Crb Foundation Ca Filmes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance.

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 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...

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.

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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.

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