Pre-Confederation people

• David H. Armstrong
  David H. Armstrong
  David Hartley Armstrong was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Nova Scotia, Canada, he attended Maine Wesleyan Seminary and taught school in New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1833 to 1837. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1837, and then to Lebanon, Illinois, where he taught at...
  
  , United States Senator from Missouri
  Missouri
  Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
  
  , born in Nova Scotia
• Alexander Graham Bell
  Alexander Graham Bell
  Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone....
  
  
• Samuel Cunard
  Samuel Cunard
  Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet was a British shipping magnate, born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line...
  
  
• Noel Doiron
  Noel Doiron
  Noel Doiron was a leader of the Acadians, renown for the decisions he made during the Deportation of the Acadians. Doiron was deported on a vessel named the Duke William . The sinking of the Duke William was one of the worst marine disasters in Canadian history...
  
  
• Charles Fenerty
  Charles Fenerty
  Charles Fenerty , is a Canadian inventor who invented the wood pulp process for papermaking, which was first adapted into the production of newsprint. Fenerty was also a poet...
  
   (inventor of wood pulp
  Wood pulp
  Pulp is a lignocellulosic fibrous material prepared by chemically or mechanically separating cellulose fibres from wood, fibre crops or waste paper. Wood pulp is the most common raw material in papermaking.-History:...
  
   process for papermaking
  Papermaking
  Papermaking is the process of making paper, a substance which is used universally today for writing and packaging.In papermaking a dilute suspension of fibres in water is drained through a screen, so that a mat of randomly interwoven fibres is laid down. Water is removed from this mat of fibres by...
  
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• Rose Fortune
  Rose Fortune
  Rose Fortune was an African American who came to Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia with the Black Loyalists where she became a successful businesswoman and the first female police officer in Canada.-Biography:...
  
  
• Abraham Gesner (discovered kerosene oil)
• Joseph Howe
  Joseph Howe
  Joseph Howe, PC was a Nova Scotian journalist, politician, and public servant. He is one of Nova Scotia's greatest and best-loved politicians...
  
  
• Gordon Benjamin Isnor
  Gordon Benjamin Isnor
  Gordon Benjamin Isnor was a Canadian merchant and parliamentarian.A Liberal, he was elected four consecutive times to the Canadian House of Commons as the Member of Parliament representing the Nova Scotia electoral district of Halifax...
  
  
• Angus MacAskill
  Angus MacAskill
  Angus Mòr MacAskill, frequently referred to as Giant MacAskill or Black Angus , was a Scottish-Canadian giant, and is the world's largest "true" giant...
  
   (suffered gigantism, stood 7’9")
• Joshua Slocum
  Joshua Slocum
  Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Canadian born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. In 1900 he told the story of this in Sailing Alone Around the World...
  
   (first to sail solo around the world)

Actors

• Chuck Campbell
  Chuck Campbell
  Chuck Campbell is a Canadian actor who portrayed the role of Chuck the Technician on Stargate Atlantis. He had a role in the webseries, Sanctuary.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Jeff Douglas
  Jeff Douglas
  Jeffrey Lloyd "Jeff" Douglas is a Canadian actor and broadcaster. He rose to prominence for his role as Joe Canada in Molson's ad The Rant....
  
  
• John Dunsworth
  John Dunsworth
  John Dunsworth is a Canadian actor known for playing the frequently drunk trailer park supervisor Jim Lahey on the hit TV show Trailer Park Boys. He has also appeared in Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion, a CBC film about the 1917 Halifax explosion...
  
  
• Mark Farrell
  Mark Farrell
  Mark Farrell is a Canadian comedian and writer, who honed his talent in the Yuk Yuk's comedy club in Halifax, Nova Scotia before moving to Toronto in 1989. One of the founders of Canada's alternative comedy scene. Farrell helped lead an exodus from the Yuk Yuk's chain, along with other prominent...
  
  
• Peter Flemming
  Peter Flemming
  Peter Flemming is a Canadian television actor.-Biography:Peter Flemming was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He wanted to be a gym teacher and did a lot of sports, competed nationally in a few different sports like curling, golf, baseball, hockey.At the age of 20 he had done some commercials and...
  
  
• Lex Gigeroff
  Lex Gigeroff
  Lex Gigeroff is a Canadian television writer and actor, best known as co-creator of the science fiction series Lexx. He also appeared in the comedy series Liocracy.- External links :*...
  
