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Proud Moments in our history Canada has had many proud moments in the past 100 years that makes us who we are now. Vimy Ridge was one of our first proud moments in the 1900s where all four Canadian divisions in World War I fought in one battle together. After the First World War Canada became its own country by the Statute of Westminster stating that we were no longer was about of Great Britain. In the 1920s Canada invented many useful things that we still use today like the telephone, radio, television and cars. During the 1928 Olympics, Canada won 4 gold metals, 2 silver metals and 1 bronze metal. Hockey night in Canada became huge when it started out and still is to this day, it started on the radio but after TV was invented it moved to television broadcasting. One big discovery that Canada is proud of is the discovery of insulin used for diabetic people discovered by Fredrick Banting and Charles Best. Hockey was starting to become huge and legends were born. Maurice Richard also known as the “Rocket” is a Canadian hockey player that we are very proud of. He played for the Montreal Canadians and was their best player by far. In the 1944-45 hockey season he scored 50 goals in 50 games making him a hockey legend. Paul Henderson is another hockey legend for the USSR hockey series in 1972. Canada won and he was the one who scored the winning goal for us. Expo 67 was Canada’s 100th birthday so they celebrating with a huge party and 50 million people from all across the world came to see bringing in lots of money for us. Terry Fox was a huge deal in 1980 and still is now. He ran from Newfoundland all the way to Canada to raise money for cancer research. He did all of this with only one leg and raised over $20 million before he died. When 9/11 happened in the United States, Americans came to Canada and stayed in the airports, Canadians wanted to help so they brought food blankets and clothes for the Americans. Canada did a lot of things that we are proud for

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