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TORONTO – May 13, 2025 – It was the day in which a small, remote Newfoundland community opened its doors to the world.

Historica Canada’s newest Heritage Minute, starring the veteran Canadian Hollywood and stage actor Victor Garber, will be released on May 7, 2025 to coincide with Jewish Heritage Month.

Historica Canada, home of The Canadian Encyclopedia, Heritage Minutes, and a variety of educational programs, is joining in partnership with Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame (CSHoF) to celebrate the legacies of the country’s sport icons.

In a sweeping, half-century stage, film and television career, Canadian actor Victor Garber has played everyone from Ernest Hemingway to the Marquis de Lafayette to Liberace.

Both Baker and Hamilton fit within our working rule for the Minutes that they be devoted to people or events that in some way helped shape life in the country in which we live today.

The Heritage Minute commemorating Canada’s role in D-Day needed one soldier to represent all those who sacrificed. They found him.

How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism During the Second World War