CRB Foundation (CA)

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.

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Paul-Émile Borduas, Québec's voice of the Quiet Revolution, reflects on the impact of his writing and art in his Paris studio.

An enterprising Canadian cinema operator invents the modern multi-screen movie theatre.

Lawyer, judge, and politician John Matheson looks at candidates for Canada's new flag.

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

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

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

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

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

An engineer who planned three railways plays a pivotal role in the creation of Standard Time (1885).

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

The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work.

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

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

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