Governor Frontenac

E1

New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec (1690).

Midwife

E2

A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.

Agnes Macphail

E3

The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.

Emily Carr

E4

The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work.

Joseph Tyrrell

E5

Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.

Basketball

E6

Sports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois.

Saguenay Fire

E7

One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in the Saguenay, Quebec.

Joseph Casavant

E8

Joseph Casavant, world renowned organ maker, builds his first organ.

Jean Nicollet

E9

French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.

Peacemaker

E10

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

Rural Teacher

E11

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.

Emily Murphy

E12

Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.

Vikings

E13

L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.

Baldwin & LaFontaine

E14

Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.