CRB Foundation (CA)

The town of Myrnam, Alberta forms a non-denominational hospital.

Journalist and government official Étienne Parent demands equality for French and English.

Engineer Thomas Wardrope Eadie develops the Trans Canada Microwave telecommunications network.

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

The first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada faces prejudice in the classroom.

Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

Legal scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate John Humphrey drafts the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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

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

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

Toronto cartoonist Joe Shuster describes the comic book hero he created.

Tom Patterson’s vision transforms a quiet railway town into a world-renowned cultural destination.

The surprise victory of the Paris Crew, a group of unheralded Canadian rowers, at the 1867 World Championships.

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

French Canadian families adopt Irish orphans in the 1850s while allowing them to maintain part of their Irish heritage.

The story of how Mary Travers becomes a famed popular singer in Quebec.

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.