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Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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.

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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