Military and Historical Sites
On June 6, 1944 Canadian Forces landed on Juno Beach.
What is D-Day?
Despite resistance from Premier R.P. Roblin, the famous suffragist fights for Manitoban women's right to vote (1916).
Who is Nellie McClung?
Canadian aerospace scientists design and test the world's fastest and most advanced interceptor aircraft (1953).
What is Avro Arrow?
Northern landmark, a sign of human activity on the vast arctic landscape (1931).
What is the Inukshuk?
A young Canadian gunner stays behind to save his friend in a flaming Lancaster bomber and dies in the attempt (1944).
Who is Andrew Mynarski?
Canada’s most celebrated military victory took place from 9 to 12 April, 1917.
What is the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
After her perilous journey to warn of an American attack during the War of 1812, the Kahnawake Mohawks repel the invasion (1813).
Who is Laura Secord?
The sport's inventor, James Naismith of Almonte, Ontario, explains the rules during one of the first experimental games (1891).
What is basketball?
The story of an indigenous child whose death sparked the first inquest into the treatment of Indigenous children in Canadian residential schools.
Who is Chanie Wenjack?
He inspires the nation with his Marathon of hope, a cross-country run to raise money for cancer research.
Who is Terry Fox?
An arena that will come to be known as Canada's "cathedral of hockey" is built in Toronto (1931).
What is Maple Leaf Gardens?
The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons, fights for penal reform.
Who is Agnes Macphail?
A diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence until this happened.
What is the discovery of insulin?
Naskumituwin
What is the Cree word for Treaty?
An entrepreneur who challenged segregation in Nova Scotia in the 1940s.
Who is Viola Desmond?
Served at the No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in France during the First World War.
Who are the nursing sisters?
Battled depression, rejection, and sexism to become known around the world for Anne of Green Gables and 19 other novels.
Who is Lucy Maud Montgomery?
An engineer who planned three railways plays a pivotal role in the creation of Standard Time (1885).
Who is Sir Sanford Fleming?
A founding member of Cape Dorset’s famed printmaking co-op, they introduced Inuit art to the world (1927-2013).
Who is Kenojuak Ashevek?
A team of Icelandic-Canadians serve in the First World War before bringing home the very first gold medal in Olympic hockey.
Who are the Winnipeg Falcons?
Between 1944 and 1945, the Canadian Army was given this important yet deadly task.
What is the liberation of the Netherlands?
The world's first female aeronautical engineer and Canada's first practicing woman engineer.
Who is Elsie MacGill?
Italian inventor receives the first transatlantic radio message on Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland (1901).
Who is Guglielmo Marconi?
Canada's most decorated Indigenous war veteran.
Who is Tommy Prince?
One of the first female surgeons in Canada, she devotes her life to health care in Uganda (1962).
Who is Lucille Teasdale?