Talk:The Greatest Canadian

message: This is a list by province of their hometowns
BC
1.	Terry Fox 
2.	David Suzuki 
3       Rick Hansen 
4.	Pamela Anderson  
5.	Chief Dan George
6.	Emily Carr  
7.	Bryan Adams 
AB
1.	Michael J. Fox
2.	Bret Hart 
3.	Marshall McLuhan 
4.	Emily Murphy 
5.	Kurt Browning 
6.	Preston Manning
7.	Joni Mitchell  
SK
1.	Tommy Douglas
2.	John George Diefenbaker 
3.	Gordie Howe 
4.	Sandra Schmirler 
5.	Farley Mowat 
MB
1.	Louis Riel
2.	Nellie McClung
3.	Hal Anderson  
4.	William Stephenson 
5.	Burton Cummings 
6.	Ed Belfour 
7.	Elijah Harper 
ON
1.	Sir Frederick Banting
2.	Don Cherry
3.	Lester Bowles Pearson
4.	Sir John A. Macdonald 
5.	Alexander Graham Bell
6.	Wayne Gretzky 
7.	Neil Young
8.	Peter Gzowski 
9.	Stephen Lewis 
10.	Shania Twain
11.	Bobby Orr
12.	Mike Myers
13.	Harold Rogers 
14.	Arthur Currie 
15.	Norman Bethune 
16.	Jim Carrey
17.	Gordon Lightfoot
18.	Laura Secord
19.	Ernie Coombs 
20.	Avril Lavigne 
21.	John Candy 
22.	Sir Sandford Fleming 
23.	Billy Bishop 
24.	William Lyon Mackenzie King 
25.	Craig Kielburger
26.	Glenn Gould 
27.	Paul Henderson 
28.	Tim Horton 
29.	Stan Rogers 
30.	Roberta Bondar 
31.	James Naismith 
32.	Margaret Atwood 
33.	John McCrae 
34.	Charles Best
35.	Robert Munsch 
36.	Dan Aykroyd 
37.	Mike Weird 
38.	Donovan Bailey 
39.	Geddy Lee 
40.	Sam Steele 
41.	J.S. Woodsworth 
QC
1.	Pierre Trudeau
2.	Romeo Dallaire 
3.	Maurice Richard 
4.	Celine Dion 
5.	Mario Lemieux 
6.	Wilfrid Laurier
7.	Mary Maxwell 
8.	Jean Chretien 
9.	Leonard Cohen 
10.	William Shatner
11.	William Edmond Logan  
12.	Brian Mulroney 
13.	Sheila Fraser 
14.	Patrick Roy
15.	Jean Beliveau
16.	Rene Levesque 
17.	Anne C. Cools 
18.	David Thompson 
19.	Henry Morgentaler 
20.	John Molson 
21.	Louise Arbour 
22.	Mordecai Richler 
NB
NS
1.	Sarah McLachlan
2.	Anne Murray 
PE
1.	Stompin’ Tom Connors 
2.	Lucy Maud Montgomery 
NL
1.	Rick Mercer
2.	
YT
1.	Pierre Berton 
Other
1.	Jean Vanier (France)
2.	Unknown Soldier (various)
3.	Isaac Brock (Britain) 
4.	Tecumseh (Ohio country)
5.	Lord Stanley (Britain)
Earl Andrew 03:59, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Greatest by Province

message: Indeed.  I'm from Nashville, Tennessee and I'm embarrassed.  God forbid that they should try "the Greatest Amercian".  We'd no doubt get Kurt Cobain ahead of Aaron Copeland and Howard Stern ahead of James Madison.  Rlquall 01:17, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shania Twain and not Robertson Daives? 

message: The article currently says Tecumseh "never resided in Canada". Well, he did, sort of, in a certain respect: the Quebec Act of 1774 annexed the Ohio Country—Tecumseh's homeland—as part of Quebec. So, from the point of view of the British ministry, if no one else, Tecumseh lived in Quebec from 1774-1783. That's my pedantic trivia for today. You be the judge if the wording should be adjusted to something like Tecumseh "never resided in what is now Canada." --Kevin Myers 10:13, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tecumseh & Canada 

message: While Tommy did make #1 (I played my small little part!), is it really necessary to have a paragraph on him and his life on there - there's several links to the Tommy Douglas article in the article - after all it's an article about the *show* The Greatest Canadian, not an article *about* the greatest Canadian. --Canuckguy 06:24, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be good to summarize the accomplishments of the top 10, to a max of 75 words each. It's essentially the equivilent of plot summaries for fictional series.  --  Zanimum 22:09, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tommy Douglas 

message: Per the licensing of the majority of the images used here ... they can't be.  Fair-use licensing on each image states in what fashion using them constitutes fair-use, and this image-gallery-esque article is not one of them.  —  pd_THOR | =/\= | 23:19, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  fair-use images ({{tl|cleanup}}) 

message: The second reference for the article is broken, and leads to a JJ McCullough website dedicated to Indonesian online gambling. Someone (who's better at wikipedia than me) may want to try and fix that. Just a thought. A thought I think is good. I hate seeing JJ McCullough satisfied in any way.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.170.198.19 (talk) 15:05, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with your concerns but perhaps it is better for now to just put an  tag on the section -- that way whoever wrote it will have time to find citations for the information in that section.  It seems less drastic that way.  Although I don't have time to go researching it, I'd guess that at least several of the "Comments and criticisms" mentioned could be found in some Canadian media story about the TV special, e.g. from cbc.ca or globeandmail.com.  Spebudmak 14:26, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good.--Eskimospy Bot 00:24, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticizm and comments section

message: The term "abortionist" is used exclusively by opponents of abortion, and therefore it's not NPOV to describe Henry Morgentaler as such (see the "Worst Canadians" section).  I'm going to substitute it with "physician and pro-choice advocate" (which is how the Wikipedia page on him describes him). Dkostic (talk) 03:38, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: My goodness, what a false non sequitur! 69.253.219.207 (talk) 09:02, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV edit

message: Currently, there is no list of who were considered before voting. But shouldn't there be the voted top 100 list, still? It was once here, I then checked the sports persons, for example #19 was Bobby Orr, #23 Maurice Richard, #38 Mario Lemieux and #53 Gordie Howe among others. Most other countries "Greatest" -articles have the whole voted lists, Germany's Unsere Besten has even top 200. 46.132.78.122 (talk) 19:20, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: ...--Moxy 🍁 21:51, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Full list