FAMOUS CANADIANS

 

Read about famous Canadians. Improve your vocabulary and Reading Comprehension. and learn more about Canada.

CANADIAN ACTORS/DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS

William Shatner (actor)	James Cameron (director)	Kiefer Sutherland (actor)
Keanu Reeves (actor)	David Cronenberg (director)	Leslie Nielson (actor)
John Candy (actor)	Norman Jewison (director)	Neve Campbell (actress)
Christopher Plummer (actor)	Colin Mochrie (actor)	Martin Short (actor)
Donald Sutherland (actor)	Michael J. Fox (actor)	Jack L. Warner (producer)
Matthew Perry (actor)	Tom Green (actor)	Louis B. Mayer (producer)
Dan Aykroyd (actor)	Mike Myers (actor)
Pamela Anderson (actress)	Jim Carrey (actor)

CANADIAN SINGERS

The Tragically Hip Celine Dion Nelly Furtado Shania Twain Bryan Adams Great Big Sea Sarah McLachlan Avril Lavigne         Canadian Singers

CANADIAN WRITERS

Margaret Atwood	Alice Munro	Saul Bellow
Morley Callaghan	Lucy Maud Montgomery	Northrop Frye
Stephen Leacock	Michael Ondaatje
Farley Mowat	Mordecai Richler

CANADIAN INVENTORS/SCIENTISTS/DISCOVERERS

Alexander Graham Bell (phone)	Charles Herbert Best (Insulin)	James Gosling (Java)
James Naismith (basketball)	Frederick G. Banting (Insulin)	Elijah McCoy (lawn sprinkler)
Gideon Sundback (zipper)	Al Gross (Walkie-Talkie)	David Suzuki

OTHER CANADIANS

Marc Garneau	Roberta Bondar	Robert Borden
Elizabeth Arden	Bobby Orr
Linda Evangelista	Tommy Douglas
Louis Riel	Pierre Elliot Trudeau

 

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Mountain Story -

Mountain Story - An interesting short story

"A son and his father were walking on the mountains.
Suddenly, his son falls, hurts himself and screams: "AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
To his surprise, he hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain: "AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
Curious, he yells: "Who are you?"
He receives the answer: "Who are you?"
And then he screams to the mountain: "I admire you!"
The voice answers: "I admire you!"
Angered at the response, he screams: "Coward!"
He receives the answer: "Coward!"
He looks to his father and asks: "What's going on?"
The father smiles and says: "My son, pay attention."
Again the man screams: "You are a champion!"
The voice answers: "You are a champion!"
The boy is surprised, but does not understand.
Then the father explains: "People call this ECHO, but really this is LIFE.
It gives you back everything you say or do.
Our life is simply a reflection of our actions.
If you want more love in the world, create more love in your heart.
If you want more competence in your team, improve your competence.
This relationship applies to everything, in all aspects of life;
Life will give you back everything you have given to it."

YOUR LIFE IS NOT A COINCIDENCE. IT'S A REFLECTION OF YOU!"
-- Unknown Author

 

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What Is Success?

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson – American poet, 1803-1882

 

To laugh often and much,

To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children,

To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends,

To appreciate beauty,

To find the best in others,

To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch…,

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.

This is to have succeeded

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Sleeping Through The Storm

 

Sleeping Through The Storm

                   

A young man applied for a job as a farmhand. When the farmer asked for his qualifications, he said, "I can sleep when the wind blows."

This puzzled the farmer. But he liked the young man, and hired him.

A few days later, the farmer and his wife were awakened in the night by a violent storm. They quickly began to check things out to see if all was secure. They found that the shutters of the farmhouse had been securely fastened. A good supply of logs had been set next to the fireplace. The young man slept soundly.

The farmer and his wife then inspected their property. They found that the farm tools had been placed in the storage shed, safe from the elements.

The tractor had been moved into the garage. The barn was properly locked. Even the animals were calm. All was well.

The farmer then understood the meaning of the young man"s words, "I can sleep when the wind blows."

Because the farmhand did his work loyally and faithfully when the skies were clear, he was prepared for the storm when it broke. So when the wind blew, he was not afraid. He could sleep in peace.

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• Short Stories

  = Title marked as read.

