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Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Major General and police official Sam Steele of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bars an unruly American from entering the Yukon with pistols, despite being threatened at gunpoint.

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

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