Heritage Minutes — Season 2

Jun 19921m

New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec (1690).

Jun 19921m

A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.

Jun 19921m

The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.

Jun 19921m

The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work.

Jun 19921m

Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.

Jun 19921m

Sports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois.

Jun 19921m

One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in the Saguenay, Quebec.

Jun 19921m

Joseph Casavant, world renowned organ maker, builds his first organ.

Jun 19921m

French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.

Jun 19921m

The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.

Jun 19921m

Teacher Kate Henderson sways school trustees to embrace new methods, and the event is represented in the famous painting by Robert Harris: A Meeting of the School Trustees.

Jun 19921m

Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.

Jun 19921m

L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.

Jun 19921m

Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.