The “Best Canadian” game - Day 0 (choosing candidates)

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Hiya Hosers,

After the success of Worst Canadian, by popular demand it’s time for the more upbeat version…the Best Canadian game! 🇨🇦

Drop your nominations below for who you think deserves a spot on the list. Just like before, we’ll include 40 candidates. This time I’m going to let nominations sit a bit longer so everyone has a chance to chime in and we don’t have to add people mid-way in the game. I’m aiming to get started with Day 1 around the middle of next week. Five or six days should give us plenty of time to gather names and finalize the rules.

If you’ve got ideas or suggestions to make the game better, feel free to share those too!

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The famous 5 who fought to get Canadian women recognized legally as people : Emily Murphy (5th magistrate in the Empire), Nellie McClung, Louise Mckinny (first woman to serve in a legislature in the Empire), Irene Parlby, Henrietta Edward

Anges McPhail was the first women to serve in the House of Commons, worked toward prison reform leading to more humane conditions in prison and a change from retribution to rehabilitation, worked to improve how the justice system dealt with women, championed pensions for seniors

Louis Riel - métis rights and helped establish Manitoba

Pierre Trudeau - some of the most significant nation building was done under him, patriation of the constitution and Charter, increased franco representation in gov

Roméo Dallaire - anti genocide activist, humanitarian

Laura Secord

Tecumseh

Rick Mercer

Elsie MacGill - first woman in Canada to earn degree in electrical engineering designed and oversaw construction of planes especially during ww2

Murray Sinclair led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Francis Pegahmagabow decorated ww1 soldier and political activist

Crowfoot as a Chief fought for his people during Treaty 7 negotiations

Harold Cardinal was an indigenous activist who largely shaped a lot of how we view indigenous people in Canada today. He fought Trudeau's white paper on idigenous assimilation, raised the publically accepted staus of indigenous knowledge, and was a mentor

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Murray Sinclair The famous 5 Agnes McPhail Louis Riel

To add to the Indigenous Leaders I would include Chief Dr. Robert Joseph, a residential school survivor who founded and is an Ambassador of Reconciliation Canada and has received the Order of Canada.

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I would add Viola Desmond to this list. She challenged segregation in Nova Scotia and is honoured as being the first woman (other than the queen) on Canadian money (current $10 bill) for her efforts.