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Colin R. McArthur

United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Colin Richard McArthur was born on 24 June 1949 in Glasgow, Scotland, the youngest of four children. He be...

Person, Tragedy, Canada, Scotland, USA

Robert Gordon McHarg III

Opened the Subway Gallery in 2006.

Person, Art, Museums / Libraries, Canada

Leo Mol

Artist and sculptor. Born Leonid Molodozhanyn in Polonne, Ukraine. Studied at the Leningrad Academy of Arts. After living in Germany and The Hague, he emigrated to Canada in 1948. A prolific artist...

Person, Art, Canada, Ukraine

citizens of Ottawa

Group, Benefactor, Canada

Historical Society of Ottawa

Formed initially as the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, renamed in 1956. From their website: "To celebrate Ottawa’s centenary in 1926, the Society unveiled a memorial to Lieutenant-...

Group, Community / Clubs, History, Canada

John Pattison, VC

Soldier. Born John George Pattison. He emigrated to Canada where he enlisted to fight in WW1. He was posted to France, and on the 10th April 1917 he fought in the battle of Vimy Ridge. The advance ...

Person, Armed Forces, Canada, France

George Halford Fellowes Prynne, F.R.I.B.A.

George Halford Fellowes Prynne was a church architect working in the Gothic Revival style. Born Plymouth. 1871 emigrated first to the States and then to Canada, where he was a pupil of architect R...

Person, Architecture, Canada

Pete Quaife

Musician. Born Peter Alexander Greenlaw Kinnies in Tavistock, Devon. His mother became pregnant after an affair with an American serviceman. She married after the war and the whole family took her ...

Person, Music / songs, Canada, Denmark

John Rae

Arctic explorer. Born at the Hall of Clestrain, near Stromness, Orkney Islands. He studied medicine and became doctor to the Hudson Bay Company. From 1846 to 1848 he undertook several expeditions t...

Person, Exploring, Medicine, Arctic & Antarctic, Canada, Scotland, USA

Claire Rayner

Nurse, journalist, broadcaster, novelist and 'agony aunt'. Born Claire Berenice Chetwynd in London.  Her early life was marred by the cruelty of her parents who put her in a psychiatric hospital wh...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Medicine, TV & Radio, Canada