Etobicoke Hall of Fame is a civic

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, Ontario, Canada. It began as a project of

Etobicoke Etobicoke (, ) is an administrative district of, and one of six municipalities amalgamated into, the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Comprising the city's west-end, Etobicoke was first settled by Europeans in the 1790s, and the municipalit ...

, a borough of

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. Etobicoke is now part of the larger city of Toronto. The project has been continued by the

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Inductees

*Dr. A. Ann Curtin (1889-1977), 1974 * Thomas Fisher (1792-1874), 1974 * William Gamble (1805-1881), 1974 * Robert A. Given (b. 1924), 1974 * W. Earle Gordon (1891-1968), 1974 * Morfudd Harries (1903-1996), 1974 *Flt. Lt. David E. Hornell, VC (1910-1944), 1974 * Gus Ryder (1899-1991), 1974 * Robert Home Smith (1877-1935), 1974 *Reverend Canon Francis Treymayne, (1829-1919), 1974 *

Gordon Sinclair Allan Gordon Sinclair, OC, FRGS (June 3, 1900 – May 17, 1984) was a Canadian journalist, writer and commentator. Early life Sinclair was born in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, the son of George Alexander and Bessie Gol ...

(1900-1984), 1984 * Murray and Margaret Dryden (1911-2004, 1907-1985), 1986 * F. Edna Gardner (1904-1991), 1986 *Dr. J. Page Harshman (1916-1977), 1986 * Cliff Lumsdon (1931-1991), 1986 * Barry Gosse (1937-1988), 1987 * Geoffrey H. Wood (1896-1995), 1987 * Frederick T. James (1869-1949), 1988 *

John Borden Hamilton John Borden Hamilton, (May 16, 1913 – November 24, 2005) was a Canadian lawyer and Member of Parliament. Born in Barrie, Ontario, he was first elected in a by-election in 1954 in the Toronto riding of York West as a Progressive Conserv ...

, Q.C. (1913-2005), 1988 * Donald Strathdee (1931-1989), 1988 *Dr.

Lap-Chee Tsui Lap-Chee Tsui (; born 21 December 1950) is a Chinese-born Canadian geneticist and served as the 14th Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong. Personal life Tsui was born in Shanghai. He grew up in Kowloon, Hong Kong and att ...

, 1989 *

Alice Rycroft Alice may refer to: * Alice (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname Literature * Alice (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''), a character in books by Lewis Carroll * ''Alice'' series, children's and teen books by ...

(1914-2015), 1990 *

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(1932-1993), 1990 *

June Callwood June Rose Callwood, (June 2, 1924 – April 14, 2007) was a Canadian journalist, author and social activist. She was known as "Canada's Conscience". Callwood achieved acclaim and a loyal following for her articles and columns written for na ...

(1924-2007), 1992 * John P. MacBeth (1921-1991), 1993 * James A. McNabb (1905-1995), 1996 *

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(1914-1996), 1997 * Elizabeth "Betty" Coulter *

Marie Curtis Ann Marie Curtis (1911/12 – March 12, 2006), née McCarthy, was a Canadian politician, who served as the reeve of the Toronto suburb of Long Branch, Ontario from 1953 to her retirement in 1962. She was the first, and only, woman to become reeve ...

(1912-2006) * Stewart Davidson Sr. (1924-1985) *Reverend Stewart B. East * Howard P. Lowe (1914-1991) * Nora Pownall (1925-2015) * Kemp Scott (1914-2015), 1989

External links

Etobicoke Hall of Fame
at the City of Toronto website {{coord, 43.64365, N, 79.56537, W, display=title Etobicoke Halls of fame in Canada