Agreed. I grew up in his hometown (Guelph, Ontario) where his house still stands. It is now a small museum and hosts celebrations for Remembrance Day and Canada Day. So proud to grow up there.
The reason the poppy is a symbol of remembrance worn on Remembrance Day in the UK and Canada as well as many other locations is because of the poem by John McRae. This is the origin of the poppy in ceremonies involving the war dead.
@@helenbaumander3953 I did not know that... what is its origins then because anything I can find references directly John McRae and the poem he wrote in 1915.
L.M. Montgomery is one of the most celebrated Canadian authors. Her books have been made into numerous movies and TV shows. Most of her books were set in PEI It's a huge tourist draw.
In 1939, due to ill health and buildup to war, Canadian missionary Loretta Shaw had to leave Japan. Before she left she gave her friend Hanako Muraoka a book as a farewell present. Over the war Hanako translated the book in secret, since being caught with an enemy nation's book would have got her either jailed or executed, and kept it safe during bombing raids. After the war she found a publisher who was willing to take a chance on some author no one ever heard of there. A story of a girl struggling against a strict conservative society bound by convention on how women behave unsurprisingly appealed to Japanese women. Thus "Red-haired Anne" became and is extremely popular in Japan to the point you can go to the nicknamed Green Gables School of Nursing and PEI gets thousands of Japanese tourists every year.
@@randomlynamed3353 also, when the Anne of Green Gables site had a fire many years ago, Japanese donated a lot of money to help get it restored. The guest books at the anne of green gables attraction is just filled with japanese guests
Walter Pennfeild “the Greatest Canadian Alive” he wasn’t just known that at the time his research is still used today we still use his brain mapping around the world to treat neurological disorders and injuries, and perform neurological surgeries, the fact that we are still using almost 100 year old information today, really speaks to how important his contributions were.
Just remember it's about seizures not strokes. Ask the younger people in your life to see if the Mandela effect that happened in my community holds in yours!
@@lynnduburstone I will fight to the death for the cause of the Berenstein Bears. So the glitches in the matrices are real. Unfortunately I was not sharing your timeline. It's always been seizures for me. Polled a few friends and family asking what was the burnt toast doctor trying to treat.... Minimal leading, didn't even give them the option. They all said seizures. I don't doubt your recollection, I believe it was what you saw and your reality was real at some point.
@@mitchchartrand oh its other people around me usually under 30 that think this. I have placement students on the job all the time and a majority of them as well as my coworkers think it's stroke. I am in your timeline they are the ones that glitched.
I didn’t know people thought it was a stroke. I’ve always known it’s seizures. But, due to this as well, with most things burning in the kitchen, it has to be mentioned. I feel like this is one of the first heritage minutes.
As a Canadian, thank you for introducing an international audience to our Heritage Minutes. I wish more countries would create something similar! I recommend looking up a removed (though still posted elsewhere on TH-cam) Heritage Minute on Sir John A. MacDonald, our first Prime Minister and now a source of controversy. He was instrumental in uniting Canada as a nation, but his legacy is checkered because of the creation of the residential school system for First Nations peoples. While people should be judged for the context of their times and Heritage Canada should not have removed the video, it is essential to know the tragedy in those schools while understanding the complex nature of our founding fathers.
Being part Indigenous Canadian, I find it offensive to remove or rewrite history. It lessens the impact that history has to teach us along with paying respect to those whose lives were lost or harmed. The past teaches us the mistakes to avoid in the future and I will fight against sanitizing any part of our past.
@@sandyhayden-bristow1382 I'm Metis-French Canadian, and I hate the entire matter of removing, rewriting, and omitting important details of our history, including points of views. My grandfather was in the schools, but not because of the evil white man. He was sold by his own grandmother, for alcohol. People want to ignore that the First Nations had their own hand in the matter. The schools weren't black or white, and I wish we covered that. There were some bad residential schools. But there are others that weren't interested in hurting the kids. Some were orphans with nowhere to go, cause their tribe couldn't take care of them. Others were from abusive homes and situations. Others, it was a matter of tribal rivalry, and selling each other out. Just like at times, the English government would come in with ill intentions. People also don't know that the schools also taught trades to the kids, and would find people to apprentice the kids to. But people are more focused on the bad, and this is done to foster discrimination and racism towards the white man, without considering context and responsibility for their part in the entire history. And this grey matter is often sanitized for such propaganda, just to divide the various groups against each other. As you mention, if we forget about history, and the mistakes made, then we will be repeating it. The French-Canadians deal with similar discrimination against them on a daily basis. (the fact that we might end up seeing "French need not apply" signs in windows, instead of just having our CVs tossed in the bin is irritating.) It was illegal to teach our language during the same time as the schools were open. And there is more active attempts to wipe us out, even from the First Nations who we fought hard to help protect their rights...
