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984

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2016

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PEOPLE of small towns

The people who put small towns on the map

Olympic champions, literary legends, artists, and trailblazers — all from towns you can visit today

Featured Megan Oldham | Olympic Freestyle Skiing Champion
📍 Parry Sound, Ontario
Megan Oldham | Olympic Freestyle Skiing Champion
Parry Sound's newest Olympic champion — gold in big air, bronze in slopestyle, and the whole town showed up to welcome her home.
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Maud Lewis | Folk Artist
📍 Marshalltown, Nova Scotia
Maud Lewis | Folk Artist
From Marshalltown, near Digby, Nova Scotia Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Maud Lewis was a folk artist from Nova Scotia. She remains one of Canada’s best-known folk…
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Susanna Moodie | Author
📍 Lakefield, Ontario
Susanna Moodie | Author
From Lakefield, Ontario Susanna Moodie, née Strickland, sister of Catharine Parr Traill, was an author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada,…
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Alice Munro | Nobel Laureate
📍 Wingham, Ontario
Alice Munro | Nobel Laureate
From Wingham, Ontario Clinton, Ontario Alice Ann Munro is a short story writer and Nobel Prize winner. Born in 1931 in Wingham, Ontario Lived in…
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Margaret Atwood | Iconic Author
📍 Alliston, Ontario
Margaret Atwood | Iconic Author
Resided Alliston, Ontario Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. Born in 1939 in Ottawa. Lived in Alliston, Ontario…
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Robert-Ralph Carmichael | Loonie Creator
📍 Echo Bay, Ontario
Robert-Ralph Carmichael | Loonie Creator
From Echo Bay, Ontario Robert-Ralph Carmichael was an artist who designed the image of the common loon on the reverse side of the Canadian one-dollar…
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