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.
![Michaëlle Jean in a bright blue blazer.](/sites/contributions/files/styles/large/public/2021-03/Micha%C3%ABlle%2BJean%2B2014-1.jpg?itok=7-cEtEvs)
The first Black Governor General of Canada
Jean and her family fled Haiti in 1968, settling in Quebec.
![Black and white image of Bobbie Rosenfeld and four women running race around a track.](/sites/contributions/files/styles/large/public/2021-03/PA-151007-nc.jpg?itok=bZNqnLVB)
![Salah Bachir in a red dress being crowned by two young men.](/sites/contributions/files/styles/large/public/2021-03/Pride%20Parade%20Marshall%202016_3.jpg?itok=mRBqP9ZS)
![A head and shoulders image of a man in a tailored maroon suit and maroon shirt.](/sites/contributions/files/styles/large/public/2022-09/2GFPJMC.jpg?itok=7ySin7wL)
![Bromley Armstrong in dress shirt and tie reading a book.](/sites/contributions/files/styles/large/public/2021-03/GettyImages-502258643.jpg?itok=chrSDkn-)