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

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

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

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

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.

French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.

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

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...

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

Engineer Thomas Wardrope Eadie develops the Trans Canada Microwave telecommunications network.

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 family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in Saguenay, Quebec.

The story of how Mary Travers becomes a famed popular singer in Quebec.

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

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

Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.

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

The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.

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