THREE GREAT CANADIANS
A great jazz piano player is a…Canadian! One of the greatest Canadian musicians is world-famous for his jazz music. Oscar Peterson is a piano player from Montreal. He has made over 150 recordings and CDs and has played with the greatest jazz musicians in history. Although he is quite old now, he still goes on tour with his music group.
A brave medical researcher is a …Canadian! Dr Nancy Olivieri, a children’s doctor from Toronto, has become famous for refusing to support a drug that she was working on.
A big drug company paid her to do the research, but when she found that the drug was dangerous to children, she made a public report. The drug company and the hospital where she worked said they would make her lose her job. She refused to change her report, and is now a hero to honest medical scientists.
The best hockey player in the world is a …Canadian! Everyone who is interested in ice hockey has heard of the Canadian star Wayne Gretsky, “The Great One .” People say he is the greatest hockey player who ever lived and think highly of him mostly for the fact that the is a real team player.
He believed that working with his team to score goals was more important than being the star, but , in fact, he was the star player and scored a record number of goals.
