Hai cercato: Heritage Minutes
Heritage Minutes / 1991
Heritage Minutes, also known officially as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, are a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. They appear frequently on Canadian television and in cinemas before movies and are now also sold on DVD. The Minutes were first introduced on March 31, 1991 as part of...
Heritage Minutes: Paris Crew / 1995
The surprise victory of the Paris Crew, a group of unheralded Canadian rowers, at the 1867 World Championships.
Heritage Minutes: Kenojuak Ashevak / 2016
A founding member of Cape Dorset’s famed printmaking co-op, Kenojuak Ashevak introduced Inuit art to the world.
Heritage Minutes: Marshall McLuhan / 1993
Philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan coins the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village."
Heritage Minutes: Naskumituwin (Treaty) / 2016
The making of Treaty 9 from the perspective of historical witness George Spence, an 18-year-old Cree hunter from Albany, James Bay.
Heritage Minutes: Nitro / 1993
A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Heritage Minutes: Acadian Deportation / 2019
The Acadians are descendants of early French settlers who arrived in Nova Scotia in 1604 and built a distinct culture and society over generations. Their peaceful existence was uprooted in 1755 when over 10,000 Acadians were ripped from their homeland to ensure British rule in North America. This Heritage Minute portrays the deportation through the eyes of an Acadian mother.
Heritage Minutes: Jacques Plante / 1991
Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL player to wear a goaltender mask in regular play.
Heritage Minutes: Paul-Émile Borduas / 1995
Paul-Émile Borduas, Québec's voice of the Quiet Revolution, reflects on the impact of his writing and art in his Paris studio.
Heritage Minutes: D-Day / 2019
On June 6, 1944, Canadian Forces landed on Juno Beach. D-Day, as this day would become known, was the largest amphibious invasion of all time, led to the liberation of France, and marked the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
Heritage Minutes: Nursing Sisters / 2015
Nursing Sisters serve at the No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in France during the First World War.
Heritage Minutes: Stratford / 1997
Tom Patterson’s vision transforms a quiet railway town into a world-renowned cultural destination.
Heritage Minutes: Syrup / 1997
A First Nations family teaches early settlers how to make maple syrup.
Heritage Minutes: Superman / 1991
Toronto cartoonist Joe Shuster describes the comic book hero he created.
Heritage Minutes: Midwife / 1992
A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.
Heritage Minutes: Peacekeepers / 1991
Canadian peacekeepers are stationed in Cyprus to help diffuse tension between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
Heritage Minutes: Soddie / 1991
Prairie settlers build a house of sod.
Heritage Minutes: Orphans / 1991
French Canadian families adopt Irish orphans in the 1850s while allowing them to maintain part of their Irish heritage.
Heritage Minutes: Marconi / 1993
Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Heritage Minutes: Inukshuk / 1993
An RCMP officer watches an Inuit family build the Northern landmark, a sign of human activity on the vast arctic landscape.