Prime Minister Sir Charles Tupper
Profile of Sir Charles Tupper, Prime Minister of Canada from 1896 and Premier of Nova Scotia 1864-67 - biography, professional and political background. Prime Minister Sir John Thompson
Profile of Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister of Canada from 1892-94 and Premier of Nova Scotia in 1882 - biography, professional and political background. Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent
Profile of Louis St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957 - biography, professional and political background. Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald
Profile of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada and a Father of Confederation. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada from 1984-93 - biography, professional and political career. Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
Profile of Arthur Meighen, Prime Minister of Canada from 1920-21 and 1926 - biography, professional and political background. Prime Minister John Turner
John Turner, Prime Minister of Canada in 1984 - biography, professional and political career. Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie
Profile of Alexander Mackenzie, Prime Minister of Canada from 1873 to 1878 - biography, professional and political background. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
Profile of Willian Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada - biography, accomplishments and political career. Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911 - biography, professional and political background and pictures. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
Profile of John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada from 1957 to 1963 - biography, professional and political career. Prime Minister Joe Clark
Profile of Joe Clark, Prime Minister of Canada 1979-80 - biography, professional and political background. Prime Minister Sir John Abbott
John Abbott, Prime Minister of Canada from 1891-92 - biography, professional and political background. Prime Minister Kim Campbell
Kim Campbell, Prime Minister of Canada 1993 - biography, professional and political background. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
In May 2000, Canada created the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to remind Canadians of the human cost of war. Prime Minister R.B. Bennett
Profile of R.B. Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada 1930-35 - biography, professional and political background. Battle of Passchendaele
Arguments over strategy, heavy rains and mud marked the controversial World War I Battle of Passchendaele, in which 15,000 Canadians died or were wounded. Prime Minister Sir Mackenzie Bowell
Profile of Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Prime Minister of Canada from 1894-96 - biography, professional and political career. Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams
Profile of Danny Williams, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden
Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada from 1911-20 - biography, professional and political background. John McCrae
Profile of Canadian poet, doctor and soldier John McCrae who wrote "In Flanders Fields" for a friend killed at Ypres in World War I. Irene Parlby
An advocate for rural women and children, Irene Parlby was the first woman to become a cabinet minister in Alberta, and also one of the Famous Five who fought the Persons Case to have women recognized as persons in Canada. Nellie McClung
Profile of Nellie McClung, champion of the vote for women and of temperance, and one of the Famous Five Alberta women who fought the Persons Case to have women recognized as persons under the BNA Act. Henrietta Muir Edwards
A legal expert, Canadian women's rights activist Henrietta Edwards was one of the Famous Five who fought and won the political and legal battle to have women recognized as persons under the BNA Act. Emily Murphy
Profile of social activist Emily Murphy, the first woman police magistrate in Canada and leader of the Famous Five in the Persons Case to establish the legal status of women as persons under the BNA Act. | 