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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.

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

Canadian aerospace engineers design and test the world's fastest, 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

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

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

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

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

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.