CRB Foundation (CA)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Tom Patterson’s vision transforms a quiet railway town into a world-renowned cultural destination.

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

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

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

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

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

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

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

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