CRB Foundation (CA)

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

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

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.

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

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

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

An RCMP officer watches an Inuit family build the Northern landmark, a sign of human activity on the vast arctic landscape.

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

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

Sports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois.

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.