Episode guide
Heritage Minutes: Season 2
14 episodes · premiered Jun 28, 1992
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- Episode 1: Governor Frontenac Jun 28, 1992 · 1m New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec (1690).
- Episode 2: Midwife Jun 28, 1992 · 1m A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.
- Episode 3: Agnes Macphail Jun 28, 1992 · 1m The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.
- Episode 4: Emily Carr Jun 28, 1992 · 1m The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work.
- Episode 5: Joseph Tyrrell Jun 28, 1992 · 1m Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.
- Episode 6: Basketball Jun 28, 1992 · 1m Sports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois.
- Episode 7: Saguenay Fire Jun 28, 1992 · 1m One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in the Saguenay, Quebec.
- Episode 8: Joseph Casavant Jun 28, 1992 · 1m Joseph Casavant, world renowned organ maker, builds his first organ.
- Episode 9: Jean Nicollet Jun 28, 1992 · 1m French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.
- Episode 10: Peacemaker Jun 28, 1992 · 1m The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.
- Episode 11: Rural Teacher Jun 28, 1992 · 1m 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.
- Episode 12: Emily Murphy Jun 28, 1992 · 1m Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.
- Episode 13: Vikings Jun 28, 1992 · 1m L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.
- Episode 14: Baldwin & LaFontaine Jun 28, 1992 · 1m Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.