  
• Jeffrey Hirschfield
  Jeffrey Hirschfield
  Jeffrey Hirschfield is co-developer of the international cult science fiction series Lexx. He wrote for three of its four seasons and voiced the character of the robot head 790....
  
  
• Leslie Hope
  Leslie Hope
  Leslie Ann Hope is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as Teri Bauer in the Fox show 24 where she played the wife of the main character Jack Bauer.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Murray Langston
  The Unknown Comic
  The Unknown Comic is the stage name of Canadian-American actor and stand-up comic Murray Langston , best known for his comic performances on The Gong Show, usually appearing with a paper bag over his head....
  
   "AKA The Unknown Comic
  The Unknown Comic
  The Unknown Comic is the stage name of Canadian-American actor and stand-up comic Murray Langston , best known for his comic performances on The Gong Show, usually appearing with a paper bag over his head....
  
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• Daniel MacIvor
  Daniel MacIvor
  Daniel MacIvor is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and then at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario....
  
  
• David Manners
  David Manners
  David Manners was a Canadian - American film actor.Born Rauff de Ryther Daun Acklom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Manners came to Hollywood at the beginning of the talking films revolution after studying acting with Eva Le Gallienne, and acting on stage with Helen Hayes...
  
  
• Forbes March
  Forbes March
  Forbes March is a British-born Canadian actor. Although born in Bristol, South West England, he was raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia.-Biography:...
  
  
• Peter North
• Craig Olejnik
  Craig Olejnik
  Craig Olejnik is a Canadian actor. He is best known as the lead actor in the television series The Listener as Toby Logan, a paramedic with the power to read minds by hearing others' thoughts and seeing events that have happened to them from their point of view...
  
  
• Ellen Page
  Ellen Page
  Ellen Philpotts-Page , known professionally as Ellen Page, is a Canadian actress. Page received both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her role as the title character in the film Juno...
  
  
• Patrick Roach
  Patrick Roach
  Patrick Roach is a Canadian actor best known for playing the always shirtless and cheeseburger-addicted assistant trailer park supervisor Randy on the cult television series Trailer Park Boys....
  
  
• Harold Russell
  Harold Russell
  Harold John Russell was a Canadian-American World War II veteran who became one of only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award for acting...
  
  
• Garwin Sanford
  Garwin Sanford
  Garwin Sanford is a Canadian actor best known for his portrayal of Narim in Stargate SG-1 and Simon Wallis in Stargate Atlantis....
  
  
• Robb Wells
  Robb Wells
  Robb Wells is a Canadian actor and screenwriter who portrayed Ricky on Trailer Park Boys.-Early life:Wells was born in Moncton, New Brunswick and moved to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia when he was eight years old...
  
  
• Austin Willis
  Austin Willis
  Austin Willis, CM was a Canadian actor and television host.He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2002, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He is best known internationally for his appearance as Simmons, the man whom Auric Goldfinger beats at cards in the opening scenes of the James Bond...
  
  

Artists

• Mark A. Brennan
  Mark A. Brennan
  Mark Brennan is a Canadian landscape painter known for his work depicting Canadian National parks and wilderness areas.-Biography:...
  
  
• Alex Colville
  Alex Colville
  David Alexander Colville, is a Canadian painter.Colville's family moved from Toronto to Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1929. He attended Mount Allison University from 1938-1942, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Colville married Rhoda Wright that year and enlisted in the Canadian Army under the...
  
  
• William E. deGarthe
  William E. deGarthe
  William Edward deGarthe was born in Helsinki, Finland. After emigrating to Canada in 1926, he became a painter and sculptor and lived in Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia.-Biography:...
  
  
• Maud Lewis
  Maud Lewis
  Maud Lewis was a Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia. She remains one of Canada's best known and most loved folk artists.-Early life:...
  
  
• Edith Smith
  Edith Smith
  Edith Agnes Smith was a Canadian painter and teacher. She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on October 2, 1867, one of four children of Benjamin Smith, a well known Halifax dry goods merchant and Anna Maria Smith. In 1887 she attended the first classes offered at the Victoria School of Art and...
  
  
• Lewis Smith
  Lewis Smith
  -Early life:Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He graduated from Lookout Valley High School in 1974.-Career:Smith is best known for the role of Charles Main on the first and second part of North and South miniseries, He also played "Curly Bill" Brocious in the Kevin Costner film Wyatt Earp...
  
