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Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

Three men from Pine Street in Winnipeg win the Victoria Cross in World War I, and the street's name is changed to Valour Road in their honour.

Philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan coins the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village."

Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering.

Canadian aerospace engineers design and test the world's fastest, most advanced interceptor aircraft.

Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance.

A one-minute vignette on renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield's pioneering procedure to cure epilepsy.

Two decades after Ezekiel Hart is denied his seat in the assembly, Louis-Joseph Papineau's government enacts religious tolerance laws in Lower Canada.

Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL player to wear a goaltender mask in regular play.

One of Canada's most remarkable families works tirelessly to aid displaced persons and refugees during the Second World War.

The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name.

The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his...

What thoughts ran through Louis Riel's mind as he stood on the scaffold, waiting for the trap door to open to his death?

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

Train dispatcher Vince Coleman sacrifices his own life to save a train from the Halifax Explosion.

The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.

The band of this famous French Canadian regiment rehearses for the first performance of O Canada in 1880 at Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations.

Teacher Kate Henderson sways school trustees to embrace new methods, and the event is represented in the famous painting by Robert Harris: A Meeting...

Author, artist and physician during World War I John McCrae pens In Flanders Fields.