The need to navigate the waters prompted native North Americans to invent the canoe. Hundreds of years later, their creation has become a favourite Canadian pastime. Many use canoeing as a means of finding tranquility in nature; others take it up as a sport. Some even view it as an art form. The CBC Digital Archives takes a look at the storied history of gliding along the water with paddle in hand.
Canadian women were not allowed to fight during the Second World War but they did just about everything else. Tens of thousands joined the women's divisions of the Armed Forces. Hundreds of thousands stepped into jobs in wartime industry. At home and abroad they were welders and pilots, nurses and clerks, the homemakers that kept families together, protecting the home front and the Canadian way of life. These are some of their stories.
A CBC reporter asks attractive Expo hostesses what they think of Canadian men.
Manitoba is the winning team in a grueling 104-day canoe race celebrating Canada's explorers.
A Winnipeg father and his two sons set out on an epic north-south canoe voyage.
Major Deanna Brasseur discusses her career in the Canadian air force, including her historic 1989 graduation from the CF-18 training program.
A century after it was first sung, O Canada is declared the country's official national anthem in 1980.
After lengthy negotiations, the U.K. agrees to join the six countries that make up a European trading bloc.