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FilmPeter Cullen
1941 – 2026 · Voice actor, Film actor, Television actor
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Public figure / Music / Singer-songwriter / Blood, Sweat & TearsDavid Clayton-Thomas
1941 – 2026 · Singer; songwriter; musician; author; bandleader (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
“Voice of Spinning Wheel and Blood, Sweat & Tears; Toronto blues kid who took jazz-rock to Woodstock and the Grammys.”
🕯 40 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 3
Sports / Ice hockey / NHL / Montreal Canadiens / left wing / Stanley CupAndré Pronovost
1936 – 2026 · Professional ice hockey left wing; later restaurant manager; junior coach; Canadiens / Old Timers alumnus
“Four Cups with Montreal. Forever a proud Shawiniganais.”
🕯 79 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1
ArtsDonald Sutherland
1935 – 2024 · Actor
“He loved what he did and did what he loved. A life well lived.”
🕯 275 · ✍️ 16 · 📷 4
ArtsAnnette Saint-Pierre
1925 – 2026 · Educator; writer; publisher; professor of Canadian / Franco-Western literature; heritage advocate
“Educator and publisher who made Franco-Manitoban literature visible and saved Gabrielle Roy's house.”
🕯 91 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 4
SportsOtto Jelinek
1940 – 2026 · Pair figure skater (Olympian, world champion); Ice Capades professional; businessman; Progressive Conservative MP and federal cabinet minister; Deloitte Central Europe chair; Colliers International CE
“World pairs champion who fled Prague, then returned as gold medallist, minister, and ambassador.”
🕯 65 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 2
Georgina Lightning
1963 – 2026 · First Nations (Samson Cree / Maskwacis Plains Cree) film director, screenwriter, actress, producer, cultural consultant, Indigenous media advocate; co-founder of Tribal Alliance Productions
“Samson Cree filmmaker who made media that matters and opened the feature door for Indigenous women directors.”
🕯 75 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 0
SportsJacques Doucet
1940 – 2026 · French-language baseball play-by-play sportscaster; sports journalist; author; official scorer (early Expos/Jarry Park); Baseball Quebec ambassador
“Voice of the Expos. Over 5,500 games in French. Canada's Vin Scully.”
🕯 92 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 1
ComedyCatherine O'Hara
1954 – 2026 · Actress; comedian; writer (SCTV); voice artist
“Moira, Kate, Delia: she made comedy feel like love and chaos at once.”
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MediaLloyd Robertson
1934 – 2026 · Television and radio news anchor; journalist; senior editor; documentary / newsmagazine host (W5); memoirist
“Canada's trusted anchor: that's the kind of day it's been.”
🕯 32 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 3
PoliticsRitu Khullar
† 2026 · Jurist; Chief Justice of Alberta; Chief Justice of the Courts of Appeal of Alberta, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories; former labour, human rights, administrative and constitutional lawyer; law t
“Alberta's Chief Justice and Charter advocate who made history as Canada's first South Asian woman provincial chief justice.”
🕯 2 · ✍️ 2 · 📷 1
MusicLeonard Cohen
1934 – 2016 · Singer, songwriter and poet
“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
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