CRB Foundation (CA)

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.

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

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

Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL player to wear a goaltender mask in regular play.

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

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

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

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.

Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.

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

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

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

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 school operator.

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.

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

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