Timothy Eaton

Michael D. Clarke

Timothy Eaton is known from coast to coast in Canada for revolutionary merchandising and for building a retail empire by supplying the needs of city dwellers and country folk alike. Despite his fame, Eaton preferred to remain largely in the background; he never became a public figure, and he refused to enter politics. He had three principal interests: his church, his family, and his store.

Agnes Macphail

Terry Crowley

Agnes Macphail was Canada’s first female member of Parliament. She, a radical, believed in thinking anew about collective problems rather than reverting to outmoded prescriptions. 

Friday Prayer at Dundas and Chestnut

Farhad Khadim

This is a story of how people of faith refused to be victimized by terror. It resulted in the establishment of Toronto’s downtown Masjid Mosque which turned the corner of the corner of Dundas and Chestnut into a place of prayer and spirituality for thousands of Canadians each week.