Who do you think should be on Canada's next $5 banknote? This thread has bios of the @bankofcanada’s short-listed candidates. Learn their stories:

Pitseolak Ashoona was among the first generation of Inuit printmakers. She is known for her lively prints and drawings, which show "the things we did long ago before there were many white men" and for her imaginative renderings of spirits and monsters. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pitseolak-ashoona

Known more commonly as Crowfoot, Isapo-Muxika was a Siksika chief and diplomat who negotiated with the federal government on behalf of the Blackfoot Confederacy. He was a key link between Indigenous peoples on the western Plains and colonial forces. https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/crowfoot

Won Alexander Cumyow was the first Chinese Canadian born in British North America, which became Canada. He knew several languages, which assisted his work as a Chinese community leader and court interpreter. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/won-alexander-cumyow

After losing his right leg to cancer, Terry Fox decided to run across Canada to raise awareness and money for cancer research. He set out from St. John’s on 12 April 1980 and covered 5,373 km in 143 days, until he was forced to stop outside Thunder Bay. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/terry-fox

Robertine Barry (pen name: Françoise) was the first French-Canadian woman journalist, she was also a founding member of the Fédération nationale Saint-Jean-Baptiste and the first vice-president of the Canadian Women’s Press Club. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/robertine-barry-francoise

Lotta Hitschmanova's experiences as a refugee during #WWII led her to found the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada in 1945, which advocated for those facing poverty, illness and starvation as a result of war, natural disasters and lack of education. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lotta-hitschmanova

Onondeyoh, aka Fred Loft, founded the first national Indigenous organization in Canada in 1918. He fought in the First World War and is recognized as one of the most important Indigenous activists of the early 20th century. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/fred-loft

Binaaswi, aka Francis “Peggy” Pegahmagabow was one of the most highly decorated Indigenous people in Canada during the First World War. Pegahmagabow was a vocal advocate for Indigenous rights and self-determination. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/francis-pegahmagabow