List of Canadians of English descent

List of Canadians of English descent

The number of Canadians who are of English descent is largely unknowable given the propensity of many Canadians to use the term "English Canadian" or "English-Canadian" to mean anglophone Canadian Fact|date=March 2007.

Notable English immigrants to Canada

*Roger Abbott, comedian - born in Birkenhead
*Steve Armitage, sports announcer - born in Buckinghamshire
*Mackenzie Bowell, 5th Prime Minister of Canada
*Patrick Brown, broadcast journalist
*Kim Cattrall, actress
*Michael Cowpland, business CEO
*Alfred Gardyne de Chastelain, father of Canadian general John de Chastelain
*Dick Howard, soccer commentator - raised in Birkenhead
*Lennox Lewis, former boxer
*Peter Mansbridge, broadcast journalist, television news anchor
*Dave Ridgway, former CFL placekicker
*John Turner, 17th Prime Minister of Canada
*Frank Yallop, former soccer player and current team manager - raised in Watford and Vancouver
*Richie Hawtin an Electronic music DJ.

Notable Canadians of English descent

*Bryan Adams, popular music star performer
*Margaret Atwood, fiction writer
*Oswald Avery, medical researcher - born in Halifax, N.S. to English immigrant family
*R.B. Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada - of New England Planter descent; Bennett family had migrated to Connecticut in the 17th century
*Billy Bishop, flying ace
*Robert Borden, 8th Prime Minister of Canada - of New England Planter descent; paternal ancestor Richard Borden settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1638
*John Carling, son of English migrant to Upper Canada and brewery founder Thomas Carling, politician and along with his brother ran brewery
*Hayden Christensen, actor - portrayed the teen-aged and adult Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels
*David Edgar, Newcastle United soccer player - father is former pro Eddie Edgar
*Owen Hargreaves, Manchester United soccer player - son of immigrant English mother (and Welsh father)
*Joseph Howe, prominent Nova Scotia leader and father of Confederation - son of an United Empire Loyalist, the Howe family were descendant of Puritan migrants
*Michael Ironside, Canadian actor of English, Scottish, and Irish descent
*Sonija Kwok, Hong Kong actress, born there to English and Chinese parentage
*Jack Layton, New Democratic Party leader - Laytons migrated to Canada
*Mike Myers, actor - parents immigrated to Canada from the Liverpool area
*Steve Nash, star basketball player - born to English expatriates in South Africa, raised along with soccer player brother Martin in Victoria, B.C.
*Keanu Reeves

ee also

*Canadian of English descent


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