He was appointed as the second Indo-Canadian Attorney-General of British Columbia, and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism until 2009.

She was born in 1992 in Punjab, India, and immigrated to Canada with her family at the age of four. Some of Dhaliwal’s accomplishments include being the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, serving on the Steering Committee for Fisheries and Oceans Canada, becoming the Minister of National Revenue, being the Vice-chair of the Standing Committee on Health and the Task Force on Aquaculture, and being named one of the hundred most influential British Columbians of the last 100 years by the Vancouver Sun.
He is of Chinese origin and speaks English, French, and Cantonese. Singh began his political career in 2011, when he ran unsuccessfully as the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate in the riding of Bramalea—Gore—Malton.

He was born in Burlington, Newfoundland and Labrador. He dedicated his life to improving race relations, promoting multicultural understanding in Canada, as well as speaking out on youth crime, gang violence and the social issues of marginalized communities. She gave numerous lecture-recitals on sarangi, Indian music, and Muslim chant in Canada, the United States, Pakistan, India, and Western Europe.

His most notable project is the Canadian War Museum, which is devoted to exploring themes of memory and regeneration in the face of war. Lam was awarded the Order of Canada in 1988. Today, he is a Professor at McGill University. In 1948, Dr. Pandia met with the Director of Immigration, Department of Mines and Resources, and with the Cabinet Committee on Immigration Policy to fight for the rights of East Indians. By age 11, she had attracted international attention, winning top prizes at the 1986 Beijing International Youth Violin Competition in China. Born in Shiroishi, Japan, Mutsumi Takahashi began studying piano at the Toronto Conservatory of Music at the age of six.
He began his career as a consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in London and Munich and helped establish Roland Berger in India. Many Canadians of Chinese origin volunteered for active duty, even though they were exempt from the National Resources Mobilization Act of 1940 (NRMA), which allowed the Canadian government to requisition property and services for defense. His family lived in Newfoundland before relocating to Windsor, Ontario. As part of the 1988 Japanese Canadian Regress Agreement, the Government created a community fund to undertake educational, social and cultural activities or programs that contributed to healing or to the promotion of human rights. Parker’s eclectic repertoire is infused with classical music of the Romantic era, and a variety of 20th-century composers. Harcourt was aware of the support provided by the Canadian Forces in defending Hong Kong in 1940, which is why he ordered the young Canadian naval officer to lead the marines ashore. The Canadian of Japanese origin, Graham Nishikawais a cross-country skier. Between 1942 and 1945, Chong travelled alone in China, dressed as a peasant to avoid outlaws and enemies. She came to Canada as a child in 1942 when her family left Hong Kong after the colony surrendered to the Japanese. He served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry Canada with Special Emphasis on Entrepreneurs and New Canadians. She fled Vietnam with her family in the late 1970s as a refugee.

Her first novel, The Electrical Field (1998), won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, the Canada Council's biennial Canada-Japan Literary Award and she was a finalist for a Governor General's Award. In January 2013, he started a documentary series called Majumder Manor in which he chronicled his dream of transforming his hometown of Burlington, Newfoundland into a popular tourist destination. Juliette Kang, born in Edmonton to Korean parents, was a child prodigy who began violin lessons at age four and made her debut in Montréal at seven.

He uses the Internet and his passion for filmmaking to promote unity among people of diverse backgrounds. He is the 2018 Olympic gold medalist in the team event, the 2014 Olympic silver medalist in the men’s and team events, a three time World champion (2011-2013), a two-time Grand Prix Final champion (2010, 2011), a three-time Four Continents champion (2009, 2012, 2016), and a nine-time Canadian national champion (2008-2014, 2016-2017). In 2007, he received international attention for his portrayal of lawyer-turned-imam Amaar Rashid in the popular CBC comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie.

Few Canadians realize that ten Sikhs joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War, before Sikhs could actually attain Canadian citizenship. Sudarshan Gautam was born in the Ramechhap district in Nepal. She was born in Switzerland and became a Canadian citizen in 1968 when she followed her husband, a political scientist from India, to the University of Alberta. She often collaborates with filmmakers as story editor or script editor on narrative, experimental and experimental documentary works.

