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Notre-Dame Cemetery (Ottawa)
Notre Dame Cemetery, is a Catholic cemetery in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Opened in 1872, it is the most prominent Catholic cemetery in Ottawa. The cemetery's western edge is located in Vanier, just south of Beechwood Cemetery. Its eastern limit is St. Laurent Boulevard. The cemetery is the final resting place for more than 114,000 people. Many remains and grave markers from the old Catholic cemetery in Sandy Hill were transferred to Notre Dame when it opened in 1872. Notable interments * Janis Babson (1950–1961), Corneal transplant donor * Bruno Bitkowski (1929–1966), Football player * Bob Boucher (ice hockey), Bobby Boucher (1899–1958), Hockey Player * E. A. Bourque (1887–1962), Mayor of Ottawa * Ernie Calcutt (1932–1984), Ottawa Rough Riders announcer and Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee * Benjamin Chee Chee (1944–1977), Ojibwe artist * Alex Connell (1902–1958), Hockey Hall of Fame player * Aurèle Joliat (1901–1986), Hockey Hall of Fame player * Yousuf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It is located in the southern Ontario, southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (Canada), National Capital Region (NCR). Ottawa had a city population of 1,017,449 and a metropolitan population of 1,488,307, making it the list of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, fourth-largest city and list of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, fourth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Ottawa is the political centre of Canada and the headquarters of the federal government. The city houses numerous List of diplomatic missions in Ottawa, foreign embassies, key buildings, organizations, and institutions of Government of Canada, Canada's government; these include the Parliament of Canada, the Supreme Court of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Kinsella
Raymond Thomas Kinsella (January 27, 1911 – April 29, 1996) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 14 games in the National Hockey League with the Ottawa Senators during the 1930–31 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1928 to 1938, was spent in various minor leagues. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Playing career Kinsella was playing in the Ottawa City Senior Hockey League when the Senators signed him as a free agent in 1931. Kinsella played the rest of the 1930–31 season for the Ottawa Senators. It was his only year in the NHL. Starting in the following season, he played three seasons in the Can-Am Hockey League, finishing his professional career with the AHA Tulsa Oilers in 1934–35. When the Ottawa Senators NHL franchise moved to St. Louis, the owners set up the Ottawa Senators senior men's amateur team. After his professional career ended, Kinsella returned to Ottawa and played for the senior Senators. After hockey Kinsella ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna T
Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna of East Anglia, King (died c.654) * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) * Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje (1366–1425) * Anna of Cilli (1386–1416) * Anna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania (died 1418) * Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (1432–1462) * Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg (died 1514) * Anna, Duchess of Prussia (1576–1625) * Anna of Russia (1693–1740) * Anna, Lady Miller (1741–1781) * Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1783–1857) * Anna, Lady Barlow (1873–1965) * Anna (feral child) (1932–1942) * Anna (rapper) (born 2003) * Anna (singer) (born 1987) * C. N. Annadurai (1909–1969), Indian politician, known as Anna (elder brother) * Sunil Shetty (born 1961), Indian actor, known by his nickname Anna Places Australia * Hundred of Anna, a cadast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Regan
Lawrence Emmett Regan (August 9, 1930 – March 9, 2009), was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and hockey executive. He played for the Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs after a long senior-hockey career, winning the Allan Cup in 1948. He later managed and coached the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL and was president of the NHL Alumni Association. Playing career Regan moved to Ottawa as a youth. As a 16-year-old, he joined the Ottawa Jr. Senators organization in 1945–46. Regan then played for the Ottawa Senators in the Quebec Senior Hockey League. He moved to Toronto to play two seasons with the Toronto Marlboros organization, first as a junior, then at the senior level. He returned to the Senators in 1950, playing two seasons before joining the Shawinigan Cataracts. Regan then moved on to the Pembroke Lumber Kings of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association and the Quebec Aces of the Quebec Hockey League. In 1956-57, Larry finally got his chance in the National Hock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eldon Rathburn
Eldon Davis Rathburn (21 April 1916 – 31 August 2008) was a Canadian film composer who scored over 250 films during his thirty-year tenure as a staff composer at the National Film Board of Canada. Known as "the dean of Canadian film composers","'Dean of Canadian film composers' dies at 92" ''CBC News'', Sep 02, 2008 Rathburn composed music for documentaries, short films, as well as such feature films as ''Drylanders'' (1963), ''Nobody Waved Good-bye'' (1964), ''Waiting for Caroline'' (1969), ''Cold Journey'' (1975), and ''Who Has Seen the Wind (1977 film), Who Has Seen the Wind'' (1977). Rathburn was the subject of a 1995 NFB documentary by Louis Hone titled ''Eldon Rathburn: They Shoot... He Scores''. Early life and education Rathburn w ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Quilty
