CRB Foundation (CA)

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

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.

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

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.

Queen Victoria decides to grant Canada responsible government after the crushing of the Rebellions of 1837.

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

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

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

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

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

Paul-Émile Borduas, Québec's voice of the Quiet Revolution, reflects on the impact of his writing and art in his Paris studio.

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.

An RCMP officer watches an Inuit family build the Northern landmark, a sign of human activity on the vast arctic landscape.

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

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

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