People from Canada

100 people remembered here.

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  Colin McKerral

  † 2026 · Community advocate and municipal council candidate

  Greater Sudbury Ward 12 candidate and Louis Street housing advocate who pressed leaders to see tenants' lives firsthand.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Pye Dubois

  1948 – 2026 · Lyricist

  Canadian lyricist behind Tom Sawyer and Max Webster, who preferred the words to the spotlight.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Paul LeDuc

  1936 – 2026 · Professional wrestler

  Quebec lumberjack tag legend who built houses, then built a media second act.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Joan Phillip

  1952 – 2026 · Canadian politician

  Amshen, a fearless First Nations leader who carried a lifetime of activism into the legislature.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Tedde Moore

  1947 – 2026 · Actress

  Forever the teacher: Miss Shields of A Christmas Story and a pillar of Canadian stage and screen.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Brian Doerksen

  1965 – 2026 · Worship leader

  He led worship with a whisper and sang over the suffering, and the whole Church sang his songs.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Marc Messier

  1947 – 2026 · Actor and writer

  Broue, Marc Gagnon, Réjean and Bob: the blue-eyed actor who made all of Quebec laugh for half a century.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Marc Pinizzotto

  1982 – 2026 · Police constable

  ETF constable, hockey captain and devoted father who put others first.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Nooran Rezayi

  † 2025 · High-school student

  A Longueuil teenager whose death at 15 forced Quebec to keep asking for answers.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Rex Gill

  † 2019 · Tour guide (Coyote Cruises

  A well-liked Okanagan tour guide, killed by mistake in Kamloops.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Eric Bauza

  1979 – 2026 · Voice actor

  The voice who kept Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck alive for a new generation.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Helen Branswell

  † 2026 · Infectious disease and global health reporter

  The reporter who explained outbreaks to the world with clarity, rigour and care.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Emma Reelis

  † 2026 · Inuk elder and community advocate

  Inuk elder and residential school survivor who taught Newfoundland and Labrador to listen.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Irene Mathyssen

  1951 – 2026 · Politician and teacher

  London's first NDP MP, a teacher who fought for women, veterans and workers.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Sidney Zoltak

  1931 – 2026 · Holocaust survivor

  He carried the memory of a vanished town to every young person who would listen.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Lyle Odelein

  1968 – 2026 · Ice hockey defenceman

  Stanley Cup champion and the first captain of the Columbus Blue Jackets.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Carl Berger

  1939 – 2026 · Historian and professor of Canadian history

  Toronto historian whose Writing of Canadian History showed Canadians how their past was told.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Anne Claire Poirier

  1932 – 2026 · Film director

  NFB pioneer who put Quebec women behind the camera and made feminist cinema impossible to ignore.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Andrea Warner

  † 2026 · Music journalist

  Vancouver music critic who put Canadian women and Indigenous artists at the centre.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Keith Bailey

  1961 – 2026 · Footballer

  A gifted, mild-natured footballer who rode every challenge, from Tampa Bay to Steeton.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Michèle Magny

  † 2026 · Actress

  Actress, director and playwright whose voice helped women find theirs on the Quebec stage.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Geert Maas

  1944 – 2026 · Sculptor

  He shaped bronze into rounded, joyful people and invited a whole city to make art with him.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  L. Ian MacDonald

  1947 – 2026 · Journalist

  Mulroney's wordsmith, Policy's founder, and a graceful voice in Canadian political writing.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Gord Hume

  1949 – 2026 · Broadcaster

  London broadcaster, city builder and author who believed public service was noble.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Larry Millson

  1943 – 2026 · Sportswriter and Toronto Blue Jays beat reporter

  Toronto sportswriter who chronicled the Blue Jays for more than 30 years. A gentleman with a sharp eye, and a writer who never missed a deadline.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Colin Gabelmann

  1944 – 2026 · Politician

  A transformative B.C. Attorney General and champion of the public's right to know.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Denys Tremblay

  1951 – 2026 · Artist

  The artist-king of L'Anse-Saint-Jean, who proved by referendum that art can reign in real life.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Jacques Proulx

  1939 – 2026 · Farmer

  The Saint-Camille farmer who led the UPA for 12 years and gave rural Quebec a voice of its own.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Pierre Plante

  1951 – 2026 · Ice hockey right winger

  Durable NHL winger and 1971 Flyers first-round pick from Valleyfield.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Wesley (Wes) Armour

  † 2026 · Trucking executive

  Order of Canada trucking builder who grew a family fleet into Atlantic Canada's logistics giant.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Wes MacAleer

  1944 – 2026 · Politician

  PEI publisher, MLA and cabinet minister; a constant gentleman who kept serving.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  K. D. Miller

  1951 – 2026 · Short-story writer

  Canadian short-story writer whose prose glittered like a polished knife edge.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Huguette St-Denis

  1964 – 2026 · Humorist

  Quebec teacher turned comedy writer who co-wrote Les Dangereux and helped shape a generation of TV laughs.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Peter Maher

  1946 – 2026 · Sportscaster

  The radio voice of the Calgary Flames for 33 seasons, and a Hockey Hall of Fame honoree.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Tommy Hunter

  1937 – 2026 · Country singer

  Canada's Country Gentleman. Singer, host of The Tommy Hunter Show, and Order of Canada member who brought country music into the living room.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Michelle DuBarry

  1931 – 2026 · Drag queen and ladies' shoe salesman

  Toronto's queen mother of drag, who showed up for every cause and always tipped the girls.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Brandon Clarke

  1996 – 2026 · Professional basketball player

  Grizzlies power forward and All-Rookie star who played with grit and gave back in Memphis.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Ron Duguay

  1957 – 2026 · Ice hockey player

  The flowing-haired Ranger who turned the Garden ice into a stage and never stopped loving the game.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Aloys "Al" John Schwinghamer

  1938 – 2026 · Civil engineer and mayor of Moose Jaw

  Engineer, councillor and two-term mayor who spent 35 years building and serving Moose Jaw.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Jean-Luc Mongrain

  1951 – 2026 · Journalist

  Quebec's blunt newsman: fifty years of franc-parler on air.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Bob Saunders

  1935 – 2026 · Car dealer and philanthropist

  Colwood car dealer who spent his life paying it forward to the West Shore.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Michel Soucy

  1951 – 2026 · Mayor

  Longtime mayor of Atholville and Campbellton, remembered for decades of community service in Restigouche.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Claude Bachand

  1951 – 2026 · Politician

  Grounded Bloc MP who put Saint-Jean first for nearly two decades

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  David Arnason

  1940 – 2026 · Author

  Manitoba author and professor who chronicled Icelandic Interlake life.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Allen Engel

  1932 – 2026 · Farmer

  Saskatchewan NDP MLA who fought for family farms and Grasslands National Park.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Sylvia Spring

  1942 – 2026 · Feminist filmmaker

  First woman to produce and direct a Canadian English-language feature; MediaWatch founder who reshaped CRTC sex-role policy

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Kurt Danziger

  1926 – 2026 · Psychologist and historian of psychology

  A refugee and apartheid opponent who showed that psychology's ideas have histories of their own.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Helen Konek

  1931 – 2026 · Inuk elder

  Inuk elder whose 1949 Harrington portrait taught the world a name and a voice.

  3 candles · 1 tributes