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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Margaret Atwood, Frederick Banting, William Mulock, Emily Murphy, Manny Legace, Sam Steele, Bob Pulford, Martha Hall Findlay, J.J. Rouse, Ernest Charles Drury, Dan Knott, Dan Farrell, Jiggs McDonald, Jim Wilson, Ambrose Small, Rene Gaudette, Sherry Middaugh, Ty Arbour, Lloyd Turner, Wayne Middaugh, William Earl Rowe, William Leushner, Amos Arbour, Dalton McCarthy, John Crispo, Damien Robitaille, Piffles Taylor, William Erskine Knowles, Zelda McCague, Brent Laing, Paul DeVillers, Walter Ball, George McLean, Terry Martin, Andrew Miscampbell, Kate Aitken, Jim Rutherford, Ricardo Hoyos, Frank Foyston, Jack Arbour, John Gould, Dale Matchett, Steven H. Fishman, Ashley Hart, Randy Osburn, Keith Waples, Warren Holmes, Larry Gould, Duncan Fletcher McCuaig. Excerpt: Sir William Mulock, PC, KCMG, MP, QC, LL.D (January 19, 1843 - October 1, 1944) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, educator, farmer, politician, judge, and philanthropist. He served as vice-chancellor of the University of Toronto from 1881 to 1900, negotiating the federation of denominational colleges and professional schools into a modern university. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal Member of Parliament and served from 1882 to 1905. Sir Wilfrid Laurier appointed him to the Canadian Cabinet as Postmaster General from 1896 to 1905. In 1900, Mulock established the Department of Labour, bringing William Lyon Mackenzie King into public life as his Deputy Minister. He initiated the final agreement for a transpacific cable linking Canada to Australia and New Zealand, and funded Marconi to establish the first transatlantic radio link from North America to Europe. In 1905 he chaired the parliamentary inquiry into telephones that led to regulation of Canadian telecommunications, and he participated in the negotiations that led to the creation o...