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Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.