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.
The first Black woman to sit at Parliament
Augustine came to Canada in 1960. After her contract as a domestic, she trained to be a teacher in Ontario.
Meet one of the Group of Seven
Lismer studied art in England and Belgium before immigrating to Canada in 1911.
The Shoe Man
Bata was born into a properous family business of shoemaking and moved to Canada in 1939.
