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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.

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

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

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

Philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan coins the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village."

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

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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