CRB Foundation (CA)

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

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.

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

Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.

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

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

Sports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois.