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2021
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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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Cast: Jeremy Schuetze
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2014
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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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Cast: Jared Keeso
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2015
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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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Cast: Siobhan Williams
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2022
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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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Cast: Olivia Barrett
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2013
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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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Cast: Billy Merasty
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2019
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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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Cast: Michael Shanks
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2024
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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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Cast: Patrick Kwok-Choon
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2021
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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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Cast: Thompson Egbo-Egbo
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2017
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Heritage Minutes: Edmonton Grads
Heritage Minutes: Edmonton Grads1 2017 HD
The Grads challenge the self-proclaimed 'world champions' the Cleveland Favorite Knits to a two game tournament in 1923.
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Cast: Tom Carey
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2014
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Heritage Minutes: Sir George-Étienne Cartier
Heritage Minutes: Sir George-Étienne Cartier1 2014 HD
Québec's Father of Confederation negotiates entry into Union of his home province, as well as Manitoba and British Columbia.
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Cast: Jean L'Italien
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2023
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Heritage Minutes: Mary "Bonnie" Baker
Heritage Minutes: Mary "Bonnie" Baker1 2023 HD
This Heritage Minute celebrates Saskatchewan’s Mary “Bonnie” Baker, an all-star catcher in the All-American Girls Professional...
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Cast: Michelle Mylett
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2020
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Heritage Minutes: Elsie MacGill
Heritage Minutes: Elsie MacGill1 2020 HD
Elsie MacGill was the world’s first female aeronautical engineer and Canada’s first practicing woman engineer.
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Cast: Kayla Deorksen
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2015
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Heritage Minutes: Terry Fox
Heritage Minutes: Terry Fox1 2015 HD
Terry Fox inspires the nation with his Marathon of Hope, a cross-country run to raise money for cancer research.
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Cast: Jared Huumonen
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2022
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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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Cast: Ravyn Wngz
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2012
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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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Cast: Rudy Webb
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2019
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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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Cast: Nancy Kenny
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2017
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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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Cast: Ba Luan Nguyen
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2016
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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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Cast: Kandyse McClure
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2016
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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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Cast: Shohnáhose Davin Bomberry
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2019
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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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Cast: Lou Ticzon