Heritage Minutes Season 2 - Episode Guide, Ratings & Streaming

New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec (1690).

A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.

The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.

The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work.

Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.

Sports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois.

One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in the Saguenay, Quebec.

Joseph Casavant, world renowned organ maker, builds his first organ.

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

The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.

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.

Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.

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

Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.