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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.

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

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

One of Canada's most remarkable families works tirelessly to aid displaced persons and refugees during the Second World War.

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

French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.

The story of how Mary Travers becomes a famed popular singer in Quebec.

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

New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec

An enterprising Canadian cinema operator invents the modern multi-screen movie theatre.

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

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

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

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.

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

Joseph Casavant, world renowned organ maker, builds his first organ.

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

Major General and police official Sam Steele of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bars an unruly American from entering the Yukon with pistols,...

Montréal's Expo rises from the depths of the St. Lawrence River to give Canada a dazzling 100th birthday party.