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

The ferry command pilot delivers fighter planes to Britain during the Second World War, and plans her post-war career as Canada's first female flight...

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

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

Feminist, politician, and social activist Nellie McClung demands the right to vote in Manitoba.

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

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

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

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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 story of how Mary Travers becomes a famed popular singer in Quebec.

A one-minute vignette on renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield's pioneering procedure to cure epilepsy.