The fact the father of our current PM continued the Residential School System and advocated assimilation of First Nations somehow gets overlooked, PE Trudeau's name shouldn't be on a single public institution.
@@Gerhardium I agree. He was a monster, and personally, I find that's the least monstrous thing he's done. The entire FLQ actually being a CIA operation in order to flatten French Canadian resistance in public opinion... Disgusting man, and his son is no better. (Although I hear the other son actually didn't like the family business and wanted out.)
I love that you found these and are sharing your experience watching them with the world. Thank you for the words of respect and appreciation for Canadians who try to make the world a better place. I feel likewise to Scotland and the UK in general.
Today (April 9th) happens to be the anniversary of the start of the assault on Vimy Ridge. "In those few moments, I witnessed the birth of a Nation." - Brigadier General A.E. Ross Canada's sons left for the Great War as young colonials, but they returned as Canadians.
Flanders field was a poem every kid knew growing up in Canada on the 11th. The country shuts down for a minute, radio stations go silent, the only thing you hear in the distance is before the minute silence is horns and bagpipes.
The final video was largely about Sir Arthur Currie, arguably the most successful Canadian commander of WWI. He instituted a new version of the creeping barrage during the battle of Vimy Ridge. Which is what enabled them to take Vimy Ridge in less than a week when other Allied forced failed for over a year. Sir Arthur Currie was quite interesting and a once in an era level talent. The right man for the right time. His many battlefield innovations and tactics solidified him in the history books.
The Avro Arrow was the best fighter craft of its day. It would have been in service until 1980, but Boeing from the USA petitioned their government who bullied on the Canadian government to shut down the program and destroy all the prototypes and parts. The workers hid the nose section, which is now in our aviation museum. NASA then hired away all of Avro's designers and engineers for the space program. The lead actor in the video is famous Canadian actor Dan Aykroyd from Ghost Buster, Saturday Night Live and many other films. Thanks for recognizing the historical significance of my country.
My dad worked on the Arrow. One week he was sent to Danbury, Connecticut, first time he had been sent to the US about any project. I remember being a kid at the kitchen table and he was furious. He said the damned Americans want us to scrap the Arrow because it's more advanced than anything they have. Why were all the prototypes destroyed? Parts dumped in Lake Ontario! A lot of the workers were then recruited for NASA but my dad refused to go to the US. 👍👍I am eternally grateful for his decision. If the project had continued there could have been a brain drain to Canada instead of the US! Canada could have been a major aerospace player. In fact we still are but via NASA.
@@susieq9801 I cannot even imagine how outraged all the engineers and workers who dreamed, engineered and built this amazing aircraft must have felt. Now I understand why Diefenbaker was so reviled - but also have sympathy for being in a position to be overpowered and outgunned by the States. All that brain drain to NASA just infuriates me - and the brain drain in all fields is still happening today. This was a pivotal decision in our history and wonder what might have been. So glad your father decided to stay put in Canada. (My father, an Italian immigrant, wanted to move to the US - and in fact worked there for a number of years, but my 3rd generation Irish CDN mother dug in her heels - and said no - and I'm eternally grateful to her as well)
In Canada, the Heritage minutes were aired as commercials regularly. The 1980 Vietnamese refugees were nicknamed "the boat people" in Canada. Now, we are welcoming Ukrainian refugees. One more tidbit - I remember someone saying that the Canadians are more like the adults in the room, verses the Americans being like the teenagers. 🤔 😄☺
Canada has a problem with not honouring their heroic moments in history. Unfortunately these heritage moments are no longer broadcast. Canada deserves to know more about themselves and these broadcasts were a great way to stir interest in Canadian history.
I love the Nellie McClung story. My great grandmother Laura Jean Jamieson who is known in Canada for many things but she was actually the last Canadian suffragist to serve in a legislature. She was a colleague of Nellie and was a member of the British Columbia legislature .
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
I am a Canadian originally from Sarawak of Malaysian Borneo.My adopted parents taught in Sarawak in the 60's as Canadian teachers under the Colombo Plan. All their lives my parents devoted their time to helping people. Our family took many Vietnamese refugees from Malaysia.
