Queen Victoria decides to grant Canada responsible government after the crushing of the Rebellions of 1837.

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

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.

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

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.

Philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan coins the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village."

Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Tom Patterson’s vision transforms a quiet railway town into a world-renowned cultural destination.

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

Journalist and government official Étienne Parent demands equality for French and English.

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

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

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

French Canadian families adopt Irish orphans in the 1850s while allowing them to maintain part of their Irish heritage.

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.

The first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada faces prejudice in the classroom.

Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering.