Crb Foundation Ca Movies

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.

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

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

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.

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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