The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name.

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

Québec's Father of Confederation negotiates entry into Union of his home province, as well as Manitoba and British Columbia.

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

An RCMP officer watches an Inuit family build the Northern landmark, a sign of human activity on the vast arctic landscape.

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

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

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

The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.