Kari Skogland thinks it's about time that filmmakers push the boundaries on Canada's Heritage Minutes. After directing two early instalments in the series of bite-sized historic moments, the ...

Decades before we'd debate the absence of black Oscar nominees, Viola Desmond had a much more painful experience of racism at the movies. In 1946, the black Nova Scotia woman was ejected from a New ...

TORONTO, June 26, 2025 /CNW/ - There are perhaps no more iconically Canadian things than the Heritage Minutes and the music of The Tragically Hip. This Canada Day, Historica Canada presents a salute ...

A new podcast wafting in on the smell of burnt toast and nostalgia is aiming to tackle the full Canadian history behind iconic Heritage Minutes. Two Halifax friends in their 20s, Grace McNutt and ...

The smell of burnt toast leading to a cure for seizures. Cutting the bottom out of peach baskets during the invention of basketball. Jacques Cartier coining the name "Canada" based on wrong ...

Heritage Minutes, also known officially as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, are a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. They appear ...

r-old discovery of insulin and its later development, Christopher Rutty faced a daunting task: select the most compelling details to be showcased in just 60 seconds. A medical historian, he was one of ...

Here are three Heritage Minutes we should drop from our CanCon lexicon and replace with equally informative Degrassi episodes. We'll learn roughly the same lessons, just without all that icky "truth." ...

The head of Historica Canada takes us behind the scenes of a Minute marking the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy A shot list of the Heritage Minutes used in the clip, which splices ...

The federal Conservative party temporarily deleted a political attack ad parodying the Heritage Minutes, after receiving a request from the organization that produces the historical TV segments, ...