Heritage Minutes: Saguenay Fire 1992
One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in Saguenay, Quebec.
One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in Saguenay, Quebec.
Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.
A one-minute vignette on renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield's pioneering procedure to cure epilepsy.
The first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada faces prejudice in the classroom.
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.
The surprise victory of the Paris Crew, a group of unheralded Canadian rowers, at the 1867 World Championships.
Italian navigator and explorer John Cabot discovers the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and runs "aground" on a bounty of fish.
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.
Paul-Émile Borduas, Québec's voice of the Quiet Revolution, reflects on the impact of his writing and art in his Paris studio.
Train dispatcher Vince Coleman sacrifices his own life to save a train from the Halifax Explosion.
Prairie settlers build a house of sod.
Toronto cartoonist Joe Shuster describes the comic book hero he created.
L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.
A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.
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.
French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.
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.
Two decades after Ezekiel Hart is denied his seat in the assembly, Louis-Joseph Papineau's government enacts religious tolerance laws in Lower Canada.
Canadian aerospace engineers design and test the world's fastest, most advanced interceptor aircraft.