Eminent canadian! Help!!!?

Question

Ok, I'm at elementary school, and for homework, I have to find an eminent canadian and dress up like that person in one or two months. And I can't find ANYTHING that's good.

If you are willing to help me, here are the criteria:

-has to be canadian
-preferablely a women, but if not possible, that's ok
-HAS TO HAVE A CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORLD (MOST IMPORTANT!!!!!!!)
-has to have 3 symbols...etc...
-have to know the personality
-has to have highlights in it's life
-birthday, birth town + birth province (it's canadian)
-and finally, reason why it's worth studying

Thanks,
I know it's really difficult, but I DO need A LOT OF HELP!!!!!

-3 artifacts about this person

Answer 1

http://famouscanadianwomen.com/index.htm

Roberta Bondar, OC, O.On, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRSC Space Scientist, Neurologist, Author, Astronaut, Photographer


The world's first neurologist in space, Dr. Roberta Bondar is globally recognized for her contributions to space medicine. She continued her discoveries for more than a decade, finding new connections between recovering from new environments and neurological illnesses such as stroke and Parkinson's disease


Symbols could be

a camera for photographer
space suit or space ship for astronaut
stethoscope or something else for doctor



http://www.robertabondar.ca/PDF_Docs/RBFullBiography.pdf
read here for information on her as author, photographer, and astronaut

http://www.robertabondar.ca/PDF_Docs/RBIntroduction.pdf
read here for short summary of her accomplishments

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/women/002026-402-e.html
this site gives more personal information like where she was born, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Bondar
encyclopedia article

Answer 2

Should be someone on this list. Then just enter the person's name in Google and you will find all the info you need.

Scott Abbott and Chris Haney (inventors of game "Trivial Pursuit")


Dan Aykroyd (movie actor; Elwood of "The Blues Brothers")


Bryan Adams (musician and songwriter; writer of "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You")


Pamela Anderson (actress on "Baywatch")


Paul Anka (singer and songwriter; writer of song "My Way")


Louise Arbour (Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal, The Hague)


Margaret Atwood (writer; author of "The Handmaid's Tale")


Donovan Bailey (sprinter; 100m Olympic Gold Medalist, 1996)


Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) (rock group; writers of song "You Ain't Seen Nuthin' Yet")


The Band (rock group; performed extensively with Bob Dylan)


Frederick Banting and Charles Best (discoverers of diabetes drug insulin, 1921)


Barenaked Ladies (rock group)


Norman Bethune (medical doctor; hero in Chinese civil war)


Roberta Bondar (space shuttle astronaut)


Kurt Browning (figure skater)


Genevieve Bujold (movie actress)


Raymond Burr (star of "Perry Mason" television show)


James Cameron (director of movie "The Titanic")


John Candy (comedic actor; police officer Burton Mercer of "The Blues Brothers")


Jim Carrey (comedic actor)


Robert Charlebois (French-language singer and songwriter)


John de Chastelain (general; overseer of IRA disarmament)


Hayden Christensen (actor; Skywalker in the later "Star Wars" movies)


Cirque de Soleil (acrobatic circus performers)


Leonard Cohen (poet, singer, and songwriter)


Holly Cole (jazz singer)


Douglas Coupland (writer; author of "Generation X")


H.S.M. Coxeter (world-renowned mathematician; developer of Coxeter groups)


David Cronenberg (movie director; Cannes Jury Prize winner, 1996)


Robertson Davies (author; writer of "Fifth Business")


Romeo Dallaire (general; commander of Rwanda international peacekeeping mission)


Celine Dion (ballad singer)


The Dionne Quintuplets (first ever surviving quintuplets)


Dennis Doherty (musician; founding member of "The Mamas & The Papas")


James Doohan (actor; Scotty of "Star Trek")


Atom Egoyan (movie director; 1998 Academy Award nominee)


Percy Faith (composer and arranger, esp. for movie scores)


J.C. Fields (mathematician; initiator of the Fields Medal)


Sir Sandford Fleming (creator of Universal Standard Time, 1879 & 1884)


Michael J. Fox (television and movie actor; star of "Family Ties" and "Back to the Future")


Northrop Frye (literary critic)


Nelly Furtado (singer and songwriter)


Yousuf Karsh (portrait photographer)


John Kenneth Galbraith (economist; advisor to many U.S. presidents)


Marc Garneau (space shuttle astronaut)


William Gibson (science fiction author; inventor of "cyberpunk" genre)


James Gosling (author of Java computer language)


Glenn Gould (classical piano player)


Lorne Greene (actor; star of television show "Bonanza")


Nancy Greene (skier; 1968 Olympic gold medalist)


Wayne Gretzky (hockey superstar)


Group of Seven (early twentieth century painters)


