This series of 10 half-hour productions dramatized the lives of heroes from Canadian history.

Personalities featured included Emily Murphy, the early feminist known as Janey Canuck; Pere Athol Murray; H.R. MacMillan, the modernizer of the Canadian forest industry; native poet Pauline Johnson; J.A. Bombardier; the long-time mayor of Ottawa, Charlotte Whitton; John Wesley Dafoe, the editor of the Winnipeg Free Press; obstetrician Marion Hilliard; Reginald Fessenden; and arctic explorer Vihjalmur Stefansson.