Bethune in surgery in China.
Canada's Chinese hero
Dr. Norman Bethune, an humanitarian and surgeon whose irascible selflessness fed a large ego, is more revered in China than his native Canada, but his story is undeniably compelling.
Portuguese in Canada
Sgt. Mitsui's war medals
Medals of Shame
Vancouver's Masumi Mitsui served at Vimy, was awarded the Military Medal for bravery and, in 1926, founded B.C. Branch No. 9 of the Royal Canadian Legion. None of it kept him from being branded an enemy alien in 1941.
Ford V8s at Nazi Games
Basketball vs. Fascism
When Windsor's Ford V8s won what remains Canada only medal in basketball at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, it did so with the help of two Jewish players and under the beaming gaze of the the game's Canadian founder.