* 1914 – Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet ( d. 1988 )

* 1916 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet ( d. 2000 )

* 1827 – Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet ( d. 1879 )

A cheese of 7, 000 lb ( 3, 175 kg ) was produced in Ingersoll, Ontario, in 1866 and exhibited in New York and Britain ; it was immortalised in the poem " Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing over 7, 000 Pounds " by James McIntyre, a Canadian poet.

* 1939 – Raôul Duguay, Canadian artist, poet, musician, and political activist

* Canadian poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen recited the poem as an introduction to his own song " The Darkness ", during a couple of shows on his 2010 world tour, most notably at his State Kremlin Palace show on 7 October.

* John-James Ford ( born 1972 ), Canadian foreign service officer who gained notability as poet, short story writer and novelist ; winner of 2006 Ottawa Book Award

* 1929 – Bliss Carman, Canadian poet ( b. 1861 )

* 1874 – Robert W. Service, Canadian poet ( d. 1958 )

* 1879 – Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet ( b. 1827 )

* 1860 – Charles G. D. Roberts, Canadian poet and writer ( d. 1943 )

* 1942 – Pierre Morency, Canadian poet and playwright

* 1986 – Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist ( b. 1913 )

* 1939 – Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist, critic and essayist

* 1839 – Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet ( d. 1908 )

* 1916 – P. K. Page, Canadian poet ( d. 2010 )

* 1928 – Gilles Vigneault, Canadian poet, singer and songwriter

The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony ; Calixa Lavallée wrote the music as a setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed by poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier.

* Rhea Tregebov ( b. 1953 ), Canadian poet and children's author

* 1981 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor, author, and poet ( b. 1899 )

In 1904 Canadian poet Bliss Carman published Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, which was not just a translation of the fragments but an imaginative reconstruction of the lost poems.

* Bliss Carman-19th-century Canadian poet

* Sir Charles G. D. Roberts-19th-century Canadian poet

* Patrick Lane, poet and the recipient of almost every major Canadian literary prize

* April 26 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet ( b. 1882 )

Other honorary alumni award-winning filmmaker include Costa-Gavras, skier Nancy Greene Raine, Milton Wong, Doris Shadbolt, dancer and choreographer Judith Marcuse, economist Jeffrey Sachs, Peter Gzowski, Douglas Coupland, Romeo Dallaire, Canadian businessman Stephen Jarislowsky, Iain Baxter, American agriculturalist Cary Fowler, Martha Piper, Sarah McLachlan, and Rick Hansen.

* August 20 – Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright ( b. 1923 )

* March 30 – Milton Acorn, Canadian writer ( d. 1986 )

* December 13 – Alexander Milton Ross, Canadian abolitionist ( d. 1897 )

Milton James Rhode Acorn ( March 30, 1923 – August 20, 1986 ), nicknamed The People's Poet by his peers, was a Canadian poet, writer, and playwright.

* Canadian Poetry Online: Milton Acorn-Biography and 6 poems ( The Island, I Shout Love, What I Know of God is This, Hummingbird, Live With Me On Earth Under the Invisible Daylight Moon, The Natural History of Elephants )

* Milton Acorn's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia

* August 20 – Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright

* Robert Milton Johnson ( 1879 – 1943 ), Progressive party member of the Canadian House of Commons

The Biotic Baking Brigade is a loosely connected group of activists famous for throwing pies in the faces of such figures as Bill Gates, San Francisco mayors Willie Brown, and Gavin Newsom, anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps, economist Milton Friedman, Swedish King Carl Gustaf, former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, conservative journalist William F. Buckley, former WTO head Renato Ruggiero, and Ann Coulter, among others.

Tabor, Wallingford, Clarendon, Rutland, the city of Rutland, the towns of Pittsford, Brandon, Leicester, Salisbury, Middlebury, New Haven, Waltham, Ferrisburg, Charlotte, Shelburne, the cities of South Burlington, Burlington, and Winooski, the towns of Colchester, Milton, Georgia, St. Albans, the city of St. Albans, and the towns of Swanton and Highgate before ending at I-89 just south of the customs offices at the Canadian border.

* Milton Acorn ( 1923 – 1986 ), Canadian poet

Brigadier Milton Fowler Gregg, VC, PC, OC, CBE, MC, ED, CD ( 1892 – 1978 ) was a Canadian officer, and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces during the First World War.

Milton Gregg served during the First World War as a sergeant in the medical corps and later as an officer of The Royal Canadian Regiment.

* James Thomas Milton Anderson ( 1878 – 1946 ), Canadian politician ; Premier of Saskatchewan, 1929 – 1934

Parallel to these tracks, running along their southwest side, is the Galt Subdivision of the Canadian Pacific Railway, also double-track ; this carries GO trains on the Milton line, but they do not stop at Bloor station.

Although ridership is growing on the Milton line including at Dixie, GO cannot increase its services here at present because the line is shared with busy Canadian Pacific Railway freight trains.

Despite growing ridership on the Milton line, GO cannot schedule additional trains because of the busy Canadian Pacific Railway freight services running on the same tracks.

Although ridership on the Milton line has grown beyond GO's expectations, it is not possible to run more trains, because the tracks are already busy with Canadian Pacific Railway freight traffic.

Although ridership on the Milton line has grown beyond GO's expectations, it is not possible to run more trains, because the tracks are already busy with Canadian Pacific Railway freight traffic.

* Alexander Milton Ross ( 1832 – 1897 ), Canadian abolitionist

Oakville — Milton was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1997.

Dirk Milton Graham ( born July 29, 1959 ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Chicago Blackhawks and Minnesota North Stars in the National Hockey League.

William Milton " Riley " Hern ( December 5, 1880 – June 24, 1929 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender.