James C. Temerty

In 1987, Temerty founded Northland Power.

In January 2015, the Temerty Foundation gifted $5 million to the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) to construct a new library (the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Center); this brought the total support of the Temerty Family Foundation to the programs at the UCU to $6.2 million (which includes $1.2 million that the foundation gifted earlier to UCU to establish three departments for the study of Jewish-Ukrainian interfaith relation).[3][4][5]

In September 2020, the Temerty Foundation gifted $250 million to the University of Toronto, naming the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and representing the single largest one-time donation in Canadian history at the time of the announcement.[6] In April 2020, $10-million of the gift to Faculty of Medicine’s Dean’s COVID-19 Priorities Fund, which was advanced and pre-announced to support front-line clinical faculty members and trainees fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.[7]

In December 2022, apparently donated $1.000.000 to #LightUpUkraine | UNITED 24 raising funds for 1000 generators to power Ukrainian hospitals. [8]

• Appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in recognition of his contributions to society, 2008.[9]
• Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Canada, 2010.[10]
• The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal to honour him for his contributions to his country, 2012.
• Temerty and his wife had a new genus and species of raptor dinosaur named in their honour, the Acheroraptor temertyorum, 2013.[11]
• Temerty was awarded three honorary doctorates (LL.D.) from York University, Ryerson University, and the University of Western Ontario.[12][13][14] The latter two, he shares with his wife.