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.
![Donovan Bailey in running jersey looking very happy.](/sites/contributions/files/styles/large/public/2021-03/GettyImages-51952838.jpg?itok=Gu3kZtG9)
![Wong Foon Sien in a suit.](/sites/contributions/files/styles/large/public/2021-03/Wong%20Foon%20Sien%201933_b.jpg?itok=nJvDX4LU)
He got the vote for Chinese-Canadians
Wong Foon Sien immigrated to Canada with his family when he was a child.
![A black and white photo of a scientist in a lab coat, sitting in front of a large piece of lab equipment.](/sites/contributions/files/styles/large/public/2022-09/utarmsIB_2014-37-2MS.jpg?itok=n-mHWr5d)
Survivor, scientist, activist, pacifist
After surviving 18 months in a Nazi labour camp, Franklin earned a PhD in physics in 1948.
![Arthur Lismer with bowtie and suit jacket.](/sites/contributions/files/styles/large/public/2021-03/P7TJR1.jpg?itok=5Z3Eukh5)
Meet one of the Group of Seven
Lismer studied art in England and Belgium before immigrating to Canada in 1911.
![Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on the left in a yellow jacket and middle aged woman on the right in a dark jacket.](/sites/contributions/files/styles/large/public/2021-03/CP2642514.jpg?itok=dxHT5miB)
The gardener of Vancouver
Oberlander was born in a German-Jewish family who escaped Germany to the USA after Kristallnacht.