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Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.

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

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

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

Mennonite communities in Southwestern Ontario serve as inspiration in the design of tools and practices of sustainable development for developing countries.

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.

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

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

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.

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

French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.

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

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

Montréal Royals players and fans welcome the first African American player, marking the beginning of the end of baseball's colour barrier.

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

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