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2021
Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin
Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin1 2021 HD
Scientists Banting, Best, Collip and Macleod at the University of Toronto as they race for a treatment to cure 13-year-old Leonard Thompson of his...
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2019
Heritage Minutes: D-Day
Heritage Minutes: D-Day1 2019 HD
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...
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2021
Heritage Minutes: Oscar Peterson
Heritage Minutes: Oscar Peterson1 2021 HD
This Heritage Minute follows Canada’s most honoured jazz musicians from his humble beginnings in the Black neighbourhood of Little Burgundy in...
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2024
Heritage Minutes: Norman Kwong
Heritage Minutes: Norman Kwong1 2024 HD
This Heritage Minute celebrates Norman Kwong, the first CFL player of Chinese heritage and 4x Grey Cup winner.
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2013
Heritage Minutes: Queenston Heights
Heritage Minutes: Queenston Heights1 2013 HD
Mohawk Chief John Norton and 80 Grand River warriors hold off American soldiers until reinforcements arrive and the Battle of Queenston Heights is...
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2022
Heritage Minutes: Tom Longboat
Heritage Minutes: Tom Longboat1 2022 HD
This Heritage Minute follows the life of Onondaga long-distance runner Gagwe:gih, whose name means “Everything.” Known around the world...
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2015
Heritage Minutes: Nursing Sisters
Heritage Minutes: Nursing Sisters1 2015 HD
Nursing Sisters serve at the No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in France during the First World War.
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2016
Heritage Minutes: Chanie Wenjack
Heritage Minutes: Chanie Wenjack1 2016 HD
The story of Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack, whose death sparked the first inquest into the treatment of Indigenous children in Canadian residential...
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2014
Heritage Minutes: Winnipeg Falcons
Heritage Minutes: Winnipeg Falcons1 2014 HD
A team of Icelandic-Canadians serve in the First World War before bringing home the very first gold medal in Olympic hockey.
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2019
Heritage Minutes: Acadian Deportation
Heritage Minutes: Acadian Deportation1 2019 HD
The Acadians are descendants of early French settlers who arrived in Nova Scotia in 1604 and built a distinct culture and society over generations....
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2024
Heritage Minutes: Mary Riter Hamilton
Heritage Minutes: Mary Riter Hamilton1 2024 HD
Mary Riter Hamilton painted the battlefields after the First World War as a testament to its devastating cost. She would suffer mental and physical...
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2019
Heritage Minutes: Vancouver Asahi
Heritage Minutes: Vancouver Asahi1 2019 HD
From 1914-1941, the Vancouver Asahi were one of city’s most dominant amateur baseball teams, winning multiple league titles in Vancouver and...
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2018
Heritage Minutes: Jim Egan
Heritage Minutes: Jim Egan1 2018 HD
Pioneering gay activist Jim Egan publicly challenged a culture of rampant homophobia in the press starting in the late 1940s, when it was dangerous...
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2016
Heritage Minutes: Viola Desmond
Heritage Minutes: Viola Desmond1 2016 HD
The story of Viola Desmond, an entrepreneur who challenged segregation in Nova Scotia in the 1940s.
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2022
Heritage Minutes: Chloe Cooley
Heritage Minutes: Chloe Cooley1 2022 HD
This Heritage Minute follows Chloe Cooley, an enslaved Black woman in Upper Canada in 1793. Her acts of resistance in the face of violence led to...
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2022
Heritage Minutes: Jackie Shane
Heritage Minutes: Jackie Shane1 2022 HD
As a pioneering trans soul singer in the 1960s, Jackie Shane’s unapologetic and authentic presence in Toronto contributed to the local R&B...
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2012
Heritage Minutes: Richard Pierpoint
Heritage Minutes: Richard Pierpoint1 2012 HD
At 68, a formerly enslaved Black Loyalist enlists men for the Coloured Corps, an instrumental company in the War of 1812.
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2017
Heritage Minutes: "Boat People" Refugees
Heritage Minutes: "Boat People" Refugees1 2017 HD
A family escapes persecution in Vietnam, traveling by boat to a Malaysian refugee camp before finding a new home in Montreal.
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2016
Heritage Minutes: Naskumituwin (Treaty)
Heritage Minutes: Naskumituwin (Treaty)1 2016 HD
The making of Treaty 9 from the perspective of historical witness George Spence, an 18-year-old Cree hunter from Albany, James Bay.
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2014
Heritage Minutes: Sir John A. Macdonald
Heritage Minutes: Sir John A. Macdonald1 2014 HD
Canada's first Prime Minister outlines his vision for Confederation en route to the Charlottetown Conference.