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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

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

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.

Feminist, politician, and social activist Nellie McClung demands the right to vote in Manitoba.

L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

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

Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.