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This is a list of notable people who are from Toronto, Ontario, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that city. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The report with his obituary was accidentally published 23 days before his death. [265] George Kaye: in November 2005, the Irish musician was reported dead by the Daily Mirror following a plane crash. [266] Ken Kesey: in 1966, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest faked his own suicide in an attempt to escape drug charges. He had ...
Garry Hoy (January 28, 1954 – July 9, 1993) was a Canadian lawyer who died when he fell from the 24th floor of his office building at the Toronto-Dominion Centre in Toronto, Ontario. In an attempt to prove to a group of prospective articling students that the building's glass windows were unbreakable, he threw himself against the glass.
She and Dorothy Hague were the first women reeves or mayors in the Toronto area. [29] 1963-1964 Leonard E. Ford - advocated the merger of Long Branch with Mimico and New Toronto rather than amalgamation of Metro Toronto. [30] 1965-1966 Thomas Berry - grew up in a London orphanage as his merchant seaman father was unable to care for him.
The Queen congratulated Fung in a letter on her 112th birthday on 27 January 2011 and the Mayor of Vancouver declared that day "Fung Eng Sum Ying Day". [37] [38] Fung died of natural causes at the claimed age of 112, at Burnaby General Hospital in British Columbia on 6 December 2011. At the time of her death she was survived by two of her three ...
Alan Redway, PC KC (March 11, 1935 – January 4, 2024) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.. After a career in municipal politics culminating in the role of mayor of East York, a borough of Metropolitan Toronto, Redway entered federal politics.
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Born in Winnipeg, Worthington was son of Major General F. F. Worthington, Peter Worthington was a veteran of both the Second World War and the Korean War.He joined the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve (RCNVR) in 1944, at the age of 17, and served as an air gunner in the Fleet Air Arm, and briefly in the United Kingdom, until his discharge in 1946 with the rank of Sub-Lieutenant.