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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 eight 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 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
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Marshall McLuhan, who grew up in
Winnipeg and went to the University of
Manitoba, rose to prominence in the 1960s as
a media guru and philosopher on
communication theory, coining the phrase
"the medium is the message."
