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

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

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

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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

Sports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois.

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

A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.

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

A Montreal neurosurgeon makes ground-breaking advances in the treatment of seizure disorders.

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

Canadian peacekeepers are stationed in Cyprus to help diffuse tension between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

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

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

Engineer Thomas Wardrope Eadie develops the Trans Canada Microwave telecommunications network.

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

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

What thoughts ran through Louis Riel's mind as he stood on the scaffold, waiting for the trap door to open to his death?

Miner Maurice Ruddick recounts the 1958 Springhill mine disaster.

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