Peter John Veniot, was a businessman and newspaper owner and a politician in New Brunswick, Canada. He was the first Acadian premier of the province of New Brunswick.
Cochrane is a town in the Canadian province of Alberta. The town is located 18 km (11 mi) west of the Calgary city limits along Highway 1A. With a population of 26,320 in 2017, Cochrane is the second largest town in Alberta and one of the fastest growing communities in Canada. It is part of Calgary's census metropolitan area and a member community of the Calgary Regional Partnership (CRP). The town is surrounded by Rocky View County.
Arthur Ellis was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was mayor of Ottawa from 1928 until 1929.
Richard James Gerard, QSO is a former New Zealand politician. He was a National Party Member of Parliament from 1984 to 1997.
Monique Bégin, is a Canadian academic and former politician.
Jacquelin Holzman served as mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from 1991 to 1997. Never attending university, she married at age nineteen and started a family. She became a volunteer, especially on causes relating to the disabled.
Frank Henry Plant was a Canadian businessman and politician. Plant served as mayor of Ottawa from 1921 to 1923 and in 1930. He also served on Ottawa Council from 1917 until 1921 and from 1925 until 1930.
Hugues Lapointe, was a Canadian lawyer, Member of Parliament and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1966 to 1978.
J. E. Stanley "Stan" Lewis was Ottawa's longest-serving mayor, to date, from 1936 to 1948.
Edward H. Hinchey was mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1912.
John Léo Chabot, was a Canadian parliamentarian and surgeon.
Beverly is a former urban municipality within the Edmonton Capital Region of Alberta, Canada. Beverly incorporated as a village on March 22, 1913 and became the Town of Beverly on July 13, 1914. It later amalgamated with the City of Edmonton on December 30, 1961. The population of Beverly was 8,969 at the time of amalgamation.
Joseph-Albert Pinard was an Ontario political figure. He represented Ottawa East provincially in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1914 to 1929; as a Liberal until October 1926 and then winning reelection as an Independent-Liberal in the December 1926 election. He represented Ottawa East federally in the House of Commons of Canada from 1936 to 1945 as a Liberal member but was defeated in 1945 and 1949 when he ran as an Independent Liberal.
Richard Milan Godlove was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas from 1936 to 1942 and Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas from 1946 to 1968, compiling a career college football coaching record of 104–55–10. In 1964, he was inducted into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame and served as the third president of the organization.
Emelia Christine Schaub (1891–1995) was a lawyer who was Michigan's first elected woman prosecutor, the first woman in the United States to successfully defend a murder trial.
Andrew Bailey Tommy Sr. was a star professional Canadian football player for eleven seasons for the Ottawa Rough Riders and one season for the Toronto Argonauts. Tommy led his team to two Grey Cup wins, in 1940 and 1945. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1989 and into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1976.
The 24th Grey Cup was played on December 5, 1936, before 5,883 fans at Varsity Stadium at Toronto.
Fizalam-William Perras was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Hull, Quebec, the son of F. Marcelin Perras and Anatalie Sabourin, and became a lumber merchant.
D'Arcy Britton Plunkett was a Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Orillia, Ontario and became an ironworker.
Brian Mercer "Old Man of the Mountain" Timmis was a star senior Canadian football player in the Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union (SRFU) and Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) for a combined 17 seasons, mainly for the Hamilton Tigers. He is a three-time Grey Cup champion as a player, having won with the Tigers in 1928, 1929, and 1932. He later coached the Hamilton Flying Wildcats, leading them to the 1943 Grey Cup championship. He was an inaugural member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963 and was also inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975. Brian Timmis Stadium in Hamilton, Ontario was named after him.
