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.
Leading the field of women in science
ElMaraghy studied engineering in Egypt, but came to Canada in the 1970s.
One of the youngest Stanley Cup winners
Mikita came to Canada at eight and was soon turning heads as a young hockey talent.
Jill of all trades
When Thúy was ten, her family fled Vietnam and were accepted in Canada as refugees.
He got the vote for Chinese-Canadians
Wong Foon Sien immigrated to Canada with his family when he was a child.