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.


He got the vote for Chinese-Canadians
Wong Foon Sien immigrated to Canada with his family when he was a child.


The gardener of Vancouver
Oberlander was born in a German-Jewish family who escaped Germany to the USA after Kristallnacht.

Jill of all trades
When Thúy was ten, her family fled Vietnam and were accepted in Canada as refugees.