Voyage to Freedom

Chinese-Canadian Kam Len “Doug” Sam served in the air force in the Second World War. Shot down in France, he gathered critical information as a spy for the Allies.

Nellie McClung and a group of devoted suffragists stage their mock parliament to make a point about women’s equality.

Ride the rails across Canada with Black sleeping car porters as they fight for labour rights and civil rights.

Union organizer Madeleine Parent fights for better working conditions in Quebec.

Prairie families in the 1930s watch their farms — and hopes — blow away while they wait for rain.

Meet Tom Longboat, an Onondaga long distance runner who becomes a world-class athlete.

On April 12, 1980, amputee Terry Fox set out on a run across Canada with the goal of raising $1 from every Canadian for cancer research.

The city of Halifax bulldozes a Black settlement that had stood for 150 years, destroying a community but not its spirit.

The inspiring story of Canadian Kit Coleman, a female reporter who fought for women’s equality and became the first-ever female war correspondent.

In 1835, the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Land Company brought 35 boys and 1 girl from England to work for its settlers. They were not paid and while some were treated like family, others were not nearly so lucky.