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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Don't forget Pam Anderson.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Has Gordie Howe been totally forgotten in the Great White North? That's Mr. Hockey to you.
23-time NHL All-Star[17]
12-time NHL First All-Star Team
9-time NHL Second All-Star Team
4-time Stanley Cup champion (1950, 1952, 1954, 1955)
6-time Art Ross Trophy winner (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1963)
6-time Hart Memorial Trophy – 1952, 1953, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1963
Lester B. Patrick Award winner (1967)
Lionel Conacher Award (1963)
Hockey Hall of Fame (1972)
2-time Avco World Trophy winner (1974, 1975)
Gary L. Davidson Trophy winner (1974)
2-time WHA All-Star.
Top 5 in NHL scoring for 20 consecutive seasons[4]
Most games played for a single franchise (1967, Detroit Red Wings)
Most goals and points with a single franchise (786 and 1809, respectively, Detroit)
Most NHL games played (1967)
Oldest NHL player at time of retirement (52), and oldest player to play in an NHL game, also only player to play in the NHL after age 50
Only player to play in the NHL in five different decades (1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s)
NHL Lifetime Achievement Award winner (2008)
His #9 has been honoured or retired by these teams:
Detroit Red Wings #9 (retired; played from 1946–1971)
New England/Hartford Whalers/Carolina Hurricanes (retired, played from 1977–1980 while franchise was in Hartford; Hurricanes honour his number but no banner hangs in the PNC Arena, as Howe never played there)
Houston Aeros (AHL) (retired; Howe played for the Houston Aeros (WHA) from 1973–1977)
In 1998, he was ranked #3 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players, the highest-ranking right wing on the list.
In 2010, he was inducted into the World Hockey Association Hall of Fame as a member of “The Howe Family” (including Gordie, Mark, Marty, and Colleen Howe).
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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I smoke rocks
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lucander
Trad climber
Shawangunks, New York
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Larry Walker, outfielder
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Anita, is that the Toronto mayor I've been hearing about?
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Reilly: yes. that is Rob Ford photoshopped to look like Tyrone Biggums (Chappelle's show character - hobo crackhead)
did anyone mention the Shat? he's pretty famous.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 8, 2013 - 03:28pm PT
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Lucander, AP, Anita, Silver, Dave Davis, Troutbreath, Oplopanax and Gary:
 Larry Walker, baseball outfielder, and Pam Anderson, actor, are already on Malemute's list.
Gordon Howe isn't there and deserves to be added.
Rob Ford should be on a special list "Herostratically famous Canadians".
Ted Cruz seems to be just as Canadian as Karl Rove and maybe he should be added to the herostratically famous list.
Black Jack Shellac - is he cartoonishly famous? Where should he be on the list?
The Band should be on the list. RUSH as an example is on the list, so bands are allowed.
Danielle Lawry, softball pitcher, Washington Huskies - should she be on the Canadian list?
I don't know anything about Jim Baldwin. Is there a famous Canadian Jim Baldwin?
Below is Malemute's excellent list. Malemute - can you help us out once more?
ACTORS
Dan Akroyd
Pamela Anderson
Adam Beach
John Candy
Michael J. Fox
Chief Dan George
Graham Greene
Lorne Greene
Monty Hall
Rich Little
Howie Mandel
Mike Meyers
Raymond Massey
Leslie Nielsen
Mary Pickford
Gordon Pinsent
Christopher Plummer
Keanu Reeves
William Shatner
Martin Short
Donald Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland
Jennifer Tilly
Alex Trebek
ATHLETES
Lori Bowden triathlete
Sarah Burke, freestyle skier
Chandra Crawford, cross country skier
Terry Fox, humanitarian and athlete
Bernie Geoffrion, hockey
Wayne Gretzky, hockey
Alex Harvey, cross country skier
Ferguson Jenkins, baseball
Herman 'Jackrabbit' Johansen cross-country skier
Ben Johnson, sprinter
Devon Kershaw cross country skier
Mario Lemieux, hockey
Mark Messier, hockey
New Canadian Air Force, skiers
Bobby Orr, hockey
Ross Rebagliati, snowboarder
Peter Reid, triathlete
Maurice Richard, hockey
Mike Richards, hockey
Patrick Roy, hockey
Carol Vadnais, hockey
Jacques Villeneuve, race car driver
Larry Walker, baseball
Hayley Wickenheiser, hockey
AUTHORS
Margareth Atwood
Pierre Berton
Douglas Coupland
Robertson Davies
William Gibson (usa)
Malcolm Gladwell (uk)
Grey Owl (england)
Irving Layton, poet
Marshall McLuhan
Farley Mowat
Alice Munro
Peter C. Newman (austria)
Al Purdy, poet
Robert W Service (england)
BEER ETC
Cutthroat Pale Ale
Hermann's, Spyhopper
La Fin Du Monde
Molson Beer, used to be Canadian
Canadian Club Classic
Wiser's whiskey
CLIMBERS
will be in a separate post
COMEDIANS
Jim Carrey
Tommy Chong
The Kids In The Hall, comedy group
Bob and Doug McKenzie
Rick Mercer
Matthew Perry (usa)
Seth Rogen
Steve Smith, Red Green
ENTERTAINMENT
James Cameron, film director
David Cronenberg, film director
Cirque de Soleil, circus
Hanson Brothers, hockey film
Wab Kinew, rapper and CBC host
