David Gauthier (born 1932 in Toronto, died 2023-11-09) was educated at the University of Toronto (B.A. Hons., 1954), Harvard University (A.M., 1955), and the University of Oxford (B. Phil., 1957; D. Phil., 1961). In 1979, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (F.R.S.C.).

David Leslie Clark (b. 1956) is an amateur astronomer active in the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, London Centre, particularly in educational activities. In the late 1970s, Clark wrote an early example of a single-player computer game called Sopwith. He created ClearSky, a solar system demonstration and analysis software package. For the 2001 and 2016 RASC General Assemblies, Clark served as co-Chair. In 2023, Clark earned a PhD from Western University for his thesis "Observation And Modelling Of Meter-Class Earth Impacting Asteroids."

TRIUMF is Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and accelerator-based science. It is an international centre for discovery and innovation, advancing fundamental, applied, and interdisciplinary research for science, medicine, and business. Owned and operated by a university consortium, TRIUMF trains and inspires future leaders in science and technology.

William Wales (1734-98) and Joseph Dymond (1746-1796) were two young Yorkshire men sent to the shores of Hudson Bay by the Royal Society of London to observe the transit of Venus on 1769 June 3. They stayed for over a year at Fort Prince of Wales, near modern-day Churchill, Manitoba. They had worked under the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne, who recommended them for the transit expedition. In 1765, Wales married Mary Green, sister of Charles Green who was the astronomer on James Cook's expedition to observe the transit at Tahiti.

Bjarni Tryggvason (b.1945-09-21 in Reykjavik, Iceland; d.2022-04-05 in London, Ontario) was raised in Canada, studied at the University of British Columbia and Western University, and joined Canada's astronaut team in 1983. He flew on space shuttle mission STS-85. His expertise related to stable microgravity platforms and he taught at the University of Ottawa and the University of Toronto. The Canadian Space Agency's website has an official biography.

Robert Brent Thirsk (b.1953-08-17 in New Westminster, British Columbia), selected as a Canadian astronaut in 1983, flew on space shuttle mission STS-78. The Canadian Space Agency's website has an official biography.
Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid

Reference: MPC 49100

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is a sensitive detector built under about 2 km of rock in a mine near Sudbury, Ontario. Completed in 1998, SNO consists of photomultiplier tubes around heavy water. In 2001 the SNO collaboration announced evidence that neutrinos oscillate.
Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid

Reference: MPC 49100

Mike Lazaridis (1961- ) founded a technology company specializing in mobile communications, in Waterloo, Ontario, in 1984. In 2000, he organized the Perimeter Institute, dedicated to pure research in physics and cosmology.
Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 49099

Located in Québec City, Université Laval was founded as the Séminaire de Québec in 1663 by Monseigneur François de Laval, the first bishop of New France. Granted a royal charter in 1852, it was the first institution in North America to offer higher education in French.
Name proposed by Yvan Dutil; citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 49099

John Herbert Chapman (1921-1979) was a physicist who studied at the University of Western Ontario and McGill University. He began his career at the Department of National Defence studying the propagation of radio waves in the ionosphere, and as part of that work he directed the development of Canada’s first satellites Alouette 1, Alouette 2, and two more satellites in the International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies (ISIS) program.