CRB Foundation (CA)

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.

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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