Having moved to New York City during the Depression, Jane Jacobs, OC, O. Ont, (b.1916 in Scranton, PA - d.2006 in Toronto) was way ahead of her time in championing the idea that cities are more important than nations in the "real economic world". Cities should not be laboratories for ill-placed expressways and housing projects but left to develop by themselves.

Harvard University economist and polemicist John Kenneth Galbraith (b.1908 in Iona Station, Ontario - d.2006 in Cambridge, MA), renowned for his use of irony and for stressing the human element in the study of economics, rejected "the conventional wisdom" (a term introduced in his 1958 best-seller The Affluent Society) and the idea that economics is a "science".

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid

Reference: MPC 56957

Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943), a Canadian novelist, poet and writer, was born in Sri Lanka into a Burgher family. Best known for his novel The English Patient, adapted into an award-winning movie, he returned to his Sri Lankan origins in two other books, Running in the Family and Anil's Ghost.

Orbit type: Amor 

Reference: MPC 56958

Daniel Majaess (b. 1984) is a young Canadian observational astronomer who researches the Cepheid distance scale, variable stars, and the Milky Way’s spiral structure and its many star clusters. He frequently makes innovative use of photometric surveys and data from small telescopes.

Orbit type: Main Belt

Reference: MPC 79108

John Pond (1767–1836), sixth Astronomer Royal, is famous for the introduction of then-modern transit instruments at Greenwich Observatory and for publishing a high-precision star catalogue. Pond received the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. The name was suggested by L. D. Schmadel.

Sedna is the Inuit goddess of the sea and the mother of all sea creatures. She rewards the people of the land with food from the sea. Without her blessing, hunts fail and the people starve. She is thus one of the most important figures in Inuit legend.

Named in honor of Robert Burnham, senior editor of the magazine "Astronomy".  Over many years he has been partly responsible for its evolution into the astronomical publication with the world’s largest readership.  In 1983, Burnham’s "The Star Book" appeared with a series of clearly designed star charts to guide beginners on their way to an understanding of the night sky.  Robert Burnham grew up in Toronto in the 1970s as a member of the RASC Toronto Centre, following in the footsteps of Terence Dickinson and Richard Berry.