Does anyone know any famous/important canadians from the decade of 1900-1910?

Question

I already know about:

Nellie Mclung

Henri Bourassa

E.Cora Hind

Wilfrid Laurier

Ton Longboat

Answer 1

Foster, Hal (1892-1982) - artist for Tarzan comic strip, creator of Prince Valiant

Thompson, Tom (1877-1917) - Painter; Member of Group of Seven (artists)

Carr, Emily (1871-1945) - artist, painter

Aitken, Max, Baron Beaverbrook (1879-1964) - publishing baron, entrepreneur

Thomson, Roy, Baron Thomson of Fleet (1894-1976) - entrepreneur, publisher

Dunn, James Hamet (1874-1956) - financier, steel magnate

Fuller, Alfred (1885-1973) - Fuller Brush Company

Girouard, Édouard (1867-1932) - railway builder, governor

Mayer, Louis B. (1885-1957) - co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios

Macdonald, William C. (1831-1917) - tobacco manufacturer, education philanthropist

Porritt, Richard (1901-1985) - Canadian mining industry executive

Stairs, John F. (1848-1904) - entrepreneur, statesman

Warner, Jack (1892-1978) - founder of Warner Bros. Studios

Perri, Rocco (1887-c. 1944) - gangster, bootlegger

Starkman, Besha (1889-1930) - gangster

Belanry, Archibald Stanfield (Grey Owl) (1888]]-1938) - conservationist who falsely presented himself as an Aboriginal person and worked to save the beavers of Saskatchewan and Manitoba

Ahearn, Thomas (1855-1938) - invented the electric cooking range and the electric car heater

Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922) - born in Scotland, invented the telephone in Canada and developed it in the United States

Fessenden, Reginald (1866-1932) - radio inventor who made the first radio-transmitted audio transmission and the first two-way transatlantic radio transmission; also invented sonar and patented the first television system

Fleming, Sir Sandford (1827-1915) - inventor of the system of Standard Time zones

McCoy, Elijah (1844-1929) - developed automatic machinery lubricator, lawn sprinkler, the "Real McCoy"

MacPherson, Cluny (1879-1966) - invented the first general-issue gas mask used by the British Army in World War I

Naismith, James (1861-1939) - invented basketball

Robertson, Peter Lymburner (1879-1951) - invented the Robertson s***w

Ryan, Thomas F. (1872-1971) - invented five-pin bowling

Willson, Thomas (1860-1915) - invented arc lamps and process for creating calcium carbide

Bagshaw, Elizabeth (1881-1982) - physician and birth control activist

Banting, Frederick (1891-1941) - Nobel laureate noted as one of the co-discoverers of insulin

Bethune, Norman (1890-1939) - surgeon, inventor, socialist, battlefield doctor in Spain and China

Osler, Sir William (1849-1919) - physician, called "father of modern medicine"; wrote Principles and Practice of Medicine

Penfield, Wilder (1891-1976) - neurosurgeon, discovered electrical stimulation of the brain

Billy Bishop, 1894-1956, World War I Flying Ace

Roy Brown, (1893-1944) - World War I fighter pilot officially credited with shooting down the Red Baron

Alan Arnett McLeod (1899-1918) Fighter pilot, youngest Canadian-born winner of the Victoria Cross

John McCrae (1872-1918), soldier, poet, author of In Flanders' Fields

Sam Steele (1851-1919), A member of the North-West Mounted Police most famous for his command of a detachment in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush

Vernon, Dai (1894-1992) - magician - known as "the man who fooled Houdini"

Piapot (c.1816 - 1908) - Cree Chief

Innis, Harold (1894-1952) - political economist; author of seminal works on Canadian economic history, media and communications

Sir Frederick Banting, (1891-1941), medical scientist, co-discovered insulin

Selwyn G. Blaylock (1879-1945), chemist and mining executive

John Macoun, (1831 — 1920) - Noted botanist.

Bat Masterson - (1853-1921) gunfighter, fight promoter, sports journalist

Charles Vance Millar - (1853-1926) Lawyer and financier and posthumous practical joker and birth control activist with his will.

Joshua Slocum, (1844-1909) - First man who sail around the world solo.

"They're Canadian, you know."