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New Heritage Minute about the discovery of insulin

Posted on May 18, 2021 by Gail Dever

The latest Heritage Minute from Historica Canada follows scientists Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip and John James Rickard Macleod at the University of Toronto as they race for a treatment to cure 13-year-old Leonard Thompson of his life-threatening diagnosis … Continue reading →

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New Heritage Minute — Liberation of the Netherlands

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Gail Dever

Historica Canada’s latest Heritage Minute commemorates Canada’s role in the liberation of the Netherlands 75 years ago. Released yesterday, the video tells the story of Canadian soldier Lt. Wilfred Gildersleeve of the Seaforth Highlanders, who met his eventual wife, Dutch … Continue reading →

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Historica Canada’s new Heritage Minute focuses on the Acadian Deportation

Posted on August 16, 2019 by Gail Dever

To mark yesterday’s National Acadian Day, Historica Canada released a new Heritage Minute that tells the story of the Acadian Deportation. In 1755, more than 150 years after arriving in Nova Scotia, Acadians were told the British Crown was confiscating … Continue reading →

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New Heritage Minute to feature Canada’s first Olympic gold in hockey

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Gail Dever

Historica will premiere its new Heritage Minute this Thursday during one of the intermissions when the Winnipeg Jets host the Pittsburgh Penguins. (For those who devote all their energy on genealogy and/or are not Canadian, the Jets and Penguins play … Continue reading →

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Got a couple of minutes to celebrate Canada Day?

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Gail Dever

Canada Day is a good time to watch two of Historica Canada’s Heritage Minutes about Sir John A. Macdonald at the Charlottetown Conference in 1864, which launched Confederation, and about Sir George-Étienne Cartier’s incredible contributions to bringing our country together.

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