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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

An enterprising Canadian cinema operator invents the modern multi-screen movie theatre.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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