We pack a lot into the pages of every issue of Kayak, but there’s always more great stuff we just can’t fit in. So join Teeka and Beau, our otter mascots, to find out more about the theme of each issue, or just pick up some random bits of Canadian history.
10 Famous Canadians the World Doesn’t Know are Canadian
Everyone knows singer Justin Bieber and astronaut Roberta Bondar are Canadian. But there are a whole lot of famous people that hardly anyone realizes belong to us.
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Lisa Ray is from Toronto but she’s a humongous star in India, where she’s been a model and TV host, as well as acting in movies there and in Canada.
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Jack Warner, one of the founders of film and TV company Warner Brothers, was born in London, Ont.; his family moved to the U.S. when he was young.
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Joey Votto, the Cincinnati Reds’ hard-slugging first baseman, is one of baseball’s best players, and he’s also from Toronto. (Photo: Keith Allison)
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Alex Trebek, the host of TV’s Jeopardy, is now an American citizen, but he’s originally from Sudbury, Ontario.
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Chief Dan George was a poet and author, but the Salish man (yes, he was a chief) from Burrard Inlet, B.C., is best-known to American audiences as an Academy-Award-nominated actor.
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Leslie McFarlane, from Haileybury, Ont., wrote 20 Hardy Boys books under the name Franklin W. Dixon.
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Norma Shearer, one of MGM’s biggest movie stars in the 1920s and ‘30s, came from Montreal.
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Howie Mandel hosts TV shows such as Deal or No Deal and created the show Bobby’s World. This comedian and actor is from Toronto.
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Drake (full name: Aubrey Drake Graham) is a giant music star; he grew up in Toronto and often refers to it in his songs.
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James Cameron, the director of blockbusters such as Titanic and Avatar, is originally from tiny Kapuskasing, Ontario.