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

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

Teacher Kate Henderson sways school trustees to embrace new methods, and the event is represented in the famous painting by Robert Harris: A Meeting...

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.