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 Time Traveler
Fleming was mentored in engineering in Scotland, and moved to Canada West in 1845.
In the Skin of a Lion
Ondaatje came to Canada in 1962, pursuing studies at the University of Toronto and Queen’s University.
Philanthropy meets real estate
Azrieli fled Poland at the outbreak of the Second World War, eventually settling in British Mandate Palestine.
Advocating for the Black community
Shadd moved north into Canada West in 1851, having already established herself as an advocate for the Black community in America.