  
• Christopher Webb
  Christopher Webb
  Christopher Rahere Webb was an English stained glass designer. His unusual second name was derived from that of the founder of St Bartholomew’s Priory in London where his father, Sir Aston Webb carried out some important restoration work. Webb was educated at Rugby School and at the Slade School...
  
  

Musicians

• Gary Beals
  Gary Beals
  Gary Beals is a Canadian singer who is best known for being the second-place finisher in the first season of the reality television series Canadian Idol...
  
  
• Buck 65
  Buck 65
  Richard Terfry , who uses the stage name Buck 65, is a Canadian experimental artist, MC and turntablist. Underpinned by an extensive background in abstract hip hop, his more recent music has extensively incorporated blues, country, rock, folk and avant garde influences.Terfry is also a radio host,...
  
  
• Wilf Carter
  Wilf Carter
  Wilf Carter , also known as Montana Slim, was a Canadian country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and yodeller...
  
  
• Classified (rapper)
  Classified (rapper)
  Luke Boyd , professionally known as Classified, is a Canadian rapper and producer from Enfield, Nova Scotia.-Career:...
  
  
• Holly Cole
  Holly Cole
  Holly Cole is a Canadian jazz singer, particularly popular in Canada and Japan for both her versatile and distinctive voice, along with her adventurous repertoire, which spans such divergent genres as show tunes, rock, and country music.-Holly Cole Trio:In 1983, Cole travelled to Toronto to seek a...
  
  
• J. P. Cormier
  J. P. Cormier
  J.P. Cormier is a Canadian bluegrass/Folk/Celtic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in London, Ontario in 1969 and began playing guitar around age five. As a child he displayed an unusual ability to play a variety of instruments by ear and won a guitar contest at age nine.Mr...
  
  
• Melanie Doane
  Melanie Doane
  Melanie Doane is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter who has had seven Top 40 singles in Canada, including "Adam's Rib", "Goliath", "Still Desire You" and "Waiting For The Tide"....
  
  
• Denny Doherty
  Denny Doherty
  Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty was a Canadian singer and songwriter. He was most widely known as a founding member of the 1960s musical group The Mamas & the Papas.-Early career:...
  
  
• The Ennis Sisters
  The Ennis Sisters
  Ennis, formerly known as The Ennis Sisters is a Canadian musical family group from St. John's, Newfoundland.-Biography:The Ennis Sisters, Maureen, Karen and Teresa, started playing music at a young age, encouraged by their father John and their mother Ceilie. The trio released their first album,...
  
  
• Leslie Feist
  Leslie Feist
  Leslie Feist , known professionally as simply Feist, is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene....
  
  
• J.D. Fortune
  J.D. Fortune
  J.D. Fortune , is a Canadian rock singer and songwriter. He was the winner of the 2005 CBS reality television series Rock Star: INXS, and fronted INXS until August 2011. - Early life :...
  
  
• Bruce Guthro
  Bruce Guthro
  Bruce Guthro is a Canadian singer / songwriter, from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Guthro has recorded as a solo artist, and in 1998 also joined Scottish folk rock band Runrig, whilst still pursuing his solo career...
  
  
• Ashley MacIsaac
  Ashley MacIsaac
  Ashley Dwayne MacIsaac is a Canadian professional fiddler from Cape Breton Island.His album Hi™ How Are You Today?, featuring the hit single "Sleepy Maggie", with vocals in Scottish Gaelic by Mary Jane Lamond was released in 1995...
  
  
• Natalie MacMaster
  Natalie MacMaster
  Natalie MacMaster, CM is an award-winning fiddler from the rural community of Troy in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada who plays Cape Breton fiddle music....
  
  
• Kevin MacMichael
  Kevin MacMichael
  Kevin Scott MacMichael was a Canadian guitarist, songwriter and record producer, best known for being a member of the 1980s English based pop-rock band, Cutting Crew, who had a number-one hit in 1987 with " Died in Your Arms"...
  
  
• Rita MacNeil
  Rita MacNeil
  Rita MacNeil, CM, ONS is a Canadian country and folk singer from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. Her biggest hit, "Flying On Your Own", was a crossover Top 40 hit in 1987 and was covered by Anne Murray the following year, although she has had hits on the country...
  
