People from Canada

18 people remembered here.

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  Peter Cullen

  1941 – 2026 · Voice actor

  292 candles · 13 tributes
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  Donald Sutherland

  1935 – 2024 · Actor

  He loved what he did and did what he loved. A life well lived.

  275 candles · 16 tributes
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  Leonard Cohen

  1934 – 2016 · Singer

  There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

  212 candles · 14 tributes
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  Catherine O'Hara

  1954 – 2026 · Actress

  Moira, Kate, Delia: she made comedy feel like love and chaos at once.

  144 candles · 24 tributes
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  Cal Nichols

  1942 – 2026 · Businessman

  Businessman who led the Edmonton Investors Group and kept the Oilers in Edmonton when relocation loomed.

  99 candles · 5 tributes
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  Brent Peterson

  1958 – 2026 · Ice hockey forward

  NHL checker, Memorial Cup coach, Predators original, and Parkinson's advocate who raised millions for care.

  99 candles · 6 tributes
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  Jacques Doucet

  1940 – 2026 · French-language baseball play-by-play sportscaster

  Voice of the Expos. Over 5,500 games in French. Canada's Vin Scully.

  92 candles · 8 tributes
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  Annette Saint-Pierre

  1925 – 2026 · Educator

  Educator and publisher who made Franco-Manitoban literature visible and saved Gabrielle Roy's house.

  91 candles · 7 tributes
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  André Pronovost

  1936 – 2026 · Professional ice hockey left wing

  Four Cups with Montreal. Forever a proud Shawiniganais.

  79 candles · 5 tributes
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  George Chuvalo

  1937 – 2026 · Professional boxer

  Canadian heavyweight who never hit the canvas, and kept fighting after the bell.

  76 candles · 9 tributes
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  Georgina Lightning

  1963 – 2026 · First Nations (Samson Cree / Maskwacis Plains Cree) film director

  Samson Cree filmmaker who made media that matters and opened the feature door for Indigenous women directors.

  75 candles · 5 tributes
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  Otto Jelinek

  1940 – 2026 · Pair figure skater (Olympian

  World pairs champion who fled Prague, then returned as gold medallist, minister, and ambassador.

  65 candles · 5 tributes
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  Archibald "Archie" MacKinnon

  1937 – 2026 · Olympic rower

  Bow of the Cinderella Four. Canada's first Olympic rowing gold.

  61 candles · 5 tributes
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  Eva Olsson

  1924 – 2026 · Holocaust survivor

  I need to speak for them because their voices were silenced by hate.

  53 candles · 4 tributes
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  Barry Melrose

  1956 – 2026 · Ice hockey defenseman

  Mulleted Kings Cup Final coach and ESPN's unmistakable hockey voice for nearly three decades.

  49 candles · 6 tributes
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  David Clayton-Thomas

  1941 – 2026 · Singer

  Voice of Spinning Wheel and Blood, Sweat & Tears; Toronto blues kid who took jazz-rock to Woodstock and the Grammys.

  40 candles · 9 tributes
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  Lloyd Robertson

  1934 – 2026 · Television and radio news anchor

  Canada's trusted anchor: that's the kind of day it's been.

  32 candles · 6 tributes
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  Ritu Khullar

  † 2026 · Jurist

  Alberta's Chief Justice and Charter advocate who made history as Canada's first South Asian woman provincial chief justice.

  2 candles · 2 tributes