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PROMINENT 'PEGGERS Born in Scotland but raised in Winnipeg, Tommy Douglas is recognized as the father of medicare in this country and regarded by the CBC-supporting public as the "Greatest Canadian of All Time." Nellie McClung, a renowned author, feminist and social activist, is most remembered for her fight to get women the vote. Along with other members of the Famous Five, Nellie played a leading role in the 1914 campaign against the Manitoba government, having staged a mock parliament at Winnipeg's Walker Theatre (now known as Burton Cummings Theatre). This turned the tide in the suffrage movement and in 1916, Manitoba was the first province to grant women the right to vote. Winnipegger Bryan Turner, who was born and raised in West Kildonan before moving to work for K-Tel in Los Angeles, is the founder of Priority Records. He has been credited, by none other than Ice Cube himself, with signing and promoting some of rap's biggest names in the '90s, including NWA, Ice-T and Snoop Dogg. A New York Times article in 1998 called him "the secret power in big rap." Several prominent Winnipeggers went down with the Titanic on April 15, 1912, including Thomson Beattie, J. J. Borebank, Charles A. Fortune, Mark Fortune, George E. Graham and John H. Ross. The men are all commemorated on a plaque in City Hall that reads, "they died that women and children might live." You will also find many of their names on buildings and streets in the Exchange District, where their businesses boomed.