- Born: 21 JUL 1911 – Edmonton, Alberta
- Died: 31 DEC 1980 – Toronto, Ontario
- Achievements:
- Companion of the Order of Canada in 1970
- Teleguide-McLuhan Prize awarded through UNESCO
- Works:
- The Mechanical Bride (1951)
- The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
- Understanding Media (1964)
- The Medium Is the Massage (1967)
- Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations(1967)
- Through the Vanishing Point (Co-author Harley Parker) (1968)
- War and Peace in the Global Village (1968)
- The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, 1943-1962 (1969)
- Counterblast (1969)
- Culture Is Our Business (1969)
- From Cliché to Archetype (Co-author Wilfred Watson) (1970)
- Take Today (Co-author Barrington Nevitt) (1972)
- The City As Classroom (1977)
- Autre Homme Autre Chrétien à l’Âge Électronique (Co-author Pierre Babin) (1977)
- The Possum and the Midwife (1978)
- Laws of Media (Co-author Eric McLuhan) (1988)
- The Global Village (Co-author Bruce R. Powers) (1989)
- Died: 31 DEC 1980 – Toronto, Ontario