List of Scottish Canadians

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The following is a list of notable Scottish Canadians.

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  • H. Montagu Allan (1860–1951), banker, ship owner, sportsman
  • Hugh Allan (1810–1882), financier and shipping magnate
  • Richard B. Angus, banker and philanthropist
  • Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), eminent scientist, credited with inventing the first practical telephone
  • John Bethune (1751-1815), founded the first Presbyterian Church in Montreal
  • Norman Bethune (1890–1939), medical innovator and a hero of the Chinese Revolution
  • Bill Blaikie, former Member of Parliament (MP), deputy leader of the New Democratic Party and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
  • Daniel Blaikie, Member of Parliament (MP) of the New Democratic Party
  • Rebecca Blaikie, former president of the New Democratic Party
  • George Brown (1818–1880), founder of the Toronto Globe, Father of Confederation and first de facto leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
  • James Cameron, film director
  • Douglas Campbell (1922-2009), stage actor
  • Gordon Campbell, Premier of British Columbia
  • Kim Campbell, first female Prime Minister of Canada
  • Neve Campbell, actress (Scottish father)
  • John Candy (1950–1994), actor and comedian, father was of Scottish descent
  • Wilf Carter, Nova Scotia-born country musician
  • Jim Carrey, actor and comedian (his mother is Scottish Canadian from the Gordon Clan)[1][2])
  • James Cockburn, first Speaker of the House in Canada (Conservative Party)
  • William Davidson, pioneer settler in New Brunswick
  • Stu Davis (1921–2007), singer/songwriter, radio and television performer aka Canada's Cowboy Troubadour (b. David Alexander Stewart)
  • John William Dawson (1820–1899), scientist, educator
  • Richard Dobie (1731–1805), fur trader, businessman
  • Sir James Douglas, chief factor of the HBC's Columbia District (1843–1858) and Governor of the colonies of the Colony of Vancouver Island (1851–64) and the Colony of British Columbia (1858–62)
  • Tommy Douglas (1904–1986), Premier of Saskatchewan and first leader of the New Democratic Party
  • Shirley Douglas, actress (daughter of Tommy Douglas)
  • William Dow (1800–1868), brewer and businessman
  • George Alexander Drummond (1829–1910), entrepreneur
  • Timothy Eaton (1834-1907), founded Eaton's (Scottish ancestry)
  • David Ewart (1841-1921), Chief Dominion Architect
  • Sandford Fleming (1827–1915), railway engineer and proponent of standard time zones
  • Simon Fraser (1776–1862), Northwest Company trader and explorer
  • John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006), Ontario, California and Massachusetts academic and economist, U.S. and Canadian diplomat
  • Alexander Tilloch Galt (1817–1893), politician and a Father of Confederation (Father was of Scottish ancestry)
  • Donald Gordon, Chairman, Wartime Prices and Trade Board, Chairman and President, Canadian National Railways, builder of Churchill Falls
  • Ryan Gosling, actor and musician
  • Laurie Gough, Canadian-American travel writer
  • Hugh Graham (1848–1938), newspaper publisher
  • George Monro Grant (1835-1902), President of the Royal Society of Canada
  • Iain Hume, Canadian international football (soccer) player
  • Alexander Keith, brewer (Alexander Keith's)
  • William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874–1950), longest-serving Prime Minister of Canada
  • Kaylyn Kyle, Canadian footballer of Scottish descent
  • Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter, mother of Scottish descent
  • Grace Annie Lockhart, first woman in the British empire to graduate from university (May 25, 1875)
  • Angus MacAskill (1825-1863), tallest non-pathological person
  • J. E. H. MacDonald (1873–1932), painter, member of the Group of Seven
  • John MacDonald of Glenaladale (1742-1810), colonist
  • John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada
  • John Sandfield Macdonald (1812-1872), first Premier of Ontario
  • Norm Macdonald (1959-2021), stand-up comedian, writer and actor
  • Rodney MacDonald, former Premier of Nova Scotia
  • Scott MacDonald, musician
  • William Christopher Macdonald, tobacco producer and philanthropist
  • Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence
  • Robert Mackay (1840–1916), businessman, statesman
  • Sir Alexander MacKenzie (1764–1820) Northwest Company trader and explorer
  • Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada
  • William Lyon Mackenzie, journalist and rebel
  • Colin Francis MacKinnon (1851-1877), founded St. Francis Xavier College, which grew into St. Francis Xavier University
  • Alistair MacLeod, writer, recipient of the Order of Canada
  • Kevin S. MacLeod, current Canadian Secretary to the Queen
  • David MacNaughton, ambassador and diplomat
  • Peter MacNeill, film actor
  • Agnes Macphail, first woman to sit in the House of Commons of Canada
  • Abraham Martin (1589-1664), St. Lawrence River pilot
  • Eric McCormack, award-winning Canadian actor, television producer and writer, best known for his role as Will Truman in the American comedy Will & Grace
  • John McDermott, vocal tenor
  • William McDougall (1822-1905), one of the Fathers of Confederation
  • Todd McFarlane, entrepreneur
  • James McGill (1744–1813), fur trader, merchant
  • Peter McGill (1789–1860), businessman, politician
  • William McGillivray (1764–1825), fur trader
  • Gavin McInnes (born 1970), writer, actor, comedian, commentator, co-founder of Vice Media and Vice Magazine
  • Duncan McIntyre (1834–1894), businessman
  • Sarah McLachlan, musician, singer, and songwriter
  • Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada
  • Norman McLaren (1914–1987), film animation pioneer
  • Tara MacLean singer-songwriter
  • Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), communication and media theorist
  • Bobby McMahon, football analyst for Fox Soccer Channel
  • Craig McMorris, snowboarding
  • Mark McMorris, snowboarding
  • Simon McTavish (1750–1804), fur trader, sawmill and flour mill operator
  • Colin Mochrie, actor and comedian
  • Henry Morgan (1819–1893), built the first department store in Canada
  • Donald Morrow, Ontario politician, soldier and teacher
  • Farley Mowat (1921-2014), author, Scottish ancestry
  • Oliver Mowat (1820-1903), third Premier of Ontario
  • Alice Munro, Nobel laureate author and short story writer
  • George Murdoch, first mayor of Calgary
  • James Murray (1721-1794), first civil governor of the Province of Quebec
  • Anne Murray, singer, entertainer
  • James Naismith, inventor of basketball
  • Alexander Walker Ogilvie (1829–1902), miller, statesman
  • Roddy Piper (1954–2015), WWE wrestler
  • Francine Racette, actress
  • John Redpath (1796–1869), contractor, industrialist
  • Peter Redpath (1821–1894), businessman
  • Callum Keith Rennie, actor
  • John Robertson, sports journalist, covered Expos and Blue Jays & coined the term "Rider Pride" (son of Scots immigrant)
  • Bernie Shaw, lead singer of Uriah Heep since 1986
  • George Simpson (1787–1860), executive, fur trader
  • Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
  • George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen
  • Arran Stephens, founder of Nature's Path Foods
  • David Stirling (1822–1887), architect; associate architect of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
  • Daniel Sutherland (1756–1832), businessman
  • Donald Sutherland, actor
  • Kiefer Sutherland, actor (grandson of NDP leader Tommy Douglas, who was born in Scotland)
  • Rossif Sutherland, actor
  • Tamara Taylor, actress
  • Dave Thomas (born 1949), comedian and actor, Scottish-born mother
  • Ian Thomas (born 1950), singer and songwriter, Scottish-born mother
  • William Fraser Tolmie (1812-1886), member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
  • Justin Trudeau (born 1971), 23rd Prime Minister of Canada (his mother, Margaret, is daughter of Scots immigrant Jimmy Sinclair)
  • Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000), 15th Prime Minister of Canada (his mother, Grace Elliott, was of Scottish ancestry)
  • Tessa Virtue, Olympian ice dancer

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Jim Carrey Online • View topic – Scottish Interview & Clip". www.jimcarreyonline.com.
  2. ^ Movie Juice Interview STV Production 2006 (Carrey states he's part Scottish on his mother's side
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