Sylvester Patrick "Silver" Quilty (February 8, 1891 – December 2, 1976) was a Canadian football player, referee, coach and sport administrator. As a player, he won the Yates Cup in 1907 with the Ottawa Gee-Gees football team, and was credited as the first man to play the Flying wing (football), flying wing position. He also played with the Ottawa Rough Riders, and the McGill Redmen football team. After his playing career, he became a football referee and officiated the 10th Grey Cup, and also coached the Ottawa Rough Riders. Quilty was later involved in building ice hockey in the Ottawa area, then served as president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association from 1924 to 1926. He sought to implement uniform playing rules across Canada, and helped bridge disagreements between the provincial hockey associations. He was the father of National Hockey League player Johnny Quilty, was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1966, and into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Félix Pinault
Louis-Félix Pinault (November 9, 1852 – December 10, 1906) was a lawyer and political figure in Quebec. He represented Matane (provincial electoral district), Matane in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1890 to 1892 and from 1892 to 1898 as a Quebec Liberal Party, Liberal. He was born in Rimouski, Canada East, the son of Nicolas Pineau and Christine Lepage, and was educated at the Séminaire de Rimouski. Pinault was called to the Bar of Quebec, Quebec bar in 1879 and practised law in Quebec City for 20 years. He was also vice-president of the Matane Railway Company. He was a major in Les Voltigeurs de Québec, served during the North-West Rebellion and then was promoted to colonel. He was defeated by Edmund James Flynn in the 1892 election, but Flynn had been elected in both Gaspé and Matane and, after Flynn chose to sit for Gaspé, Pinault was reelected in an 1892 by-election held in Matane. Pinault resigned his seat in 1898 after being named deputy minister in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Champlain Marcil
Champlain Marcil (19202010) was a French Canadian photojournalist best known for being the photographer of the daily newspaper ''Le Droit'' from 1948 to 1969. In addition, he was active from 1940 to 1985 in depicting the Outaouais region of western Quebec and Ontario. Personal life Marcil was born in Ottawa in June 1920 to Rose-Alba Carle and Roméo R. Marcil. He was one of nine children. Marcil married Pauline Vachon in 1947, and they had five children. He died in 2010 and is interred in Notre-Dame Cemetery in Ottawa. He was a life member of the University of Ottawa, and a member of various Christian organizations. Career He began his career as a professional photographer in 1940, recording the Eucharistic Congress at Trois-Rivières. In 1947, he shot the and became a freelancer for ''Le Droit'', becoming a permanent contributor from 1954 to 1969. At the same time, he was class photographer for 125 schools in the Hawkesbury - Ottawa area. The Champlain Marcil archives cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilby MacDonald
James Allan Kilby Macdonald (September 6, 1913 – May 11, 1986) was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played four seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers. Playing career MacDonald started his hockey career with the Ottawa Jr. Montagnards of the OCJHL IN 1930-31. In 1934-35, he moved to the GBHL and played with the Kirkland Lake Blue Devils. The next season, MacDonald played with the Noranda Copper Kings and he helped the team make it to the Allan Cup. MacDonald spent the next three years with the New York Rovers in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League and the Philadelphia Ramblers of the International-American Hockey League. He was chosen to the EAHL First All-Star Team in 1936-37 and in 1938-39 MacDonald was selected to the IAHL First All-Star Team. In 1939-40, MacDonald finally made it to the National Hockey League as he was signed by the New York Rangers. He helped the Rangers win the Stanley Cup that year and was also awarded the Cald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Lowrey
Gerald Charles Lowrey (February 14, 1905 – October 20, 1979) was a Canadian ice hockey forward who played six seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Quakers, Chicago Black Hawks and Ottawa Senators between 1927 and 1933. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1926 to 1937, was spent in various minor leagues. Born in Ottawa, Ontario Ontario is the southernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Located in Central Canada, Ontario is the Population of Canada by province and territory, country's most populous province. As of the 2021 Canadian census, it ..., Lowrey's brothers Eddie and Fred Lowrey also played in the NHL. Three other brothers – Tom, Frank and Bill – played with lower level teams in the Ottawa City Hockey League. Career statistics Regular season and playoffs External links * 1905 births 1979 deaths Canadian ice hockey left wingers Chicago Blackhawks players Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier (November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919) was a Canadian lawyer, statesman, and Liberal politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime minister, his 15-year tenure remains the longest uninterrupted term of office among Canadian prime ministers and his nearly 45 years of service in the House of Commons is a record for the House. Laurier is best known for his compromises between English and French Canada. Laurier studied law at McGill University and practised as a lawyer before being elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1871. He was then elected as a member of Parliament (MP) in the 1874 federal election. As an MP, Laurier gained a large personal following among French Canadians and the Québécois. He also came to be known as a great orator. After serving as minister of inland revenue under Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie from 1877 to 1878, Laurier became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
