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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.

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

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

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

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

Montréal Royals players and fans welcome the first African American player, marking the beginning of the end of baseball's colour barrier.

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

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

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

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

Engineer Thomas Wardrope Eadie develops the Trans Canada Microwave telecommunications network.

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

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.

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

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

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