  
• Matt Mays
  Matt Mays
  Matt Mays is a Canadian singer-songwriter and was the lead singer of Matt Mays & El Torpedo, a rock music group based in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia and New York City. Previously, Mays was a member of a Canadian indie band The Guthries...
  
  
• Sarah McLachlan
  Sarah McLachlan
  Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...
  
  
• Matt Minglewood
  Matt Minglewood
  Matt Minglewood is a Canadian musician whose style can be described as a blend of country, blues, folk, roots and rock.-Career:...
  
  
• Anne Murray
  Anne Murray
  Morna Anne Murray CC, ONS is a Canadian singer in pop, country and adult contemporary styles whose albums have sold over 54 million copies....
  
  
• Joel Plaskett
  Joel Plaskett
  Joel Plaskett is a Canadian rock musician originally from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. He grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia and now resides across the harbour in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia...
  
  
• Steve Poltz
  Steve Poltz
  Steve Poltz is a Canadian-born American singer-songwriter and guitarist based in San Diego, California. He is a founding member of the indie-rock band The Rugburns and is best known for co-writing the #2 Jewel song "You Were Meant for Me"...
  
  
• The Rankin Family
  The Rankin Family
  The Rankin Family is a Canadian musical family group from Mabou, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The group has won many Canadian music awards, including 15 East Coast Music Awards, six Juno Awards, four SOCAN Awards, three Canadian Country Music Awards and two Big Country Music Awards.- Career...
  
  
• Stan Rogers
  Stan Rogers
  Stanley Allison "Stan" Rogers was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter.Rogers was noted for his rich, baritone voice and his finely crafted, traditional-sounding songs which were frequently inspired by Canadian history and the daily lives of working people, especially those from the fishing...
  
   (from Ontario but resided in and sang about Nova Scotia)
• Tara Slone
  Tara Slone
  Tara Slone is a Canadian rock vocalist.Born in Montreal, Quebec, and raised in Nova Scotia, Slone began pursuing classical voice training at the age of 12 with the goal of becoming an opera singer. At the age of 18, she attended Concordia University to pursue a degree in music...
  
  
• Laura Smith
  Laura Smith
  Laura Smith is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. She is best known for her 1995 single "Shade of Your Love", one of the year's biggest hits on adult contemporary radio stations in Canada, and for her adaptation of the Scottish folk song "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" which she entitled "My Bonny"...
  
  
• Hank Snow
  Hank Snow
  Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow was a Canadian-American country music artist. He charted more than 70 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980...
  
  
• Scott Storch
  Scott Storch
  Scott Storch is an American record producer. He produces a variety of music, particularly hip hop, reggaeton, and R&B. His label, Storch Music Company responsible for signing Brooke Hogan and Nox...
  
  
• Portia White
  Portia White
  Portia May White , was a singer who achieved international fame because of her voice and stage presence. As a Black Canadian, her popularity helped to open previously closed doors for talented blacks who followed....
  
  

• April Wine
  April Wine
  April Wine is a Canadian rock band formed in 1969. According to the band, they chose the name 'April Wine' simply because members thought the two words sounded good together...
  
  
• The Barra MacNeils
  Barra MacNeils
  The Barra MacNeils are a Canadian musical group from Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia. The founding members of the group are siblings Sheumas, Kyle, Stewart, and Lucy MacNeil. In 2005 two additional brothers, Ryan and Boyd, joined the band...
  
  
• Rawlins Cross
  Rawlins Cross
  Rawlins Cross is a Canadian Celtic band. With members from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Ontario, the band took its name from an intersection in St. John's, Newfoundland.-Formation and early history:Rawlins Cross was formed in St...
  
  
• Sloan
  Sloan (band)
  Sloan is a Toronto-based alternative rock quartet from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Throughout their 20-year tenure Sloan has released 10 LPs , two EPs, a live album, a "best of" collection and no less than thirty singles...
  
  

Boxers

• Chris Clarke
  Chris Clarke (boxer)
  Chris Clarke is a retired boxer from Canada, who won the gold medal in the men's lightweight division at the 1975 Pan American Games...
  
  
• Buddy Daye
  Buddy Daye
  Delmore W. Daye was a Canadian boxer and community activist from Nova Scotia.Born in New Glasgow, Daye moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia some time later.As a young man Daye was a merchant mariner....
  
