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 Governor General of Canada
Jean and her family fled Haiti in 1968, settling in Quebec.
Meet Mr Dressup
Coombs came to theatre through painting scenery, eventually meeting Fred Rogers (of the children's show, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood).
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Leading the field of women in science
ElMaraghy studied engineering in Egypt, but came to Canada in the 1970s.
From displaced person to supreme court justice
Born in a Displaced Persons camp in 1946, Abella went on to become a supreme court judge.