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  • 2021
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    Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin

    Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin

    1 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
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    Heritage Minutes: D-Day

    Heritage Minutes: D-Day

    1 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
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    Heritage Minutes: Oscar Peterson

    Heritage Minutes: Oscar Peterson

    1 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
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    Heritage Minutes: Norman Kwong

    Heritage Minutes: Norman Kwong

    1 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
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    Heritage Minutes: Queenston Heights

    Heritage Minutes: Queenston Heights

    1 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
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    Heritage Minutes: Tom Longboat

    Heritage Minutes: Tom Longboat

    1 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
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    Heritage Minutes: Nursing Sisters

    Heritage Minutes: Nursing Sisters

    1 2015 HD

    Nursing Sisters serve at the No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in France during the First World War.

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  • 2016
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    Heritage Minutes: Chanie Wenjack

    Heritage Minutes: Chanie Wenjack

    1 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
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    Heritage Minutes: Winnipeg Falcons

    Heritage Minutes: Winnipeg Falcons

    1 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
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    Heritage Minutes: Acadian Deportation

    Heritage Minutes: Acadian Deportation

    1 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
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    Heritage Minutes: Mary Riter Hamilton

    Heritage Minutes: Mary Riter Hamilton

    1 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
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    Heritage Minutes: Vancouver Asahi

    Heritage Minutes: Vancouver Asahi

    1 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
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    Heritage Minutes: Jim Egan

    Heritage Minutes: Jim Egan

    1 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
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    Heritage Minutes: Viola Desmond

    Heritage Minutes: Viola Desmond

    1 2016 HD

    The story of Viola Desmond, an entrepreneur who challenged segregation in Nova Scotia in the 1940s.

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  • 2022
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    Heritage Minutes: Chloe Cooley

    Heritage Minutes: Chloe Cooley

    1 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
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    Heritage Minutes: Jackie Shane

    Heritage Minutes: Jackie Shane

    1 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
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    Heritage Minutes: Richard Pierpoint

    Heritage Minutes: Richard Pierpoint

    1 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
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    Heritage Minutes: "Boat People" Refugees

    Heritage Minutes: "Boat People" Refugees

    1 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
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    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
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    Heritage Minutes: Sir John A. Macdonald

    Heritage Minutes: Sir John A. Macdonald

    1 2014 HD

    Canada's first Prime Minister outlines his vision for Confederation en route to the Charlottetown Conference.

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