Heritage Minutes: Sam Steele

Heritage Minutes: Sam Steele 1993

1

Major General and police official Sam Steele of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bars an unruly American from entering the Yukon with pistols, despite being threatened at gunpoint.

1993

Heritage Minutes: Paris Crew

Heritage Minutes: Paris Crew 1995

1

The surprise victory of the Paris Crew, a group of unheralded Canadian rowers, at the 1867 World Championships.

1995

Heritage Minutes: John Cabot

Heritage Minutes: John Cabot 1991

1

Italian navigator and explorer John Cabot discovers the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and runs "aground" on a bounty of fish.

1991

Heritage Minutes: Valour Road

Heritage Minutes: Valour Road 1991

1

Three men from Pine Street in Winnipeg win the Victoria Cross in World War I, and the street's name is changed to Valour Road in their honour.

1991

Heritage Minutes: Vikings

Heritage Minutes: Vikings 1992

1

L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.

1992

Heritage Minutes: Water Pump

Heritage Minutes: Water Pump 1995

1

Mennonite communities in Southwestern Ontario serve as inspiration in the design of tools and practices of sustainable development for developing countries.

1995

Heritage Minutes: Jean Nicollet

Heritage Minutes: Jean Nicollet 1992

1

French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.

1992

Heritage Minutes: Rural Teacher

Heritage Minutes: Rural Teacher 1992

1

Teacher Kate Henderson sways school trustees to embrace new methods, and the event is represented in the famous painting by Robert Harris: A Meeting of the School Trustees.

1992

Heritage Minutes: Hart & Papineau

Heritage Minutes: Hart & Papineau 1995

1

Two decades after Ezekiel Hart is denied his seat in the assembly, Louis-Joseph Papineau's government enacts religious tolerance laws in Lower Canada.

1995

Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow

Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow 1997

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Canadian aerospace engineers design and test the world's fastest, most advanced interceptor aircraft.

1997