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The second phase of the process concluded on 28 November at midnight and the following evening the winner from more than 1.2 million votes was revealed to be Tommy Douglas. [3] [4] The series was inspired by the BBC production the Great Britons and has a spiritual sequel, The Greatest Canadian Invention.
The Greatest Canadian, a statue depicting Douglas created by Lea Vivot and installed along the riverfront boardwalk in Weyburn, Saskatchewan Douglas Provincial Park near Saskatchewan's Lake Diefenbaker and Qu'Appelle River Dam was named after him.
In 2004, Stroumboulopoulos was featured on CBC television's The Greatest Canadian series as the advocate for Tommy Douglas, former Saskatchewan premier and regarded as Canada's "Father of Medicare". More than 1.2 million votes were cast over six weeks, as each of 10 advocates made their case for the top 10 nominees.
This was also the last time that Shining Time Station has ever aired on Canadian television. October–November 1: CBC Television airs a number of specials to determine who is The Greatest Canadian. The voting is open to the public and Tommy Douglas is voted the greatest Canadian. December 1
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Tommy Douglas championed public health insurance as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and federal leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. [1] Woodrow Lloyd was the Premier of Saskatchewan when universal medicare was introduced in Saskatchewan. [2] Lester B. Pearson was the Liberal Prime Minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968 ...
October 17 – The ten finalists in the CBC's The Greatest Canadian series are announced. They are Sir Frederick Banting, Alexander Graham Bell, Tommy Douglas, Terry Fox, Wayne Gretzky, Sir John A. Macdonald, Lester B. Pearson, David Suzuki, Pierre Trudeau and, in a surprise which many Canadian media commentators have heavily mocked, Don Cherry.
Tommy Douglas PC CC SOM LLD (1904–1986) – introduced publicly funded health care in Canada; commonly known as the "father of Medicare" Carl Goresky OC (1932–1996) – physician and scientist David H. Hubel (1926–2013) – Nobel Prize winner in medicine for mapping the visual cortex