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Canada: the essential lives

6 figures from Canada, from the earliest recorded to the present day.

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Dentist whose global survey of traditional diets tied refined food to physical degeneration.

Co-discovered insulin and sold the patent for one dollar.

Ran the first double-blind trials in psychiatry and founded orthomolecular medicine with high-dose niacin.

Made the short story carry the weight of novels.

The Handmaid's Tale became the global shorthand for reproductive coercion.

Physician of addiction and trauma; reframed illness as a response to lived adversity.