Heritage Minutes, also known officially as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, are sixty-second short films each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. Inhabited for millennia by First Nations ( aboriginal) the history of Canada has evolved from a group of European colonies into an officially They appear frequently on Canadian television and in cinemas before movies. The minutes were first introduced on March 31, 1991 as part of a one-off heavily-promoted history quiz show hosted by Rex Murphy. Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Rex Murphy (born March 1947 is a noted Canadian commentator Murphy was born in Carbonear Newfoundland and Labrador, 105 kilometres west of St The thirteen original short films were broken up and run between shows on CBC Television. CBC Television is a Canadian English language Television network. The continued broadcast of the Minutes and the production of new ones was pioneered by Charles Bronfman's CRB Foundation and Canada Post (with Bell Canada being a later sponsor). Charles Rosner Bronfman PC, CC, LLD (born June 27, 1931 in Montreal) is a Canadian businessman and Canada Post Corporation ( Société canadienne des postes) is the Canadian postal operator operated as a crown corporation. Bell Canada, commonly shortened to "Bell" is a major Canadian Telecommunications company They have been produced and narrated by noted Canadian broadcaster Patrick Watson. For the singer-songwriter see Patrick Watson (musician. Patrick Watson, C

While the CRB has not paid networks to air the minutes, they have made them freely available. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has ruled that Heritage Minutes are an "on-going dramatic series" thus each minute counts as ninety-seconds of a station's Canadian content requirements [1]. CRTC may also stand for Cathode Ray Tube Controller. Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC, in French Conseil Canadian content (abbreviated cancon or can-con) refers to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission requirements that Radio

The Heritage Minutes themselves have become part of Canadian culture. The high production values and entertaining but educating content has met general acclaim and today there are seventy-four of them available for viewing at www. histori. ca. While popular, they have been criticized. Robert Fulford, for instance, has attacked them for their solemn pomposity. Alternate use see Robert Fulford (croquet player for the English croquet player

Contents 1 Parodies 2 List of Heritage Minutes 3 See also 4 External links

Parodies

The Canadian sketch comedy shows This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Royal Canadian Air Farce have both parodied the Heritage Minute format in sketches. This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian Television comedy that airs on CBC Television. The Royal Canadian Air Farce is a comedy troupe best known for their radio and television shows broadcast in Canada by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

