The surprise victory of the Paris Crew, a group of unheralded Canadian rowers, at the 1867 World Championships.
May 1995
The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.
Jun 1992
Canadian aerospace engineers design and test the world's fastest, most advanced interceptor aircraft.
Jan 1997
Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.
Italian navigator and explorer John Cabot discovers the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and runs "aground" on a bounty of fish.
Mar 1991
Prairie settlers build a house of sod.
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.
French Canadian families adopt Irish orphans in the 1850s while allowing them to maintain part of their Irish heritage.
Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL player to wear a goaltender mask in regular play.
Author, artist and physician during World War I John McCrae pens In Flanders Fields.
Major General and police official Sam Steele of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bars an unruly American from entering the Yukon with pistols, despite being threatened at gunpoint.
Apr 1993
Train dispatcher Vince Coleman sacrifices his own life to save a train from the Halifax Explosion.
The first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada faces prejudice in the classroom.
An engineer who planned three railways plays a pivotal role in the creation of Standard Time (1885).
Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance.
Queen Victoria decides to grant Canada responsible government after the crushing of the Rebellions of 1837.
A volunteer teacher brings basic literacy and mathematical skills to a lumber and work camp in the Canadian bush.
Aug 1997
Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering.
Philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan coins the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village."
L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.
