Marc Garneau (b.1949-02 in Québec City, Québec,) was the first Canadian in space and was appointed president of the Canadian Space Agency in 2001. He flew on space shuttle missions STS-41G, STS-77 and STS-97. The Canadian Space Agency's website has an official biography.
Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 49099

Bonnie Bird (b.1947- ) and Andreas Gada (b.1952- ) are amateur astronomers in Toronto who were married in 1982. It is because of their hard work and leadership that the annual "Starfest" event has become such a tremendous success since it was first held in 1982. Both are active in the North York Astronomical Association, and Bird began work as Executive Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in 1997.
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Steve Dodson (b.1943-12-26) did graduate work in nuclear physics at the University of Ottawa in the 1960s, then taught high school in northern Ontario. From 1982 to 1992, he was on the staff at Science North, in Sudbury. Beginning in 1994, he made thousands of small "Stargazer Steve" telescopes.
Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 49099

Dafydd (Dave) Rhys Williams (b.1954-05-16 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,) flew on space shuttle mission STS-90 after being selected as a Canadian astronaut in 1992. Williams did his formal studies at McGill University, including an M.D. He has focussed on medical aspects of space flight. As a physician, he has focused on medical aspects of space flight. The Canadian Space Agency's website has an official biography.

Mike Costa (b.1954- ) is a Canadian amateur astronomer with wide-ranging observing interests, which he pursues with a 0.25-m Newtonian telescope. Costa has been an enthusiastic supporter of the activities of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, London Centre.
Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 49098

Martin Gerard Connors (1954- ), an associate professor at Athabasca University since 1996, was appointed Canada Research Chair in Space Science, Instrumentation and Networking in 2002.
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Reference: MPC 49098

Roberta Lynn Bondar (1945- ), selected as a Canadian astronaut in 1983, flew on space shuttle mission STS-42 and has inspired the interest of young Canadians in science.
Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke.

Reference: MPC 49098

Named in honour of Doris Billings, née Dora Kawchuk (b. 1925-), mother of the discoverer. Some of his earliest memories are of her fascination with space.

Reference: MPC 42362

Named in honour of Derek Charles Richardson (b. 1968-02-01 in Vancouver, British Columbia), an expert on computational techniques who has made major contributions to the study of rubble piles, particularly their tidal distortion and their collisions. Richardson uses the n-body problem to investigate how asteroids interact, and how comets, planetary rings and planets form. The focus of his work involves combining gravity and collisional dynamics. Richardson did his undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia and received a Ph.D.

Named in honour of Ivan M. Niven (b. 1915, d. 1999), a Canadian-U.S. mathematician who worked mainly in number theory. In 1943 he completed the proof of Waring's conjecture, a conjecture formulated in 1770 to the effect that every positive integer is the sum of a finite number of n-th powers of integers.

Reference: MPC 38202