DEBUT: Alpha Flight: Vindicator, Sasquatch, Shaman, Snowbird, Puck, and Heather Hudson. (Northstar and Aurora previously appeared in Slave Island (1993) during the first season.)
Cameos: Domino, Nightcrawler, Archangel, Cannonball, Psylocke, Quicksilver & The Scarlet Witch when Jean is using Cerebro to find Professor X.
Department H is a branch of the Canadian government that sanctioned, supported, and monitored all the superhuman activity in Canada. It also oversaw the superhuman team Alpha Flight.
Shaman pulled a large staff out of his magic satchel. This is similar to other Marvel characters Slap Stick and Deadpool who have similar gloves or satchels. The animation process for this is called Hammer Space. Taking a large object out of a small space.
The first flasback seeing how Wolverine was experimented on was simular in the Weapon X story by writer/artist Barry Windsor-Smith in Marvel Comics Presents issues 72-84 in 1991.