WLincoln MacCauley Alexander was a Canadian lawyer who became the first black Member of Parliament in the House of Commons, the first black federal Cabinet Minister, the first black Chair of the Worker's Compensation Board, and the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991. He was the first person to serve five terms as Chancellor of the University of Guelph, from 1991 to 2007. Alexander was also a governor of the Canadian Unity Council.
WSheldon Allman was an American-Canadian actor, singer, and songwriter.
WDonald James Matthew Blakeslee was an officer in the United States Air Force, whose aviation career began as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force flying Spitfire fighter aircraft during World War II. He then became a member of the Royal Air Force Eagle Squadrons, before transferring to the United States Army Air Forces in 1942. He flew more combat missions against the Luftwaffe than any other American fighter pilot, and by the end of the war was a flying ace credited with 15.5 aerial victories.
WWalter "Wally" Chikowski was a Canadian football player who played for the Calgary Stampeders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He won the Grey Cup with the Stampeders in 1948. He played junior football in Winnipeg and was a veteran of the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. He died in 1994.
WWilliam John Devine was a Canadian ice hockey administrator and radio sports commentator.
WJames Alexander Goodson was a United States Army Air Force fighter ace who was credited with shooting down fifteen aircraft and destroying another fifteen on the ground during World War II.
WArthur Hiller, was a Canadian-American television and film director with over 33 films to his credit during a 50-year career. He began his career directing television in Canada and later in the U.S. By the late 1950s he began directing films, most often comedies. He also directed dramas and romantic subjects, such as Love Story (1970), which was nominated for seven Oscars.
WPhillips Raymond Holmes was an American actor. For his contributions to the film industry, he was posthumously given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
WAlbert Luke Ireland was a staff sergeant in the United States Marine Corps who was wounded five times during World War II in the Pacific theater and four times during the Korean War. His receiving nine Purple Heart Medals is the second most decorated to a single individual of the United States Armed Forces.
WGordon Arthur Kidder, was a Royal Canadian Air Force officer, the navigator of a Vickers Wellington bomber, who was taken prisoner during the Second World War. He took part in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, but was one of the men recaptured and subsequently shot by the Gestapo.
WReginald Lawrence Knowles was an English film actor who renamed himself Patric Knowles. Born in Horsforth, West Riding of Yorkshire, he made his film debut in 1932, and played either first or second film leads throughout his career. He appeared in films from the 1930s to the 1970s.
WRobert John Love was a United States Air Force flying ace during the Korean War, shooting down six MiG-15 jet aircraft in 1952. He was assigned to the 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing's 335th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron. In 1969 he was one of the pilots hired by the air force of El Salvador during the Soccer War between that country and Honduras, where he flew a P-51 Mustang.
WMichael Norman Manley ON OCC was a Jamaican politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992. Manley championed a democratic socialist program, and has been described as a populist. According to opinion polls, he remains one of Jamaica's most popular prime ministers.
WKen McKenzie was a Canadian newspaper publisher and sports journalist. He served as publicity director of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1946 to 1963. In 1947, he published the first NHL press and radio guide, and co-founded The Hockey News with Will Cote and C$383.81. McKenzie bought out his partner and later sold an 80 per cent share of The Hockey News for a reported $4-million in 1973. He stayed on as its publisher and a columnist until 1981. He also published Canadian Football News, Ontario Golf News, and the magazines Hockey Pictorial and Hockey World.
WGroup Captain Robert Wendell "Buck" McNair, was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) flying ace of the Second World War, with 16 or 16.5 victories and five probables.
WDuncan Anderson McNaughton was a Canadian athlete, who competed mainly in the high jump. He went on to a career in petroleum geology.
WJohn Herman Merivale, also known as Jack Merivale, was a British theatre actor, and occasional supporting player in British films.
WMilburn Peak, is a 2,019-metre (6,624-feet) mountain in the Murray Range of the Hart Ranges in Northern British Columbia.
WLeslie William Nielsen was a Canadian actor, comedian and producer. He appeared in more than 100 films and 150 television programs, portraying more than 220 characters.
WDavid Gerry Partridge was a Canadian artist and sculptor best known for creating "naillies," works made of nails of varying sizes driven into plywood to different heights to form representational or abstract sculptures.
WEsmond Marcus David Romilly was a British socialist, anti-fascist and journalist, who was in turn a schoolboy rebel, a veteran with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and, following the outbreak of the Second World War, an observer with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He is perhaps best remembered for his teenage elopement with his distant cousin Jessica Mitford, the second youngest of the Mitford sisters.
WAir Commodore James Stanley Scott was a leading figure in the pre-World War II Royal Canadian Air Force and a Royal Flying Corps officer during World War I.
WSir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian was the Governor-General of St. Kitts and Nevis from 1996 to 2013. He was appointed Governor-General in 1995 and was sworn in on 1 January 1996. While in office, he was the world's oldest serving de facto head of state. His retirement was announced on 25 December 2012 and became effective on 1 January 2013.
WArthur Coney Tunnard, later known as Christopher Tunnard, was a Canadian-born landscape architect, garden designer, city-planner, and author of Gardens in the Modern Landscape (1938).
WFlight Lieutenant James Henry Whalen was a Canadian Second World War fighter pilot ace.