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Patrick Burns
Patrick Burns, meat packer, rancher (b at Oshawa, Canada W 6 July 1856; d at Calgary, Alta 24 Feb 1937). A farm boy without much formal schooling, Burns joined the vanguard of Ontario farmers moving to Manitoba after the Riel uprising.
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Patrick Lenihan
Patrick Lenihan, trade unionist (b at Kanturk, Ire 11 Apr 1903; d at Calgary 4 Mar 1981). He was a member of the Sinn Féin movement engaged in rebellious activities against British rule in Ireland. In the 1930s he organized workers, farmers and unemployed throughout Alberta.
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Patrick Martin Draper
Patrick Martin Draper"Paddy," printer, trade-union leader (b at Aylmer, Qué 1868; d at Ottawa 23 Nov 1943). Apprenticed as a printer, Draper began work at the Government Printing Bureau in Ottawa in 1888, and eventually served as director of printing from 1921 until retirement in 1933.
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Patrick Morris
Patrick Morris, merchant, shipowner, politician and officeholder (b at Waterford, Ire 1789; d at St John's 22 Aug 1849).
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Paul Beeston
Paul McGill Beeston, CM, baseball executive, accountant (born 20 June 1945 in Welland, ON). Paul Beeston was the first executive hired by the Toronto Blue Jays in 1976. He rose through the club’s ranks to become president from 1989 to 1997. During that period, the Blue Jays won four division titles and two World Series. In 1997, Beeston was hired as the president and chief operating officer of Major League Baseball (MLB). He returned to serve as Blue Jays president from 2008 to 2015 and was named the club’s president emeritus in 2016. A Member of the Order of Canada, Beeston has been inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.
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Paul Martin
Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, CC, PC, businessman, politician, cabinet minister, prime minister 2003–06, philanthropist (born 28 August 1938 in Windsor, ON). The son of influential Liberal Party MP Paul Martin Sr., Paul Martin had a successful career in business before entering politics. He was elected as a Liberal MP in 1988 and served as minister of finance (1993–2002) under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. In that role, Martin eliminated the deficit and achieved five straight years of budget surpluses. Martin succeeded Chrétien as prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party in 2003. He resigned in 2006 after losing the election to Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. Known as a fiscal conservative with a social conscience, Martin spearheaded several initiatives as prime minister, including the Kelowna Accord, a national child care program, health accords with the provinces and the legalization of same-sex marriage.
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Paul Hahn
Paul Hahn. Cellist, businessman, b Reutlingen, south of Stuttgart, 11 May 1875, d Balsam Lake, Ont, 20 Jul 1962. Paul Hahn arrived in Canada in 1888 and settled in Toronto. His cello teachers included Rudolph Ruth in Toronto and Alwin Schroeder in Boston.
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Percy Schmeiser
Percy Schmeiser, farmer, business owner, Saskatchewan MLA 1967–71, politician (born 5 January 1931 in Bruno, SK; died 13 October 2020). Farmer Percy Schmeiser was mayor of Bruno, Saskatchewan, from 1963 to 1982 and MLA for the riding of Watrous from 1967 to 1971. He is best known as the defendant in Schmeiser v. Monsanto, which was argued all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. Monsanto, an American agrochemicals corporation, accused Schmeiser of illegally using their patented genetically modified seeds. Schmeiser claimed they had simply blown onto his farm. He became a folk hero for his stand against a large agricultural corporation and against the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture. An advocate for environmental justice, farmers’ rights, and the right to save seeds, he received the Mahatma Gandhi Award and the Canadian Health Food Association Hall of Fame Award.
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Peter Demeter
Peter Demeter, real-estate developer (b at Budapest, Hungary 19 Apr 1933). The son of a wealthy family impoverished as a consequence of WWII, Demeter immigrated to Canada in 1956 and by 1962 had embarked on a successful career as a property developer in Toronto.
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Peter J. Cashin
Peter J. Cashin, politician, businessman, soldier (b at Cape Broyle, Nfld 8 Mar 1890; d at St John's 21 May 1977). He joined the Newfoundland Regiment in 1915, served overseas and in March 1918 was promoted major in command of the British Machine Gun Corp.
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Peter Robinson (Developer)
Peter Robinson, merchant, developer, immigration superintendent (b in NB 1785; d at Toronto 8 July 1838). Until 1822 he was active in the development of Yonge St in the Newmarket and Holland Landing area.
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Philemon Wright
Philemon Wright, colonizer, farmer, businessman (born 3 September 1760 in Woburn, Massachusetts; died 3 June 1839 in Hull, QC).
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Philip Kives
Philip Kives, business executive and innovative marketer (born 12 February 1929 near Oungre, SK; died 28 April 2016 in Winnipeg, MB).
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Pierre Dugua de Mons
Pierre Dugua de Mons (or Du Gua de Monts), colonizer, explorer, trader (born c. 1558 in Royan, France; died 22 February 1628 near Fléac-sur-Seugne, France). Pierre Dugua de Mons oversaw the founding of Port Royal, in Acadia (present-day Annapolis Royal), and Quebec City, Quebec. These two places were the first successful French settlements in North America. At a time of significant religious tension in France, there were few people involved in that kingdom’s exploration and settlement of North America that better represent the social, political and religious context of the early 17th century. Both Samuel de Champlain and Mathieu Da Costa, who are better known from this period, were de Mons’s employees and acted under his direction. De Mons’s legacy has been overshadowed by Champlain in part because Champlain wrote extensively about his work, whereas de Mons did not. In addition, in some of Champlain’s writings he replaced de Mons with himself.
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Pierre-Esprit Radisson
Pierre-Esprit Radisson, explorer, fur trader (born in 1636 in France; died in June 1710 in London, England). Pierre-Esprit Radisson was a shrewd opportunist who was valued for his knowledge of Indigenous peoples and North American geography.
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