That year, Singh also ran in the Ontario provincial election as the NDP candidate in the overlapping provincial riding: where he became the first Ontario NDP MPP to represent the Peel Region, as well as the first turban-wearing MPP.

He dedicated his life to creating new fashions, apparel, fragrances, accessories and home fashions for women and men.

Selvadurai’s characters navigate an uncertain world accompanied by their own insecurities as the political and the personal merge.

Huynh won a gold medal at the Pan-Am Games in 2007, and went on to repeat her performance at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. He spent 12 years as a stateless refugee in the Philippines.

Born Eng Kai Geong in British Columbia to Chinese parents, he grew up listening to hockey games on the radio. He was awarded the Victoria Cross on November 16, 1857. Zaib Shaikh is a Canadian-born actor, writer and director of Pakistani origin.

Patrick Chan, born in Ottawa, is a Canadian figure skater and Olympic silver medalist. In 2018, Junio finished 17th in the 500m race at the Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. He is committed to making a lasting contribution to Canadian drama. Lumb's community work was far-reaching and earned her considerable recognition, including appointments to the Women's College Hospital Board of Governors and to the Ontario Advisory Council on Multiculturalism.

His family originally came from Japan, however he grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. Rear Admiral Harcourt assigned him to free the Canadian, British, and Hong Kong prisoners from the Sham Shui Po camp. As a result of an accident during his childhood, Gautam had to have both of his arms amputated.

He moved to Winnipeg in 1965 when he procured a teaching position at the University of Manitoba. The first time she performed her work was in 2009 at the Punjabi Community Health Centre in Malton, Mississauga. Mr. Lore died in September 2012 in Hong Kong at the age of 103. He began short-track speed skating at the age of 13, thanks to his father’s encouragements. He is the author of the critical study, Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing (1998), of Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing (2011), of The Prepoetics of William Carlos Williams (1983), and of an annotated bibliography of the poet and novelist George Bowering (1990). His second novel, Cinnamon Gardens, returns the reader to Sri Lanka, of the 1920s, when the country was called Ceylon. Jagmeet Singh was born on January 2, 1979, in Scarborough, Ontario, to Harmeet Kaur and Jagtaran Singh who had immigrated to Canada from the Indian state of Punjab. In 2011, she became the host for a new program, The Rundown, alongside Matt Yaloff.

Jim Chu was born in 1959 in Shanghai, China before immigrating to Canada with his parents and three other siblings.

Nova Scotia native Portia White was the first black Canadian singer to become an international star in the 1930s and '40s, a time when black women experienced significant barriers in …

As a young boy, he convinced his mother to buy him skates and he played shinny on local ponds with mail-order catalogues strapped to his shins.

The family’s incredible journey and adaptation to their new home form the narrative of her debut novel Ru, which tells of the changes in a young girl’s life as she moves from a state of unrest to the security of a peaceful life. Known for their skill, speed, and sportsmanship, the team won the 1st Division provincial championship in 1933, claiming the British Columbia Mainland Cup and winning respect for their community.

In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. As a Sikh, Dhillon’s religious obligation required a beard and wearing a turban. Novelist Shyam Selvadurai was born in Sri Lanka, he is of Tamil and Sinhala heritage. Poy was educated in Hong Kong, England, and Canada, in addition, she earned a PhD in history from the University of Toronto.

Between 1800 and 1865, approximately 30,000 Black people came to Canada via the Underground Railway.

In 2010, he was the first Canadian athlete to be named to both Paralympic and Olympic teams.

Jean Bessie Lumb born Toy Jin Wong in 1919, in Nanaimo, British Columbia moved to Toronto in 1935. He also won the NDP election in the riding of Wellington by a considerable margin. Herb (Harbance) Dhaliwal, was born in the Punjab in 1952. In 2018, he became the most decorated Winter Paralympian when he won his fourteenth medal in the men's 20-kilometre cross-country ski freestyle event at the Paralympics held in PyeongChang.