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Heritage Minutes

★ 8.0 128 votes 1991–present 23 seasons · 107 episodes Returning Series CBC Television
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Starring
Aidan DevineKatherine TrowellSteve CumynDenis LacroixJean L'ItalienJohn Evans
Starring
Aidan DevineKatherine TrowellSteve CumynDenis LacroixJean L'ItalienJohn Evans

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About

Heritage Minutes, also known officially as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, are a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. They appear frequently on Canadian television and in cinemas before movies and are now also sold on DVD. The Minutes were first introduced on March 31, 1991 as part of a one-off heavily-promoted history quiz show hosted by Rex Murphy. The thirteen original short films were broken up and run between shows on CBC Television and CTV Network. The continued broadcast of the Minutes and the production of new ones was pioneered by Charles Bronfman's CRB Foundation, Canada Post Power Broadcasting, and the National Film Board. They were devised, developed and largely narrated by noted Canadian broadcaster Patrick Watson, while the producer of the series was Robert Guy Scully. In 2009 Historica merged with The Dominion Institute to become The Historica-Dominion Institute. While the foundations have not paid networks to air Minutes, they have made them freely available, and in the early years paid to have them run in cinemas across the country. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has ruled that Heritage Minutes are an "on-going dramatic series" thus each minute counts as ninety-seconds of a station's Canadian content requirements.

All Seasons

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Season 11991
6.985177m
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Season 21992
7.511514
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Season 31993
7.35514
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Season 41995
6.7276
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Season 52005
—06
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Season 62012
—08
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Season 72018
—01
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Season 8
6.881
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Season 9
7.278
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Season 10
—01
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Season 11
—01
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Season 12
7.31431m
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Season 13
7.81121m
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Season 14
8.02043m
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Season 15
—03
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Season 16
7.8621m
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Season 17
—033m
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Season 18
—021m
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Season 19
—022m
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Season 20
—032m
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Season 21
—022m
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Season 22
—03
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Season 23
—011m

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Aidan Devine Additional Cast, English Envoy, Jim Chamerlain
Katherine Trowell Additional Cast, Narrator
Steve Cumyn John A. Macdonald, Alec, Percy
Denis Lacroix Additional Cast, Rain in Face
Jean L'Italien George-Étienne Cartier, Adoptive Father
John Evans Additional Cast
Patrick Watson Narrator
Jean Marchand Additional Cast, Paul-Émile Borduas
William Samples Additional Cast, Sandford Fleming
Patrick Labbé Additional Cast, Joseph Armand Bombardier - age 29

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