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An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

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

Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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