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Biographical entries for politicians, clergy, military officers, journalists, and lodge officers documented from Parliament records, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Library and Archives Canada, and contemporary press.
- 1891 – 1954
14th Surgeon General of the Canadian Army; Major-General; Commanding Officer of the 2nd Field Ambulance at the Battle of Amiens 1918; physician
- 1918 – 1989
RCAF Flight Lieutenant, No. 401 Squadron; Spitfire pilot; senior tunnel engineer of the Great Escape at Stalag Luft III; postwar businessman and co-founder of the RCAF Prisoners of War Association
- 1803 – 1880
Mayor of Toronto, 1864–1866 and 1874–1875; founder of the Don Foundry; first County Master of the County Orange Lodge of Toronto
- 1866 – 1948
Toronto real-estate developer; Honorary Colonel, Toronto Scottish Regiment; proprietor of the Armour Heights Estate
- 1878 – 1973
Member of Parliament for Vancouver City, Vancouver Centre, and Kootenay East; Minister of Trade and Commerce 1930–1934; founder and only elected MP of the Reconstruction Party of Canada, 1935
- 1857 – 1937
Mayor of Toronto, 1912–1914; Member of Parliament; Senator of Canada
- 1875 – 1955
Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for Belfast St Anne's, 1929–1938; DSO; CEF lieutenant-colonel; author
- 1862 – 1927
Member of Provincial Parliament for Victoria South 1914–1919; President and General Manager of The John Carew Lumber Company, Lindsay; President of the Lindsay Central Exhibition 1910–1915
- 1843 – 1918
Canadian single sculls champion 1877; boxer and boxing trainer; member of Brunswick L.O.L. 404, Toronto
- 1837 – 1917
Mayor of Toronto, 6 August 1897 – January 1900; Member of Provincial Parliament for Toronto North, Seat B, 1908–1911; alderman 1883–1895; Toronto Board of Control 1904–1906
- 1904 – 1988
Presbyterian minister; Canadian Chaplain Service captain; Victoria Cross recipient (Dieppe, 1942); Ontario MPP and Minister of Reform Institutions 1950–1957
- 1867 – 1941
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, 1924–1926; MPP for Toronto Northeast and St. David; Canadian Expeditionary Force officer; Registrar of the Surrogate Court of Toronto, 1929–1934
- 1797 – 1866
Mayor of Toronto, 1854; Toronto city councillor for St. Lawrence Ward 1834–1854; Chairman of the Toronto Board of Public School Trustees 1852–1864; coal merchant and wharf proprietor
- 1816 – 1887
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, 1863–1867; MLA for Hastings South, 1857–1867; Solicitor General for Canada West, 1863; Chief Justice of Manitoba, 1882–1887
- 1884
Lieutenant Colonel, 236th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force; Member of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly for York 1914; barrister
- 1901 – 1981
Member of Provincial Parliament for Hamilton East 1945–1948 and 1951–1959; Hamilton City Council alderman; Royal Canadian Engineers 1918–1928; general contractor
- 1844 – 1921
Member of Provincial Parliament for Parry Sound 1886–1890; Sheriff of Parry Sound 1895–1921; Reeve of McKellar Township 1872–1887; postmaster of McKellar 1871–1886
- 1845 – 1911
Premier of Newfoundland 1897–1900; Attorney General 1885–1889; Solicitor General 1882–1885; Speaker of the House of Assembly 1877–1878; Judge of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland 1893–1896; Member for Burin and for Harbour Grace at various dates, 1873–1900
- 1823 – 1917
Prime Minister of Canada 1894–1896; Member of Parliament for Hastings North 1867–1892; Senator 1892–1917; Grand Master of the Loyal Orange Association of British America 1870–1878
- 1863 – 1940
Mayor of Oshawa 1907–1908; Member of Parliament (House of Commons of Canada) for the riding of Ontario, 1925–1930; physician; author of Historic Sketches of Oshawa (1921) and A History of the Medical Profession of the County of Ontario (1934)
- 1880 – 1950
Member of Provincial Parliament for West York, 1934–1943; Reeve of Etobicoke Township; Warden of York County, 1924