From CRB Foundation (CA) Studios
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1995
Heritage Minutes: Flags
Heritage Minutes: Flags1 1995 HD
Lawyer, judge, and politician John Matheson looks at candidates for Canada's new flag.
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1993
Heritage Minutes: Sir Sandford Fleming
Heritage Minutes: Sir Sandford Fleming1 1993 HD
An engineer who planned three railways plays a pivotal role in the creation of Standard Time (1885).
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1997
Heritage Minutes: Stratford
Heritage Minutes: Stratford1 1997 HD
Tom Patterson’s vision transforms a quiet railway town into a world-renowned cultural destination.
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1995
Heritage Minutes: Paul-Émile Borduas
Heritage Minutes: Paul-Émile Borduas1 1995 HD
Paul-Émile Borduas, Québec's voice of the Quiet Revolution, reflects on the impact of his writing and art in his Paris studio.
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1991
Heritage Minutes: Valour Road
Heritage Minutes: Valour Road1 1991 HD
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.
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1992
Heritage Minutes: Rural Teacher
Heritage Minutes: Rural Teacher1 1992 HD
Teacher Kate Henderson sways school trustees to embrace new methods, and the event is represented in the famous painting by Robert Harris: A Meeting...
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1997
Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow
Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow10.00 1997 HD
Canadian aerospace engineers design and test the world's fastest, most advanced interceptor aircraft.
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1992
Heritage Minutes: Joseph Tyrrell
Heritage Minutes: Joseph Tyrrell1 1992 HD
Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.
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1993
Heritage Minutes: Nitro
Heritage Minutes: Nitro1 1993 HD
A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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1991
Heritage Minutes: Jacques Plante
Heritage Minutes: Jacques Plante1 1991 HD
Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL player to wear a goaltender mask in regular play.
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1992
Heritage Minutes: Baldwin & LaFontaine
Heritage Minutes: Baldwin & LaFontaine1 1992 HD
Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.
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1991
Heritage Minutes: Soddie
Heritage Minutes: Soddie1 1991 HD
Prairie settlers build a house of sod.
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1995
Heritage Minutes: Pauline Vanier
Heritage Minutes: Pauline Vanier1 1995 HD
One of Canada's most remarkable families works tirelessly to aid displaced persons and refugees during the Second World War.
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1993
Heritage Minutes: Laura Secord
Heritage Minutes: Laura Secord1 1993 HD
Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance.
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1991
Heritage Minutes: John Cabot
Heritage Minutes: John Cabot1 1991 HD
Italian navigator and explorer John Cabot discovers the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and runs "aground" on a bounty of fish.
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1993
Heritage Minutes: Marshall McLuhan
Heritage Minutes: Marshall McLuhan1 1993 HD
Philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan coins the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village."
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1992
Heritage Minutes: Jean Nicollet
Heritage Minutes: Jean Nicollet1 1992 HD
French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.
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1992
Heritage Minutes: Peacemaker
Heritage Minutes: Peacemaker1 1992 HD
The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his...
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1991
Heritage Minutes: Jacques Cartier
Heritage Minutes: Jacques Cartier1 1991 HD
The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name.
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1993
Heritage Minutes: La Bolduc
Heritage Minutes: La Bolduc1 1993 HD
The story of how Mary Travers becomes a famed popular singer in Quebec.