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.

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

L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.

A Montreal neurosurgeon makes ground-breaking advances in the treatment of seizure disorders.

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

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

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

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

Author, artist and physician during World War I John McCrae pens In Flanders Fields.

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

An enterprising Canadian cinema operator invents the modern multi-screen movie theatre.

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

After moving his family from one end of Montréal to the other, the hockey legend scores 5 goals toward a 9–1 victory against the Detroit Red Wings.

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

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

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

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