CTV News examines Canadian knowledge of Indigenous histories.
Jul 01, 2021
Col. Gilbert Taylor reflects on D-Day and includes an excerpt of Lloyd Bentley’s testimony with The Memory Project.
Jun 05, 2021
Mar 08, 2017
Sportsnet features the new Minute on the Edmonton Grads
Perhaps the most famous— and certainly the most successful— basketball team that Canada has ever produced is getting some well-earned recognition today with the release of a brand-new Heritage Minute. Read the full story here.
Mar 07, 2017
Metro News tests readers' Heritage Minute knowledge ahead of a Toronto trivia night
We all remember our favourite Heritage Minutes. There was burnt toast, the peach basket and Jackie Robinson playing for the Montreal Royals. Try the quiz here.
Feb 26, 2017
Toronto Sun accompanies Memory Project speaker Gerry O'Pray to say farewell to Juno
Former Canadian UN peacekeeper Gerry O’Pray made a point Sunday of visiting the Toronto Zoo to say goodbye to Juno the polar bear.
After all, O’Pray says, the two of them have a couple of things in common. Read the full story here.
Jan 18, 2017
The Canadian Press speaks to filmmakers about their choices for future Heritage Minute subjects
Organizers behind Canada's Heritage Minutes are asking filmmakers to draft up their best proposals for new additions to the series on key moments or figures in the country's history. Read the full story here.
Jan 10, 2017
CBC North highlights Historica Canada's new video contest, Here's My Canada
Canada turns 150 this year and Historica Canada is calling on Canadian residents to submit a 30-second video on what their country means to them. Read the full story here.
Dec 01, 2016
The Globe and Mail profiles Memory Project veteran Jacques Cinq-Mars
Nov 11, 2016
An Encounters with Canada student writes about her experience for Maple Ridge News
Nov. 11th. The only mandatory public school assembly in all of Canada. A minute of silent squirming during which, no disrespect to John McCrae, some kid will haltingly recite In Flander’s Fields. Read the full story here.
Nov 03, 2016
The Canadian Press speaks to Anthony Wilson-Smith about Historica Canada's Remembrance Day poll
A new poll suggests Canadians would like to see efforts to honour fallen soldiers extend well beyond Remembrance Day.
The study commissioned by Historica Canada found a vast majority of respondents would like to see a national monument to soldiers who died in combat in modern times. Read the full story here.
Oct 26, 2016
CBC Manitoba speaks to members of a Passages Canada panel of refugees
When Maysoun Darweesh moved to Winnipeg four years ago, she remembers clearly how the tears of joy, relief and happiness froze to her cheeks in the —42 C Winnipeg winter. Read the full story here.
Oct 20, 2016
CBC News speaks to the cast of the Kenojuak Ashevak Minute
Already immortalized through her iconic artwork, Kenojuak Ashevak's legacy is now preserved in film, too. Read the full story here.
