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Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

The ferry command pilot delivers fighter planes to Britain during the Second World War, and plans her post-war career as Canada's first female flight...

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.

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

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paul-Émile Borduas, Québec's voice of the Quiet Revolution, reflects on the impact of his writing and art in his Paris studio.

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

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

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