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The battle of Vimy Ridge was apart of the battle of Arras, it was won by the Canadians on April 12th, 1917.
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The Group of Seven was a group of modern Canadian artists established in 1920.
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The stock exchange of North America was seized in late October 1929 and was followed by the Great Depression.
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Canada declared war on Germany in September 1939, 9 days after the British Empire.
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in 1942 around 22,000 Japanese-Canadian citizens were exiled to remote areas of eastern British Columbia.
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During the Second World War, the Allied defences launched a tragic raid on the French beaches of Dieppe.
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Juno beach was the beach, out of five, that the Canadians landed on during D-Day
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Newfoundland became Canada's 10th province in 1949.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and other Western European countries.
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The Korean war was between South and North Korea, because of Canada's involvement in the UN Canadian military served in the Korean War.
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Canada engaged in its first peacekeeping mission in 1956 during the Suez Crisis.
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The Quiet Revolution was a time period in Quebec where they went through a lot of rapid political changes.
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Terry Fox was diagnosed with cancer in March of 1977, he had a goal to run across Canada to help raise cancer awareness.
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The Gordon Residential School in Punnichy was the last residential school in Canada to close.
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Before Alexandre Bilodeau won a gold medal at the 2010 olympics Canada had never won a gold medal at their own Olympic games.