Name on the left, the one thing they are known for on the
right. Cover the right column and work down.
| John Cabot | First to map Canada's East Coast, 1497 |
| Jacques Cartier | Three voyages 1534–42; heard kanata; first to explore the St. Lawrence |
| Samuel de Champlain | Built the fortress at Québec City, 1608 |
| Pierre de Monts | With Champlain, first settlement north of Florida, 1604 |
| Count Frontenac | "My only reply will be from the mouths of my cannons," 1690 |
| Martin Frobisher | English explorer; Frobisher Bay, now Iqaluit |
| Wolfe and Montcalm | Opposing commanders, both killed, Plains of Abraham 1759 |
| Sir Guy Carleton | Defended Canadien rights; defeated the American invasion of 1775 |
| Joseph Brant | Led Loyalist Mohawk into Canada |
| Sir Isaac Brock | Captured Detroit; killed at Queenston Heights, 1812 |
| Chief Tecumseh | Shawnee leader; allied with the British in 1812 |
| Charles de Salaberry | 460 men turned back 4,000 Americans at Châteauguay, 1813 |
| Laura Secord | Walked 19 miles to warn of an attack; Beaver Dams, 1813 |
| Sir Arthur Currie | Canada's greatest soldier; commanded the Corps in 1918 |
| John McCrae | Wrote In Flanders Fields, 1915 |
| Sir Sam Steele | Frontier hero, Mounted Policeman and soldier |
| Sir John A. Macdonald | First Prime Minister; born Scotland 11 Jan 1815; $10 bill |
| Sir George-Étienne Cartier | Key architect of Confederation from Quebec |
| Sir Leonard Tilley | Suggested "Dominion," from Psalm 72 |
| Sir Wilfrid Laurier | First French-Canadian PM since Confederation; $5 bill; 20 Nov |
| Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine | First leader of responsible government in the Canadas, 1849 |
| Robert Baldwin / Joseph Howe | Reformers working toward responsible government |
| Lord Durham | Recommended merger and responsible government after 1837–38 |
| Lord Elgin | Governor who introduced responsible government, 1848–49 |
| Louis Riel | Led the Métis; father of Manitoba; executed 1885 |
| Gabriel Dumont | The Métis' greatest military leader |
| John Graves Simcoe | Upper Canada's first Lt. Governor; founded York; moved against slavery 1793 |
| John Diefenbaker | 13th PM — "I am a Canadian, a free Canadian" |
| Banting and Best | Insulin — 16 million lives saved |
| Alexander Graham Bell | The telephone |
| Sir Sandford Fleming | Worldwide standard time zones |
| Joseph-Armand Bombardier | The snowmobile |
| Evans and Woodward | First electric light bulb; patent sold to Edison |
| Reginald Fessenden | First wireless voice message — radio |
| Dr. Wilder Penfield | Brain surgeon, McGill; "the greatest living Canadian" |
| Dr. John A. Hopps | The cardiac pacemaker |
| SPAR / NRC | The Canadarm |
| Lazaridis and Balsillie | The BlackBerry |
| Sir William Logan | Geologist; Mount Logan named for him |
| Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis | Pioneer thinkers in communications |
| Group of Seven | Founded 1920; rugged wilderness landscapes |
| Emily Carr | West Coast forests and Aboriginal artifacts |
| Tom Thomson | The Jack Pine |
| Jean-Paul Riopelle | Les Automatistes; modern abstract art |
| Kenojuak Ashevak | Pioneered modern Inuit art |
| Bill Reid | Haida artist, totem poles |
| James Naismith | Invented basketball, 1891 |
| Terry Fox | Marathon of Hope, 1980 |
| Rick Hansen | Circled the globe in a wheelchair, 1985 |
| Wayne Gretzky | Edmonton Oilers, 1979–88 |
| Paul Henderson | Winning goal, 1972 Summit Series |
| Donovan Bailey / Chantal Petitclerc | Sprinter / wheelchair racer, 1996 |
| Phil Edwards | Track champion; bronze 1928, 1932, 1936 |