CRB Foundation (CA)

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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.

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.

Journalist and government official Étienne Parent demands equality for French and English.

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

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.

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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