Famous people of Canada

Like any other country Canada has a lot of

remarkable people who was born on its
terrene.
Today we will talk about Canadians who are
known and loved all over the world.
 Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian-American actor, author, film
producer, activist and comedian with a film and television career
spanning from the 1970s.
His most famous performance is Marty McFly in the “Back to the
Future” trilogy.
The actor was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991 at
age 29, and disclosed his condition to the public in 1998. He
partly retired from acting in 2000 as the symptoms of his disease
worsened. He has since become an advocate for research
toward finding a cure; he created the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Since 1999, Fox has mainly worked as a voice-over actor in films
such as Stuart Little and Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
 Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist, inventor, engineer,
and innovator who is credited with inventing and patenting
the first practical telephone. He also founded the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885.
 Celine Dion
Celine Dion is a Canadian vocalist. Born into a large family from Charlemagne,
Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in her homeland with a series of French-
language albums during the 1980s. Dion first gained international recognition
by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988
Eurovision Song Contest where she represented Switzerland. After learning to
speak English, she signed on to Epic Records in the United States. In 1990,
Dion released her debut English-language album, Unison, establishing herself
as a viable pop artist in North America and other English-speaking areas of the
world.
The most successful single from the album was the classically influenced ballad
"My Heart Will Go On“. Serving as the love theme for the 1997 blockbuster film
Titanic, the song topped the charts across the world and became Dion's
signature song. Songwriters won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for
Best Original Song, while Dion herself garnered two Grammy Awards for "Best
Female Pop Vocal Performance" and the most coveted "Record of the Year“.
 Yann Martel
Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for
the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, a #1
international bestseller published in more than 50
territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies
worldwide and spent more than a year on the
Bestseller Lists of the New York Times and The
Globe and Mail, among many other best-selling
lists. It was adapted to the screen and directed by
Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars (the most for the
event) including Best Director and won the Golden
Globe Award for Best Original Score.
 James Cameron
Born in Canada, James Cameron moved to California in 1971 at the age of 17.
He studied physics at Fullerton Junior College while working as a machinist and
later as a truck driver. Setting his sights on a career in film, Cameron quit his
trucking job and went to work on low-budget science fiction films as a self-
taught designer and visual effects artist.
In 1984, his first directed film, Terminator, became an unexpected breakout hit.
Since then, Cameron has written, produced, and directed a number of award-
winning films that have blazed new trails in visual effects and set numerous box
office records, including Avatar and Titanic, which are the two highest grossing
films in history.
Avatar, a 3D science fiction epic set in the virgin ecosystem of a distant planet,
required more than two years of development of new production technologies,
including image-based facial performance capture, a real-time virtual camera
for CG production, and the SIMULCAM system, for real-time tracking and
compositing of CG characters into live-action scenes. These techniques are
combined with stereoscopic photography to create a hybrid CG/live-action film.
Avatar won Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture. It was nominated
for nine Academy Awards and won three.
John Hartman
John Hartman, painter, printmaker. Raised on Georgian Bay’s
southern and eastern shores, John Hartman possesses both
a strong visual and narrative association with his native
landscape. Physical geography and portraits are elements of
his work. While his travels, like his subjects, reflect interests
that are far from parochial, Hartman retains a spiritual and
creative association with the part of Ontario in which he has
lived and worked most of his life.

His drawings, watercolours, oils and colour drypoint (a

printmaking technique in which an image is etched into a
plate) address his longtime ambition to create art about a
place. But Hartman is drawn to a narrative impulse that
overlays his places with stories, memories and history.
Whether the cityscapes of Manhattan or London, the
landscapes of the Hebrides or the glacier-smoothed rocks of
Georgian Bay’s eastern shore, Hartman’s work is not so
much geographic portraiture as it is a representation of how
we see landscapes and how we remember them — both
personally and collectively.
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