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 man who built Shopify
Lutke started coding young, eventually leaving school for a programming apprenticeship.
A football player turned well-known coach
Buono came to Canada with his family in 1953, played football in college and in the Canadian Football League and retired as a player in 1...
The first Black Governor General of Canada
Jean and her family fled Haiti in 1968, settling in Quebec.
The first Black woman to sit at Parliament
Augustine came to Canada in 1960. After her contract as a domestic, she trained to be a teacher in Ontario.