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

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.

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

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

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

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

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

Miner Maurice Ruddick recounts the 1958 Springhill mine disaster.

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

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

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

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

Feminist, politician, and social activist Nellie McClung demands the right to vote in Manitoba.

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