Heritage Minutes
Date de parution : 31 mars 1991
| Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Underground Railroad Between 1840 and 1860, more than 30,000 American slaves came secretly to Canada and freedom | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Valour Road WORLD WAR I was known as The Great War, a name that referred to its international scale, its massive mobilization of men, munitions and supplies,... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Jacques Plante Jacques Plante broke with tradition and changed the face of hockey forever. Jacques Plante was to become one of the National Hockey League's... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 4 | Jennie Trout The names of women are conspicuously absent from the lists of famous Canadian medical pioneers. During the 19th Century, while male physicians and... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 5 | Superman Superman leapt from comic books to radio serials in the 1940s, and on to the television screen by the 1950s. At the beginning of each episode a... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Responsible Government Our governor general controlled by an elected assembly, instead of by us. It's a Canadian idea! Individual women and men can achieve great things... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 7 | Soddie By the late Nineteenth Century, the railroad had connected eastern Canada with the West Coast. The train offered new access to the vast western... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 8 | Nellie McClung Nellie McClung was a political activist. She was also a charmer with a gift for oratory and a delightful sense of humour. Her spirited leadership... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 9 | Orphans In the 1850s, many Québec families adopted Irish orphans, their parents dead from ship's fever on the Atlantic crossing The Irish and the French... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 10 | Jacques Cartier After Columbus landed in the Western Hemisphere in 1492, European rulers sent explorers across the Atlantic to the Americas to claim territory and... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 11 | Wilder Penfield Dr. Wilder Penfield had a passionate desire to unlock the mysteries of the human brain. He revolutionized the techniques of brain surgery and made... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 12 | Peacemaker Centuries ago, the Iroquois nations found a way to establish peace and unity among themselves. Even today, they rediscover the source of their peace... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 13 | Hart & Papineau Through the tireless efforts of Benjamin Hart, the Legislative Assembly granted Jews the right to erect a new synagogue and to keep registers of... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 14 | John Cabot It is ironic that England's claim to North America, the claim that is responsible for the creation of Canada as we know it, rests on the discoveries... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 15 | The Paris Crew In 1867, just weeks after Confederation, a lighthouse keeper and three fishermen from Saint John, NB took the sporting world by storm. The place was... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 16 | Syrup Is there anything more Canadian than maple syrup? "Sugaring time," that brief space between winter and spring when the snow starts to melt and the... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 17 | Governor Frontenac New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec (1690). | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 18 | Midwife A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 19 | Emily Carr The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 20 | Joseph Tyrrell Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 21 | Basketball Sports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 22 | Saguenay Fire One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in the Saguenay, Quebec. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 23 | Joseph Casavant Joseph Casavant, world renowned organ maker, builds his first organ. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 24 | Jean Nicolet French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 25 | Rural Teacher Teacher Kate Henderson sways school trustees to embrace new methods, and the event is represented in the famous painting by Robert Harris: A Meeting... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 26 | Vikings L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 27 | Baldwin & LaFontaine Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 28 | Laura Secord Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 29 | Étienne Parent Journalist and government official Étienne Parent demands equality for French and English. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 30 | Nitro A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 31 | Sir Sandford Fleming Engineer and inventor Sir Sandford Fleming develops the system of international standard time. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 1 | Agnes Macphail Agnes Macphail began her career as a country schoolteacher. Interested in agricultural problems, she became a member and active spokesperson for the... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 2 | Peacemaker The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 3 | Peacemaker The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 4 | Emily Murphy "The world loves a peaceful man," declared Emily Murphy, "but it gives way to a strenuous kicker." Murphy herself was a strenuous kicker, one who... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 5 | Halifax Explosion "What do you think you're doing?" shouted chief clerk William Lovett as train dispatcher Vince Coleman turned back towards the office. "We've only... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 6 | Sitting Bull From 1850 until his death in 1890, Sitting Bull symbolized the conflict between settlers and native American culture over lifestyles, land, and... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 7 | Myrnam Hospital Myrnam, Alberta 1935 It was snowing outside and the three-bed "service station" that acted as a hospital for Myrnam was overflowing with seventeen... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 8 | John McCrae On December 8, 1915, Punch magazine published a poem commemorating the dead of World War I. "In Flanders Fields" was written by John McCrae of... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 9 | Grey Owl Archibald Belaney perpetrated one of the 20th Century's most convincing hoaxes. Known to the world as "Grey Owl," he convinced everyone that he was... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 10 | Frontier College "Whenever and wherever people shall have occasion to congregate, then and there shall be the time, place and means of their education." - Reverend... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 11 | Marconi Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 12 | Les Voltigueurs De Quebec The band of this famous French Canadian regiment rehearses for the first performance of O Canada in 1880 at Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 13 | Louis Riel What thoughts ran through Louis Riel's mind as he stood on the scaffold, waiting for the trap door to open to his death? | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 14 | Sam Steele Major General and police official Sam Steele (portrayed by Alan Scarfe) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bars an unruly American (portrayed by... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 1 | Marshall McLuhan Philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan coins the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village." | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 2 | Maple Leaf Gardens Considered one of the "cathedrals" of ice hockey, the construction and history of the Maple Leaf Gardens is featured. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 3 | Le Réseau Engineer Thomas Wardrope Eadie develops the Trans Canada Microwave telecommunications network. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 4 | Joseph-Armand Bombardier Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 5 | Maurice Ruddick Miner Maurice Ruddick recounts the 1958 Springhill mine disaster. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 6 | Inukshuk An Inukshuk, a stone landmark or cairn, is built on Baffin Island. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 7 | La Bolduc The story of how Mary Travers becomes a famed popular singer in Quebec. |
