : Life and Times of a Canadian Engineer

  http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/zrhomepg.htm
  Describes the vision and life of Engineer Richard Birdsall Rogers who helped design the Peterborough Hydraulic Lift Lock in Peterborough, Ontario.

• Roberta Bondar

  http://www.robertabondar.com/
  Details the achievements by, and tributes for this Canadian Hero, the first Canadian woman astronaut in Space. Also includes a guest book for visitors.

• Roy Herbert Thomson (1894-1976)

  http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/personalities/personalities.php?id=36
  The rags to riches story of Roy Thomson, also known as Lord Thomson of Fleet.

• The Poems of D'Arcy McGee

  http://eco.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.09480
  Elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1858 as one of three members for Montreal. Strongly opposed the Fenians. Assassinated on April 7, 1868, a week before his 43rd birthday. Canada's first political assassination.

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