* 1959 – Mark Steyn, Canadian writer and cultural critic

* 1923 – Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic ( d. 2003 )

* 1950 – Richard Ouzounian, Canadian / American theatre director and critic

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

* January 7 – Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic ( d. 2003 )

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, ( born November 18, 1939 ) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.

A leading critic called him " the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation " and a pivotal figure in the country's history.

Arguably, the best-known living Canadian writer internationally ( especially since the deaths of Robertson Davies and Mordecai Richler ) is Margaret Atwood, a prolific novelist, poet, and literary critic.

Herman Northrop " Norrie " Frye, ( July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991 ) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.

One left-wing critic is Professor Michael Mandel, who wrote that in comparison to politicians, judges do not have to be as sensitive to the will of the electorate, nor do they have to make sure their decisions are easily understandable to the average Canadian citizen.

Robert Baldwin " Robbie " Ross ( May 25, 1869 – October 5, 1918 ) was a Canadian journalist and art critic.

George Woodcock ( May 8, 1912 – January 28, 1995 ) was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic.

Di Brandt ( born 31 Jan 1952 ) is an award-winning Canadian poet and literary critic.

As a member of the Official Opposition from January 2006 until 2011, Dosanjh variously has been the critic of National Defence, Public Safety, and Foreign Affairs, as well as sitting on Standing Committee on National Defence, the Committee on Public Safety and National Security, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, and the Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan, and the Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

* Northrop Frye ( 1912 – 1991 ), Canadian literary critic

" In his essay " The Decline of the Comics ," ( Canadian Forum, January 1954 ) literary critic Hugh MacLean classified American comic strips into four types: daily gag, adventure, soap opera, and " an almost lost comic ideal: the disinterested comment on life's pattern and meaning.

Catherine Hunter ( born 1957 in Winnipeg, Manitoba ) is a Canadian poet, novelist, editor, professor and critic.

In the 1940s, Layton and his fellow Canadian poets rejected the older generation of poets, as well as critic Northrop Frye ; their efforts helped define the tone of the post-war generation poets in Canada.

The issue of Hans Island was raised in the Canadian Parliament by opposition foreign affairs critic Stockwell Day to highlight the government's failure to provide more funding for the military.

In 2003, she served as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of National Revenue, and later as the associate critic for the Canadian Border Services Agency.

In 1938, the Government of Canada invited John Grierson, a British film critic and film-maker, to study the state of the government's film production and this led to the National Film Act of 1939 and the establishment of the National Film Board of Canada, an agency of the Canadian government.

As a result of his comments, Spencer was stripped of his job as family issues critic by Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper on November 27, 2003.

At the end of the 37th Canadian Parliament, Asselin was the Bloc's Forestry critic.

William Hugh Kenner ( January 7, 1923 – November 24, 2003 ), was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor.

* 1944 – Conrad Black, Canadian publisher, historian, and author

* 1937 – Ronald Hamowy, Canadian historian ( d. 2012 )

* 1999 – Dale C. Thomson, Canadian professor and historian ( b. 1923 )

* 1906 – Joseph Schull, Canadian playwright and historian ( d. 1980 )

Independently, Ruth Bettina Birn ( the world's leading authority on the archives that Goldhagen had consulted and chief historian for War Crimes with the Canadian Department of Justice ) did the same-she and Finkelstein worked together on A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth.

* 1924 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator ( d. 2001 )

* 1920 – Olive Dickason, Canadian historian ( d. 2011 )

In 1962, Canadian historian Elliot Rose published A Razor for a Goat: A Discussion of Certain Problems in Witchcraft and Diabolism, in which he provided one of the first popular history books to openly criticise Murray's interpretation.

* 1903 – Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician, historian and genealogist ( d. 1993 )

* 1909 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat and historian ( d. 1957 )

* 1935 – Denis Vaugeois, Canadian author, historian, and politician

* 1819 – Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian ( d. 1902 )

* 2004 – Norman Cantor, Canadian historian ( b. 1929 )

For Canadian historian Charles Norris Cochrane ( 1889 – 1945 ), Thucydides ' fastidious devotion to observable phenomena, focus on cause and effect, and strict exclusion of other factors anticipates twentieth century scientific positivism.

Fred Graffen, military historian with the Canadian War Museum, estimated in Vietnam Magazine ( Perspectives ) that approximately 12, 000 of these personnel actually served in Vietnam.

For the task, Prime Minister Stephen Harper convened a special search group — the Governor General Consultation Committee — which consisted of Sheila-Marie Cook, secretary to the Governor General ( the chairperson ); Canadian Secretary to the Queen and Usher of the Black Rod Kevin MacLeod ; Christopher Manfredi, dean of the Faculty of Arts at McGill University ; Rainer Knopff, a political scientist at the University of Calgary ; Father Jacques Monet, of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies ; and Christopher McCreery, historian and private secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

The official royal tour historian, Gustave Lanctot, stated: " When Their Majesties walked into their Canadian residence, the Statute of Westminster had assumed full reality: the King of Canada had come home.

Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan, who detailed Lloyd George's role in the 1919 peace conference in her book, Paris 1919, is his great-granddaughter.

The Canadian historian Holger Herwig wrote that for Raeder: " The ideal weapon with which to attain sea power remained the symmetrical battle fleet centred around the battleship ".

The Canadian naval historian, Commander Kenneth Hansen wrote that Raeder in devising the idea of a task force of different types of ships was a more forward-looking and innovative officer than he was usually credited with being.

The Canadian historian Holger Herwig wrote that the Z Plan was Raeder's fantasy given that the Z Plan fleet would take 8 million tons of oil whereas in 1939 Germany imported a total of only six million tons of oil.

The Canadian historian Holger Herwig argued that Raeder wanted a splinted command structure in order to increase his power, and that adding an extra layer of bureaucracy was unhelpful to efficiency.

Raeder admitted in the Seekriegsleitung war diary that " The operation really breaks all the rules of naval warfare theory ", which the Canadian historian Holger Herwig wrote strongly suggests that Raeder's real reason for Weserübung was his desire to win the Kriegsmarine glory in the war as part of an effort to compete with the army and air force for funding.

" Though the first French and British colonizers of Canada interpreted the hereditary nature of some indigenous North American chieftainships as a form of monarchy, it is generally accepted that Canada has been a territory of a monarch or a monarchy in its own right only since the establishment of New France in the early 17th century ; according to historian Jacques Monet, the Canadian Crown is one of the few that have survived through uninterrupted succession since before its inception.