Harold Innis and later Marshall McLuhan, both Canadian media theorists, were influential in developing this theory.

In 1884 attempts were then made by the influential Barbados Agricultural Society to have Barbados form a political association with the Canadian Confederation.

She is considered by many to be one of the most important francophone writers in Canadian history and one of the most influential Canadian authors.

The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was one of the most influential strikes in Canadian history, and became the platform for future labour reforms.

The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was one of the most influential strikes in Canadian history, and became the platform for future labour reforms.

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.

The rise to power of arguably Canada's most influential Prime Minister was unique in Canadian politics.

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Based on a 1982 professional survey of USA and Canadian psychologists, he was considered as the second most influential psychotherapist in history ( Carl Rogers ranked first in the survey ; Sigmund Freud was ranked third ).

Woodcock, editor of the journal Canadian Literature, commissioned in 1962 the first of several essays from him, and Dudek invited him to guest-edit a Vancouver issue of his influential poetry magazine Delta.

The following year he joined the faculty of York University in Toronto to teach Canadian Literature and, amid teaching and research collaborations with Clara Thomas and Barbara Godard, quickly assumed a nationally influential role.

That paper, in Stephen Scobie's words ' a vastly influential essay ', almost immediately discredited thematic criticism in Canada and, forty years later, reverberates as well within Canadian postcolonial studies.

Sympathies among many politically and culturally influential Americans had favored the British cause from the start of the war, as typified by industrialist Samuel Insull, born in London, who helped young Americans enlist in British or Canadian forces.

He was influential in the creation of the Ryga Award for Social Responsibility in Canadian Literature, Ryga a Journal of Provocations, the Mackie Lecture and Reading Series, the Kalamalka Press, KIdsWWwrite ( a creative writing ezine ) and the KIWW Digital Archives, as well as several radio programs and newsprint collaborations such as The Kalamalka Chronicles.

Thomas John " Tom " Thomson ( August 5, 1877July 8, 1917 ) was an influential Canadian artist of the early 20th century.

Shore wrote the music for Canadian magician Doug Henning's magical / musical Spellbound in 1974, and from 1975 until 1980, he was the musical director for Lorne Michaels ' hugely influential late-night NBC comedy show Saturday Night Live appearing in many musical sketches, including Howard Shore and His All-Nurse Band, and dressed as a beekeeper for a John Belushi / Dan Aykroyd performance of the Slim Harpo classic I'm a King Bee.

A number of prime ministers and other influential Canadian elected officials are, or have been, financially dependent on Desmarais, including Jean Chrétien, who sat on the board of the Power Corporation of Canada.

Established in 1984 by Terry McBride, Mark Jowett, Tom Ferris and Cal Stephenson, initially to distribute recordings by the band Moev, the label subsequently expanded to release albums by a wide variety of Canadian and international alternative rock acts, ultimately becoming one of the largest and most influential independent record labels in Canada.

Sharp's support was influential in securing a prominent position for the Canadian Pavilion at Expo 67 during the Canadian Centennial, which had initially been proposed to be much smaller, limited to a single acre.

Power Corp is widely described as the power behind the Canadian government and influential elected officials.

-According to an EdUniversal ranking from 2011, the school is " universal " ( highest grade ) and ranks as the 24th most influential business school worldwide, right behind LSE ( 21st ), Cornell ( 22nd ) and NYU ( 23rd ) but ahead of University of Toronto ( Rotman, 25th ), IESE in Spain ( 25th ), Northwestern University ( Kellogg, 28th ), University of Chicago ( Booth, 33rd ), all but one Canadian school, and ahead of other international schools like ESSEC, ESCP-Europe, IE Business School, Dartmouth ( Tuck ) and even the prestigious University of Pennsylvania ( Wharton ).

On December 10, 2006, the Minister of Transport, Lawrence Cannon, announced Winnipeg International Airport was to be renamed Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport in honour of the influential businessman and pioneer of Canadian commercial aviation from Winnipeg.

He gained at least one influential disciple in a physician of high professional and social standing in Charles d ' Eslon private physician to the Count d ' Artois, one of the King's brothers.

