British emigrants to Canada

British actress (born 1956)

British-Canadian writer

Delroy George Lindo is a British-born American actor. Starting his career in the 1975 stage production of Of Mice and Men, he later earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his work in the 1988 production of Joe Turner's Come and Gone. He received wider recognition with roles in several Spike Lee films, playing West Indian Archie in Malcolm X (1992), Woody Carmichael in Crooklyn (1994), and Rodney Little in Clockers (1995)

British actor (1919–2016)

Slovak-Jewish Auschwitz escapee, Canadian biochemist (1924–2006)

Canada-based British neuroscientist and neuropsychologist

Scottish-born Canadian politician (1904-1986)

British-Canadian science philosopher (1940–2024)

Canadian soccer player

British actress

Canadian writer and lecturer (1888–1938) who passed as half Indian in the latter years of his life

British-Canadian actor (1918-2008)

Canadian anthropologist

Canadian sprinter

athletics competitor (1878–1931)

British-born Canadian racing driver

Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary critic (born 1940)

Scottish-born Canadian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist

British actress

British dancer, founder and artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada (1921-2007)

Canadian rower (1898–1971)

cyclist

Canadian artist (1855-1925)

Canadian painter, member of the Canadian Group of Seven artists (1881-1969)

British-Canadian general (1903–1969)

poet (1927-1969)

Canadian inorganic chemist (1924-2021)

British director, actor (1921–2003)

Canadian singer and songwriter

Scottish-Canadian glaciologist and Arctic ice researcher (1918-1999)

child migration scheme under which more than 100,000 children were sent from the United Kingdom to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa

Canadian-American poet (1898–1986)

Canadian sport shooter, born 1882 (1882–1924)

British actor

British writer (1923–1999)

Canadian historian (1950-2016)

sport shooter (1877–1929)

British ice hockey player (1912–1975)

English ice hockey player (1910-1970)

Canadian ornithologist and bird artist (1869-1946)

Canadian mathematician

British-Canadian actor

aviator and poet (1922-1941)

British actress

Canadian ice hockey player (1911–1971)

Canadian archer (1913–2010)

Czech actress (1911–1986)

botanist (1881-1965)

British-born Canadian–American screenwriter, motion picture and television film director and producer

Canadian sport shooter

British Army general (1888-1971)

Canadian politician

Canadian roboticist

Canadian actor (1922–2009)

British food writer (1923–2022)

Premier of Saskatchewan, federal Cabinet minister, businessman, Chancellor of Queen's University (1885-1958)

Polish-born British adventurer

Canadian author

British engineer

Canadian ecologist (1924–2016)