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

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

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

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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.

One of Canada's most remarkable families works tirelessly to aid displaced persons and refugees during the Second World War.

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.

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

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.

Paul-Émile Borduas, Québec's voice of the Quiet Revolution, reflects on the impact of his writing and art in his Paris studio.

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

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

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

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

Two decades after Ezekiel Hart is denied his seat in the assembly, Louis-Joseph Papineau's government enacts religious tolerance laws in Lower Canada.

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

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