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The Second World War led to fundamental changes to Canada, ushering in a new country forged by a generation’s service and sacrifice.

How Eileen Vollick became the first Canadian woman to earn a pilot's licence.

Her skirt was transparent. Her midriff was bare. Canadian-born pioneer of modern dance Maud Allan scandalized Edwardian London. In more ways than one.

Having barely survived the trenches of World War I, returning Canadian soldiers — and the public at large — were greeted with a horror of a different ilk: the Spanish Flu. Weapons were no defence.

Risk-takers and thrill-seekers who made their marks on Canada. 

There’s no doubt about it: Canada has produced some awesome inventions. Here are the stories behind our favourites.

A “lily among thorns” or a victim of colonialism? Maybe there’s another way to understand Canada’s only Aboriginal saint.

Today, the wrongfully convicted can win their freedom and compensation. But when the death penalty was still in place, no one at the gallows got a second chance.

Born as twins in 1905, Alberta and Saskatchewan grew apart. Single-minded visionaries, hardening ideologies, and nature’s lottery helped turn the two provinces into a disparate duo.

It’s hard to say when attitudes in Canada began shifting towards a more tolerant, multicultural society. Perhaps it began with the Holocaust.