Crb Foundation Ca Filmes

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

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

The ferry command pilot delivers fighter planes to Britain during the Second World War, and plans her post-war career as Canada's first female flight...

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

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

Two decades after Ezekiel Hart is denied his seat in the assembly, Louis-Joseph Papineau's government enacts religious tolerance laws in Lower Canada.

Teacher Kate Henderson sways school trustees to embrace new methods, and the event is represented in the famous painting by Robert Harris: A Meeting...

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

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.

Tom Patterson’s vision transforms a quiet railway town into a world-renowned cultural destination.

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

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

Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Journalist and government official Étienne Parent demands equality for French and English.

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

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