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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

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

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

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

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

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