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SOCIETY / PEOPLE
List: Top Ten Greatest Canadians
Date: November 2004
Source: Poll by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Base: CBC Television received over 140,000 Greatest Canadian nominations and then a further television poll ranked the top ten after advocacy of each of the top vote winners.
Notes: The question posed was "Who is the Greatest Canadian?" For more information on the top ten Canadians click here. Your editor thinks Mark Steyn should have won it and to sample his 'take-no-prisoners' style of journalism click here
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Name
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Notes
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1
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Tommy Douglas
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Politician and social policy innovator
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2
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Terry Fox
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Disabled Athlete and cancer research campaigner
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3
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Pierre
Elliott Trudeau
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Politician / Prime Minister
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4
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Sir Frederick Banting
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Doctor and Nobel prize winner (discovered insulin)
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5
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David Suzuki
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Geneticist, academic and broadcaster
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6
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Lester B. Pearson
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Politician / Prime Minister
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7
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Don Cherry
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Ice Hockey commentator and broadcaster
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8
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Sir John A. Macdonald
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Canada's first Prime Minister - 'Founder of the Nation'
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9
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Inventor
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10
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Wayne Gretzky
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Ice Hockey player
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