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

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

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.

Engineer Thomas Wardrope Eadie develops the Trans Canada Microwave telecommunications network.

An enterprising Canadian cinema operator invents the modern multi-screen movie theatre.

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.

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