S2 E3 • Agnes Macphail

Agnes Macphail began her career as a country schoolteacher. Interested in agricultural problems, she became a member and active spokesperson for the United Farmers of Ontario. Her move into politics stemmed from her desire to represent the farmers of her region. In 1919 women gained the right to run for Parliament, and Macphail was elected in 1921, the first federal election in which women had the vote.

Première diffusion : 28 juin 1992

S2 E10 • Peacemaker

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

Première diffusion : 28 juin 1992

S2 E10 • Peacemaker

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

Première diffusion : 28 juin 1992

S2 E12 • Emily Murphy

"The world loves a peaceful man," declared Emily Murphy, "but it gives way to a strenuous kicker." Murphy herself was a strenuous kicker, one who opened the path of reform in the legal landscape of Canada. Emily Murphy began her career as a writer of sunny, patriotic travel sketches, which she published under the pseudonym Janey Canuck. Known for its liveliness and humour, her writing also expressed serious concern for the welfare of women and children. Increasingly she found herself speaking out frankly and publicly on behalf of the disadvantaged.

Première diffusion : 28 juin 1992

S2 E112 • Halifax Explosion

"What do you think you're doing?" shouted chief clerk William Lovett as train dispatcher Vince Coleman turned back towards the office. "We've only got a minute or two left! Anyone in the office won't stand a chance, and you're a married man with a family to think of!" But Vince Coleman was thinking about the passenger trains speeding towards the threatened harbour. He had to stop them.

Première diffusion : 31 mars 1991

S2 E406 • Sitting Bull

From 1850 until his death in 1890, Sitting Bull symbolized the conflict between settlers and native American culture over lifestyles, land, and resources. Sitting Bull led the Sioux resistance against U.S. incursion into Indian lands, resistance that often ended in battle. After the most famous battle at Little Big Horn, in which General George Custer's forces were completely annihilated, Sitting Bull left the United States for the Cypress Hills in Saskatchewan.

S2 E409 • Myrnam Hospital

Myrnam, Alberta 1935 It was snowing outside and the three-bed "service station" that acted as a hospital for Myrnam was overflowing with seventeen patients. It wasn't the first time the little hospital located two hundred kilometers east of Edmonton - had been filled past capacity. Something had to be done.

Première diffusion : 4 mai 1995

S2 E411 • John McCrae

On December 8, 1915, Punch magazine published a poem commemorating the dead of World War I. "In Flanders Fields" was written by John McCrae of Guelph, Ontario, after his experiences in the trench warfare around Ypres, Belgium.

S2 E413 • Grey Owl

Archibald Belaney perpetrated one of the 20th Century's most convincing hoaxes. Known to the world as "Grey Owl," he convinced everyone that he was a Canadian-born first nations author. In this persona, he became one of Canada's most popular and famous personalities. Grey Owl's British origins came to light shortly after his death and the ensuing public outcry ignored his significant contributions as a conservationist.

S2 E424 • Frontier College

"Whenever and wherever people shall have occasion to congregate, then and there shall be the time, place and means of their education." - Reverend Alfred Fitzpatrick, 1920

Première diffusion : 1 août 1997

S2 E3 • Marconi

Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

S2 E4 • Les Voltigueurs De Quebec

The band of this famous French Canadian regiment rehearses for the first performance of O Canada in 1880 at Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations.

S2 E5 • Louis Riel

What thoughts ran through Louis Riel's mind as he stood on the scaffold, waiting for the trap door to open to his death?

Première diffusion : 31 mars 1991

S2 E15 • Sam Steele

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.

Première diffusion : 13 septembre 1993