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Anne Wheeler

Dorothy Anne Wheeler, filmmaker, producer, director, writer (b at Edmonton 23 Sept 1946). Anne Wheeler received a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the University of Alberta in 1967 and had some experience as an actor before making her first film in 1971. She made documentaries for the National Film Board as a freelancer in the late 1970s and joined the board's Prairie region as a staff member from 1978 to 1981. From this period dates the highly acclaimed A War Story (1981), a documentary-docudrama based on Wheeler's father's diaries as a Japanese prisoner of war.
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Whitfield Carey

(George) Whitfield Carey. Businessman, baritone, b Millgrove, near Hamilton, Ont, 9 Jul 1851, d Hamilton 13 Mar 1922. At first a farmer, he and his brother Abiathar (b Millgrove 1864, d there 1949) established the Carey Music Store (later renamed the George W.
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Wickananish

Wickananish, or Wikinanish, meaning "having no one in front of him in the canoe," Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) chief (fl 1788-93). Wickananish was the leading chief at Clayoquot Sound, on the West coast of Vancouver Island, during the period of initial European contact.
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Wiebo Ludwig

Wiebo Arienes Ludwig, minister (born 19 December 1941 in the Netherlands; died 9 April 2012 near Hythe, AB). Wiebo Ludwig was an environmental activist and the leader of a small Christian community. He is best known for his fight against the oil and gas industry, which he claimed was responsible for numerous human and animal miscarriages at his farm. Ludwig was convicted of several counts related to the intentional sabotage of oil and gas wells in northwestern Alberta. He was suspected in a separate series of bombings and sabotage that occurred in British Columbia. Ludwig had long asserted that the oil and gas industry was responsible for poisoning his family. He was also the target of an RCMP “dirty tricks” campaign.
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Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory

Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory is a reserve located on the eastern peninsula of Manitoulin Island in Ontario. The reserve is held by the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, which is composed of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples. Together, these nations form the Three Fires Confederacy. As an unceded reserve, Wiikwemkoong has not relinquished its land through treaty or other means. (See also Reserves in Ontario.) As of April 2026, the Wiikwemkoong First Nation had a registered population of 9,416, with an on-reserve population of 3,213. Formerly known as Manitoulin Island Unceded Indian Reserve, the reserve changed its name to Wiikwemkong Unceded Indian Reserve in 1968 when it amalgamated with Point Grondine First Nation and South Bay First Nation. The name was changed again, in 2014, to its current name, though the federal government still refers to the reserve as the Wikwemikong Unceded Reserve.
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Wilbur Franks

Wilbur Rounding Franks, medical researcher, inventor of the "G suit" (b at Weston, Ont 4 Mar 1901; d at Toronto 4 Jan 1986). After graduating in medicine at the University of Toronto, Franks trained in cancer research
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Wilder Penfield

Wilder Graves Penfield, OM, CC, FRS, FRSC neurosurgeon, scientist (born 26 January 1891 in Spokane, Washington; died 5 April 1976 in Montreal, QC). Dr. Penfield was the founder and first director of the Montreal Neurological Institute and established the "Montreal procedure" for the surgical treatment of epilepsy. (See also Neuroscience.)
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Wilf Carter

Wilfred “Wilf” Arthur Charles Carter (a.k.a. Montana Slim, the Yodelling Cowboy), singer, songwriter, cowboy (born 18 December 1904 in Port Hilford, NS; died 5 December 1996 in Scottsdale, AZ). The father of Canadian country music, Wilf Carter was Canada’s first country star. He was known for his simple, straightforward singing and guitar style, his skillful yodelling and his prolific songwriting. “The Capture of Albert Johnson” was the first hit record by a Canadian country performer. His versions of “Blue Canadian Rockies” and “You Are My Sunshine” were also popular. Carter was a US radio star in the 1930s and 1940s and enjoyed an international reputation as far afield as Australia. One of the most prominent country stars of his day, Carter was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Association Hall of Fame in 1971, the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1985, the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Wilfred Bigelow

Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, OC, surgeon (born 18 June 1913 in Brandon, MB; died 27 March 2005 in Toronto, ON). Dr. Bigelow's special contribution to surgery of the heart was the use of hypothermia to slow tissue metabolism and protect the heart and brain from damage (see Cold Weather Injuries). His research on hypothermia also led to him to co-develop the portable artificial external cardiac pacemaker in 1950. This medical innovation contributed to the development of implantable cardiac pacemakers.
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Wilfred Curtis

Wilfred Austin Curtis, air marshal (b at Havelock, Ont 21 Aug 1893; d at Nassau, Bahamas 7 Aug 1977). As chief of the air staff 1947-53, Curtis presided over unprecedented peacetime growth in the RCAF.
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Wilfred Leigh Brintnell

Wilfred Leigh Brintnell, pilot, businessman (b at Belleville, Ont 27 Aug 1895; d at Edmonton 22 Jan 1971).
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Wilfred Pelletier

Wilfred Pelletier (also Peltier), or Baibomsey, meaning "traveller," Odawa wise man, philosopher, author (b on Wikwemikong Reserve, Manitoulin I, Ont 16 Oct 1927; died at Ottawa 2 Jul 2000).
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Wilfred Watson

Wilfred Watson, poet, playwright, professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Alberta (b at Rochester, Eng 1 May 1911; d at Nanaimo 25 Mar 1998).
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Wilfrid Bennett Lewis

Wilfrid Bennett Lewis, physicist, chief scientist for 26 years of Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories (b at London, Eng 24 June 1908; d at Deep River, Ont 19 Jan 1987). Lewis trained under Lord RUTHERFORD and worked in atomic physics throughout the 1930s.
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Wilfrid Derome

Wilfrid Derome (baptized Joseph-Wilfrid), forensic pathologist, medical doctor, professor, public servant, author (born 19 April 1877 in Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville, QC; died 24 November 1931 in Montreal, QC). Derome is generally considered the “father of forensic pathology” in Canada for having opened the first forensics laboratory in North America in 1914. In addition to his national reputation, Derome is considered an international pioneer in the field of forensics. Sources have described him as the “terror of the criminal class”.
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