In 157, aged 28, he returned to Pergamon as physician to the gladiators of the High Priest of Asia, one of the most influential and wealthiest men in Asia.

John Locke FRS (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 ), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.

In August 1891, British physician Sir Morell Mackenzie wrote an article in the 19th century influential magazines Fortnightly Review to establish England as the originating country for the Tom Collins cocktail and a person named John Collins as its creator.

Andreas Vesalius ( 31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564 ) was a Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica ( On the Structure of the Human Body ).

* Arab Muslim physician, Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi ( Abulcasis ) publishes his influential 30-volume medical encyclopedia the Al-Tasrif.

* John Cook Bennett ( 1804 – 1867 ), physician and a ranking and influential ( but short-lived and controversial ) leader of the Latter-Day-Saint movement, who acted as second in command to Joseph Smith, Jr. for a brief period in the early 1840s

A Scottish physician and surgeon, specialising in eye and muscular conditions, Braid was an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.

Pierre André Latreille was born on November 29, 1762 in the town of Brive, then in the province of Limousin, as the illegitimate child of Jean Joseph Sahuguet d ' Amarzit, général baron d ' Espagnac, and an unknown mother ; the surname " Latreille " was formally granted to him in 1813, and derives from a nickname of unclear provenance .. Latreille was orphaned at an early age, but had influential protectors – first a physician, then a merchant from Brive, and later a baron and his family ( after the baron's death ), who brought him to Paris in 1778.

Osborne Gordon, the influential Oxford don, Sir John Josiah Guest, engineer, entrepreneur, and Member of Parliament, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the Hollywood character actor, Ralph Lingen, 1st Baron Lingen, an influential Victorian civil servant ; Dr William Macmichael, physician to Kings George IV and William IV and author of The Gold-Headed Cane, Bishop Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and author of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Henry John Roby, the classical scholar, writer on Roman law, and Member of Parliament, Bishop Francis Henry Thicknesse, inaugural Suffragan Bishop of Leicester, General Sir Charles Warren, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police during the period of the Jack the Ripper Murders and a General in the Second Boer War, and Cyril Washbrook, the cricketer who played for Lancashire and England.

Galen of Pergamum, also a Greek, was the most influential ancient physician during this period.

( These developments of mesmerism were based upon a medical theory proposed in 1807 be the respected physician Johann Christian Reil and were adopted by Carl Alexander Ferdinand Kluge in an influential textbook of animal magnetism published in 1811 ).

The term was coined by the German physician C. W. Hufeland in 1819, when, in a preface to an influential book by German-Russian doctor C. von Brühl-Cramer, he translated Brühl-Cramer's term Trunksucht as dipsomania.

But Henana was not without protection: Queen Shirin was a convert from the Nestorian to the Monophysite creed, and so was Gabriel of Shiggar, the influential royal physician.

Hunayn ibn Ishaq ( also Hunain or Hunein ) (, ;, known in Latin as Johannitius ) ( 809 – 873 ) was a famous and influential Assyrian Nestorian Christian scholar, physician, and scientist, known for his work in translating Greek scientific and medical works into Arabic and Syriac during the heyday of the Islamic Abbasid Caliphate.

Eduardo Moacyr Krieger ( b. June 27, 1928, Cerro Largo, Rio Grande do Sul ) is an influential Brazilian physician, physiologist and scientific leader, current president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

In December 1663 Magnol received the honorary title brevet de médecine royal through mediation of Antoine Vallot, an influential physician of the king.

The founding physicians of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine included pathologist William Henry Welch ( 1850-1934 ), the first dean of the school and a mentor to generations of research scientists ; internist Sir William Osler ( 1849-1919 ), sometimes referred to as the “ father of modern medicine ,” having been perhaps the most influential physician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as author of The Principles and Practice of Medicine ( 1892 ), written in the Hopkins Hospital and published for more than a century ; surgeon William Stewart Halsted ( 1852-1922 ), who revolutionized surgery by insisting on subtle skill and technique, as well as strict adherence to sanitary procedures ; and gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly ( 1858-1943 ), a superb gynecological surgeon often credited with establishing gynecology as a specialty and being among the first to use radium to treat cancer.

His father, Dr. Ortiz Espada, a medical physician, was very influential in his life.