Crb Foundation Ca Movies

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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

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

An RCMP officer watches an Inuit family build the Northern landmark, a sign of human activity on the vast arctic landscape.

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

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

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

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

Queen Victoria decides to grant Canada responsible government after the crushing of the Rebellions of 1837.

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

A one-minute vignette on renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield's pioneering procedure to cure epilepsy.

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

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

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.

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

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