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.

Jill of all trades
When Thúy was ten, her family fled Vietnam and were accepted in Canada as refugees.
Philanthropy meets real estate
Azrieli fled Poland at the outbreak of the Second World War, eventually settling in British Mandate Palestine.

Working from the bottom up
Gupta arrived in Canada in 1971, working factory jobs and selling insurance.

