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Aaron Doornekamp, professional basketball player, member of the
Canadian national men's basketball team. •
Alan Aylesworth Macnaughton, Senator and former
Member of Parliament for the electoral district of
Mount Royal between 1949 and 1966. Speaker of the
House of Commons (1963–1966), founder of the Canadian branch of the
World Wildlife Fund and Officer of the
Order of Canada (1995). Born in Napanee on July 30, 1903. The Senator was the grandson of a former mayor of Napanee, Jehiel Aylesworth. •
Albert Schultz,
Gemini Award winning actor, he starred in the
CBC Television hit drama
Street Legal and the medical drama
Side Effects. His theatre career includes leading roles at the
Stratford Festival and as Founding Artistic Director of the
Soulpepper Theatre Company. Schultz moved to Napanee at an early age and he attended elementary school there. •
Arthur Eyguem De Montaigne Jarvis, World War I
flying ace. As a member of the
Royal Flying Corps scored at least five victories. Awarded the United Kingdom's
Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). Also decorated by the government of France with the
Croix de Guerre with Palm. Jarvis was born in Napanee and spent his childhood there. His father was the deacon of the Anglican church in Napanee. •
Avril Lavigne, musician, grew up in Napanee. She sang about the town in her song "My World" from her debut album,
Let Go. The town is also mentioned in her single "
Young & Dumb" Avril Lavigne has sold more than 35 million albums worldwide. •
Britt Benn, athlete, member of Canada's gold medal-winning team in Rugby Women's Sevens at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto. Benn was also a bronze medal winner at the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the same event. •
Deborah Kimmett, writer and comedian and former member of
The Second City's
Toronto cast. •
Edgar D’Arcy McGreer, (1898-1973), Born in Napanee, joined the Department of External Affairs in 1927. Served as High Commissioner to South Africa, envoy to Denmark, envoy to Poland, Ambassador to Israel, and Ambassador to Greece. •
Edmund James Bristol, Born (September 4, 1861) and raised in Napanee. Member of Parliament (MP) serving the electoral district of
Toronto Centre in the
House of Commons of Canada (1905 by-election and re-elected in 1908, 1911, 1917, 1921, and 1925). In 1921, he served as Minister without Portfolio in Prime Minister
Arthur Meighen's cabinet. An avid sportsman, Edmund Bristol won the Royal Canadian Yacht Club's Prince of Wales Cup in 1895. •
Kathleen Frances Daly, painter. Born in Napanee on May 28, 1898. Closely associated with the
Group of Seven, her works can be found in many major Canadian exhibitions as well as in exhibits in London, England. •
H. Bedford-Jones, born in Napanee, Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (1887–1949) was a Canadian historical adventure fantasy and science fiction writer. He wrote over 100 novels and was considered one of the leading pulp fiction writers of the 20th century. •
Harry Ham, born in Napanee, Harry Breden Ham (1886–1943) was an early silent screen actor in
Christie and
Mutual comedies from the mid-1910s. Perhaps his most famous role was that of leading man, Harry Faversham in the UK release of
The Four Feathers (1921 film). •
John Gibbard founded the Gibbard Furniture Company in Napanee in 1835. The company operated for 173 years and was the oldest furniture maker in Canada and one of the oldest continuously operating companies in North America at the time of its closing. Gibbard's furniture can be found in many Canadian embassies around the world. • Sir
John A. Macdonald, lawyer, businessman, politician, first Prime Minister of Canada. At age 17, Sir John A. managed a branch legal office in Napanee (1832–1834). As Prime Minister he would bring Manitoba, BC and PEI into the confederation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald was the architect of the transcontinental railway that united the West Coast with the rest of Canada. This critical rail link was a condition for B.C. joining the confederation. •
Leroy Blugh, Former
Canadian Football League defensive lineman who played fifteen seasons in the CFL including eleven seasons for the
Edmonton Eskimos. Two-time CFL West Division All-Star and
Grey Cup Champion (1993). In 2014, Blugh was named defensive line coach for the CFL's,
Ottawa Redblacks. Later in 2014, Blugh was named to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. •
Lesley Thompson, Five-time Olympic medalist, including winner of an Olympic gold medal in the Women's Eights Rowing event in Barcelona, Spain, 1992. Upon winning a silver medal in the same event at the London 2012 games, she became the first Canadian to win medals at five different Olympic Games. •
Michael Breaugh (1942–2019) Member of Parliament (MP) in the
House of Commons of Canada (1990–1993) representing the electoral district of
Oshawa. Prior to that Breaugh served as Member of the Provincial Parliament (MPP) for
Oshawa in the
Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1975 to 1990). •
Ralph McCabe, former
Major League Baseball pitcher with the
Cleveland Indians (1946) •
Reginald Aldworth Daly, (1871–1957) geologist; taught at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1907–12) before joining
Harvard University (1912–42). He was an authority on igneous rocks and the geological structures of the Earth's crust and independently developed the theory of
magmatic stoping. Daly was awarded the
Penrose Medal in 1935, the
Wollaston Medal in 1942 and the
William Bowie Medal in 1946.
Craters on
Mars and the
Moon are named in his honor. His home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, (the
Reginald A. Daly House) is now an American
National Historic Landmark. •
Ryan Gary Letourneau, (born 1988) full-time Twitch streamer and YouTuber; known online as Northernlion. •
Scott Chadwick, professional curler with Team Epping •
Stuart Wood, was born in Napanee on October 17, 1889, served as the ninth Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, from March 6, 1938, to April 30, 1951. He was a CMG (
Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George) and the great-great-grandson of U.S. President
Zachary Taylor. •
Toby Sexsmith, was born in Napanee on October 23, 1885, and served as a Member of Provincial Parliament in the
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1933 to 1943, and also served as president of the
Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. •
Helen Merrill Egerton (1866-1951), Canadian writer ==See also==