Canadian Who's Who

Canadian Who's Who is a reference publication containing concise biographical information about 13,000 notable Canadians. It is published annually with a bright-red binding, distributed by University of Toronto Press, and an online searchable version is also available through a subscription. By documenting the achievement of Canadians from a wide variety of occupations and professions, Canadian Who's Who records the diversity of culture in Canada.

Every year the publisher invites new individuals to complete questionnaires from which new biographies are compiled. The publisher also gives those already listed in earlier editions an opportunity to update their biographies.

There is no charge, nor is there any obligation whatsoever, for the inclusion of a biography in the Canadian Who’s Who. Biographies are chosen on merit alone. Those listed are selected because of the positions they hold in Canadian society, or because of the contribution they have made to life in Canada. Detailed entries give date and place of birth, education, family details, career information, memberships, creative works, honours, languages, and awards, together with full addresses. Included are outstanding Canadians from business, academia, politics, sports, the arts and sciences, in fact from every area of human activity.

All of the biographies featured in Canadian Who’s Who are . This online, searchable, electronic version of Canadian Who’s Who also includes more than 9,000 archived biographies, in addition to the 13,000 biographies found in the 2011 print edition.