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Heritage Minutes

Season 3 1993

  • 1993-04-30T04:00:00Z on CBC Television
  • 1m
  • 12m (12 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Documentary
Heritage Minutes, also known as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, was a compilation of 60-second short films that showcased important Canadian moments in history. The show aired on March 31, 1991 and was hosted by Rex Murphy. Heritage Minutes was narrated and written by Patrick Wilson a Canadian broadcaster and produced by Robert Guy Scully

15 episodes

Season Premiere

1993-04-30T04:00:00Z

3x01 Laura Secord

Season Premiere

3x01 Laura Secord

  • 1993-04-30T04:00:00Z1m

Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance.

1993-04-30T04:00:00Z

3x02 Marshall McLuhan

3x02 Marshall McLuhan

  • 1993-04-30T04:00:00Z1m

Philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan coins the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village."

1993-04-30T04:00:00Z

3x03 Marconi

3x03 Marconi

  • 1993-04-30T04:00:00Z1m

Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

1993-04-30T04:00:00Z

3x04 Les Voltigueurs De Quebec

3x04 Les Voltigueurs De Quebec

  • 1993-04-30T04:00:00Z1m

The band of this famous French Canadian regiment rehearses for the first performance of O Canada in 1880 at Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations.

3x05 Louis Riel

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What thoughts ran through Louis Riel's mind as he stood on the scaffold, waiting for the trap door to open to his death?

1993-04-30T04:00:00Z

3x06 Étienne Parent

3x06 Étienne Parent

  • 1993-04-30T04:00:00Z1m

Journalist and government official Étienne Parent demands equality for French and English.

1993-04-30T04:00:00Z

3x07 Nitro

3x07 Nitro

  • 1993-04-30T04:00:00Z1m

A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.

3x08 Sir Sandford Fleming

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Engineer and inventor Sir Sandford Fleming develops the system of international standard time.

3x09 Maple Leaf Gardens

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Considered one of the "cathedrals" of ice hockey, the construction and history of the Maple Leaf Gardens is featured.

1993-04-30T04:00:00Z

3x10 Le Réseau

3x10 Le Réseau

  • 1993-04-30T04:00:00Z1m

Engineer Thomas Wardrope Eadie develops the Trans Canada Microwave telecommunications network.

1993-04-30T04:00:00Z

3x11 Joseph-Armand Bombardier

3x11 Joseph-Armand Bombardier

  • 1993-04-30T04:00:00Z1m

Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering.

1993-04-30T04:00:00Z

3x12 Maurice Ruddick

3x12 Maurice Ruddick

  • 1993-04-30T04:00:00Z1m

Miner Maurice Ruddick recounts the 1958 Springhill mine disaster.

1993-09-01T04:00:00Z

3x13 Inukshuk

3x13 Inukshuk

  • 1993-09-01T04:00:00Z1m

An Inukshuk, a stone landmark or cairn, is built on Baffin Island.

1993-09-13T04:00:00Z

3x14 La Bolduc

3x14 La Bolduc

  • 1993-09-13T04:00:00Z1m

The story of how Mary Travers becomes a famed popular singer in Quebec.

Season Finale

1993-09-13T04:00:00Z

3x15 Sam Steele

Season Finale

3x15 Sam Steele

  • 1993-09-13T04:00:00Z1m

Major General and police official Sam Steele (portrayed by Alan Scarfe) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bars an unruly American (portrayed by Don S. Davis) from entering the Yukon with pistols, despite being threatened at gunpoint.

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