A filmmaker, author, pilot and adventurer who was the first woman to circumnavigate Earth’s land portions by car. She travelled through 80 countries and shot documentary reels, including the earliest film of Brazil’s Bororo people. 

MATTY MCNAIR (FRCGS)
1951- | Iqaluit

Renowned Arctic guide and polar adventurer. Led the first all-female expedition to the North Pole, skied to the South Pole and crossed Greenland’s ice cap and Ellesmere Island. A founding member of the International Polar Guides Association. 

BERNARD VOYER (FRCGS)
1953- | Montreal

Polar explorer and mountaineer who was the first to ski across Ellesmere Island, the first Canadian to ski east to west across Greenland and to complete the “Explorers Grand Slam” (unassisted trips to both poles and all Seven Summits). 

PAUL LANDRY 
1955- | Montreal

Veteran Arctic guide, explorer and mountaineer. Part of the first team that reached Antarctica’s Pole of Inaccessibility without motorized craft. Earned Canada’s Medal of Bravery for saving hikers trapped in a river in Auyuittuq National Park. 

SHARON WOOD 
1957- | Canmore, Alta.

Mountaineer and guide who in 1986 became the first North American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest — and the first woman ever to do so by a new route along the west ridge, and without the assistance of a Sherpa. 

JULIE ANGUS & COLIN ANGUS (FRCGS) 
1974- / 1971- | Victoria 

Prolific world adventurers: Julie was the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean and the first Canadian woman to cross any ocean this way; Colin was the first person to complete a self-propelled global circumnavigation. Their company Open Ocean Robotics develops autonomous boats used for research. 

MEAGAN MCGRATH (FRCGS)
1977- | Sudbury, Ont.