Episode list

Despite resistance from Premier R.P. Roblin, the famous suffragist fights for Manitoban women's right to vote (1916).

The first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada faces prejudice in the classroom (1871).

A Montréal goalie challenges hockey's conventions by wearing his invention, the hockey mask, during an NHL game (1959).

Enslaved African Americans escaped to freedom in Canada.

Prairie settlers in the 1890s build their first home from the same sod that they break to grow their crops.

A French Canadian family adopts Irish children orphaned during their voyage to Canada in the 1850s.

Three men from Pine Street in Winnipeg are awarded the Victoria Cross in World War I, and the street's name is changed to Valour Road in their honor.

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

A Montréal neurosurgeon makes groundbreaking advances in the treatment of seizure disorders (1934).

Toronto cartoonist Joe Shuster describes the comic book hero he created (1931).

Off the coast of Newfoundland, John Cabot and his sailors encounter codfish so thick that they slow the ship (1497).

Lost in translation? The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name (1534).

Queen Victoria and Lord Melbourne discuss the notion of political reform in Canada (1841).

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