The urge to make lists runs deep.

Name a magazine, website, radio or TV show, newspaper, blog, vlog or podcast that doesn’t crank out at least the occasional Top 10 list. Media workers, like everyone else, take comfort in making sense and order from life’s barrage of random stuff. Lists help.

So, with Canada turning 150 years old, your friends at CBC Sports decided it would be useful to create a definitive list of the 15 biggest moments in Canadian sports history. It's not one per decade, but 15 sort of rhymes with 150, so just roll with us on that part. There will be more to argue about than the length of our list.

We convened a panel — experienced journalists, stats people, researchers, young keeners, wily veterans. We wanted truly national events. Moments that made a lasting difference across the country. So a Grey Cup for the Roughriders or another Stanley Cup for the Canadiens wasn't good enough. We fought like bobcats in a sack.

So here we go. You have to do your own drumroll.