The Guess Who (rock band; writers of song "American Woman")


Monty Hall (host of television show "Let's Make a Deal")


Paul Haggis (Academy Award-winning director of "Crash")


Phil Hartman (comedian on Saturday Night Live)


Keith Hastings (inventor of Metropolis-Hastings computer algorithm)


Douglas Henning (magician, and advocate of Transcendental Meditation)


Gordie Howe (hockey superstar)


IMAX Corporation (group of Canadians that invented the IMAX movie format, 1970)


Kenneth Iverson (author of APL computer language)


Peter Jennings (ABC television news host)


Norman Jewison (movie director; winner of 1999 Special Academy Award)


Ben Johnson (former world-class sprinter)


Brian Kernighan (co-author of C computer language)


Margot Kidder (actress; Lois Lane of "Superman" movies)


W.P. Kinsella (author of novel "Shoeless Joe", later made into movie "Field of Dreams")


Diana Krall (jazz singer)


Guy LaFleur (hockey superstar)


k.d. lang (rock/country singer and songwriter)


Avril Lavigne (rock singer and songwriter)


Stephen Leacock (humorist writer)


Mario Lemieux (hockey superstar)


Gordon Lightfoot (folk singer and songwriter)


Rich Little (voice impressionist)


Guy Lombardo (big-band leader; 1929-62 performer of "Auld Lang Syne" in New York on New Year's Eve)


Lewis MacKenzie (general; commander of Sarajevo international peacekeeping mission)


Steve MacLean (space station astronaut)


Robert MacNeil (U.S. television news commentator)


Howie Mandel (comedic actor; host of "Deal or No Deal")


Raymond Massey (movie actor; portrayed Abraham Lincoln)


Rachel McAdams (movie actor; Regina of "Mean Girls")


Loreena McKennitt (celtic-style musician)


Sarah McLachlan (rock singer and songwriter; Lilith Fair organiser)


Marshall McLuhan (communication theorist)


David McTaggart (co-founder of Greenpeace)


Deepa Mehta (Academy Award-nominated director of "Water")


Mike Meyers (comedic actor)


Lorne Michaels (creator and producer of "Saturday Night Live")


Joni Mitchell (folk singer and songwriter)


Lucy Maud Montgomery (author of "Anne of Green Gables")


Rick Moranis (comedic actor)


Alanis Morissette (rock singer)


Carrie-Anne Moss(actress; Trinity in "The Matrix" movies)


Anne Murray (pop singer)


James Naismith (inventor of basketball, 1892)


Steve Nash (NBA basketball star)


Leslie Nielsen (comedic movie actor)


Sandra Oh (actress; Dr. Cristina Yang on "Grey's Anatomy")


Michael Ondaatje (author of "The English Patient")


Bobby Orr (hockey superstar)


Julie Payette (space shuttle astronaut)


Lester Pearson (originator of U.N. Peacekeeping Forces; winner of 1957 Nobel Peace Prize)


Matthew Perry (actor; Chandler of T.V. show "Friends")


Oscar Peterson (jazz piano player)


Mary Pickford (early movie actor)


Christopher Plummer (movie actor)


John Polanyi (chemist; winner of 1986 Nobel Prize)


Jason Priestly (television actor on "90210")


Raffi (children's music performer)


Keanu Reeves (movie actor)


Mordecai Richler (author; writer of "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz")


Maurice "Rocket" Richard (hockey superstar)


Stan Rogers (folk singer and songwriter)


Greg Rusedski (professional tennis player, now plays for Britain)


Rush (progressive rock / heavy metal group)


Robert J. Sawyer (science fiction author; Nebula and Hugo Award winner)


Myron Scholes (economist; winner of 1997 Nobel prize)


Paul Shaffer (band leader on David Letterman's "Late Night" television show)


William Shatner (actor; Captain Kirk of "Star Trek")


Martin Short (comedic actor)


Joe Shuster (creator of "Superman" character, 1938)


Andrew Michael Spence (economist; winner of 2001 Nobel Prize)


Elvis Stojko (figure skater)


Donald and Kiefer Sutherland (father & son acting stars)


Alan Thicke (TV actor, host, and theme song writer)


Alex Trebek (host of television show "Jeopardy")


Pierre Trudeau (politician and statesman)


Shania Twain (country singer and songwriter)


Gilles Vigneault (French-language singer and songwriter)


Gilles and Jacques Villeneuve (father & son champion racecar drivers)


Roch Voisine (French-language rock singer)


Al Waxman (actor; Lt. Bert Samuels of "Cagney and Lacey")


Mike Weir (golf champion)


Neil Young (singer, musician, and songwriter)


Robert Young (co-founder of Red Hat linux company)