The young organization needed help for their protests and were contacted by David McTaggart, a former businessman living in New Zealand.

In 1972 the yacht Vega, a ketch owned by David McTaggart, was renamed Greenpeace III and sailed in an anti-nuclear protest into the exclusion zone at Moruroa to attempt to disrupt French nuclear testing.

The French Navy tried to stop the protest in several ways, including assaulting David McTaggart.

After the incidents of Moruroa, David McTaggart had moved to France to battle in court with the French state and helped to develop the cooperation of European Greenpeace groups.

* Hunter, Robert and McTaggart, David, Greenpeace III: Journey into the Bomb ( London: William Collins Sons & Co., 1978 ).

** David McTaggart, environmentalist ( born 1932 )

David Fraser McTaggart ( June 24, 1932-March 23, 2001 ) was a Canadian-born environmentalist who played a central part in the foundation of Greenpeace International.

* The David McTaggart Award

* David Fraser McTaggart: 1932-2001

* David McTaggart, 1932-2001

* David McTaggart in memoriam

* Shadow Warrior: The Life and Times of David McTaggart

* David McTaggart, Biography of a Leader

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Attending were Moore, Hunter, David McTaggart, Rex Weyler, and about six others.

Lalonde, with David McTaggart, an activist involved in the Greenpeace protests against French nuclear tests at Mururoa, helped create the confrontational strategies of boarding ships at sea in the 1970s.

During the time, the skipper, David McTaggart, was beaten and severely injured by members of the French military.

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It also lobbied successfully for inclusion of Magen David Adom in the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement.

Toronto mayor David Miller lobbied to have Hearn restored in some capacity to provide that power rather than build a second plant, while nearby residents opposed any kind of power generation plant in the area.

* 1770 – David Thompson, Canadian explorer ( d. 1857 )

* 1942 – David Steinberg, Canadian comedian, actor, director, and author

* 1980 – Charlie David, Canadian actor

* 1985 – David Hart Smith, Canadian wrestler

* 1937 – David Anderson, Canadian politician

* 1980 – David Desrosiers, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player ( Simple Plan and Reset )

* 1966 – David La Haye, Canadian actor

* 1936 – David Crombie, Canadian politician

* 1966 – David Usher, Canadian singer-songwriter ( Moist )

The nature of the event has also been met with criticism outside of Quebec, such as that given by Ottawa Citizen columnist David Warren, who said in 2007: " The Canada of the government-funded paper flag-waving and painted faces — the ' new ' Canada that is celebrated each year on what is now called ' Canada Day '— has nothing controversially Canadian about it.

David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC ( born March 15, 1943 ) is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor.

* 1973 – David Nedohin, Canadian curler

The Time in Between is a novel by Canadian author David Bergen.

* 1804 – David Wark, Canadian politician ( d. 1905 )

* 1926 – David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate

One Canadian author, economist and demographer David Foot, divides the generation born after the baby boomers into two groups in his book Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift: Generation X, born between 1960 and 1966 ; and the " Bust Generation ", born between 1967 and 1979.

Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ) and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ) recalled the Vietnam war ; George A. Romero satirized the consumer society in his zombie sequel, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ); Canadian director David Cronenberg featured the " mad scientist " movie sub-genre by exploring contemporary fears about technology and society, and reinventing " body horror ", starting with Shivers ( 1975 ).

* John David Ford, Canadian political figure ; Green Party leader in Ottawa South ; candidate in 2004 and 2006 federal elections ( Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007 )

* 1882 – Athanase David, Canadian lawyer, politician, and businessman ( d. 1953 )

* 1946 – David Collenette, Canadian politician

* 1959 – David Shore, Canadian writer

* 1969 – David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor

Louis David Riel (, ; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885 ) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political and spiritual leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies.