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.

Leading the field of women in science
ElMaraghy studied engineering in Egypt, but came to Canada in the 1970s.


The man who photographed the Greats
Karsh arrived in Canada at Halifax in 1924, an Armenian refugee.

Meet one of the Group of Seven
Lismer studied art in England and Belgium before immigrating to Canada in 1911.