  • Adams, Andy ( 14 stories )
  • Alcott, Louisa May ( 10 stories )
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• Aldrich, Thomas Bailey ( 2 stories )
• Allen, Grant ( 1 story )
• Anderson, Sherwood ( 13 stories )
• Andreyev, Leonid N. ( 6 stories )
• Anonymous, ( 11 stories )
• Anstey, F. ( 1 story )
• Arthur, T.S. ( 17 stories )
• Artzybashev, Mikhail Petrovich ( 1 story )
• Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn ( 12 stories )
• Aytoun, Professor ( 1 story )
• Balzac, Honore de ( 33 stories )
• Banim, John ( 1 story )
• Barbour, Ralph Henry ( 21 stories )
• Barlow, Jane ( 1 story )
• Barr, Robert ( 42 stories )
• Barrie, James M. ( 2 stories )
• Baum, L. Frank ( 12 stories )
• Beach, Rex Ellingwood ( 21 stories )
• Beaumont, Mary ( 1 story )
• Besant, Sir Walter ( 1 story )
• Bierce, Ambrose ( 74 stories )
• Bishop, William Henry ( 1 story )
• Bjoernson, Bjoernstjerne ( 2 stories )
• Black, William ( 1 story )
• Blackwood, Algernon ( 10 stories )
• Bower, B.M. ( 6 stories )
• Bunner, Henry Cuyler ( 2 stories )
• Carleton, William ( 1 story )
• Castle, Egerton ( 1 story )
• Cather, Willa ( 11 stories )
• Champney, Lizzie W. ( 1 story )
• Chekhov, Anton ( 52 stories )
• Chester, George Randolph ( 1 story )
• Chopin, Katherine ( 10 stories ) New! ( Jul 22 )
• Connell, Richard ( 1 story )
• Conrad, Joseph ( 8 stories )
• Cooke, Grace MacGowan ( 1 story )
• Correlli, Marie ( 1 story )
• Crackanthorpe, Hubert ( 1 story )
• Crawford, F. Marion ( 1 story )
• Crockett, S. R. ( 1 story )
• Curtis, George William ( 1 story )
• Davis, Rebecca Harding ( 1 story )
• Davis, Richard Harding ( 15 stories )
• Dickens, Charles ( 12 stories )
• Dostoevsky, Fyodor ( 1 story )
• Douglas, R. K. ( 1 story )
• Doyle, Arthur Conan ( 2 stories )
• Dunbar, Alice ( 14 stories )
• D\'Arcy, Ella ( 1 story )
• Ebers, Georg ( 2 stories )
• Edwards, Harry Stillwell ( 1 story )
• Egerton, George ( 1 story )
• Fairfax, Lina Redwood ( 1 story )
• Ferber, Edna ( 19 stories )
• Foote, Mary Hallock ( 10 stories )
• Fox Jr., John ( 10 stories )
• Frederic, Harold ( 1 story )
• Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins ( 13 stories )
• Garshin, Vsevolod Mikhailovich ( 1 story )
• Gaskell, Elizabeth ( 3 stories )
• Gilbert, William Schwenk ( 1 story )
• Gissing, George ( 15 stories )
• Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich ( 4 stories )
• Gorky, Maxim ( 2 stories )
• Grey, Zane ( 11 stories )
• Haggard, H. Rider ( 2 stories )
• Hale, Edward Everett ( 1 story )
• Hardy, Thomas ( 1 story )
• Harraden, Beatrice ( 2 stories )
• Harte, Bret ( 33 stories )
• Hastings, Wells ( 1 story )
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel ( 43 stories )
• Hayes, A.A. ( 1 story )
• Henry, O ( 121 stories )
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell ( 1 story )
• Irving, Washington ( 3 stories )
• Jacobs, W.W. ( 62 stories )
• James, Montague Rhodes ( 9 stories )
• Jerome, Jerome K. ( 6 stories )
• Jessop, George H. ( 1 story )
• Johnston, Richard Malcolm ( 1 story )
• Joyce, James ( 15 stories )
• Kipling, Rudyard ( 19 stories )
• Kirkland, Caroline M.S. ( 1 story )
• Korolenko, Vladimir G. ( 1 story )
• Kuprin, Aleksandr Ivanovich ( 1 story )
• Lampton, William James ( 1 story )
• Landers, J. ( 1 story )
• Lardner, Ring ( 5 stories )
• Lawson, Henry ( 16 stories )
• Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan ( 13 stories )
• Leslie, Eliza ( 1 story )
• London, Jack ( 119 stories )
• Lovecraft, H. P. ( 27 stories )
• Lover, Samuel ( 1 story )
• Maclaren, Ian ( 1 story )
• Mansfield, Katherine ( 17 stories )
• Maupassant, Guy de ( 179 stories )
• Melville, Herman ( 3 stories )
• Mitford, Miss ( 1 story )
• Morris, George Pope ( 1 story )
• Morrison, Arthur ( 2 stories )
• Munro, H. H. ( 127 stories )
• Nesbit, Edith ( 1 story )
• Norris, Frank ( 9 stories )
• Norris, Kathleen Thompson ( 17 stories )
• Ouida, ( 1 story )
• O\'Halloran, G. B. ( 1 story )
• Page, Thomas Nelson ( 6 stories )
• Paterson, Andrew Barton ( 18 stories )
• Peattie, Elia W. ( 21 stories )
• Poe, Edgar Allan ( 53 stories )
• Post, Melville Davisson ( 17 stories )
• Potapenko, I.N. ( 1 story )
• Pushkin, Aleksandr S. ( 2 stories )
• Quiller-Couch, Arthur ( 28 stories )
• Richards, Laura E. ( 7 stories )
• Richmond, Grace S. ( 1 story )
• Roberts, Morley ( 1 story )
• Roe, Edward Payson ( 10 stories )
• Russell, Bertrand ( 1 story )
• Russell, W. Clark ( 1 story )
• Saltykov, Mikhail Yevgrafovich ( 1 story )
• Scott, Walter ( 1 story )
• Scully, William Charles ( 1 story )
• Semyonov, S.T. ( 1 story )
• Sologub, Fyodor ( 1 story )
• Stevenson, Robert Louis ( 3 stories )
• Stockton, Frank ( 15 stories )
• Syrett, Netta ( 1 story )
• Taylor, Bayard ( 1 story )
• Tolstoy, Leo ( 1 story )
• Trollope, Anthony ( 1 story )
• Turgenev, Ivan S. ( 2 stories )
• Twain, Mark ( 13 stories )
• Van Dyke, Henry ( 10 stories )
• Webster, Albert ( 2 stories )
• Wells, H.G. ( 22 stories )
• Weyman, Stanley J. ( 1 story )
• Wharton, Edith ( 12 stories )
• White, C.H. ( 1 story )
• Wilde, Oscar ( 15 stories )
• Winter, John Strange ( 1 story )
• Wodehouse, P.G. ( 12 stories )
• Zangwill, Israel ( 2 stories )

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