Thank you, YouTube.

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.