Featured biographies
Every Canadian has a story.
Not all stories begin in Canada.
From coast to coast to coast, we acknowledge the ancestral and unceded territory of all Indigenous peoples that call this land home. We are all Treaty People.
![Carmen Aguirre at a podium in front of the Canadian flag.](/sites/contributions/files/styles/large/public/2021-03/IMG_8580_Carmen%20Aguirre.jpg?itok=Y5vXRsiF)
Author, actor, playwright
Aguirre and her parents came to Canada in 1973 as refugees, but in 1979 the family rejoined the Chilean underground, helping resisters to...
![Thomas Bata in a blue suit.](/sites/contributions/files/styles/large/public/2021-03/GettyImages-502265867.jpg?itok=X3-DxVXM)
The Shoe Man
Bata was born into a properous family business of shoemaking and moved to Canada in 1939.
![Kim Thúy wearing a pink dress stands among bookshelves holding a book.](/sites/contributions/files/styles/large/public/2021-03/IMG_0493_b.jpg?itok=xKr3KF5W)
Jill of all trades
When Thúy was ten, her family fled Vietnam and were accepted in Canada as refugees.
![Cornelius Nyungura in a shirt and grey vest singing on stage .](/sites/contributions/files/styles/large/public/2021-03/GettyImages-966898186.jpg?itok=lBHYDzHa)
![Rupi Kaur wearing a floral yellow shirt.](/sites/contributions/files/styles/large/public/2021-03/rupi%20kaur%20-%20credit%20baljit%20singh%20-%201.jpg?itok=5t2r1Kwt)