CRB Foundation (CA)

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

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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.

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

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.

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

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

A Canadian soldier's bear becomes the object of adoration and inspiration for a young boy and his father, A.A. Milne.

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

Major General and police official Sam Steele of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bars an unruly American from entering the Yukon with pistols, despite being threatened at gunpoint.

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

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

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

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