Some light summer reading for you:
http://www.tribute.ca/kids/0698/Canadian_firsts.html

http://www.yesmag.bc.ca/review/Canadian_Firsts_N.html

http://www.historytelevision.ca/arch...ay2002/firsts/

You may note that a lot of the 'firsts' were performed by Nova Scotians.
from a province with less than a million people.