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

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

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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.

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

Train dispatcher Vince Coleman sacrifices his own life to save a train from the Halifax Explosion.

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

A Canadian soldier's bear becomes the object of adoration and inspiration for a young boy and his father, A.A. Milne.

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

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

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

A volunteer teacher brings basic literacy and mathematical skills to a lumber and work camp in the Canadian bush.

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

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

L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.

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