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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.

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 African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

A one-minute vignette on renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield's pioneering procedure to cure epilepsy.

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

Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.

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

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

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

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

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

French Canadian families adopt Irish orphans in the 1850s while allowing them to maintain part of their Irish heritage.