The groundbreaking moments that moved Canada — and the world — forward.
Frederick Banting shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923 for the discovery of insulin — becoming the first Canadian Nobel laureate. He was 32 years old.
Marc Garneau became the first Canadian to travel to space on October 5, 1984, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. He later flew two more missions and became president of the Canadian Space Agency.
The Montreal Heart Institute performed Canada's first heart transplant on May 31, 1968, just months after the world's first successful transplant in South Africa.