Презентация "Great Canadians"

Great Canadians.

Wayne Gretzky

• Hockey player, holder of numerous NHL records, Brantford, Ontario. He played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for four teams from 1979 to 1999. Nicknamed "The Great One", he has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters, players, and the NHL itself. He is the leading point-scorer in NHL history, with more assists than any other player has points, and is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season – a feat he accomplished four times. In addition, he tallied over 100 points in 16 professional seasons, 14 of them consecutive. At the time of his retirement in 1999, he held 40 regular-season records, 15 playoff records, and six All-Star records.

Scientist, inventor, founder of the Bell Telephone Company, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Alexander Graham Bell

Scientist, inventor, founder of the Bell Telephone Company, Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1876, Bell was the first inventor to patent the telephone, and he helped start the Bell Telephone Company with others in July 1877. In 1879, this company joined with the New England Telephone Company to form the National Bell Telephone Company. In 1880, they formed the American Bell Telephone Company, and in 1885, American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), still a large company today.

Sir John A. Macdonald First Prime Minister of Canada

• The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career which spanned almost half a century. Macdonald served 19 years as Canadian Prime Minister; only William Lyon Mackenzie King served longer.

Don Cherry

Hockey coach and commentator

Nicknamed Grapes, he is known for his outspoken manner, flamboyant (цветистый) dress, and staunch (непоколебимый) Canadian nationalism.

  Cherry played one game with the Boston Bruins, and later coached the team for five seasons after concluding a successful playing career in the American Hockey League.

Lester B. Pearson

• Fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada, United Nations General Assembly President, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Toronto, Ontario. He was the first who, in 1957, became the first Canadian to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Vancouver, British Columbia. The David Suzuki Foundation is a science-based environmental organization headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with offices in Montreal and Toronto.

David Suzuki Environmentalist

Vancouver, British Columbia. David Suzuki Foundation is a science-based environmental organization headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with offices in Montreal and Toronto.

Sir Frederick Banting

• Medical scientist, co-discoverer of insulin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Elliston, Ontario. In 1923 Banting and John James Rickard Macleod received the Nobel Prize in Medicine

Pierre Trudeau

• Fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada, Montreal, Quebec. Trudeau began his political career as a lawyer, intellectual, and activist in Quebec politics. In the 1960s, he entered federal politics by joining the Liberal Party of Canada. He was appointed as Lester Pearson's Parliamentary Secretary, and later became his Minister of Justice. From his base in Montreal, Trudeau took control of the Liberal Party and became a charismatic leader, inspiring "Trudeaumania". From the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, he dominated the Canadian political scene and aroused passionate reactions. "Reason before passion" was his personal motto.

Tommy Douglas

• Father of Medicare, Premier of Saskatchewan, Falkirk, Scotland.
• He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).

Roberta Bondar

• Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. Following more than a decade as NASA's head of space medicine, Bondar became a consultant and speaker in the business, scientific, and medical communities.
• Bondar has received many honors including the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, the NASA Space Medal, over 22 honorary degrees and induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
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Elizabeth Arden Inc

• This famous cosmetics company was started by Canadian Florence Nightingale Graham who moved to New York in 1908 from Woodbridge, Ontario. She worked at a beauty parlor and learnt the art of beauty. She went into business with Elizabeth Hubbard opening a salon in Fifth Avenue at which point she changed her name to Elizabeth Arden. She went on to concoct several beauty products and the rest as they say is history. She died in 1966 in her late 80’s worth approximately $40 million.

Céline Marie Claudette Dion

• Canadian singer.
• Dion has sold over 220 million albums worldwide. She remains as one of the three Canadian artists who have reached the list of best-selling music artists, along with Bryan Adams and Shania Twain.

TITANIC

• Every night in my dreams
• I see you, I feel you,
• That is how I know you go on
• Far across the distance
• And spaces between us
• You have come to show you go on
• Near, far, wherever you are I believe that the heart does go on Once more you open the door And you're here in my heart And my heart will go on and on

Thank you for attention!!!