Browse 63 movies from 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.
Mar 1991
The ferry command pilot delivers fighter planes to Britain during the Second World War, and plans her post-war career as Canada's first female flight school operator.
May 1997
One of Canada's most remarkable families works tirelessly to aid displaced persons and refugees during the Second World War.
May 1995
Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.
Teacher Kate Henderson sways school trustees to embrace new methods, and the event is represented in the famous painting by Robert Harris: A Meeting of the School Trustees.
Jun 1992
A volunteer teacher brings basic literacy and mathematical skills to a lumber and work camp in the Canadian bush.
Aug 1997
Legal scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate John Humphrey drafts the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
A one-minute vignette on renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield's pioneering procedure to cure epilepsy.
After moving his family from one end of Montréal to the other, the hockey legend scores 5 goals toward a 9–1 victory against the Detroit Red Wings.
Train dispatcher Vince Coleman sacrifices his own life to save a train from the Halifax Explosion.
Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering.
Apr 1993
Queen Victoria decides to grant Canada responsible government after the crushing of the Rebellions of 1837.
New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec
An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.
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.
Jan 1997
Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance.
Italian navigator and explorer John Cabot discovers the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and runs "aground" on a bounty of fish.
The surprise victory of the Paris Crew, a group of unheralded Canadian rowers, at the 1867 World Championships.
The town of Myrnam, Alberta forms a non-denominational hospital.
