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Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

Engineer Thomas Wardrope Eadie develops the Trans Canada Microwave telecommunications network.

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The band of this famous French Canadian regiment rehearses for the first performance of O Canada in 1880 at Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations.

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

The story of how Mary Travers becomes a famed popular singer in Quebec.

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

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