Episode 1
Governor Frontenac
1992-06-28 • 1 min
New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec (1690).
TV season
1992-06-28
Episode 1
1992-06-28 • 1 min
New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec (1690).
Episode 2
1992-06-28 • 1 min
A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.
Episode 3
1992-06-28 • 1 min
The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.
Episode 4
1992-06-28 • 1 min
The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work.
Episode 5
1992-06-28 • 1 min
Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.
Episode 6
1992-06-28 • 1 min
Sports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois.
Episode 7
1992-06-28 • 1 min
One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in the Saguenay, Quebec.
Episode 8
1992-06-28 • 1 min
Joseph Casavant, world renowned organ maker, builds his first organ.
Episode 9
1992-06-28 • 1 min
French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.
Episode 10
1992-06-28 • 1 min
The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.
Episode 11
1992-06-28 • 1 min
Teacher Kate Henderson sways school trustees to embrace new methods, and the event is represented in the famous painting by Robert Harris: A Meeting of the School Trustees.
Episode 12
1992-06-28 • 1 min
Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.
Episode 13
1992-06-28 • 1 min
L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.
Episode 14
1992-06-28 • 1 min
Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.