This is a list of notable German Canadians .
He was born in Cornwallis Township, Nova Scotia, to a family of Germanic origin.
His paternal grandfather had emigrated from Germany to Detroit, where he had invented the first process for the mass production of gelatin pill capsules.
a refugee from Nazi Germany
His parents were ethnic German farmers who escaped from Russian-controlled Ukraine in 1911 for Canada.
His mother was Scottish and his father, a German immigrant, experienced discrimination during the First World War.