Yeah, the production value on most of the Heritage Minutes is actually really good. They really did put the effort in. That's probably part of why we remember them so well - they were good and worth watching.
Yeah, as a Canadian, I actually miss Heritage Minutes. Because there were things that I as a Canadian never knew and never learned about in school. I think Canada should make more.
Regarding the Avro Arrow, the official story is that it was canceled due to mounting costs, and being a very expensive program for a country of Canada's size. However, there is some speculation that It really may have been due to Canada's closest ally deeming it a threat. The speculation is fueled by the fact that the prototypes were "destroyed" and a few years later the United States developed a fighter jet more advanced than their previous predecessors. But most unfortunate of all is the impact that it had on aerospace engineering in Canada. Many of the talented engineers moved to the US to continue working in their respective fields. It had quite a long lasting impact. There are videos on the topic that you could definitely find.
The Americans had little to do with the cancellation. The problem was that the Minister of War C.D. Howe had such a personal animosity for the president of Avro that he would rather destroy the Canadian aerospace industry than let Avro succeed. Canada's first jet powered passenger aircraft, the Avro Jetliner was set to debut with TWA, but C.D. Howe got it cancelled to prevent Avro from filling more orders for the CF-100 interceptor and then Howe cancelled the orders for more CF-100s. The Americans offered to buy enough Avro Arrows to keep the program alive and just abandon them at RCAF bases, but C.D. Howe would have none of that. As far as he was concerned, C.D. Howe was Cato the Elder and Avro was Carthage-- "Cartago delenda est! The US certainly took advantage of all of those unemployed aerospace engineers and who could blame them? They were probably all grateful for the work.
16:58 A random bit of trivia: the voice you hear narrating the close of this spot about the teacher is Jackie Burroughs. She was one of the stars of a massively popular Canadian TV series at the time called Road to Avonlea. She played Hetty King, a rural school teacher, on that show. Also, Road to Avonlea is a bit of Canadiana you might want to check out. It's technically a spin-off of the 1980s Anne of Green Gables movies.
A quick TH-cam search will show quite a number of docs about the Avro Arrow. Worth checking out. It's a fascinating and inspiring , but ultimately enraging (for me, at least), story of Canadian ingenuity. Edit: and you mentioned seeing Dan Aykroyd. Some of these Heritage Minutes come from actual full length movies made on the subjects, edited down obviously. There was a 1997 movie about the Arrow and Dan Aykroyd was in it.
When I was growing up there was a tv show in Canada called Road To Avonlea. It was something I shared with my grandmother, we would watch it every Sunday night. It was adapted from the books written by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
I remember Road to Avonlea, it was great! My favourite though was Emily of New Moon, which is also L.M. Montgomery. Gotta love the original 1985 Anne movie with Megan Follows.
The Winnipeg Falcons clip references the team living around Sargent Avenue. At that time, Sargent Ave intersected with Pine Street. And as many of you already know, they changed the name of Winnipeg's Pine Street... to Valour Road. I grew up a block away from that intersection.
The Avro Arrow was canada's top of the line interceptor. Designed to go mach 2, which in the 50s and 60s, was very impressive. I highly recommend checking out more of that beautiful plane. My dad even has a tattoo of it mixed with a poppy. She is a wonderful part of canada's military history and just the same for aeronautics.
@ 19:38, a lot of work on the Avro Arrow ( a story you really want to see ) was done right here in Manitoba ( near the bottom of the list, way down here, remember, LOL. A story of Canadian history, military, and Canada / US relations. Was made into a Hollywood style movie( with Canadian Dan Aykroyd ( pretty sure that spelling is wrong ) )
You should watch the video of the Syrian refugees coming to Canada. There was a huge number of people at the airport just cheering for them. Each family had a sponsor (often a group of people) who would help them adjust and get themselves set up to live in Canada. It was heartwarming, and it’s only one of the reasons I love being Canadian.
I love seeing you doing these reaction videos to my countries heritage minutes. So many of these I’ve forgotten about and it’s been so wonderful to watch them again! It would be so funny for you to do a video on our “concerned children’s advertising” shorts and commercials. There are many of those that are great.
What's really funny about the seizure video is that people under 30 tend to think that "I smell burned toast" is about strokes so they think strokes have a smell of burnt toast. It's a Mandela effect thing. I have that video prepared to send to people to correct them! The log drivers waltz, and house hippos videos are great canadiana.
