Heritage Minutes: Nitro 1993
A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Major General and police official Sam Steele of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bars an unruly American from entering the Yukon with pistols, despite being threatened at gunpoint.
French Canadian families adopt Irish orphans in the 1850s while allowing them to maintain part of their Irish heritage.
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.
The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name.
Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.
One of Canada's most remarkable families works tirelessly to aid displaced persons and refugees during the Second World War.
An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.
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.
Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL player to wear a goaltender mask in regular play.
Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance.
A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.
The town of Myrnam, Alberta forms a non-denominational hospital.
New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec
Prairie settlers build a house of sod.
A Canadian soldier's bear becomes the object of adoration and inspiration for a young boy and his father, A.A. Milne.
The surprise victory of the Paris Crew, a group of unheralded Canadian rowers, at the 1867 World Championships.
Philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan coins the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village."
An engineer who planned three railways plays a pivotal role in the creation of Standard Time (1885).
Toronto cartoonist Joe Shuster describes the comic book hero he created.