Browse 63 movies from CRB Foundation (CA)
The surprise victory of the Paris Crew, a group of unheralded Canadian rowers, at the 1867 World Championships.
May 1995
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.
Mar 1991
Engineer Thomas Wardrope Eadie develops the Trans Canada Microwave telecommunications network.
Apr 1993
Legal scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate John Humphrey drafts the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
May 1997
Philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan coins the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village."
Author, artist and physician during World War I John McCrae pens In Flanders Fields.
The first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada faces prejudice in the classroom.
French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.
Jun 1992
An enterprising Canadian cinema operator invents the modern multi-screen movie theatre.
A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
What thoughts ran through Louis Riel's mind as he stood on the scaffold, waiting for the trap door to open to his death?
Prairie settlers build a house of sod.
Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.
Tom Patterson’s vision transforms a quiet railway town into a world-renowned cultural destination.
Aug 1997
Canadian aerospace engineers design and test the world's fastest, most advanced interceptor aircraft.
Jan 1997
Lawyer, judge, and politician John Matheson looks at candidates for Canada's new flag.
One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in Saguenay, Quebec.
The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name.
New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec
Montréal's Expo rises from the depths of the St. Lawrence River to give Canada a dazzling 100th birthday party.
Apr 1997