A list of notable alumni and staff affiliated with Shawnigan Lake School, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. This list alumni known within fields including artists, athletes, broadcasters, businesspeople, musicians, actors, politicians, scholars, and scientists.
Artists Mark Hobson - Artist https://www.shawnigan.ca/news-detail?pk=891000 Robert Stewart Hyndman – Artist Peter Saul – ArtistJ Hoberman in The Point 29 Dec. 2020, https://thepointmag.com/criticism/shock-value-peter-saul/ Brendan Tang - Visual Artist, Judge on The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down
Athletes Eloise Blackwell – New Zealand Black Ferns captain (46 caps) Brett Beukeboom – Rugby Canada captain (32 caps) and Cornish Pirates player Hannah Darling – 2016 Olympic bronze medalist, 2015 Pan American Games gold medalist, Rugby Canada player Bryan Donnelly – Team Canada rower, 2000 Olympic Games Eddie Evans – Rugby Canada player, prop for Canada national team, 1987, 1991, 1995 Rugby World Cups (50 caps) George Hungerford – 1964 Olympic gold medalist for Team Canada in the coxless pair Josh Jackson – Rugby Canada player (22 caps) John Lander – 1928 Olympic gold medalist for Great Britain in the coxless four John Lecky – 1960 Olympic silver medalist, eight Kristopher McDaniel – 2005 & 2007 World Championship bronze medalist, coxless four and pair Djustice Sears-Duru – Rugby Canada player (67 caps)
Business Jim Shaw – CEO of Shaw Communications
Diplomats Anthony Vincent – Canadian Ambassador to Peru M. John Sloan - Canadian Ambassador to Russia, Uzbekistan and Armenia https://www.shawnigan.ca/news-detail?pk=820975
Entertainment Jon Kimura Parker – Officer of the Order of Canada, concert pianist Mike Little - Juno Award-winning musician https://www.shawnigan.ca/news-detail?pk=891000 Noah Mills - Model Tara Spencer-Nairn – Actress, Corner Gas
Military Rear Admiral Richard H. Leir – Royal Canadian Navy Rear Admiral Michael G. Stirling – Royal Canadian Navy Lt.-Commander Cornelius Burke - Royal Canadian Navy Lt.-Commander T.E. Ladner - Royal Canadian Navy Lt.-Commander Douglas Maitland - Royal Canadian Navy
Politics The Hon. Henry Pybus Bell-Irving – 23rd Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia The Hon. Stephen D. Owen – Federal cabinet minister and Member of Parliamenthttps://www.shawnigan.ca/news-detail?pk=1014935 The Hon. Nicholas Milliken – Alberta Minister of Infrastructure and Member of the Legislative Assembly Robert Murdoch - Private Secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau Peter Ladner – Vancouver City Councillor
Scholars and scientists Graham Anderson – Scholar Dr. Barry F. Cooper – Political Scientist Dr. Steve Deering – Computer Scientist Dr. Roger Stanier – Microbiologist
Notable staff Tom Brierley – Cricketer Nicholas Coghlan - Canadian Ambassador to South Sudanhttps://www.shawnigan.ca/news-detail?pk=1091929 Jennifer Manuel – Author, winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (2017) and Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest (2025), shortlisted for the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize James Robertson Justice – Actor Laura Russell - Canadian national team rugby player Leonard Wilde - Educator, Founder of Neuchâtel Junior College Jeff Williams - Canadian national team rugby player
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