All the inductees will receive the Order of Sport this October at a ceremony.
This year's inductees include one skater - Patrick Chan
The rest of the inductees:One of Canada's greatest figure skaters, he won a gold and two silver at the Olympics. He also won three World Championships, three Four Continents Championships and 10 Canadian Championships. He is one of the few figure skaters to break the 100-point barrier in the short program, and only the third to break the 200-point barrier in the free program.
Angela Chalmers
As a track and field athlete, Chalmers won bronze at the 1992 Summer Olympics, silver at the Pan American Games and three gold at the Commonwealth Games in 1990 and 1994.
Kirby Cote
A blind Paralympian swimmer, between 2000 and 2008 she represented Canada at three Paralympic Games. At those games, she won seven gold medals and six silver medals.
Daniel Nestor
A tennis player, Daniel Nestor won 91 men's doubles titles including an Olympic Gold in 2000. He also won four Tour Finals titles and 12 major doubles titles. He was the first man in history to win every major and Masters event, the Tour Finals and an Olympic gold medal. In his doubles career, he won 1,062 games and lost 488.
Vicky Sunohara
One of the greatest hockey players in Canadian history, Sunohara is a trailblazer and pioneer in women's hockey. In her hockey career, she won two Olympic gold, and a silver. She also won seven World Championship golds. With Team Canada, she had 119 points in 164 games.
Fred Thomas
A multi-sport athlete, Thomas played basketball, baseball and football. Described as the best Canadian athlete Canadians have never heard of, he excelled in every sport he tried.
He was the 21st black player to sign a contract with a MLB team. He played basketball for the New York Renaissance and football with the Toronto Argonauts. He died in 1981.
Dr. Guylaine Demers
Dr. Demers helped generations of students, coaches and athletes to make sport a safe, equitable and welcoming place. She founded the Conversation Women and Sport Conference in 2015.
Alex Nelson
As a coach, mentor and administrator, Nelson helped transform access to sport and recreation for the Indigenous Peoples in Canada. He played a pivotal role in the creation of B.C.'s introductory Aboriginal Sport, Recreation and Physical Activity Strategy.
Debbie Brill
A Canadian high jumper, she became the first North American woman to clear six feet in competition. She developed the Brill Bend, a reverse jumping style, that is now commonly used by elite high jumpers. In her career, she won a Pan American Games gold, two Commonwealth Games Gold and an IAAF World Cup Gold.
