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

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

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

French Canadian families adopt Irish orphans in the 1850s while allowing them to maintain part of their Irish heritage.

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

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

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

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

Two decades after Ezekiel Hart is denied his seat in the assembly, Louis-Joseph Papineau's government enacts religious tolerance laws in Lower Canada.

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

Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance.

Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

Journalist and government official Étienne Parent demands equality for French and English.

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

A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.

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