Mar 08, 2017

The Edmonton Grads finally get their own Heritage Minute

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

Quiz: How well do you know your Heritage Minutes history?

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

So long, Juno the polar bear

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

Canadian filmmakers choose potential candidates for new Heritage Minutes

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

Northern stories wanted for Here's My Canada contest

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

Jacques Cinq-Mars was a tough, rule-bending Montreal police captain

The Globe and Mail profiles Memory Project veteran Jacques Cinq-Mars

Nov 11, 2016

In Education: Logging in to remembrance

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

Most agree fallen soldiers should be honoured beyond Remembrance Day

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

'These people are just like you': Refugees share their stories of journey to Winnipeg

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

Kenojuak Ashevak Featured in New Heritage Minute

Canadian Art speaks to Anthony Wilson-Smith about the creation of the Kenojuak Ashevak Minute

“There is no one Inuit word for art. We say it is to transfer something from the real to the unreal.”

Those are the beginning words of the first Heritage Minute ever to pay tribute to an Inuit artist. Read the full story here.