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

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

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

A Canadian soldier's bear becomes the object of adoration and inspiration for a young boy and his father, A.A. Milne.

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

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.

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec

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.

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

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

A volunteer teacher brings basic literacy and mathematical skills to a lumber and work camp in the Canadian bush.

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...

Legal scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate John Humphrey drafts the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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

Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.

An engineer who planned three railways plays a pivotal role in the creation of Standard Time (1885).