Season 2
14 episodes · Jun 28, 1992
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- S2E1
Governor Frontenac
Jun 28, 19921mNew France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec (1690).
- S2E3
Agnes Macphail
Jun 28, 19921mThe first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.
- S2E4
Emily Carr
Jun 28, 19921mThe British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work.
- S2E5
Joseph Tyrrell
Jun 28, 19921mGeologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.
- S2E6
Basketball
Jun 28, 19921mSports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois.
- S2E7
Saguenay Fire
Jun 28, 19921mOne family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in the Saguenay, Quebec.
- S2E8
Joseph Casavant
Jun 28, 19921mJoseph Casavant, world renowned organ maker, builds his first organ.
- S2E9
Jean Nicollet
Jun 28, 19921mFrench coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.
- S2E10
Peacemaker
Jun 28, 19921mThe formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.
- S2E11
Rural Teacher
Jun 28, 19921mTeacher 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.
- S2E12
Emily Murphy
Jun 28, 19921mWomen's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.
- S2E13
Vikings
Jun 28, 19921mL'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.
- S2E14
Baldwin & LaFontaine
Jun 28, 19921mLawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.