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bazokajoe

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Who would be your choice for the most iconic Canadian?

I didn't want to do a poll because everyone will have a different opinion.So pick who ever you want.Will it be a unknown war hero(your grandpa,uncle),a parent,a local volunteer? What have they done to affect your life,community,Canada's reputation in the eyes of the world.

My choice is simple,it's Terry Fox.
The Terry Fox run has raised so much money and awareness for cancer research,over $700 million since it's inception in 1981.There isn't a family in Canada who hasn't had someone affected by cancer.I don't think Terry would have ever thought his run across Canada would have such an effect on people.

R.I.P. Terry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox_Run
 

Insidious Von

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Terry Fox would be in the top 3 of everyone's list. I'm going with someone who's all but forgotten, yet who's impact on Canada is preponderous.

Aaron Snaft:

 

Zoot Allures

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So, why do we not have more Nobel prize laureates?


It is telling that few Canadians know who they are, yet everyone knows this guy .






How many names are you familiar with?


Here is a list of Canadians who have won the Nobel Prize:

1923: Frederick G. Banting, Medicine

1949: William F. Giauque, Chemistry

1957: Lester Bowles Pearson, Peace Prize

1966: Charles B. Huggins, Medicine

1976: Saul Bellow, Literature

1981: David H. Hubel, Medicine

1983: Henry Taube, Chemistry

1989: Sidney Altman, Chemistry

1990: Richard E. Taylor, Physics

1992: Rudolph A. Marcus, Chemistry

1994: Bertram N. Brockhouse, Physics

1996: William Vickrey, Economic Sciences

1997: Myron S. Scholes, Economic Sciences

1999: Robert A. Mundell, Economic Sciences

2009: Willard S. Boyle, Physics

2011: Ralph M. Steinman, Medicine

2013: Alice Munro, Literature
 

HOLLYWOODG

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#99 aka. The Great One...

Ambassador to hockey. Most iconic Canadian ever has to be Wayne Gretzky!
 

oil&gas

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The Terry Fox run has raised so much money and awareness for cancer research,over $700 million since it's inception in 1981.
Although I don't have updated statistics handy I suspect
$700 million (spread over 3 decades) is rather small a
contribution in comparison to Richard Nixon's Cancer Act signed in 1971. Federal funding for cancer research had increased to $1.4 billion by 1972. Cancer survivors in the U.S.increased four-folded in less than 4 decades since then.
 

frankcastle

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Wayne Gretzky for sports
Bryan Adams/Neil Young/Joni Mitchell for music
SCTV/Kids in the Hall/SNL alumni for comedy
 

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Terry Fox definitely has to be considered but I would put Frederick Banting on the top of my list. He along with his partner Charles Best sold their patent for insulin to the University of Toronto for $1 so everyone who needed insulin could afford to get it. It is hard to think such generosity would be repeated today unfortunately.
 

Insidious Von

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So, why do we not have more Nobel prize laureates?


It is telling that few Canadians know who they are, yet everyone knows this guy .
Buffoons like Don Cherry know how to toot their own horn and draw attention to themselves. That's why he's far better known than Dr. Wilfred Bigelow.

Their list of accomplishments: One perfected open heart surgery and was part of the team that developed the first pacemaker, the other is full of shit.

But it's not all obscurity for the good doctor - he bears a passing resemblance to Jean Beliveau.

http://www.cdnmedhall.org/inductees/dr-wilfred-g-bigelow
 

Insidious Von

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The American Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful open heart surgery, Dr. Bigelow made it practical.

As for Aaron Snaft, he immigrated to Canada from what would become Romania in 1884. He opened Montreal's first kosher butcher shop not long after that. Then he started preserving cheaper cuts of beef with an old Jewish-Romanian recipe. The end product was called pastrame.

MmmmmmmMm Gooood Eatin.

 

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So, why do we not have more Nobel prize laureates?


It is telling that few Canadians know who they are, yet everyone knows this guy .






How many names are you familiar with?


Here is a list of Canadians who have won the Nobel Prize:

1923: Frederick G. Banting, Medicine

1949: William F. Giauque, Chemistry

1957: Lester Bowles Pearson, Peace Prize

1966: Charles B. Huggins, Medicine

1976: Saul Bellow, Literature

1981: David H. Hubel, Medicine

1983: Henry Taube, Chemistry

1989: Sidney Altman, Chemistry

1990: Richard E. Taylor, Physics

1992: Rudolph A. Marcus, Chemistry

1994: Bertram N. Brockhouse, Physics

1996: William Vickrey, Economic Sciences

1997: Myron S. Scholes, Economic Sciences

1999: Robert A. Mundell, Economic Sciences

2009: Willard S. Boyle, Physics

2011: Ralph M. Steinman, Medicine

2013: Alice Munro, Literature
1986: John Polyani, Chemistry......Canadian, but not Canadian-born.
Joh
 

oil&gas

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1986: John Polyani, Chemistry......Canadian, but not Canadian-born.
Joh
J. C. Polanyi's achievement is way more representative of Canada's
contribution to science than Canadian born Rudy Marcus, Sidney Altman, Henry Taube, Richard Taylor. I didn't count them all but I think
Polanyi and other scientists who actually did their Nobel winning
works in Canada comprise less than half of the science laureates
on the list.
 

jcpro

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Justin Bieber, old Trudeau, James Cameron, Captain Kirk, the two Ryans, maybe Lorne Michaels. And Farley Mowat from whom millions of foreign kids learned about the Canadian wilderness.
 

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Cherry is iconic alright... as a dick.
 

shack

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Justin Bieber, James Cameron, Captain Kirk, the two Ryans, maybe Lorne Michaels.
Listing names like this as MOST iconic Canadian is laughable.
 

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My choice is simple,it's Terry Fox.
The Terry Fox run has raised so much money and awareness for cancer research,over $700 million since it's inception in 1981.There isn't a family in Canada who hasn't had someone affected by cancer.I don't think Terry would have ever thought his run across Canada would have such an effect on people.

R.I.P. Terry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox_Run
Without a hesitation this is always my choice hands down when asked this question.
 
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