- Georges Vanier, Canada’s first French Governor-General, and one of Canada’s greatest leaders whose religion actually informed his long and eventful life;
- Samuel Cunard, who founded a shipping line which si now international and still bears the family name;
- Alexander Fleming, the “timemaster” who invented Standard Time;
- Fred Rose, the only communist ever elected to Canadian Parliament, who was arrested as a spy and turned out to be the man who’d been feeding Igor Gouzenko information;
- the brilliant native artist Robert Markle; and
- General John DeChastelain, who is presently in Belfast trying to hammer out a peace agreement with the IRA and who has just discovered a looming family secret: his mother Marion was a spy.
