Heritage Minutes: Sitting Bull 1995
Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.
Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.
The surprise victory of the Paris Crew, a group of unheralded Canadian rowers, at the 1867 World Championships.
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.
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.
Tom Patterson’s vision transforms a quiet railway town into a world-renowned cultural destination.
Lawyer, judge, and politician John Matheson looks at candidates for Canada's new flag.
Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.
A Canadian soldier's bear becomes the object of adoration and inspiration for a young boy and his father, A.A. Milne.
The story of how Mary Travers becomes a famed popular singer in Quebec.
The town of Myrnam, Alberta forms a non-denominational hospital.
Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering.
A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Italian navigator and explorer John Cabot discovers the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and runs "aground" on a bounty of fish.
The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name.
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.
Engineer Thomas Wardrope Eadie develops the Trans Canada Microwave telecommunications network.
After moving his family from one end of Montréal to the other, the hockey legend scores 5 goals toward a 9–1 victory against the Detroit Red Wings.
Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance.
Mennonite communities in Southwestern Ontario serve as inspiration in the design of tools and practices of sustainable development for developing countries.