Collection of highly readable biographies of Canadian scientists, Nobel Prize winners, and inventors explores the impact these extraordinary Canadians have made not just on Canada, but the world. They reflect the significant milestones in 5 major areas - communication, discovery, electronics, health, and transportation.

Sidney Altman -- Frederick Banting and Charles Best -- Alexander Graham Bell -- Tom Bolton -- Armand Bombardier -- Roberta Bondar -- Bertram Brockhouse -- Harriet Brooks -- Eli Franklin Burton -- Samuel Cunard -- George Edouard Desbarats and William Leggo -- Leone Farrell -- Charles Fenerty -- Reginald Aubrey Fessenden -- Sandford Fleming -- Jim Floyd -- Abraham Gesner -- Gerhard Herzberg -- Donald Hings -- Helen Sawyer Hogg -- David Hubel -- Charles Huggins -- Harold Johns -- Har Gobind Khorana -- Mike Lazaridis -- Rudolph Marcus -- Maud Menten -- John Cunningham McLennan -- James Naismith -- Daniel David Palmer -- John Patch -- John Polanyi -- Charles Saunders -- Arthur Schawlow -- Michel Smith -- William Stephenson -- David Suzuki -- Henry Taube -- Richard Taylor -- Wallace Rupert Turnbull -- Joseph Burr Tyrrell -- Lewis Urry -- James Miller Williams -- Thomas "Carbide" Willson -- John Joseph Wright.