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Broadcast date
28-06-1992 • 14 episodes
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Episodes of this season
1. Governor Frontenac
New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec (1690).
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2. Midwife
A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.
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3. Agnes Macphail
The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.
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4. Emily Carr
The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work.
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5. Joseph Tyrrell
Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.
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6. Basketball
Sports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois.
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7. Saguenay Fire
One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in the Saguenay, Quebec.
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8. Joseph Casavant
Joseph Casavant, world renowned organ maker, builds his first organ.
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9. Jean Nicollet
French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.
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10. Peacemaker
The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.
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11. Rural Teacher
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.
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12. Emily Murphy
Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.
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13. Vikings
L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.
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14. Baldwin & LaFontaine
Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.
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