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Canadian professional ice hockey player Sidney Crosby is the captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). Widely regarded as one of the greatest hockey players of all time, he made his professional debut in 2005. Immediately rising to stardom, he has continued to impress the audience with his powerful gameplay.
Though born bi-racial, Viola Desmond became a Black icon for her business acumen. After not being allowed to train as a beautician in Halifax, she moved to Montreal. Her beauty products, salon, and training institute, all catering specifically to Black women, filled a major void in the beauty industry.
Edward Belcher was a British naval officer and explorer. He was the great-grandson of slave trader Jonathan Belcher. As a young man, he accompanied Frederick William Beechey's expedition to the Pacific and Bering Strait. He later led an Admiralty expedition to try to find and rescue Sir John Franklin, whose ship became icebound off King William Island in 1847.
The only member of The Eight who specialized in landscape painting, Ernest Lawson loved depicting winter and scenes from around Harlem and Hudson. Initially a draftsman at an engineering firm, he later studied art in Paris. He died after suffering a heart attack while on a morning walk on a Miami beach.
American poet, biographer and critic, John Malcolm Brinnin published his first collection of poems in the same year he graduated from the University of Harvard , thereafter, continuing to publish five more volumes of poems, biographies and travelogues. However, he is better known as the man who brought Dylan Thomas to America, guiding him on his speaking tour throughout USA.
Charles Ritchie was a Canadian diplomat and diarist. After receiving his education from Harvard University and École Libre des Sciences Politiques, he joined the Department of External Affairs. He eventually became a permanent representative to the United Nations. As a diarist, he published the diary, The Siren Years, and its three follow-ups that documented both his personal and professional life.
