Historica Canada

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...

Release : 2021.05.17
Popularity : 2.543

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

Release : 2015.05.14
Popularity : 1.452

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

Release : 2014.11.06
Popularity : 1.243

This Heritage Minute celebrates Norman Kwong, the first CFL player of Chinese heritage and 4x Grey Cup winner.

Release : 2024.02.12
Popularity : 1.062

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...

Release : 2022.02.22
Popularity : 0.82

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

Release : 2017.03.08
Popularity : 0.713

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...

Release : 2019.05.30
Popularity : 0.711

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

Release : 2019.02.20
Popularity : 0.676

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

Release : 2013.01.01
Popularity : 0.635

At 68, a formerly enslaved Black Loyalist enlists men for the Coloured Corps, an instrumental company in the War of 1812.

Release : 2012.10.01
Popularity : 0.626

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

Release : 2016.06.21
Popularity : 0.6

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

Release : 2022.06.04
Popularity : 0.596

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

Release : 2021.02.17
Popularity : 0.583

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

Release : 2018.06.13
Popularity : 0.477

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

Release : 2020.05.05
Popularity : 0.437

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

Release : 2023.10.26
Popularity : 0.391