Comparison Report

By: Catherine McGrath

SIR MACKENZIE BOWELL (BELLEVILLE

PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA)
VS
DR. ROBERTA BONDAR (FIRST CANADIAN
WOMAN IN SPACE)

Personal Life
Sir Mackenzie Bowell

Born: December
27, 1823,
Rickinghall,
England
Immigrated to
Belleville, Upper
Canada (Ontario)
in 1832
Died: December
10, 1917,
Belleville, Ontario
Grave site:
Belleville
Cemetery,
Belleville, Ontario

Spouse: Married
1847, Harriet
Moore (1829
1884)
Four sons, five
daughters
Mother: Elizabeth
Marshall
Father: John
Bowell

http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/bowell.htm

Dr. Roberta Bondar

Born: December
4, 1945, Sault Ste.
Marie, Ontario.
Currently still
living at the age
of 70.

Spouse: Never
married.
Mother: Mildred
Bondar
Father: Edward
Bondar

Education/Occupation
Sir Mackenzie Bowell
Education: Apprenticed as a printer with

The Intelligencer, in Belleville, Ontario

1834
Teaching diploma from Sydney Normal
School, Hastings, Ontario 1841

Dr. Roberta Bondar

Occupation: Printer, editor and later owner

of Belleville Intelligencer
18581865 Ensign, Belleville Rifle Company
18671872 Major, 49th Hastings Battalion
18701878 Grandmaster of Orange Order of
British North America

http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/bowell.htm

Education: Bachelor of Science degree in zoology and

agriculture from the University of Guelph in 1968.
Master of Science degree in experimental pathology from the
University of Western Ontario in 1971
Doctorate in neurobiology from the University of Toronto in
1974
Doctor of Medicine degree from McMaster University in 1977
Admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Canada in neurology in 1981

Occupation: Astronaut,
Physician,
Educator,
Photographer
The second Canadian astronaut (first woman) in
space, flying aboard the American space shuttle
Discovery on Mission STS-42, 22-30 January
1992

Achievements
Sir Mackenzie Bowell

Liberal-Conservative (forerunner of the

Conservative party) 18941896 Party Leader

Cabinet minister in three governments (for customs,

militia, and trade and commerce, successively).

Dr. Roberta Bondar

Designated a prime Payload Specialist for the first

International Microgravity Laboratory Mission.

Civil Aviation medical examiner and a member of the

scientific staff of Sunnybrook Health Science Centre.

Elected to the Canadian House of Commons from North

Hastings as a Conservative.

Named chairperson of the Canadian Life Sciences

Subcommittee for Space Station.

Fifth Prime Minister of Canada

First woman and Second Canadian in Space

http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/biobondar.asp

Synopsis
OVERALL, BOTH CANADIANS MADE GREAT
CONTRIBUTIONS TO CANADA IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
SIR MACKENZIE BOWELL MADE CONTRIBUTIONS
POLITICALLY IN THE PAST AS WELL AS LOCALLY
WHILST ROBERTA BONDAR WAS BORN LOCALLY
AND WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND CANADA TO BE
THE FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE. ACCORDING TO THE
INFORMATION THAT WAS GATHERED, ROBERTA
BONDAR WAS THE GREATER CANADIAN. SHE NOT
ONLY MADE A GREATER IMPACT ON CANADA BUT
SHE MADE AN IMPACT ON THE ENTIRE WORLD
AND TO BE THE FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE WAS
VERY EXTREME. IT ALSO HAS AN IMPACT ON ALL
WOMAN BECAUSE SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO
DO SOMETHING AS BIG AS BEING IN SPACE.