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

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

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.

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

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

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

The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.

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

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

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

An RCMP officer watches an Inuit family build the Northern landmark, a sign of human activity on the vast arctic landscape.

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.

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.