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Mary Riter Hamilton painted the battlefields after the First World War as a testament to its devastating cost. She would suffer mental and physical...

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Cast: Megan Follows

After losing his sight during the First World War, Edwin A. Baker co-founded the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. His determination and...

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Cast: Bruce Horak

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

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

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

This Heritage Minute introduces the mill town of Paldi, BC, through the eyes of a Sikh woman, Bishan Kaur.

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Cast: Mannu Sandhu

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

This Heritage Minute follows the life of Onondaga long-distance runner Gagwe:gih, whose name means “Everything.” Known around the world...

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Cast: Joshua Odjick

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

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

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

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

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Cast: Siobhan Williams

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

Elsie MacGill was the world’s first female aeronautical engineer and Canada’s first practicing woman engineer.

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Cast: Kayla Deorksen

Between 1944 and 1945, the Canadian Army was given the important yet deadly task of liberating the Netherlands.

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Cast: Frédéric Millaire-Zouvi

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

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

Pioneering gay activist Jim Egan publicly challenged a culture of rampant homophobia in the press starting in the late 1940s, when it was dangerous...

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Cast: Theodore Saunders

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery battled depression, rejection, and sexism to become known around the world for Anne of Green Gables and 19 other novels. This...

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Cast: Meghan Greeley