Lawyer, judge, and politician John Matheson looks at candidates for Canada's new flag.
May 1995
An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.
Mar 1991
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.
Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.
Prairie settlers build a house of sod.
A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Apr 1993
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.
Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering.
Canadian aerospace engineers design and test the world's fastest, most advanced interceptor aircraft.
Jan 1997
Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL player to wear a goaltender mask in regular play.
The first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada faces prejudice in the classroom.
The surprise victory of the Paris Crew, a group of unheralded Canadian rowers, at the 1867 World Championships.
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.
Jun 1992
The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.
Author, artist and physician during World War I John McCrae pens In Flanders Fields.
Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance.
Train dispatcher Vince Coleman sacrifices his own life to save a train from the Halifax Explosion.
Engineer Thomas Wardrope Eadie develops the Trans Canada Microwave telecommunications network.
The town of Myrnam, Alberta forms a non-denominational hospital.