There is a saying, that at Vimy Ridge, men went up they hill as Albertans, Manitoban, Ontarians and came down as Canadians!. Anne of Green Gables was required reading when I went to school and as much as it became known world wide. The Japanese also made it required reading. Anne became so beloved there, that Japanese tourists still visit Prince Edward Island in huge numbers.. My Dad attended a one room schoolhouse in Manitoba as a kid. His had a little stable attached to keep the horses warm in the winter, as my Dad would go by horse drawn sled. There were about ten to fifteen students at any one time.. The teachers weren’t teaching just one grade. The grades there went from one to Grade eight. So she might be teaching Grade two to one person, three might be in Grade five etc. So she had to make a wide range of lessons to cover all curriculums. In the winter, the boys would maintain the wood stove to keep them warm and all the kids would pitch in to tend to the horses, through the day. Nellie McClung was one of the names submitted to grace our ten dollar bill. Viola Desmond won that honour. Wilder Penfield saved many lives through his work. Before my retirement I worked largely with patients who suffered seizures. The lady who smelled burnt toast was experiencing an “ aura “ which is often a precursor to a seizure. It’s a warning that not all epileptics experience. It may be a certain smell, bright lights, strange sounds, tastes etc. It may be short or a bit longer. This warning is actually beneficial as it allows the person time to position themselves safely, on the floor , away from objects that can injure etc. His work led to specialized surgeries, anti seizure medication and even nowadays specialized companion dogs who are trained to sense the coming seizure and warn his owner to get safe!
My mother would get angry if I said that she was taught in a one room school house - her school had two rooms. Both her mother and aunt attended Normal school so that they could teach school until their marriages. That is the part about the rural teacher that is often left out - the teachers (in the West, mainly female) had to quit teaching once they married. Both McClung and LM Montgomery taught school for a stint - and Montgomery's Anne Shirley was one of these teachers.
If you're interested in more of the film aspects, the National Film Board of Canada has a long history of supporting filmmakers in Canada and has some really brilliant shirt films in the collection. Including the Heritage Minute series and a numberbof Oscar contenders.
I love the content Heritage Canada produced. They do an outstanding job of showing our history, that which made us who we are today, knowing the good, the bad and the ugly of our history is important, maybe it can help prevent the ugly from continuing to happen.
The coach in the Winnipeg Falcons minute is Jared Keeso, who is also one of the creators of "Letterkenny", which I highly recommend if you can find it.
I've seen all of these before, some many times; but some reason I am just bawling watching them on your reaction vids. I think we are really lucy to have had these.
I honestly think every Canadian raised person can recite the majority of Flanders Field off the top of their head, we hear and/or recite it at least yearly.
Canadian currency changes on a fairly regular basis. For a while, the $10 bill was dedicated to “Remembrance and Peacekeeping,” and had the first few lines of “In Flanders Field” as part of the design on the back of the bill.
The AVRO Arrow is a controversial plane and some say the death of Canadian aerospace industry. Many engineers moved on after the Arrow was destroyed to NASA where they were instrumental in going to the moon.
Glad you enjoyed the Heritage Minutes; always loved those. I've seen most of them but there are several you've watched that I never saw before. (L.M. Montgomery -- didn't know she suffered from depression), never saw the boat people one either. There is another about women finally winning the right to vote (Kate Nelligan is in that one). I also like the Inukshuk.
Legally here in Canada women were not considered people until 1929. Lucy Maud Montgomery and her characters are still remembered and celebrated today. One of the first musicals that I remember watching as a child was Anne of Green Gables.
Part of the Anne of Green Gables movies (the ones from the 80s) was filmed very close to my old high school. Just having that small little connection made the people there very proud.
the springhill ns mining disaster (there were two explosions and one bump... which my grandfather narrowly avoided in 58) is a great heritage minutes... the only time the carnegie medal was given to a town, and not a person
The Avro Arrow was sufficiently cutting edge that when I was a kid in the '90's and early 2000's we were told that it would have still been in service at the time if the programme hadn't been cancelled. It's generally accepted that it was cancelled for political reasons. (Officially due to costs, but given the sunk costs and the amount of money that was spent buying jets from elsewhere - which didn't have the added benefit of boosting the Canadian economy, that's not really considered plausible). My grandfather apparently worked on some of the castings for the prototypes - he remembered them having to burn the moulds they used. The burnt toast line is so ingrained in Canadian culture that it gets used as a bit of a shorthand to (generally jokingly) suggest that someone might be about to have a seizure. Only in watching this video did I realise that that was only a Canadian thing.