List of Heritage Minutes

• Agnes Macphail demanding penal reform
• Andrew Mynarski's brave attempt to free his friend from a bomber turret
• The development of the Avro Arrow (This Heritage Minute was made using footage from the 1997 mini-series The Arrow)
• Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin build interlingual cooperation
• James Naismith's invention of Basketball
• The Bluenose wins its last race
• The art of Paul-Émile Borduas and the Quiet Revolution
• Joseph Casavant, world renowned organ maker
• The art of Emily Carr
• Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women
• Étienne Parent demands equality for French and English
• The planning for Expo 67
• MP John Matheson looks at candidates for Canada's new flag
• John McCrae pens In Flanders Fields
• New France, under the leadership of governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion of 1690 (narration was later added to this Minute in order to clarify the story)
• Frontier College educates those away from the urban centres
• Englishman Archie Belaney becomes Grey Owl
• Vince Coleman sacrifices his own life to save a train from the Halifax Explosion
• The efforts of Louis-Joseph Papineau gives full equality of religion to Jews in Canada
• An Inuksuk is built
• Jackie Robinson joins the Montreal Royals
• Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL goaltender to wear a mask in regular play
• Jennie Trout becomes Canada's first woman doctor
• John Cabot discovers the Grand Banks
• John Humphrey drafts the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and beginnings of his passion for engineering
• Mary Travers becomes a famed popular singer in Quebec
• Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance
• Thomas Eadie develops the trans-Canadian microwave network
• The rehearsal for the first performance of O Canada
• The achievements and execution of Louis Riel
• Surgeon Lucille Teasdale devotes her life to helping the poor in Africa
• Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland
• Female World War II pilot Marion Orr
• Marshall McLuhan coins the phrase "the medium is the message"
• Maurice Ruddick recounts the 1958 Springhill mine disaster
• The importance of midwives in early Canada
• The town of Myrnam, Alberta forms a non-denominational hospital. Agnes Campbell Macphail (March 24 1890 &ndash February 13 1954 was the first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons, and one of the first two women elected Prison reform is the attempt to improve conditions inside Prisons aiming at a more effective Penal system. Andrew Charles (Andy Mynarski VC (14 October 1916 - 13 June 1944 was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The Arrow is a four- Hour Miniseries produced for CBC Television in 1996, starring Dan Aykroyd as Crawford Gordon Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine (or La Fontaine), 1st Baronet ( October 4 1807 – February 26 1864 Montreal) Robert Baldwin (May 12 1804 – December 9 1858 was born at York (now Toronto) James A Naismith (November 6 Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m History Designed by William Roué and built by Smith and Rhuland, Bluenose was launched at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on March Paul-Émile Borduas ( November 1, 1905 - February 22, 1960) was a Canadian painter known for his abstract paintings The Quiet Revolution ( Révolution tranquille) was the 1960s period of intense change in Quebec, Canada, characterized by the rapid and effective Secularization Joseph Casavant (1807 &ndash 9 March 1874) was a French Canadian manufacturer of Pipe organs and the founder of the firm Casavant Frères The organ (from Greek όργανον – organon "organ instrument tool" is a Keyboard instrument of one or more divisions each Emily Carr ( December 13, 1871 &ndash March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the Indigenous Emily Murphy ( March 14 1868 - October 17 1933) was a Canadian Women's rights Activist. Étienne Parent (May 2 1801 in Beauport, Lower Canada – December 22 1874 in Ottawa) was a Canadian Journalist and government official The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, or Expo 67 as it was commonly known was the World's Fair held in Montreal, Canada from April 27 to October John Ross Matheson, OC, CD, QC, LLM, LLD (born November 14, 1917) is a Canadian lawyer The Canadian Great Flag Debate took place in 1964 when a new design for the national flag was chosen The National Flag of Canada, also known as the Maple Leaf, and fr l'Unifolié ( French for "the one-leafed" is a red Flag Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae ( November 30, 1872 &ndash January 28, 1918) was a Canadian Poet " In Flanders Fields " is one of the most famous Poems written during the First World War, and has been called "the most popular poem" produced during The Viceroyalty of New France (Nouvelle-France was the area colonized by France in North America during a period extending from the exploration of the Louis de Buade Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau ( May 12, 1622 &ndash November 28, 1698) was a French courtier and Governor Frontier College is a Canadian Literacy Organization established in 1899 by Alfred Fitzpatrick. Grey Owl (or Wa-sha-quon-asin, from the Ojibwe wenjiganoozhiinh, meaning " Great horned owl " or " Great grey owl P Vincent Coleman ( 1872 - December 6 1917) was a Train dispatcher for the Canadian Government Railways (formerly the ICR Intercolonial The Halifax Explosion occurred on Thursday December 6, 1917, when the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, was devastated by the For the 20th century Canadian parliamentarian see Louis-Joseph Papineau (Canadian parliamentarian Louis-Joseph Papineau, ( October 7, 1786 PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ An inuksuk (plural inuksuit) (from the Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ plural ᐃᓄᒃᓱᐃᑦ alternatively inukshuk in English or inukhuk Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31 1919 – October 24 1972 was a Baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Montreal Royals were a minor league professional baseball team located