Episode list

The band of this famous French Canadian regiment rehearses Calixa Lavallée's "O Canada" for its first public performance at Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations (1880).

After her perilous journey to warn of an American attack during the War of 1812, the Kahnawake Mohawks repel the invasion (1813).

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 (1944).

Bell Canada's Thomas Eadie leads the construction of a trans-Canada microwave network to carry television broadcasts and telephone calls across the country (1953).

A young Chinese worker volunteers to set a dangerous nitroglycerine charge at a CP construction site in British Columbia in the 1880s.

Author, artist and physician during World War I, John McCrae pens In Flanders Fields (starring Colm Feore as McCrae), a poem that is still recited across Canada on November 11th.

Canadian aerospace scientists design and test the world's fastest and most advanced interceptor aircraft (1953).

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

The world-renowned communications theorist fascinates students with his insights about mass media (1961).

Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio message on Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland (1901).

Paul-Émile Borduas, Québec's voice of the Quiet Revolution, reflects on the impact of his writing and art in his Paris studio (1957).

Confident that the North-West Mounted Police will respect him and his people, the great Sioux Chief chooses to remain in Western Canada rather than return to the United States (1877).

A Canadian soldier's bear becomes the object of adoration and inspiration for a young boy and his father, A.A. Milne (1915).

Englishman Archie Belaney, an author and conservationist, convinces the world he is a First Nations person (1888-1938).

MP John Matheson, a member of the parliamentary committee to choose a national flag, surveys the many designs proposed for consideration (1964).

Writing from a prison cell, a young journalist and future politician calls for mutual tolerance between French and English Canadians (1838).

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