I love the story of the Winnipeg Falcons! Playing Ice Hockey in the 1920 Summer Olympics(Not a typo) in Antwerp, Belgium. Canada won every game, outscoring their opponents a combined total of 29-1. 15-0 against Czechoslavakia, 2-0 against USA, & 12-1 against Sweden for the Gold Medal Also the two players that died in the First World War were George Cumbers, and Frank "Buster" Thorsteinson
Thank you for your interest in our amazing country. It's filled with Scots as you know by now. My great grandmother Katherine MacLaughlin is from Glasgow.
The Avro Arrow was North America's first Mach 2 fighter, beating the Americans by months. The AVRO Canada company (like many companies with Canada in their name) is subsidized by the Canadian government. America was heavily racing towards the development of their own Mach 2 fighter as this was less than 10 years after WWII. The Canadian government was threatened with sanctions and the company had experienced unusual supply chain issues. By the time the company was in late development fighting internal design and external socio-political issues and the Canadian government pulled their funding. Simultaneously the US government was creating NORAD and was taking control/ownership of North America's defense. The cancellation of the Avro Arrow jet fighter was under questionable circumstances. Months later records of the development and 4 of the 5 prototypes were ordered destroyed, the 5th flying fighter being unaccounted for in the destruction process (the show proposes an interesting hypothesis). Then around 10 years later the cancellation of the company closed. In 1997 a made for TV miniseries was created about the Avro Arrow, starring Canadian actor Dan Akroyd. The Canada Heritage moment that you see contain clips from the 4 episodes: th-cam.com/video/aJwBHtYHIaw/w-d-xo.html
John McCrae was born in Guelph, Ontario. His home is just down the street from me, and is a museum. He went to McGill University, in Montreal. Since he enlisted in Montreal, they portray him as being from there.
I played hockey,as a young lad. and My position was goal tender.and I got slap shots too the face, But I had a wire mask. and the pucks left dents in my wire mask...and black marks.From the puck. Flandors field,was In grade 5 we had to memorize this poem adn every student had stand in front of the class and repeat every word by word. Mrs Weaver's class. Czar Alberta, Canada.
Doctor Penfield was studying epileptic seizures. Epileptic seizures have 'auras'. Penfield conducted experimental procedures where he found the location on the brain associated with the aura and caused a very localized lesion that prevented the stimulation of the aura. The experiments were successful as the localized lesion not only prevented the aura, but also prevented future seizures associated with the auras. Doctor Penfield was considered 'The greatest living Canadian' by sufferers of epilepsy, but deserves to be more highly regarded, generally.
19:45 The Heritage Minute about the Avro Arrow is actually footage edited from the 1997 mini-series The Arrow, that yes, starred Dan Aykroyd. If you're interested in the story behind the Arrow it's actually a really good mini-series.
I grew up in guelph (john macrae's hometown) and attened the school he had named after him and the same school. his poem is read aloud by the entire school on remembrance day
Canada is also quite important to science and we created and developed the Canadian used in space exploration while most of the credit gone to USA as they launch from there, but we have contributed in large way in science. . Dr Frederick Banting who discovered Insulin treatment for Diabetes was Canadian. Also Canadians breakthrough in medicine were Insulin, invented Pablum for babies, and tamper proof pill bottles. Open heart surgery, genes present in Cystic Fibrosis, transplantable stem cells 1961 T cell receptors in cancer research, HAART Therapy and treatment of HIV AIDS and prevention.
Everyone in Canada knows Lucy Maud Montgomery and Anne of Green Gables, set on Prince Edward Island. There’s now a second iteration of a tv series re: Anne. Such an iconic character.
I actually was at the unveiling of the McRae statue in Guelph in 2015 while I was serving out of CFB Borden going through medic training. I still have the challenge coin somewhere.
My maternal side were/are refugees to canada. I never want to forget the struggle or history. Unfortunately Im finding many older relatives who seem to have forgotten
Re Dr Penfield…he (and Dr. Brenda Milner - check her out, she’s a 104 y.o. Boss) got me into neuro as an 80’s child growing up with these Heritage Minutes. Got the PhD myself (including some years in Montreal with time spent at the MNI in undergrad). I don’t know how many people were inspired by Dr Penfield’d legacy, but I was!
These heritage minutes were such a part of my childhood (only had 1 channel, crap reception even). I think these were the first memes for Canadian millennials like me. As for Flanders Fields, I had to memorize it as part of a school assignment in early elementary school, more than 25 years ago. I can still recite it word for word. There aren't many poems that I can do this with. In general, the Heritage Minutes are an excellent introduction to Canadian history. It gets the conversation started for sure. But there's a lot of nuance that can't be communicated in a minute that is important to keep in mind when understanding the context of these events.
