Crb Foundation Ca Movies

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

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

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

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

Author, artist and physician during World War I John McCrae pens In Flanders Fields.

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

A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.

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

Lawyer, judge, and politician John Matheson looks at candidates for Canada's new flag.

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.

French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.

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

The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work.

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

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

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

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.

Joseph Casavant, world renowned organ maker, builds his first organ.

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