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    Thomas Kunito Shoyama

    Thomas Kunito Shoyama, economist, public servant (b at Kamloops, BC 24 Sept 1916, d at Victoria, BC 22 Dec 2006).

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    Thomas McIlwraith

    Thomas McIlwraith, businessman, ornithologist (b at Newton upon Ayr, Scot 25 Dec 1824; d at Hamilton, Ont 31 Jan 1903). He is best known for his 1886 treatise on Ontario birds (revised in 1894), the first major annotated provincial bird book in Canada.

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    Thompson, Berwick, Pratt and Partners

    Thompson, Berwick, Pratt and Partners, architects, Vancouver, BC. Founded in 1908 as Sharp and Thompson by Englishmen G.L.T. Sharp and Charles J. Thompson, this firm played a major role in Vancouver and Canadian architecture through the century.

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    Thomson Reuters

    Thomson Reuters (formerly The Thomson Corporation) was created on 17 April 2008 after The Thomson Corporation purchased Reuters.

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    Roy Herbert Thomson, Baron Thomson of Fleet

    Roy Herbert Thomson, Baron Thomson of Fleet, newspaper tycoon (b at Toronto 5 Jun 1894; d at London, Eng 4 Aug 1976).

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  • Macleans

    Thomson Sells His Newspapers

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on February 28, 2000. Partner content is not updated. It was an empire built upon scratchy radio stations, weekly newspapers and the hardscrabble mentality of Northern Ontario in the midst of the Great Depression. Founder Roy Thomson was like nothing Canada had ever produced.

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    Tim Horton

    Miles Gilbert (Tim) Horton, hockey player, entrepreneur (born 12 January 1930 in Cochrane, ON; died 21 February 1974 in St. Catharines, ON). Tim Horton was one of the best defenseman from the National Hockey League’s Original Six Era and spent the majority of his career with the Toronto Maple Leafs. A fixture on the blue line, he was well regarded for his imposing strength and skill. As a member of the Leafs, Horton was part of four Stanley Cup–winning teams. While many know of Horton because of his professional hockey career, for many more his lasting legacy is his eponymous coffee franchise, ​Tim Hortons.

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    Timothy Eaton

    Timothy Eaton, merchant (born March 1834 near Ballymena, Ireland; died 31 January 1907 in Toronto, ON). Timothy Eaton is recognized as the founder of the retail chain Eaton’s.

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    Tom Moore

    Tom Moore, carpenter, trade-union leader (b at Leeds, Eng 1878; d at Ottawa 6 July 1943). Arriving in Canada in 1909, Moore practised his trade in Niagara Falls, Ontario, and served in the carpenters' union as both local official and general organizer for eastern Canada 1911-18.

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    Tom Paton

    Thomas Laird Paton, athlete, businessman, volunteer (born 30 September 1855 in Montréal, QC; died 10 February 1909 in Montréal). Paton was an accomplished amateur athlete who excelled in lacrosse and hockey. A goaltender with the Montreal Hockey Club, he helped his team to six straight league championships (1888–93). In his final season, the club was awarded the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup — what would later become known as the Stanley Cup.

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  • Macleans

    Tony Comper (Interview)

    After the federal government vetoed, in December, 1998, a planned merger of the Royal Bank and the Bank of Montreal, BMO CEO Matt Barrett announced his resignation little more than two months later.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on September 23, 2002

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    Trina McQueen

    Catherine “Trina” Margaret McQueen (née Janitch), OC, broadcast journalist, producer, executive (born 1943 in Belleville, ON). Trina McQueen is a highly respected trailblazer for Canadian women in broadcast journalism. She was the first woman reporter for CFTO in Toronto, the first woman to host CTV’s W5, and the first woman to both report on camera for CBC’s The National and serve as its executive producer. McQueen spent 25 years at the CBC, rising to VP of television news, current affairs and CBC Newsworld and eventually to network program director for CBC English Television. She became the founding president of Canada’s Discovery Channel in 1995 and president and COO of CTV in 2001. Since retiring in 2002, she has taught at the Schulich School of Business at York University, served on the boards of numerous organizations and was vice-chair of TVO. An Officer of the Order of Canada, she has received several lifetime achievement awards and been inducted into multiple halls of fame.

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    Vancouver Feature: Billionaire Recluse Commandeers a Hotel

    The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated. Early Tuesday morning, March 14, 1972, a long-haired and bearded old man shuffled into the lobby of the Bayshore Inn. He wore an old bathrobe and sandals, and he was surrounded by burly men. “This is pretty nice,” he said. He was the billionaire Howard Hughes, and that was the start one of the oddest visits in Vancouver history.

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    Vernon Clifford Fowke

    Vernon Clifford Fowke, economic historian, professor (b at Parry Sound, Ont 5 May 1907; d at San Francisco, Calif 24 Feb 1966). He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1929, and immediately joined the teaching staff.

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  • Macleans

    Vernon Fired

    Their support was welcome, but it was too late. Last week, bleary-eyed travellers boarding Air Canada's 9:15 a.m. flight from Toronto to Ottawa were joined by Maj.-Gen Brian Vernon.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on February 27, 1995

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