• Jonathan Swift
  
  Detail from a Charles Jervas painting, National Portrait Gallery November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745 Born in Dublin, Swift took religious orders in 1694 and was appointed Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1713. Author of such social ...
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• Joseph Fort Newton
  
  July 21, 1880 - January 24, 1950 Baptist minister and masonic author, Joseph Fort Newton is remembered for several masonic books, The Builders in 1914 and The Men's House in 1923 being two of the most widely reprinted. His autobiography, River of Ye ...
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• Joseph Roberts Smallwood
  
  Atlantic Films Photo. December 24, 1900 - December 18, 1991 Reporter, publisher, union-organizer, farmer, and premier of Newfoundland from 1949 until 1971, "Joey" Smallwood was called the last living father of Canadian Confederation. Smallwood's ...
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• Joseph Rudyard Kipling
  
  December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936 Born in Bombay, India, Rudyard Kipling was educated in England, returning to India in 1882. As a poet, author, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907, he published over 80 stories and ballads. Mos ...
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• Joseph-François Perrault
  
  Painting attributed to Louis Dulongpré 1753-1844 Known during the 19th century as the "Father of Education in Canada" Perrault was born in Quebec City at the end of the French regime. Elected to the House of Assembly in 1796 and 1800, he gav ...
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• Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
  
  May 28, 1738 - March 28,1814 French physician, president of the Chamber of the Provinces in 1775, founder of the French Acadamy of Medicine, and deputy to the French assembly in 1789, Dr. Guillotin neither invented nor met his death by the guillotin ...
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• Josiah Henson
  
  June 15, 1789 - May 15, 1883 After he escaped to Canada on 28 October 1830, it is said he aided more than 600 slaves to freedom. Widely considered the inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), the Rev. Josiah Henson is ...
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• King Camp Gillette
  
  January 5, 1855 - July 9, 1932 The American inventor, King Gillette, introduced the safety razor to the market on September 28, 1901. Gillette was part of a broad socialist movement in the USA in the 1890s, who wanted to use the profits from his sa ...
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• Lord Stanley
  
  January 15, 1841 - June 14, 1908 Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, 1st Baron Stanley of Preston was Colonial Secretary from 1885 to 1886 and Governor-General of Canada from 1888 to 1893. A Conservative Member of the British Parliamen ...
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• Lord Thomson of Fleet
  
  Topix photo June 5, 1894 - August 4, 1976 "It is the social mission of every great newspaper to provide a refuge and a home for the largest number of salaried eccentrics." The son of a Toronto barber, Roy Herbert Thomson started his first radio ...
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• Ludwig van Beethoven
  
  Painting by W.J Mähler Karajan Collection, Salzburg Baptized December 17, 1770 - March 26, 1827 Although there is no definite masonic record for Ludwig van Beethoven, there are strong grounds for believing that he was a mason. "Many of his ...
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• Major James Skitt Matthews
  
  September 7, 1878 - October 1, 1970 At one time an officer with the Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles Sixth Regiment—and described as a "holy terror"—Major Matthews was first granted use of a garret over the old city market at Hastings and Ma ...
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• Malcolm Bruce MacLennan
  
  November 24, 1873 - March 20, 1917 Born in Montique, Prince Edward Island and with twenty years on the Vancouver police force, MacLennan (also spelt McLennan) had been an early proponent of medical assistance for drug addicts rather than criminal pro ...
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• Manly Palmer Hall
  
  Philosophical Research Society, Inc. March 18 1901 (Ontario) - 1990 Manly P. Hall is author of over 75 published works, the best known of which are Initiates of the Flame, The Story of Healing, The Divine Art,Aliens Magick and Sorcery The Secret T ...
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• Mark Twain
  
  1901 photograph in the Bancroft Library Nov. 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910 Well known and often quoted author, Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote such classics as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticutt Yankee in King Arthur's Court. One ti ...
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• Matthew McBlain Thomson
  
  c.1854 - A masonic charlatan who, with Robert S. Spence and Herbert P. Jefferson, founded the American Masonic Federation on September 21, 1907. He falsely claimed to be authorized by charters issued by Mother Kilwinning Lodge No. 0 and the Supreme ...
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• Mel Blanc
  
  May 30 1908 - July 10, 1989 Known as "the Man of 1,000 Voices," Melvin Jerome Blank was an accomplished bassist, violinist and sousaphone player. Early in his career he played in the NBC Radio Orchestra and conducted the pit orchestra at the Orpheum ...
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• Melvin Jones
  
  January 13, 1879 - June 1, 1961 Founder of the service club, Lions Clubs International, on June 7, 1917, Melvin Jones believed that "You can't get very far until you start doing something for somebody else." In 1950, when membership had passed the 4 ...
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• Napoleon I
  
  Detail, painting by Jacques Louis David.National Gallery, Washington August 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821 Born Napoleone Buonaparte in Corsica and trained in military schools in Paris, Napoleon was promoted to general after the seige of Toulon in 1793. ...
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• Nat Bailey
  
  Triple-O: the White Spot story, Constance Brissenden, 1993. January 31, 1902 - March 27, 1978 Nathaniel Ryal Bailey arrived in Vancouver from St. Paul, Minnesota with his parents at the age of eleven. Founder of the first drive-in restaurant in ...
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• Norman Vincent Peale
  
  Guideposts May 31, 1898 - December 24, 1993 Ordained a Methodist Episcopal minister, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was the pastor of Marble Collegiate Church for 52 years and the author of 46 books, including The Power of Positive Thinking. Member Mid ...
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