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Winnipegger Charles Thorson worked as part
of the design team that created Snow White—
who incidentally bore a striking resemblance to
his Winnipeg girlfriend—during his time at Walt
Disney Studio in the 1930s. While at the Warner
Brothers Animation "factory," he created the
name and prototype of the infamous cartoon
character, Bugs Bunny.
William Alloway, the
founder of the Winnipeg
Foundation, had a younger
brother, Charles, who is
credited with saving the
bison from extinction with
his 13 "pet" bison.
At the age of 8 Winnipegger Hannah Taylor
founded the Ladybug Foundation, which
advocates for the homeless through assisting
charitable organizations to feed, provide
shelter for, and assist people in need across
Canada.
Now in her early teens, Hannah does
speaking engagements across the country,
having had audiences of over 10,000
including the current and former Prime
Ministers, raising well over 2 million dollars
to help fight poverty.
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Tommy Douglas—born in Scotland but raised in
Winnipeg—is regarded by the CBC-supporting
public as the "Greatest Canadian of All Time"
and is generally recognized as the "Father of
Medicare" in this country. *
Photo
courtesy
Douglas
Coldwell
Foundation
Photo
courtesy
Western
Canada
Pictorial
Index
Inc.
