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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.

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

French Canadian families adopt Irish orphans in the 1850s while allowing them to maintain part of their Irish heritage.

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

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

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

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

The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name.

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.

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

Legal scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate John Humphrey drafts the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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

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

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

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

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

Major General and police official Sam Steele of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bars an unruly American from entering the Yukon with pistols,...

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