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

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

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

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

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

Author, artist and physician during World War I John McCrae pens In Flanders Fields.

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

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

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in Saguenay, Quebec.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.