I'm very involved in the Royal Canadian Legion. This year. for the first time in my life in front of an audience, it will be my absolute honour to read In Flanders Fields at our cenotaph on Remembrance Day.
My great-grandmother was a rural teacher in Paisely, Ontario Canada in 1857 to 1859 and was paid 50 pounds a year. She left teaching as women were not allowed to teach if they were married.
The Rural teachers while not focused on anyone in particular are an important part of our heritage. PEI is the province just off the east coast, within a rock's throw of New Brunswick, so it isn't exactly "remote", but at the time it would certainly have qualified, especially population wise. (To this day, the population of the entire province is smaller than the size of the capital cities of 8 other provinces; only Fredericton, New Brunswick's population is smaller than PEI's and it sometimes feels like Freddy is in a race to surpass PEI). But the tradition of the rural teacher going out into the boonies to make sure children learn what they need to learn is still very important. One of my coworkers has a sister who regularly flies out to the Territories to teach up there; all to make sure that whether you are from Taloyoak, Nunavut or from Toronto, you still have the same basic knowledge base as all Canadians so you can have the same opportunities if you want to reach for them.
This is the actual poem “In Flanders Field” which I think most Canadians know In Flanders Fields John McCrae - 1872-1918 In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
Thanks for doing these heritage minutes. I've seen them all before but it has been so long that I have forgotten many of them. They should show these in our schools. Nellie McClung - Not familiar with her name, though I probably should be. It was a long hard road for women to get the right to vote, run for office, own property, etc. Winnipeg Falcons - Hadn't heard that story. Canada's first gold medal in hockey, eh! Go Falcons Go. Lucy Maud Montgomery - Everybody knows Anne of Green Gables. Refugees - Canada has long had a reputation for welcoming refugees although we did once turn away a whole ship full of them. A black mark on our record. Rural Teachers - So important in sparsely populated areas. Sometimes they were opposed by parents who were illiterate and saw no reason their children needed to read and write. The Avro Arrow - Oh boy, what a can of worms. Still controversial to this day. Many reasons why it was cancelled. One commenter mentioned C.D. Howe's animosity and that could certainly have been a major reason. It had also become very expensive and the penny pinchers in the government didn't like that(maybe that was just an excuse). Up until that time, with the exception of the CF-100, we had been buying our fighters from the US and they wanted that to continue. They didn't want us to have the biggest, fastest, most powerful interceptor in the world cause then they would have to buy from us. Their president pressured our prime minister, who I shall not name here, convincing him that the soviet bombers the Arrow was designed to intercept were obsolete and no longer a threat. The threat now, he said, was from missiles (ICBM's) and we needed anti-missile missiles. So we ended up buying the useless Bomarc missiles from Boeing. The worst part was the effect it had on our Aerospace Industry. Avro Canada had staked everything on the success of the Arrow and the cancellation was the death of the company. Many of the engineers ended up working for NASA and helped put man on the moon. It may have been the end of Orenda too, the engine manufacturer. I never heard much about them after. To add insult to injury they destroyed all the prototypes, five I think, and all the production drawings and blueprints. It's like they wanted to sweep it away completely as if it had never existed. The movie they made about it with Dan Ackroyd was very good and pretty factual. Worth it just to see the scale models they built. Your only chance to actually see the Arrow.
I remember when the Vietnamese Boat People, as we referred to them, came to Canada. Now there are third generation Vietnamese from that immigration throughout Canadian society in every walk of life.
@ 16:00 Today, we are welcoming Ukrainians, as well as many others. Immigration , and multiculturalism, is our great strength ! Can you imagine how may diverse ideas and innovations come, from mixing different viewpoints and ideas from all over the globe ?
@@SilvanaDil The US is all about assimilation. Americans generally don't like multiculturalism. Become like us, or leave. In Canada it's different. Not perfect, mind you, but much better than in the US.
FYI: Every little town in Canada has a hockey rink. Hockey is (almost) an obsession in Canada. Almost every Canadian kid, both boys and girls, have played hockey at one time in their lives.
"Doctor, I smell burnt toast" has been the punch line of so many jokes over the years because we all remembered it from seeing these on TV so So SO many times. To this day, I get very uncomfortable when I smell burnt toast. I know it's ridiculous, but I always double check I'm not having a seizure until I catch myself!