  
• George Dixon
  George Dixon (boxer)
  George Dixon was the first black world boxing champion in any weight class, while also being the first ever Canadian-born boxing champion.George was born in Africville, Halifax, Nova Scotia...
  
  
• Ray Downey
  Ray Downey
  Ray Downey was a Canadian boxer, who won a light middleweight bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics. In 1990 he gained silver at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.-Amateur Highlights:...
  
  
• Bryan Gibson
  Bryan Gibson
  Bryan Gibson is a retired boxer from Canada, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics. There he was defeated in the first round of the men's middleweight division by East Germany's Bernd Wittenburg...
  
  
• Kirk Johnson
• Sam Langford
  Sam Langford
  Sam Langford was a Black Canadian boxing standout of the early part of the 20th century. Called the "Greatest Fighter Nobody Knows," by ESPN. He was rated #2 by The Ring on their list of "100 greatest punchers of all time". Langford was originally from Weymouth Falls, a small community in Nova...
  
  
• Carroll Morgan
  Carroll Morgan
  Carroll Morgan is a former heavyweight boxer from Canada, who represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. There he was defeated in the quarterfinals by Sweden's eventual bronze medalist Hasse Thomsén.Morgan is now training people in the city where he lives...
  
  
• Marty O'Donnell
  Marty O'Donnell (boxer)
  Marty O'Donnell is a retired boxer, who represented Canada at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain....
  
  
• Randall Thompson
  Randall Thompson (boxer)
  Randall Thompson is a retired boxer from Canada, who competed in the middleweight Randall Thompson (born June 14, 1964 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a retired boxer from Canada, who competed in the middleweight Randall Thompson (born June 14, 1964 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a retired boxer from...
  
  

Men

• Shawn Adams
  Shawn Adams
  Shawn Adams is a Canadian curler from Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia.Adams rose to curling prominence being runner-up in the 1992 Canadian Junior Championship, and then the next year, won the 1993 Canadian Junior Championship, however he was stripped of the championship because of alcohol...
  
  
• Mark Dacey
  Mark Dacey
  Mark Dacey is a Canadian curler from the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but originally from Saskatchewan....
  
  , from Saskatoon but curles out of the Mayflower Curling Club
  Mayflower Curling Club
  The Mayflower Curling Club, which was founded in 1905, is located in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality in Halifax.The club is one of the premier curling rinks in Nova Scotia, being home to the teams headed by Colleen Jones, Mark Dacey, Shawn Adams, and Heather Smith-Dacey...
  
  
• Andrew Gibson
  Andrew Gibson
  Andrew Gibson is a Canadian curler from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He currently plays second for Shawn Adams.Gibson was a member of Mark Dacey's rink from 2003 to 2010. He has been to the Brier three times with Dacey winning the Brier in 2004. In 2004 he won a bronze medal at the World Curling...
  
  
• Rob Harris
  Rob Harris (curler)
  Robert "Rob" Harris is a Canadian curler.Harris played second for Mark Dacey's men's team from 2002 to 2007 and from 1998 to 1999. Harris also played Mixed with Dacey around this time...
  
  
• Bruce Lohnes
  Bruce Lohnes
  Bruce Lohnes is a Canadian curler from Fall River, Nova Scotia. He plays third for Mark Dacey's team.Lohnes joined Dacey prior to the 2003 season. The team would go on to win the 2004 Nokia Brier and a bronze at the 2004 Ford World Curling Championships. The team has been to three Briers together...
  
  

Women

• Mary-Anne Arsenault
  Mary-Anne Arsenault
  Mary-Anne Arsenault is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the long time second for Colleen Jones' team with whom she has won five Canadian championships, and two World Curling Championships...
  
  
• Nancy Delahunt
  Nancy Delahunt
  Nancy Delahunt is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Delahunt currently plays third for Colleen Jones. Delahunt was a longtime member of the Colleen Jones team which won five Scott Tournament of Hearts and two World Curling Championships...
  
  , a Montrealer who has resided in Halifax for several years
• Meredith Harrison
  Meredith Harrison
  Meredith Harrison is a Canadian curler.In her second appearance as the skip for team Nova Scotia at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Harrison won the 1997 title. At the 1997 World Junior Curling Championships, Harrison won a bronze medal for Canada...
  
  
• Colleen Jones
  Colleen Jones
  Colleen P. Jones is a Canadian curler and television personality. She is best known as the skip of two women's world championship teams and six Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's championships, including an unprecedented four titles in a row...
  
