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.
Survivor, scientist, activist, pacifist
After surviving 18 months in a Nazi labour camp, Franklin earned a PhD in physics in 1948.
Meet one of the Group of Seven
Lismer studied art in England and Belgium before immigrating to Canada in 1911.
The gardener of Vancouver
Oberlander was born in a German-Jewish family who escaped Germany to the USA after Kristallnacht.