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Tommy Hunter

Thomas James Hunter, CM, O Ont, singer, guitarist, television host (born 20 March 1937 in London, ON; died 2 July 2026) An icon of Canadian country music, Tommy Hunter was a smooth country singer and genial television personality, best known for hosting CBC TV’s widely popular The Tommy Hunter Show (1965–92), North America’s longest-running TV music program. Known as “Canada’s country gentleman,” Hunter is a member of the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, the Canadian Country Music Association Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Tommy Prince

Thomas George Prince, war hero, Indigenous advocate (born 25 October 1915 in Petersfield, MB; died 25 November 1977 in Winnipeg, MB). Tommy Prince of the Brokenhead Ojibway Nation is one of the most-decorated Indigenous war veterans in Canada, having been awarded a total of 11 medals for his service in the Second World War and the Korean War. When he died, he was honoured at his funeral by his First Nation, the province of Manitoba, Canada and the governments of France, Italy and the United States. ( See also Indigenous Peoples and the World Wars.)
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Tommy Reilly

Tommy (Thomas Rundle) Reilly. Harmonica player, composer, teacher, b Guelph, Ont, 21 Aug 1919, d Frensham, Surrey, England, 25 Sep 2000. His father, Captain James Reilly (1886-1956), a trumpeter and violinist, led (in Guelph, 1920-5) one of the first jazz bands in Canada.
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Tommy Sexton

The show took them back to St. John's, where they engaged Robert JOY and, in their next production Sickness, Death and Beyond the Grave, Andy JONES (Sametz left the group after the Toronto show). They continued to perform together until 1977, when they disbanded.
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Tony Bradan

Antonio Alfredo Bradanovich, teacher, guitarist, arranger (born 6 October 1913 in Ladner, BC; date of death unknown). Tony Bradan was a Yugoslavian Canadian guitarist who played with Mart Kenney's Western Gentlemen and several CBC Radio orchestras. He also had a distinguished and influential career as a guitar teacher and has been called “the father of modern guitar styles in Canada.” His pupils included Ed Bickert, Rob Piltch and Kim Mitchell.
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Tony Burgess

Tony Burgess, novelist, screenwriter and musician (born 7 September 1959 in Toronto, ON).
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Tony Comper (Interview)

After the federal government vetoed, in December, 1998, a planned merger of the Royal Bank and the Bank of Montreal, BMO CEO Matt Barrett announced his resignation little more than two months later.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on September 23, 2002
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Tony Golab

Anthony Charles “Tony” Golab, CM, football player (born 17 January 1919 in Windsor, Ontario; died 16 October 2016 in Ottawa, Ontario). Known as the “golden boy” of Canadian football, Tony Golab was a hard-charging, versatile player with the Ottawa Rough Riders. He played with the team from 1939 to 1941 and again from 1945 to 1950, serving as an RCAF flight lieutenant and pilot during the Second World War. Golab played offence and defence for Ottawa, where his spirited style made him a fan favourite. He appeared in four Grey Cup games, winning in 1940, and was named Canada’s male athlete of the year (now known as the Lionel Conacher Award) in 1941. He is a member of the Order of Canada, the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame.
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Tony Romandini

Tony (Giuseppe Alexander Antonio) Romandini,. Guitarist, composer, arranger, teacher, b Montreal 27 Jul 1928. He studied guitar 1937-40 with a teacher named Calabrese in New York and at 15 played with Maynard Ferguson in Montreal.
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Tony Toth

Tony Toth. Oboist, english hornist, saxophonist, clarinetist, copyist, b Windsor, Ont, d Hamilton 23 Oct 2003. Among Tony Toth's teachers were Herbert Pye (clarinet, Toronto Conservatory of Music), Maurice Morel (oboe, english horn, and clarinet, Paris 1960), and Virginia Markson (flute).
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Tony van Bridge

Tony Van Bridge, actor, director, writer (b Valentine Anthony Neil Bridge, at London, Eng 28 May 1917; d at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont 20 Dec 2004). Graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1938, he acted in provincial repertory theatre before the war.
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Tony Wakeham

Tony Wakeham, premier of Newfoundland Labrador 2025–present, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador 2023–present, politician, businessman, public servant, basketball player and administrator (born 16 July 1956 in Placentia, NL). Tony Wakeham had a decades-long career as a public servant in Newfoundland and Labrador before entering politics in December 2017. He was elected as an MHA in the riding of Stephenville- Port au Port in 2019 and became leader of the province’s Progressive Conservative Party in 2023. In October 2025, Wakeham and the PCs brought an end to three consecutive Liberal governments by winning a narrow majority with 21 seats. Wakeham has also had a long career in basketball and was inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Basketball Association’s Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Tony Whitford

Anthony (Tony) Wilfred James Whitford, ONWT, Commissioner of Northwest Territories 2005-2010, politician (born 11 June 1941 in Fort Smith, NWT; died 16 September 2024 in Yellowknife, NWT). Throughout his life, Tony Whitford held multiple political positions, including on the town council of Fort Smith and in the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly. In 2005, Whitford was named commissioner of the Northwest Territories.
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Tonya Verbeek

Tonya Lynn Verbeek, wrestler, coach (born 14 August 1977 in Grimsby, ON). Tonya Verbeek has won three Olympic medals in wrestling — more than any other Canadian. She was also the first female Canadian wrestler and the oldest Canadian wrestler (at age 34) to win an Olympic medal. Verbeek won silver at the 2004 Olympic Summer Games in Athens, bronze at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and silver at the 2012 Games in London, all in the women’s 55 kg weight class. She also won three medals at the World Freestyle Wrestling Championships, three medals at the Pan American Games and one medal at the Commonwealth Games. She was inducted into the United World Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2024.
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Taqulittuq (Tookoolito)

Taquliituq (also known as Tookoolito or Hannah), Inuit translator, guide (born in 1838 near Cumberland Sound, NU; died 31 December 1876 in Groton, Connecticut). Taqulittuq and her husband, Ipirvik (also known as Ebierbing), were well-known Inuit explorers of the 19th century who significantly contributed to non-Inuit knowledge of the North. They served as guides and translators to American explorer Charles Francis Hall. The Government of Canada recognized Taqulittuq and Ipirvik as National Historic Persons in 1981.
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