  
• Kim Kelly
• Jill Mouzar
  Jill Mouzar
  Jillian Mouzar [pronounced MOW-zer] is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She currently plays lead for Kirsten Wall's Oakville, Ontario rink.Mouzar started curling in Liverpool, Nova Scotia...
  
  

American football people

• Buck MacDonald
  Buck MacDonald
  George Glover "Buck" MacDonald was an American football guard in the National Football League for the New York Brickley Giants and the Tonawanda Kardex. He attended Lehigh University....
  
  
• Eddie Murray
• Tyrone Williams
  Tyrone Williams (wide receiver)
  Tyrone Williams is a retired wide receiver who played in the National Football League as well as the Canadian Football League. He won two Super Bowl rings as a member of the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XXVII and Super Bowl XXVIII, though he did not participate in either game...
  
  

Ice hockey people

• Paul Andrea
  Paul Andrea
  Paul Lawrence Andrea is a former ice hockey right winger. He played in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, California Golden Seals, and Buffalo Sabres...
  
  , 150 NHL games in the 1960s and 70s
• Dennis Bonvie
  Dennis Bonvie
  Dennis Kevin Bonvie is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player, most notable for being the most penalized player in professional hockey history with 4,804 career professional career penalty minutes...
  
  
• Eric Boulton
  Eric Boulton
  Eric Boulton is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger for the New Jersey Devils.-Playing career:Boulton was drafted in the ninth round, 234th overall by the New York Rangers in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft. Boulton recorded his first career hat trick on December 18, 2010, scoring 3 goals...
  
  
• David Brine
  David Brine
  David Brine is a professional ice hockey center for KHL Medveščak of the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga.-Playing career:...
  
  
• John Brophy
  John Brophy (ice hockey)
  John Brophy is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former hockey player who has spent most of his career in minor professional leagues, including 18 years as a player in the Eastern Hockey League and 13 seasons as a coach in the East Coast Hockey League...
  
  
• Sidney Crosby
  Sidney Crosby
  Sidney Patrick Crosby ONS is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League . Crosby was drafted first overall by the Penguins out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League...
  
  
• Mal Davis
  Mal Davis
  Malcolm Sterling Davis is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.Davis played for the Amherst Ramblers, a junior team in Amherst, Nova Scotia, and then attended Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he was a member of the university's Huskies ice hockey team.Davis played...
  
  
• Chad Denny
  Chad Denny
  Chad Denny is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman who plays for the UNB Varsity Reds of the Atlantic University Sports. Denny grew up in Eskasoni, Nova Scotia...
  
  
• Ryan Flinn
• Danny Gallivan
  Danny Gallivan
  Danny Gallivan was a Canadian radio and television broadcaster and sportscaster.-Early life and career:Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Gallivan began his broadcast career at a local radio station in Antigonish, Nova Scotia while attending St. Francis Xavier University...
  
  
• William Hollett
• Don Koharski
  Don Koharski
  Don Koharski is a retired professional ice hockey referee in the National Hockey League. He currently resides in Tampa, Florida, with his wife, together with whom he has two sons...
  
  
• Craig MacDonald
  Craig MacDonald
  James Craig MacDonald is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who currently plays for the Adler Mannheim in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Parker MacDonald
  Parker MacDonald
  Calvin Parker MacDonald was a professional ice hockey left winger who played for a number of NHL teams in his 18 year career. He later coached the Minnesota North Stars and the Los Angeles Kings.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Al MacInnis
  Al MacInnis
  Allan MacInnis is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman who played 23 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Calgary Flames and St. Louis Blues. A first round selection of the Flames in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft, he went on to become a 13-time All-Star...
  
  , Hall of Famer
• Al MacNeil
  Al MacNeil
  Allister Wences MacNeil is a former National Hockey League player and coach. He was the first person from the Maritime region of Canada to be a head coach in the NHL....
  
  
• Brad Marchand
  Brad Marchand
  Bradley Kevin Marchand is a Canadian professional ice hockey player currently playing left wing for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League . Marchand was selected by the Bruins, 71st overall, at the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. He played his junior hockey in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League...
  
  
• Mike McPhee
  Mike McPhee
  Michael Joseph McPhee is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward....
  