Hi Mert, The CF-105 was designed as a twin-engine, long-range, high-wing delta, all-weather supersonic interceptor. It was specifically designed and built to fly at Mach 2 (1,321 mph/2,126 kph; 1,148 kn) at altitudes of over 60,000 ft (18,288 m). On the weapons front the Arrow’s complement of AIM-7 Sparrow missiles, were to be carried internally. Each would be lowered for attack on its own launch rail. And to just give you a general idea of how truly capable it actually was; In full maximum dry thrust a CF-105 Arrow Mk.1 would be cruising at around Mach 1.5 (990 mph/1,593 kph; 860 kn) and flying at 50,000 ft (15,240 m). By Comparison an F-106 Delta Dart would be cruising at around Mach 0.98 (650 mph/1,046 kph; 564 kn) and flying at 42,000 ft (12,801 m) when it was in full maximum dry thrust. One of the other key features which set the Arrow apart from other aircraft of the day was that it was the first production aircraft to be designed and flown with a fully-electronic flight control system known as fly-by-wire. Incorporated into the design was transistorized technology. A little-known fact is that instrumental in the design of the fly-by-wire controls of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, were Jim Chamberlin and Richard R. Carley, drawing on their experience as ex-Avro Arrow engineers, who went to work for NASA immediately after the cancellation of the Arrow.
"In Flanders Fields" is always used to help honour veterans. We learned it young and always recited it in school & any memorials we go to about military or for Remembrance Day. Poppies go hand in hand with this. People sell poppy pins every year several weeks leading up to Remembrance Day to raise money for veterans.
the Battle of Vimy Ridge was a cultural turning point for Canada on the worlds stage. on April 9th 1917 Canada marched up a former colony and came back down a country
Jaques Plante created the Hockey goalie mask and also the poke check before him the goalie would stand still taking the shots and the injuries. He did what Theodore Roosevelt did for American Football but for Hockey Goalies.
Since you have a fondness for Canadian History, you may want to look into some videos on Upper Canada Village. It's a Heritage Park/Living Museum, popular for school trips, which shows what daily life was like in Upper Canada.
I work at an aircraft maintenance/repair and restoration facility at a regional airport in Southern Alberta Canada. We specalize in DHC-6 Twin Otter (British Antarctic Survey, US Navy, Canadian RCMP, NOAA, etc) Down the street from us is a hanger that has a AVRO AERO replica in production. They have tours once a month. I've never been.. Something I should Definitely do!
My best friend was Vietnamese and was one of the 'Boat People'. Her family came over on ships so crowded there wasn't even enough room for everyone to sit (on the floor), they came over via Hong Kong and while in Port in Hong Kong, my friend fell overboard and her uncle jumped in and saved her even though he didn't know how to swim. I meet her through a church girls group called Explorers, many different churches sponsored these 'Boat People', she came over in either 1979 or 1980 and I met her in 1981 and we became best friends. We spent lots of time with each other's families. It was the first time in my life that I was introduced to a culture so vastly different than my own. It was a wonderful experience and her family was always welcoming and my family was the same.
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every Canadian who went through our public schools knows Flanders Fields
Yes, we had to recite it word for word coming up towards Remembrance Day (Nov. 11). 🌺
I just tried, and I can still recite that poem. I’m glad Iv not forgotten it, still bring a tear to my eyes.
The only poem I can still recite word for word.
There’s a great video of Leonard Cohen reciting In Flanders Fields that you can find on TH-cam.
@@laurentco Thank you for that info. I did not know that.... I can imagine how moving that will be.... From one Canuck to another 🙏
I am Canadian ....and can testify there is no greater force than a Canadian woman riled for a cause
Remember the Ragin Grannies?
@@stephenolan5539 omg YASSS!!!
💙 🍁
Absolutely yes / Oui!!
Yeah, women in our country can kick your ass.
Darn toot'in!!
John McCrae... His poem is always shared at the same time every year.
"In Flanders Fields".
Gives me a shiver every time I hear it.
I think every Canadian can recite at least part of it.
Agreed. I grew up in his hometown (Guelph, Ontario) where his house still stands. It is now a small museum and hosts celebrations for Remembrance Day and Canada Day. So proud to grow up there.
The reason the poppy is a symbol of remembrance worn on Remembrance Day in the UK and Canada as well as many other locations is because of the poem by John McRae. This is the origin of the poppy in ceremonies involving the war dead.
That helped, but it's not the reason. It was a symbol of remembrance before WW1.
@@helenbaumander3953 I did not know that... what is its origins then because anything I can find references directly John McRae and the poem he wrote in 1915.
