CRB Foundation (CA)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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.

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

Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

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

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

Journalist and government official Étienne Parent demands equality for French and English.

L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.

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

Toronto cartoonist Joe Shuster describes the comic book hero he created.

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