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Was Expo 67 the greatest world’s fair ever? Of course it was.

Lillian Alling, the Russian girl who walked from New York to Bering Strait.

In 1929, Canada’s Mary Pickford won the Academy Award for best actress in a motion picture. Along with fellow Canadian Mack Sennett, she helped forge the character of Hollywood in the silent era.

Nova Scotia’s Harold Russell, the only person to win two Oscars for the same role, catapulted from obscurity to fame by turning a war injury into an inspiration.

Francis Rattenbury lived four decades in wealth and glory, but then his career fizzled and his life languished. It was only when dazzling Alma Pakenham stepped into his world that his fortunes changed. Or seemed to.

People loved their beer. Yet when zealous prohibitionists launched a holy crusade against the brewers, the brewers lost.

An early recording of popular children’s songs, and a Scottish folk song with an arrangement by Joseph Haydn, performed by a beloved Canadian singer.

While thousands of eastern Europeans poured into Canada to settle the prairie west, a few hundred elected to return to their roots and build an agricultural utopia in the new Soviet Russia. Utopian, it wasn’t.

A century of storytelling, supporting storytellers, every child matters, making history fun for kids.

Seven creative and innovative contributions Canadians have made in the culinary world.