Is there anyone in your neighbourhood or community who you view as a hero? Many people in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, view football player Rueben Mayes as a hero. Actually, Mayes comes from a family of heroes. Like his great-grandparents, he used determination and courage to achieve his goals.
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What do you like to do? Those activities might help you figure out what you want to do when you are older. Something you find fun right now can grow into a dream job. That is exactly how things worked out for Dr. Charlotte Williams!
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Violet Pauline King Henry was a Canadian lawyer. King was the first Black woman lawyer in Canada, the first Black person to graduate law in Alberta and the first Black person to be admitted to the Alberta Bar. She was also the first woman named to a senior management position with the American national YMCA.
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The Oliver Bowen Maintenance Facility (OBMF) is located in northeast Calgary, Alberta. It took a lot of money to build this facility. This is the place where the Calgary light rail transit (LRT) vehicles are washed, fixed, and stored.
This facility helps keep the transportation system in Calgary running smoothly. The name of this facility is no accident. It is named for the man who designed and managed Calgary’s first light rail transit line: Oliver Bowen.
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What are you passionate about doing? Have you tried it and found you are not very good at it? That is exactly what happened to writer Lawrence Hill.
Hill’s first goal was to be a runner. He was passionate about it! It was his dream to win an Olympic gold medal in the 5000 metres.
However, after training by running thousands of kilometres, Lawrence Hill discovered that he just couldn’t run fast enough to get an Olympic gold medal. Instead of seeing himself as a failure, Hill found another passion—one that has probably made him more famous than he would have been if he had succeeded at becoming an Olympic runner.
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Esi Edugyan, novelist (born 1978 in Calgary, AB). Esi Edugyan is a Ghanaian Canadian novelist whose work has become an influential part of the Canadian literary canon. Imbued with an interest in Black histories and the Black diaspora, her novels explore ideas of nation and belonging. They also examine the effects of Black migration and the resulting presence of Black subjects in predominantly white societies. Her novels Half-Blood Blues (2011) and Washington Black (2018) both won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, making her only the third writer to win the award twice.
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Andre de Grasse became Canada’s most decorated male summer Olympic athlete with six medals total after winning gold in the 200m, bronze in the 100m, and silver in the 4x100m relay at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
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From 2005 to 2010, Michaëlle Jean served as the Governor General of Canada. While holding this role, she was called Excellency. She is now called the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean. The Governor General represents Canada all over the world. Paul Martin, the Prime Minister of Canada at the time, chose Michaëlle Jean for this position.
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