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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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.

Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.

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

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

The ferry command pilot delivers fighter planes to Britain during the Second World War, and plans her post-war career as Canada's first female flight school operator.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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