Gopalan Srinivasan (b. 1964) is a professor in the department of geology at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on understanding the formation and evolution of the solar system through chemical and isotopic studies of meteorites.

Canadian computer scientist Geoff Collyer (b. 1958) is co-author of C News and designer of the NOV database used by USENET newsreaders. While at Bell Laboratories, he contributed to the Plan 9 operating system. Geo® is a noted Plan 9 and UNIX enthusiast.

Reference: MPC 57426

Henry Spencer (b. 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist and small-satellite engineer. He has been a pioneer of open-source software, including C News and the "regex" pattern-matching library. He is also the keeper of the oldest surviving Usenet archives and the software architect for the MOST astronomy satellite.

Reference: MPC 57425

Robert Damian Cardinal (b. 1969) is a research associate at the University of Calgary, a prolific observer at the Rothney Astrophysical Observatory and a member of the science team of the Near-Earth Space Surveillance mission.

Joshua Slocum (1844–1909?) was the first person to circumnavigate the world alone. He sailed Spray, his rebuilt sloop, from Boston in April 1895, and returned three years later after a 74000-km journey. His book 'Sailing Alone Around the World' is a first-hand account of his remarkable voyage. Slocum was born in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. He left home as a teen for a life at sea as a merchant sailor. Later he became a captain and owner of several sailing ships. One of his stops in his around the world voyage was his boyhood home of Briar Island, NS.