Historica Canada Movies

  • 2021
    Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin

    Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin

    Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin

    02021HD

    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 lif...

    Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin
  • 2015
    Heritage Minutes: Nursing Sisters

    Heritage Minutes: Nursing Sisters

    Heritage Minutes: Nursing Sisters

    02015HD

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

    Heritage Minutes: Nursing Sisters
  • 2019
    Heritage Minutes: D-Day

    Heritage Minutes: D-Day

    Heritage Minutes: D-Day

    02019HD

    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...

    Heritage Minutes: D-Day
  • 2013
    Heritage Minutes: Queenston Heights

    Heritage Minutes: Queenston Heights

    Heritage Minutes: Queenston Heights

    02013HD

    Mohawk Chief John Norton and 80 Grand River warriors hold off American soldiers until reinforcements arrive and the Battle of Queenston Heights is won...

    Heritage Minutes: Queenston Heights
  • 2024
    Heritage Minutes: Mary Riter Hamilton

    Heritage Minutes: Mary Riter Hamilton

    Heritage Minutes: Mary Riter Hamilton

    02024HD

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

    Heritage Minutes: Mary Riter Hamilton
  • 2019
    Heritage Minutes: Vancouver Asahi

    Heritage Minutes: Vancouver Asahi

    Heritage Minutes: Vancouver Asahi

    02019HD

    From 1914-1941, the Vancouver Asahi were one of city’s most dominant amateur baseball teams, winning multiple league titles in Vancouver and along the...

    Heritage Minutes: Vancouver Asahi
  • 2017
    Heritage Minutes: Edmonton Grads

    Heritage Minutes: Edmonton Grads

    Heritage Minutes: Edmonton Grads

    02017HD

    The Grads challenge the self-proclaimed 'world champions' the Cleveland Favorite Knits to a two game tournament in 1923.

    Heritage Minutes: Edmonton Grads
  • 2014
    Heritage Minutes: Winnipeg Falcons

    Heritage Minutes: Winnipeg Falcons

    Heritage Minutes: Winnipeg Falcons

    02014HD

    A team of Icelandic-Canadians serve in the First World War before bringing home the very first gold medal in Olympic hockey.

    Heritage Minutes: Winnipeg Falcons
  • 2021
    Heritage Minutes: Oscar Peterson

    Heritage Minutes: Oscar Peterson

    Heritage Minutes: Oscar Peterson

    02021HD

    This Heritage Minute follows Canada’s most honoured jazz musicians from his humble beginnings in the Black neighbourhood of Little Burgundy in Montréa...

    Heritage Minutes: Oscar Peterson
  • 2019
    Heritage Minutes: Acadian Deportation

    Heritage Minutes: Acadian Deportation

    Heritage Minutes: Acadian Deportation

    02019HD

    The Acadians are descendants of early French settlers who arrived in Nova Scotia in 1604 and built a distinct culture and society over generations. Th...

    Heritage Minutes: Acadian Deportation
  • 2016
    Heritage Minutes: Naskumituwin (Treaty)

    Heritage Minutes: Naskumituwin (Treaty)

    Heritage Minutes: Naskumituwin (Treaty)

    02016HD

    The making of Treaty 9 from the perspective of historical witness George Spence, an 18-year-old Cree hunter from Albany, James Bay.

    Heritage Minutes: Naskumituwin (Treaty)
  • 2020
    Heritage Minutes: Elsie MacGill

    Heritage Minutes: Elsie MacGill

    Heritage Minutes: Elsie MacGill

    02020HD

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

    Heritage Minutes: Elsie MacGill
  • 2022
    Heritage Minutes: Tom Longboat

    Heritage Minutes: Tom Longboat

    Heritage Minutes: Tom Longboat

    02022HD

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

    Heritage Minutes: Tom Longboat
  • 2018
    Heritage Minutes: Jim Egan

    Heritage Minutes: Jim Egan

    Heritage Minutes: Jim Egan

    02018HD

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

    Heritage Minutes: Jim Egan
  • 2016
    Heritage Minutes: Chanie Wenjack

    Heritage Minutes: Chanie Wenjack

    Heritage Minutes: Chanie Wenjack

    02016HD

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

    Heritage Minutes: Chanie Wenjack
  • 2016
    Heritage Minutes: Viola Desmond

    Heritage Minutes: Viola Desmond

    Heritage Minutes: Viola Desmond

    02016HD

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

    Heritage Minutes: Viola Desmond
  • 2016
    Heritage Minutes: Kenojuak Ashevak

    Heritage Minutes: Kenojuak Ashevak

    Heritage Minutes: Kenojuak Ashevak

    02016HD

    A founding member of Cape Dorset’s famed printmaking co-op, Kenojuak Ashevak introduced Inuit art to the world.

    Heritage Minutes: Kenojuak Ashevak
  • 2023
    Heritage Minutes: Mary "Bonnie" Baker

    Heritage Minutes: Mary "Bonnie" Baker

    Heritage Minutes: Mary "Bonnie" Baker

    02023HD

    This Heritage Minute celebrates Saskatchewan’s Mary “Bonnie” Baker, an all-star catcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and a p...

    Heritage Minutes: Mary "Bonnie" Baker
  • 2014
    Heritage Minutes: Sir John A. Macdonald

    Heritage Minutes: Sir John A. Macdonald

    Heritage Minutes: Sir John A. Macdonald

    02014HD

    Canada's first Prime Minister outlines his vision for Confederation en route to the Charlottetown Conference.

    Heritage Minutes: Sir John A. Macdonald
  • 2018
    Heritage Minutes: Lucy Maud Montgomery

    Heritage Minutes: Lucy Maud Montgomery

    Heritage Minutes: Lucy Maud Montgomery

    02018HD

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

    Heritage Minutes: Lucy Maud Montgomery