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The Greatest Canadian

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The Greatest Canadian was a 2004 television program series by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to determine who is considered to be the greatest Canadian of all time, at least according to those who watched and participated in the program. [1]

45 relations: Alliston, BBC, Bell Telephone Company, Brantford, British Columbia, Canada: A People's History, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Newsmaker of the Year, Canadians, Edinburgh, Email, Falkirk, French Canadians, Gary Pearson (comedian), Glasgow, Greatest Britons spin-offs, Guy O'Sullivan, Heritage Minutes, Hockey, Humanitarianism, Insulin, Kingston, Ontario, List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients, List of Companions of the Order of Canada, List of inductees of Canada's Walk of Fame, List of premiers of Saskatchewan, List of Prime Ministers of Canada, Manitoba, Medicare (Canada), Montreal, National Hockey League, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Ontario, Persons of National Historic Significance, President of the United Nations General Assembly, Quebec, Spiritual successor, Television show, The Greatest Canadian Invention, Tommy Douglas, United Nations General Assembly, Website, Winnipeg, 100 Greatest Britons.

Alliston

Alliston is a settlement in Simcoe County in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bell Telephone Company

The Bell Telephone Company, a common law joint stock company, was organized in Boston, Massachusetts on July 9, 1877, by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who also helped organize a sister company — the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company.

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Brantford

Brantford (2016 population 97,496; CMA population 134,203) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Canada: A People's History

Canada: A People's History is a 17-episode, 32-hour documentary television series on the history of Canada.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Canadian Newsmaker of the Year

The Canadian Newsmaker of the Year is a title awarded by The Canadian Press (CP) annually since 1946, based on a survey of editors and broadcasters across the country on which Canadian has had the most influence on the news in a given year.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Email

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.

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Falkirk

Falkirk (The Fawkirk; An Eaglais Bhreac) is a large town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire.

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French Canadians

French Canadians (also referred to as Franco-Canadians or Canadiens; Canadien(ne)s français(es)) are an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to French colonists who settled in Canada from the 17th century onward.

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Gary Pearson (comedian)

Gary Pearson is a Canadian comedian, and television writer producer.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Greatest Britons spin-offs

The following is a list of spin-offs of the 2002 100 Greatest Britons program produced by the BBC.

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Guy O'Sullivan

Guy O'Sullivan (died April 2017) was a television producer.

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Heritage Minutes

Heritage Minutes, formerly known as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, is a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history.

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Hockey

Hockey is a sport in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.

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Humanitarianism

Humanitarianism is an active belief in the value of human life, whereby humans practice benevolent treatment and provide assistance to other humans, in order to better humanity for moral, altruistic and logical reasons.

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Insulin

Insulin (from Latin insula, island) is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets; it is considered to be the main anabolic hormone of the body.

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Kingston, Ontario

Kingston is a city in eastern Ontario, Canada.

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List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the United Kingdom honours system.

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List of Companions of the Order of Canada

Companions of the Order of Canada, the highest level of the Order of Canada, have demonstrated the highest degree of merit to Canada and humanity, on the national or international scene.

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List of inductees of Canada's Walk of Fame

Canada's Walk of Fame, located in Toronto, Ontario, is a walk of fame that acknowledges the achievements and accomplishments of successful Canadians.

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List of premiers of Saskatchewan

This is a list of the premiers of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, since it was formed in 1905.

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List of Prime Ministers of Canada

The Prime Minister of Canada is an official who serves as the primary minister of the Crown, chair of the Cabinet, and thus head of government of Canada.

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Manitoba

Manitoba is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada.

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Medicare (Canada)

Medicare (assurance-maladie) is an unofficial designation used to refer to the publicly funded, single-payer health care system of Canada.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America, currently comprising 31 teams: 24 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin), administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the fields of life sciences and medicine.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Persons of National Historic Significance

Persons of National Historic Significance (National Historic Persons) are people designated by the Canadian government as being nationally significant in the history of the country.

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President of the United Nations General Assembly

The President of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted for by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Spiritual successor

A spiritual successor, sometimes called a spiritual sequel, is a successor to a work of fiction which does not build upon the storyline established by a previous work as do most traditional prequels or sequels, yet features many of the same elements, themes, and styles as its source material, thereby resulting in it being related or similar "in spirit" to its predecessor.

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Television show

A television show (often simply TV show) is any content produced for broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, cable, or internet and typically viewed on a television set, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed between shows.

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The Greatest Canadian Invention

The Greatest Canadian Invention is a television mini-series originally aired on CBC Television.

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Tommy Douglas

Thomas Clement Douglas (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Canadian democratic socialist politician and Baptist minister.

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United Nations General Assembly

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée Générale AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), the only one in which all member nations have equal representation, and the main deliberative, policy-making and representative organ of the UN.

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Website

A website is a collection of related web pages, including multimedia content, typically identified with a common domain name, and published on at least one web server.

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Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada.

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100 Greatest Britons

The 100 Greatest Britons was a television series broadcast by the BBC in 2002.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Canadian

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