Legal scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate John Humphrey drafts the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Italian navigator and explorer John Cabot discovers the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and runs "aground" on a bounty of fish.

Canada's first Prime Minister outlines his vision for Confederation en route to the Charlottetown Conference.

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.