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Paul-Émile Borduas, Québec's voice of the Quiet Revolution, reflects on the impact of his writing and art in his Paris studio.

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

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

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

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

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.

Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering.

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...

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.

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.

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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