  
• Dean Melanson
  Dean Melanson
  Dean Clement Melanson is a former National Hockey League defenceman.-Playing career:He was drafted in the fourth round, 80th overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft....
  
  
• Glen Murray
• Pokey Reddick
  Pokey Reddick
  Eldon "Pokey" Wade Reddick is a retired professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League from 1986–87 to 1993–94.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Bill Riley
  Bill Riley
  William James "Bill" Riley is a retired Canadian ice hockey player, and was the third black player in the National Hockey League....
  
  
• Jody Shelley
  Jody Shelley
  Jody Shelley is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who currently plays for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• James Sheppard
  James Sheppard
  James Sheppard is a Canadian professional ice hockey player, currently playing for the San Jose Sharks in the NHL.- Junior career :...
  
  
• Zach Sill
  Zach Sill
  Zach Sill is a Canadian professional ice hockey player from Birch Hill, Nova Scotia who is currently playing for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in the American Hockey League....
  
  
• Jon Sim
  Jon Sim
  Jonathan Sim is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for HC Slavia Praha of the Czech Extraliga...
  
  
• Bobby Smith
• Colin White

Writers

• Lesley Choyce
  Lesley Choyce
  Lesley Choyce is a Canadian author of novels, non-fiction, children's books, and poetry.Born in Riverside Township, New Jersey, he was educated at Rutgers University, CUNY, and Montclair State University...
  
  
• George Elliott Clarke
  George Elliott Clarke
  George Elliott Clarke, OC is a Canadian poet and playwright. His work largely explores and chronicles the experience and history of the Black Canadian community of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, creating a cultural geography that Clarke refers to as "Africadia".-Life:Born to William and Geraldine...
  
  
• Darren Greer
  Darren Greer
  Darren Shawn Greer is a Canadian writer.Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Greer moved to Ontario in 1990. He lived in Ottawa, Toronto and San Francisco before moving back to Nova Scotia in 2010. His second novel Still Life With June was a critical success, earning him the ReLit Award in 2004...
  
  
• Thomas Chandler Haliburton
  Thomas Chandler Haliburton
  Thomas Chandler Haliburton was the first international best-selling author from Canada. He was also significant in the history of Nova Scotia.-Life:...
  
  
• Wendy Lill
  Wendy Lill
  Wendy Lill is an award-winning Canadian playwright, screenwriter and radio dramatist who served as an NDP Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2004. Her stage plays have been performed extensively in theatres across Canada as well as internationally in such countries as Scotland, Denmark and Germany...
  
  
• Hugh MacLennan
  Hugh MacLennan
  John Hugh MacLennan, CC, CQ was a Canadian author and professor of English at McGill University. He won five Governor General's Awards and a Royal Bank Award.-Family and childhood:...
  
  
• Leo McKay, Jr.
  Leo McKay, Jr.
  Leo McKay, Jr. is a Canadian novelist and short story writer from Stellarton, Nova Scotia. He also is a periodic contributor to the Globe and Mail....
  
  
• Adriana Porter
  Adriana Porter
  Adriana Porter was an alleged witch.Porter's notability rests on a poem, The Rede of the Wiccae, which was published by her granddaughter Lady Gwen Thompson in Green Egg magazine in 1975 and attributed to her...
  
  
• Margaret Marshall Saunders
  Margaret Marshall Saunders
  Margaret Marshall Saunders CBE was a Canadian author.Saunders was born in the village of Milton, Nova Scotia, though she spent most of her childhood in Berwick, Nova Scotia where her father was a Baptist minister. Saunders is most famous for her novel Beautiful Joe...
  
  
• John Stiles
  John Stiles
  John Stiles was born and raised in the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the author of the poetry collections Scouts are Cancelled and Creamsicle Stick Shivs, as well as the novels The Insolent Boy and Taking the Stairs. Featured on CBC's 'Q', Much Music, and TVO's 'Imprint', John has...
  
  
• Budge Wilson
  Budge Wilson
  Budge Wilson is a highly acclaimed Canadian author who was born and raised in Nova Scotia. She graduated from Dalhousie University with a B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology...
  
  

See also

• Black Nova Scotians
  Black Nova Scotians
  Black Nova Scotians are people of Black African descent whose ancestors fled Colonial America as slaves or freemen to settle in Nova Scotia, Canada during the 18th and 19th centuries. According to the 2006 Census of Canada, there are 19,230 black people currently living in Nova Scotia, most of whom...