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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.

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

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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.

Joseph Casavant, world renowned organ maker, builds his first organ.

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

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.

One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in Saguenay, Quebec.

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

A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.

French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.

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

What thoughts ran through Louis Riel's mind as he stood on the scaffold, waiting for the trap door to open to his death?

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

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

Tom Patterson’s vision transforms a quiet railway town into a world-renowned cultural destination.

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