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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...

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

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

Italian navigator and explorer John Cabot discovers the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and runs "aground" on a bounty of fish.

The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name.

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

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.

Lawyer, judge, and politician John Matheson looks at candidates for Canada's new flag.

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

What thoughts ran through Louis Riel's mind as he stood on the scaffold, waiting for the trap door to open to his death?

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

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

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

Major General and police official Sam Steele of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bars an unruly American from entering the Yukon with pistols,...

Teacher Kate Henderson sways school trustees to embrace new methods, and the event is represented in the famous painting by Robert Harris: A Meeting...

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