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Larry Walker was born in Maple Ridge, British Columbia in 1966. He has played baseball for the Montreal Expos and the Colorado Rockies. He was 1997 National League MVP and the 1998 National League batting champ. Al Waxman was born in Toronto on March 2, 1947. He worked as a stage actor in the Stratford Festival. Later, he starred in the Canadian t.v. series King Of Kensington (1975-80) and the American t.v. series Cagney and Lacey. He directed that series and several others including The Littlest Hobo, Night Heat and Hitchcock Presents. He died several years ago. Mike Weir was born in Sarnia, Ontario, in 1970. He plays in the PGA and won the 2000 World Golf Championship and the 2003 Masters. Ben Wicks was born in London, England, on October 1, 1926, and emigrated to Calgary in 1957. He created the comic strip The Outcasts. Percy Williams was born in Vancouver on May 19, 1908. He won 21 of 22 indoor sprints in 1929 and gold for the 100 and 200 metre sprints at the 1928 Olympics. He was named Canada's half-century track and field athlete. He died on November 29, 1982. Tonya Lee Williams was born on July 12, 1957 in London is an African Canadian actress, best known for her role as Dr. Olivia Barber Winters on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless, from 1990 to 2005, and for a brief time in 2007. Williams and her family lived in London and Kingston, Jamaica while she was a young child. At age 5, she contracted rheumatic fever; she and her mother went to live in Birmingham, United Kingdom. In 1969, she and her family settled in Oshawa, Ontario. As a teenager, she modeled in Eaton's catalogues and danced on a television series called Boogie! which ran on City TV. In 1977, Williams was crowned Miss Black Ontario. Her television debut was as a host of the Canadian children's show Polka Dot Door after graduating from Ryerson University in 1979. Appearances on the television series Check it Out! and Generations followed. Her involvement on Generations snagged her a role on The Young and the Restless, and has become her most lucrative role. Williams won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series in 2000 and 2002. Winnie-the-Pooh's name is taken from the Canadian bear mascot of a World War I troop. Captain Harry Colebourn, of Winnipeg, left the black bear cub at the London Zoo to go fight in the war in 1914. A.A. Milne, who was a World War I veteran, used the name in his stories as the bear was one of his son's, Christopher Robin, favourites. Winnipeg Jets were an ice hockey team that existed in both the World Hockey Association and the National Hockey League from 1972 to 1996. In 1996, the franchise was moved to Phoenix, Arizona, due to financial troubles and became the Phoenix Coyotes. World's Worst Drivers 2, shows a van being chased by police in Toronto along the lakeshore, going by Exhibition grounds (C.N. Tower is in one shot), and ends at Queen's Park, the Ontario parliamentary buildings. Also, a truck loses a load of pipes that fall from a bridge to the 401 expressway below and a cattle truck rolls over on the highways 401 and 400 intersection. Fay Wray was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, on September 15, 1907. She was an actress and starred in the original King Kong. Wrestlers |