Byinshi Byarebwaga Kuva CRB Foundation (CA)

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.

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

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

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