Episode 1
Laura Secord
1993-04-30 • 1 min
Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance.
TV season
1993-04-30
Episode 1
1993-04-30 • 1 min
Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance.
Episode 2
1993-04-30 • 1 min
Philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan coins the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village."
Episode 3
1993-04-30 • 1 min
Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Episode 4
1993-04-30 • 1 min
The band of this famous French Canadian regiment rehearses for the first performance of O Canada in 1880 at Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations.
Episode 5
1993-04-30 • 1 min
What thoughts ran through Louis Riel's mind as he stood on the scaffold, waiting for the trap door to open to his death?
Episode 6
1993-04-30 • 1 min
Journalist and government official Étienne Parent demands equality for French and English.
Episode 7
1993-04-30 • 1 min
A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Episode 8
1993-04-30 • 1 min
Engineer and inventor Sir Sandford Fleming develops the system of international standard time.
Episode 9
1993-04-30 • 1 min
Considered one of the "cathedrals" of ice hockey, the construction and history of the Maple Leaf Gardens is featured.
Episode 10
1993-04-30 • 1 min
Engineer Thomas Wardrope Eadie develops the Trans Canada Microwave telecommunications network.
Episode 11
1993-04-30 • 1 min
Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering.
Episode 12
1993-04-30 • 1 min
Miner Maurice Ruddick recounts the 1958 Springhill mine disaster.
Episode 13
1993-04-30 • 1 min
An Inukshuk a stone landmark or cairn is built on Baffin Island.
Episode 14
1993-04-30 • 1 min
The story of how Mary Travers becomes a famed popular singer in Quebec.
Episode 15
1993-04-30 • 1 min
Major General and police official Sam Steele (portrayed by Alan Scarfe) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bars an unruly American (portrayed by Don S. Davis) from entering the Yukon with pistols, despite being threatened at gunpoint.