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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

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