The Greatest Canadian

Officially launched on April 5, 2004, The Greatest Canadian was a project by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, to find who is the greatest ever Canadian. The project was inspired by the BBC series Great Britons.

Top 10

On October 17, the top 10 were revealed in alphabetical order, and on November 29 the top 10 were announced in order of votes (with the pictures below following the same pattern):

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• Tommy Douglas (Premier of Saskatchewan, former New Democratic Party leader, Father of Medicare)
• Terry Fox (athlete, activist)
• Pierre Trudeau (Prime Minister)
• Sir Frederick Banting (medical scientist, co-discoverer of insulin)
• David Suzuki (geneticist, environmentalist, broadcaster, activist)
• Lester Bowles Pearson (Prime Minister, former UN General Assembly President, Nobel Peace Prize Winner)
• Don Cherry (ice hockey coach, commentator)
• Sir John A. Macdonald (First post-Confederation Prime Minister)
• Alexander Graham Bell (scientist, inventor, founder of the Bell telephone company)
• Wayne Gretzky (professional ice hockey player)