Norman McLaren (scotland), director/film animator
James Randi, magician and sceptic
Bill Reid, artist
Jack Warner, warner bros
The Naked News, TV newscast
Trailer Park Boys, TV series
ENVIRONMENTALISTS & ACTIVISTS
Maude Barlow
Roderick Haig-Brown(english), angler, author, conservationist
Rafe Mair, political commentator
Alexandra Morton (usa)
Percy Schmeiser
David Suzuki
ICONS
Bluenose clipper
Hudsons Bay Company
Maple Leaf flag
Poutine
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
MUSICIANS
Jann Arden
Barenaked Ladies
Bryan Adams
Paul Anka
Justin Bieber
Chilliwack
Tom Cochrane
Bruce Cockburn
Leonard Cohen
Stompin' Tom Connors
Cowboy Junkies
Celine Dion
Doug & the Slugs
Raymond Dudley, pianist
Glenn Gould, pianist
Guess Who
Jeff Healey
Angela Hewitt, pianist
Diana Krall
K D Lang
Avril Lavigne
Gordon Lightfoot
Natalie MacMaster
Kate and Anna McGarrigle
Joni Mitchell
Alanis Morissette
Anne Murray
Northern Lights
RUSH
Steppenwolf (canadian/american)
Tragically Hip
Shania Twain
Ian and Sylvia Tyson
Neil Young
Joel 'deadmau5' Zimmerman
NOBEL WINNERS
Sidney Altman, Chemistry 1989
Frederick Banting Physiology/Medicine, 1923
Saul Bellow, Literature 1976
Willard Boyle, Physics 2009
Bertram Brockhouse, Physics 1994
William Giauque, Chemistry 1949
Gerhard Herzberg (germany), Chemistry 1971
David Hubel, Physiology/Medicine 1981
Charles Huggins, Physiology/Medicine 1966
Rudolph Marcus, Chemistry 1992
Robert Mundell, Economics 1999
Lester Pearson, Peace 1957
John Polányi (germany), Chemistry 1986
Myron Scholes, Economics 1997
Ralph Steinman, Physiology/Medicine 2011
Michael Smith (uk), Chemistry 1993
Henry Taube, Chemistry 1983
Richard Taylor, Physics 1990
William Vickrey, Economics 1996
POLITICIANS
John A. Macdonald (scotland)
Tommy Douglas, father of socialized medicine in Canada
Paul Heleyer
Jack Layton, leader of NDP
Rene Levesque, separatist
Pierre Trudeau, prime minister
SCIENTISTS ETC
Alexander Graham Bell (scotland), inventor
Norman Bethune, physician
J.C. Fields, mathematician
Sandford Fleming (scotland), standard time
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
William Osler, known as the worlds first modern physician
Steven Pinker, psychologist
UNCLASSIFIED
Alexander Mackenzie (scotland), explorer
Anne of Green Gables, novel
Billy Bishop, WW1 Pilot
Samuel Champlain (france), explorer
Don Cherry, local color
Tim Horton, hockey & restaurant
Peter Jennings, journalist
James Naismith, inventor of basketball
Peter Skene Ogden, explorer
Laura Secord, war heroine
William Stephenson, inspiration for James Bond
Margaret Trudeau
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Yous guys are PATHETIC! You don't even have The Original Great One and
Never To Be Equalled All Time Hockey Great on yer list. Sheeeesh!
I almost forgot yer lacking the Second Greatest Hockey Player, at least in
terms of name recognition. (Marlow will never get this) ;-)
My bad, I see he is on the list, just not as a hockey player.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 8, 2013 - 03:38pm PT
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Reilly
Who's that? Where on the list? Or: ... help me get it... ;o)
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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I get the sense that this list will eventually contain every Canadian who has ever lived (and a few people that have never been anywhere near the frozen North!)
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Marlow, the greatest hockey player of all time and never-to-be-equalled is
Gordie Howe; end of discussion.
And Mike Richards is on the list? Somebody was pulling yer leg. Especially
if Bobbie Hull isn't on it.
And I admit I don't follow XC skiing like I did when I raced but who the
hell is "Alex Harvey - cross country skier". Did he carry Vegard Ulvang's
skis once to make it onto the list? ;-)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 8, 2013 - 04:20pm PT
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Reilly
Yes, Bobbie Hull should be added. And Gordie Howe is on his way into the list.
Alex Harvey has been among the best cross country skiers of the world for some seasons... Vegard Ulvang is now living on his pension... nearly... but still wheel-chair-free... Lol...
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 8, 2013 - 04:36pm PT
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Hehe... there seems too be an incredible amount of Canadian fame... mixed with American...
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Sorry bieber is not a musician.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 8, 2013 - 04:49pm PT
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bieber is....?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 8, 2013 - 04:53pm PT
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Unclassified?
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Yeah, probably deserves his own category. Truth is I'm just envious of yet one more better Justin than myself. Oh well.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 8, 2013 - 05:01pm PT
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this just in...
Be free... fame is hard work, a bit of talent and much more of luck/unluck... mostly other persons attributions... neither good nor bad... but not without consequences... good and bad...
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