CRB Foundation (CA)

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

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.

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

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

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

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.

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

Queen Victoria decides to grant Canada responsible government after the crushing of the Rebellions of 1837.

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 school operator.

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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