Heritage Minutes

Season 6

14 episodes · Oct 1, 2012

Season Videos

Clip · Heritage Minutes: "Boat People" Refugees

Clip · Heritage Minutes: Edmonton Grads

Clip · Heritage Minutes: Kenojuak Ashevak

Clip · Heritage Minutes: Chanie Wenjack

Clip · Heritage Minutes: Naskumituwin (Treaty)

Clip · Heritage Minutes: Viola Desmond

Clip · Heritage Minutes: Queenston Heights

Clip · Heritage Minutes: Richard Pierpoint

Clip · Heritage Minutes: Terry Fox

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  • S6E1

    Richard Pierpoint

    Oct 1, 20121m

    Richard Pierpoint was a formerly enslaved Black Loyalist who, at age 68, enlisted black men to fight in the War of 1812.

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  • S6E2

    Queenston Heights

    Oct 1, 20121m

    October 13, 1812, Mohawk Chief John Norton and 80 Grand River warriors surprised hundreds of advancing American soldiers and skirmished with them for hours until reinforcements arrived and the battle was won.

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  • S6E3

    Sir John A. Macdonald

    Oct 1, 20121m

    Sir. John A. Macdonald, George-Étienne Cartier and George Brown discuss how to go about uniting the colonies in British North America. The Charlottetown Conference is featured, and highlights the final push toward Canadian confederation.

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  • S6E4

    Sir George-Étienne Cartier

    Oct 1, 20121m

    George-Étienne Cartier was a dominant figure in the politics of Canada East (now Quebec) overseeing its entry into Confederation.

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  • S6E5

    Winnipeg Falcons

    Oct 1, 20121m

    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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  • S6E6

    Nursing Sisters

    Oct 1, 20121m

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

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  • S6E7

    Terry Fox

    Oct 1, 20121m

    Terry Fox inspires the nation with his Marathon of Hope, a cross-country run to raise money for cancer research.

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  • S6E8

    Viola Desmond

    Oct 1, 20121m

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

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  • S6E9

    Chanie Wenjack

    Oct 1, 20121m

    The story of Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack, whose death sparked the first inquest into the treatment of Indigenous children in Canadian residential schools.

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  • S6E10

    Naskumituwin (Treaty)

    Oct 1, 20121m

    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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  • S6E11

    Kenojuak Ashevak

    Oct 1, 20121m

    As a founding member of Cape Dorset's famed print making cooperative, Kenojuak Ashevak introduced Inuit art to the world (1927-2013).

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  • S6E12

    Edmonton Grads

    Oct 1, 20121m

    The Grads challenge the self-proclaimed 'world champions' the Cleveland Favorite Knits to a two game tournament in 1923. They would go on to become the most successful team in Canadian sports history.

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  • S6E13

    "Boat People" Refugees

    Oct 1, 20121m

    A family escapes persecution in Vietnam, traveling by boat to a Malaysian refugee camp before finding a new home in Montreal (1980).

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  • S6E14

    Kensington Market

    Oct 1, 20121m

    Neighbourhoods like Toronto's Kensington Market have helped shape our country by providing newcomers a first stop in Canada. In the first animated Heritage Minute, a single store is transformed as it passes between generations and cultures.

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