In the spirit of Martin Luther King Day on Monday, this week’s Canadian Heritage Minute takes a look at a Canadian activist who took a non-violent approach to forcing change and encouraging his people to co-exist with those in power.
Etienne Parent was a journalist early in his life and he used the power of the pen to make his case be heard for the French-Canadians in Lower Canada, which eventually became Quebec.
Even though some of his fellow Canadiens at times considered him a traitor, Parent was jailed by the English governor, and he continued to run his newspaper, Le Canadien, from prison.
This week’s Heritage Minute takes a look at the significance of Parent’s work in those years and how it influenced Quebec’s revolution years later.
Heritage Minutes are 60-second short films that are shown in between some TV shows in Canada — and they’re amazing. We’re planning to bring you a “Heritage Minute” every Thursday on COTW.
Last week, we let you in on the little secret that Superman is actually half-Canadian, in a manner of speaking. Well, curl up with a bucket of honey for this sweet revelation.
This week’s Canadian Heritage Moment takes us across the pond to London in early World War I, where where a young Canadian soldier was heading home and having to leave his beloved black bear behind. Lt. Harry Colebourne had bought the bear in Ontario and named it Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg. He had to leave it behind, though, and the black bear made a new home at the London Zoo.
A few years later, A.A. Milne had a young son who took a liking to the bear, and Milne wrote some stories about a bear based on Winnie at the zoo. The bear in the stories would be named, “Winnie the Pooh.”
Heritage Minutes are 60-second short films that are shown in between some TV shows in Canada — and they’re amazing. We’re planning to bring you a “Heritage Minute” every Wednesday on COTW.
As if Jack Bauer and Capt. James T. Kirk weren’t enough, it turns out another American icon is actually, at least partially, Canadian.
This week’s Canadian Heritage Moment whisks us back to Cleveland, Ohio, where a young Joe Shuster was boarding a train to his hometown of Toronto and telling a woman named Lois all about his wild idea of a strong man in a cape and tights.
That strong man turned out to be Superman, and Shuster (who was born in Toronto but moved to Cleveland when he was 10 years old, went on to draw the comic strip with his writing partner, American Jerry Siegel, whom he’d met at school in Cleveland.
Heritage Minutes are 60-second short films that are shown in between some TV shows in Canada — and they’re amazing. We’re planning to bring you a “Heritage Minute” every Wednesday on COTW.
As you watch reports from around the world, with celebrations happening from time zone to time zone as the clock strikes 12, keep in mind that the standardization of time zones was brought to you by a Canadian.
Sir Sandford Fleming was an engineer and railroad builder who grew frustrated with the lack of consistent time being kept around the world. No one believed that he could get the entire world to agree to a standard set of time zones that would be recognized the world over, but Sandford Fleming did just that, and he’s recognized in this week’s Canadian Heritage Minute.
Most everyone is indeed on board with Fleming’s time zones, but some places — including Newfoundland in Canada — stray here and there by going a half-hour off the standard time zones. But, really, who can explain what those Newfies are up to half the time, anyway?
Heritage Minutes are 60-second short films that are heavily produced and immensely informative, and are shown in between some TV shows in Canada — and they’re amazing. We’re planning to bring you a “Heritage Minute” every week on COTW.
We’re going to kick off a new feature here at Canadian of the Week, bringing you bite-sized pieces of Canadian history that folks up north have been watching for nearly 20 years.
Heritage Minutes are 60-second short films that are shown in between some TV shows in Canada — and they’re amazing.
These things bring a kind of shock-and-awe drama that puts “Grey’s Anatomy” to shame, and they’ve also been the targets of parodies on comedy shows in Canada. And you’ll see why.
We’re planning to bring you a “Heritage Minute” every Wednesday on COTW, and what better way to start it than with the story of Sam Steele, the North West Mounted Police superintendent tasked with keeping the Klondike region (yes, “Klondike,” like the ice cream bars) free from gun-toting, drunken, and otherwise debaucherous gold seekers from the United States in the late 1890s?
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Superintendent Steele utter the words, “Men don’t wear pistols in Canada.”
Check it out below, and to learn more about Steele, click here.
In the spirit of Martin Luther King Day on Monday, this week’s Canadian Heritage Minute takes a look at a Canadian activist who took a non-violent approach to forcing change and encouraging his people to co-exist with those in power.
Last week, we let you in on the little secret that Superman is actually half-Canadian, in a manner of speaking. Well, curl up with a bucket of honey for this sweet revelation.
As if Jack Bauer and Capt. James T. Kirk weren’t enough, it turns out another American icon is actually, at least partially, Canadian.
As you watch reports from around the world, with celebrations happening from time zone to time zone as the clock strikes 12, keep in mind that the standardization of time zones was brought to you by a Canadian.
Thank you, YouTube.
