CRB Foundation (CA)

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.

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.

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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.

Mennonite communities in Southwestern Ontario serve as inspiration in the design of tools and practices of sustainable development for developing countries.

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

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

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