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A First Nations family teaches early settlers how to make maple syrup.
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Heritage Minutes: Chanie Wenjack
The story of Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack, whose death sparked the first inquest into the treatment of Indigenous children in Canadian residential schools.
Heritage Minutes: Vikings
L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.
Heritage Minutes: Acadian Deportation
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
Heritage Minutes: Jean Nicollet
French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.
Forgotten Heritage
Documentary film by Sergio Zermeño
Heritage Minutes: Naskumituwin (Treaty)
The making of Treaty 9 from the perspective of historical witness George Spence, an 18-year-old Cree hunter from Albany, James Bay.
What is Heritage?
A boy breaks into Heritage class to clarify his doubts.
Heritage Minutes: Peacemaker
The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.
Heritage Minutes: Mona Parsons
Mona Parsons, a partisan World War II Allied agent in the Netherlands escapes execution and later imprisonment by the Nazis.
Heritage Minutes: Jennie Trout
The first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada faces prejudice in the classroom.
Heritage Minutes: Bora Laskin
One of Canada’s greatest legal scholars, Bora Laskin overcame antisemitism to become the first Jewish Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Heritage Minutes: Governor Frontenac
New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec
Heritage Minutes: Saguenay Fire
One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in Saguenay, Quebec.
Heritage Minutes: Agnes Macphail
The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.
Heritage Minutes: Winnipeg Falcons
A team of Icelandic-Canadians serve in the First World War before bringing home the very first gold medal in Olympic hockey.
Heritage Minutes: Inukshuk
An RCMP officer watches an Inuit family build the Northern landmark, a sign of human activity on the vast arctic landscape.
Heritage Minutes: Sitting Bull
Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.
Heritage Minutes: Andrew Mynarski
A young Canadian gunner, Andrew Mynarski, stays behind to save his friend in a flaming Lancaster bomber and dies in the attempt.
Heritage Minutes: Nat Taylor
An enterprising Canadian cinema operator invents the modern multi-screen movie theatre.