in Montreal, Quebec, that existed from 1897-1917 and from 1928-60 as a member Joseph Jacques Omer "Jake the Snake" Plante ( January 17, 1929 – February 27, 1986) was a Canadian professional Ice hockey The National Hockey League ( NHL) is a professional Ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America This article is about the goaltender in Ice hockey. For the similar position in other sports see Goalkeeper. Jennie Kidd Trout ( April 21, 1841 - November 10, 1921) was the first woman in Canada legally to become a medical doctor and was the only woman Giovanni Caboto ( c 1450 - c 1498 known in English as John Cabot, was an Italian Navigator and explorer commonly credited as the John Peters Humphrey ( April 30, 1905 &ndash March 14, 1995) was a Canadian legal scholar, Jurist, and The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly ( 10 December 1948 at Palais Joseph-Armand Bombardier ( April 16, 1907 - February 18, 1964) was a Canadian inventor and businessman and was the founder of Engineering is the Discipline and Profession of applying technical and scientific Knowledge and Mary Rose-Anna Travers, (June 4 1894 – February 20 1941 was a French-Canadian Singer and musician Laura Secord (born Ingersoll) ( September 13, 1775 &ndash October 17, 1868) was a Canadian heroine of the War of 1812 The War of 1812 was fought between the United States of America and the British Empire, particularly Great Britain and her North American colonies "O Canada" is the National anthem of Canada. The song was originally commissioned by the then Lieutenant Governor of Quebec the Honourable Théodore Louis Riel (22 October 1844 &ndash 16 November 1885 in English was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis Dr Lucille Teasdale-Corti ( January 30 1929 &ndash August 1 1996) was a Canadian physician surgeon and international aid worker Marchese Guglielmo Marconi mar'koni (25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937 was an Italian inventor best known for his development of a Radiotelegraph system Newfoundland and Labrador (ˈnuːfɨn(dlənd ən(d ˈlæbrəˌdɔr (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador is a province of Canada, the tenth and latest to join the Confederation Marion Alice (Powell Orr CM ( 25 June 1918 - 4 April 1995) was a pioneering Canadian Aviator who was the See also Marshall McLuhan "The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself Springhill mining disaster is the term often used to refer to three separate Canadian mining disasters which occurred in 1891 1956 and 1958 in different mines within the Springhill Midwifery is a Health care profession where providers give Prenatal care to expecting Mothers attend the birth of the Infant Myrnam is a Village in east Central Alberta, Canada. It is located approximately east of the capital
• Jacques Cartier misunderstands some Natives resulting in the name Canada
• Nat Taylor invents the multiplex
• Nellie McClung demands the right to vote in Manitoba
• Jean Nicollet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific
• A young Chinese-Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway
• Quebecois families adopt Irish orphans in the 1850s while allowing them to keep their original names
• The surprise victory of the Paris Crew, a group of unheralded Canadian rowers, at the 1867 World Championships
• Georges and Pauline Vanier and their lifetimes of achievement
• The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy
• Dr. Jacques Cartier (December 31 1491&ndashSeptember 1 1557 was a French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France For the fictional character called Megaplex see Megaplex (Transformers. Nellie McClung, born Nellie Letitia Mooney ( October 20 1873 - September 1 1951) was a Canadian feminist, politician Manitoba (English ˌmænɨˈtoʊbə French /manitoba/ is a province of Canada, spanning 647797 square kilometres (250116  sq mi of North America Jean Nicolet (Nicollet de Belleborne (1598 - November 1, 1642) was a French Coureur de bois noted for exploring Green Bay in early Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and the only one located entirely within the United States. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions Chinese Canadians are Canadians of Chinese descent and constitute the second-largest Visible minority group in Canada standing at 1346510 which The Canadian Pacific Railway ( For the game see 1850 (board game. 1850 ( MDCCCL) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link The Paris Crew is the name given to a quartet of Canadian sport rowers from Saint John, New Brunswick. Major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier DSO MC & Bar CD ( April 23, 1888 - March 5, 1967 Pauline Vanier PC, CC ( March 28, 1898 - March 23, 1991) born Pauline Archer in Montreal, married Georges The Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the "League of Peace and Power" the "Five Nations" the "Six Nations" or the "People of the Longhouse Wilder Penfield makes important discoveries in neuroscience when a patient smells burnt toast as the initial signal for an epileptic seizure, during the Montreal procedure
• Queen Victoria decides to grant Canada responsible government after the crushing of the Rebellions of 1837
• Maurice Richard scores five goals and three assists for eight points in a single game. Wilder Graves Penfield, OM, CC, CMG, MD, FRS (January 25/26 1891 &ndash April 5, 1976) was an American Neuroscience is a field devoted to the scientific study of the nervous system Epilepsy is a common chronic Neurological disorder that is characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. The Montreal procedure is a surgical procedure pioneered by Dr Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901 was from 20 June 1837 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The Rebellions of 1837 were a pair of Canadian armed uprisings that occurred in 1837 and 1838 in response to frustrations in political reform and ethnic conflict The Hon Joseph Henri Maurice "Rocket" Richard PC OC OQ ( August 4, 1921 &ndash May 27 His explosive 18-year career made him the most exciting player of his generation and a hero to Quebeckers

