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 Time Traveler
Fleming was mentored in engineering in Scotland, and moved to Canada West in 1845.
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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Meet one of the Group of Seven
Lismer studied art in England and Belgium before immigrating to Canada in 1911.
He got the vote for Chinese-Canadians
Wong Foon Sien immigrated to Canada with his family when he was a child.
The Shoe Man
Bata was born into a properous family business of shoemaking and moved to Canada in 1939.