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.
One of the youngest Stanley Cup winners
Mikita came to Canada at eight and was soon turning heads as a young hockey talent.
Meet Mr Dressup
Coombs came to theatre through painting scenery, eventually meeting Fred Rogers (of the children's show, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood).
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The Eaton Empire
Eaton travelled to Canada West in 1854, taking up work as a clerk in a general store near Georgetown.
The man who built Shopify
Lutke started coding young, eventually leaving school for a programming apprenticeship.