• Teacher Kate Henderson sways school trustees to embrace new methods, and the event is immortalized in a famous painting by Robert Harris
• The 1870 fire in the Saguenay
• Sir Sandford Fleming develops the system of international standard time
• Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada (starring Graham Greene as Sitting Bull)
• Prairie settlers build a house of sod
• Sam Steele of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bars an unruly American from the Yukon despite being threatened at gunpoint
• The beginning of the Stratford Festival of Canada
• Joe Shuster creates Superman
• A First Nations family teaches early settlers how to make maple syrup
• J.S. Woodsworth convinces Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to introduce old age pensions
• Joseph Burr Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta
• An African-American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad
• Three men from Pine Street in Winnipeg win the Victoria Cross in World War I, and the street's name is changed to Valour Road in their honour
• L'Anse aux Meadows is settled by Vikings
• Canadian Mennonites devise sustainable agriculture practices that aid the Third World
• The bear of a Canadian soldier becomes the inspiration for Winnie the Pooh
• A Native Canadian grandfather explains the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter
• Johnny Lombardi entertains his comrades in the field during a respite of the World War II D-Day taking of Juno Beach by Canadian forces. Kate Henderson was a Canadian pioneer in Education. Henderson was a Teacher in a one-room School in Long Creek, Prince Edward Robert Harris ( 18 September, 1848 - 27 February, 1919) was a Welsh-born Canadian painter most noted for his portrait of the Fathers of Confederation Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7 1827 – July 22 1915 was a prolific Scottish-born Canadian Engineer and Inventor, known for introducing Universal Standard time is the result of synchronizing clocks in different geographical locations within a Time zone to the same time rather than using the local meridian as Sitting Bull ( Lakota: Tȟatȟaŋka Iyotȟaŋka or Ta-Tanka I-Yotank, also nicknamed Slon-he or "Slow" Ca Graham Greene (born June 22, 1952) is an Academy Award -nominated Canadian Actor. Sod or turf is grass and the part of the Soil beneath it held together by the Roots or a piece of this material Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele, CB, KCMG, MVO ( 5 January 1848 – 30 January 1919) was a distinguished Yukon (ˈjuːkɒn is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three territories. The Stratford Shakespeare Festival (formerly known as the Stratford Festival of Canada is an annual celebration of Theatre running from April to November in the Canadian Joseph "Joe" Shuster (July 10 1914 - July 30 1992 was a Canadian -born American Comic book Artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics Superman is a fictional Comic book Superhero widely considered to be one of the most recognized of such characters and an American Cultural icon Maple syrup is a sweetener made from the sap of Maple trees In Canada and the United States it is most often eaten with waffles and pancakes James Shaver Woodsworth ( July 29, 1874 &ndash March 21, 1942) was a pioneer in the Canadian social democratic movement William Lyon Mackenzie King PC OM CMG ( December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950) was a Canadian A pension is a steady income given to a person upon Retirement, typically in the form of a guaranteed annuity. Joseph Burr Tyrrell ( November 1, 1858 Weston Ontario &ndash August 26, 1957) was a Canadian geologist cartographer African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and Safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States Winnipeg (ˈwɪnɨpɛg is the capital and largest city in the Canadian province of Manitoba, and 7th largest municipality in Canada with a population See below the section "Separate Commonwealth awards" Note that since World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Valour Road is a street in the West End of Winnipeg Manitoba. L'Anse aux Meadows (from the French L'Anse-aux-Méduses or "Jellyfish Cove" is an Archaeological site on the northernmost tip of the island A Viking is one of the Norse ( Scandinavian Explorers Warriors Merchants, and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons (1496&ndash1561 though his teachings were a relatively Winnie-the-Pooh, commonly shortened to Pooh Bear and once referred to as Edward Bear, is a fictional Bear created by A Johnny Barbalinardo Lombardi, CM, OOnt ( December 4, 1915 &ndash March 18, 2002) was a pioneer of multicultural broadcasting World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including D-Day may also refer to Decimal Day in the United Kingdom. D-Day is a term often used in Military parlance to denote
• Sgt. Major John Robert Osborn sacrifices his life to protect his men in the Battle of Hong Kong in World War II and is posthumously granted the Victoria Cross
• Mona Parsons, a partisan World War II Allied agent in the Netherlands escapes execution and later imprisonment by the Nazis and meets her future husband who confirms her nationality to Canadian forces liberating the nation
• Brigadier-General Jacques Dextraze resolves a hostage situation in the Congo with his UN Peacekeeping forces contingent. John Robert Osborn, VC ( January 2, 1899 - December 19, 1941) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, The Battle of Hong Kong took place during the Pacific campaign of World War II. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German General Jacques Alfred Dextraze CC, CMM, CBE, DSO, CD ( August 15, 1919 &mdash May 9, The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo often referred to as DR Congo, DRC or RDC, and formerly known or referred to
• General Arthur Currie prepares his Canadian forces for the successful taking of Vimy Ridge in World War I. Sir Arthur William Currie GCMG, KCB ( December 5, 1875 &ndash November 30, 1933) was a Canadian General The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a military offensive by the Canadian Corps against elements of the German Sixth Army in World War I.
• Returning World War II veterans successfully agitate for increasing housing assistance
• A eulogy is given for Tommy Prince, Canada’s most-decorated Aboriginal war veteran

See also

• Hinterland Who's Who

External links

• Heritage Minutes (Historica Minutes: History by the Minute) Features video clips: Watch "History by the Minute"

Thomas George “Tommy” Prince, MM ( October 25, 1915 &ndash November 25, 1977) was one of Canada 's most decorated Hinterland Who's Who is best known as a series of 60-second Public service ads profiling Canadian animals and birds produced by Environment

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