Editing Lists of Canadians (section)

==Humanitarians==
* [[Louise Arbour]] (born 1947) – former [[UN High Commissioner for Human Rights]], former justice of the [[Supreme Court of Canada]], former Chief Prosecutor of the [[International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia|International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia]] and [[International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda|Rwanda]]
* [[J. Esmonde Barry]] (1923–2007) – healthcare activist and political commentator in [[New Brunswick]]
* [[Norman Bethune]] (1890–1939) – physician and medical innovator
* [[Richard Maurice Bucke]] <small>[[Royal Society of Canada|FRSC]]</small> (1837–1902) – psychiatrist, philosopher, early author on human development and human potentials
* [[Steve Fonyo]] <small>[[Order of Canada|OC Rescinded 2010]]</small> (born 1966) – retraced and completed Terry Fox's cross country cancer research fundraising marathon
* [[Terry Fox]] <small>[[Order of Canada|CC]] [[Order of the Dogwood|OD]]</small> (1958–1981) – attempted one-legged cross country run for cancer research
*[[Marc Kielburger]] (born 1977) – author, social entrepreneur, columnist, humanitarian and activist for children's rights; co-founder, with his brother [[Craig Kielburger|Craig]], of the [[WE (organization)|We Movement]]
* [[Grey Owl]] (1888–1938) (real name Archibald Stanfield Belaney) – [[conservation movement|conservationist]] who falsely presented himself as an [[Aboriginal people in Canada|Aboriginal person]] and worked to save the [[beaver]]s of [[Saskatchewan]] and [[Manitoba]]
* [[Rick Hansen]] <small>[[Order of Canada|CC]] [[Order of British Columbia|OBC]] [[Doctor of Laws|LLD]] (''[[Honorary degree|hc]]'') [[Doctor of Letters|DLitt]] (''[[Honorary degree|hc]]'')</small> (born 1957) – paraplegic athlete who completed an around-the-world marathon for spinal cord injury research
* [[Stephen Lewis]] <small>[[Order of Canada|CC]]</small> (born 1937) – [[AIDS]] activist, [[United Nations]] special envoy for [[HIV/AIDS]] in [[Africa]]
* [[Harold A. Rogers]] <small>[[Order of Canada|OC]] [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]</small> (1899–1994) – founder of Kin Canada
* [[Jean Vanier]] <small>[[Order of Canada|CC]] [[National Order of Quebec|GOQ]]</small> (1928–2019) – activist for the mentally disabled, founder of [[L'Arche]]