The Texas Rangers wear the poppy as well in respect, because they served with the Canadians on Juno Beach on D-Day
L.M. Montgomery is one of the most celebrated Canadian authors. Her books have been made into numerous movies and TV shows. Most of her books were set in PEI It's a huge tourist draw.
In 1939, due to ill health and buildup to war, Canadian missionary Loretta Shaw had to leave Japan. Before she left she gave her friend Hanako Muraoka a book as a farewell present. Over the war Hanako translated the book in secret, since being caught with an enemy nation's book would have got her either jailed or executed, and kept it safe during bombing raids. After the war she found a publisher who was willing to take a chance on some author no one ever heard of there. A story of a girl struggling against a strict conservative society bound by convention on how women behave unsurprisingly appealed to Japanese women. Thus "Red-haired Anne" became and is extremely popular in Japan to the point you can go to the nicknamed Green Gables School of Nursing and PEI gets thousands of Japanese tourists every year.
Wow,I never knew that was why the Japanese loved Anne of Green Gables so much!
Montgomery's book "Rilla of Ingleside" is considered the closest representation of the "Home Front" experience during WWI
@@randomlynamed3353 also, when the Anne of Green Gables site had a fire many years ago, Japanese donated a lot of money to help get it restored. The guest books at the anne of green gables attraction is just filled with japanese guests
Walter Pennfeild “the Greatest Canadian Alive” he wasn’t just known that at the time his research is still used today we still use his brain mapping around the world to treat neurological disorders and injuries, and perform neurological surgeries, the fact that we are still using almost 100 year old information today, really speaks to how important his contributions were.
"Doctor I smell burnt toast" is a line I still use whenever I smell something burning in the kitchen.
Just remember it's about seizures not strokes. Ask the younger people in your life to see if the Mandela effect that happened in my community holds in yours!
@@lynnduburstone I will fight to the death for the cause of the Berenstein Bears. So the glitches in the matrices are real. Unfortunately I was not sharing your timeline. It's always been seizures for me. Polled a few friends and family asking what was the burnt toast doctor trying to treat.... Minimal leading, didn't even give them the option. They all said seizures. I don't doubt your recollection, I believe it was what you saw and your reality was real at some point.
@@mitchchartrand oh its other people around me usually under 30 that think this. I have placement students on the job all the time and a majority of them as well as my coworkers think it's stroke. I am in your timeline they are the ones that glitched.
me too!
I didn’t know people thought it was a stroke. I’ve always known it’s seizures. But, due to this as well, with most things burning in the kitchen, it has to be mentioned. I feel like this is one of the first heritage minutes.
As a Canadian, thank you for introducing an international audience to our Heritage Minutes. I wish more countries would create something similar! I recommend looking up a removed (though still posted elsewhere on TH-cam) Heritage Minute on Sir John A. MacDonald, our first Prime Minister and now a source of controversy. He was instrumental in uniting Canada as a nation, but his legacy is checkered because of the creation of the residential school system for First Nations peoples. While people should be judged for the context of their times and Heritage Canada should not have removed the video, it is essential to know the tragedy in those schools while understanding the complex nature of our founding fathers.
Being part Indigenous Canadian, I find it offensive to remove or rewrite history. It lessens the impact that history has to teach us along with paying respect to those whose lives were lost or harmed. The past teaches us the mistakes to avoid in the future and I will fight against sanitizing any part of our past.
@@sandyhayden-bristow1382 I'm Metis-French Canadian, and I hate the entire matter of removing, rewriting, and omitting important details of our history, including points of views.
My grandfather was in the schools, but not because of the evil white man. He was sold by his own grandmother, for alcohol.
People want to ignore that the First Nations had their own hand in the matter.
The schools weren't black or white, and I wish we covered that. There were some bad residential schools. But there are others that weren't interested in hurting the kids. Some were orphans with nowhere to go, cause their tribe couldn't take care of them. Others were from abusive homes and situations. Others, it was a matter of tribal rivalry, and selling each other out.
Just like at times, the English government would come in with ill intentions.
People also don't know that the schools also taught trades to the kids, and would find people to apprentice the kids to.
But people are more focused on the bad, and this is done to foster discrimination and racism towards the white man, without considering context and responsibility for their part in the entire history.
And this grey matter is often sanitized for such propaganda, just to divide the various groups against each other.
As you mention, if we forget about history, and the mistakes made, then we will be repeating it.
The French-Canadians deal with similar discrimination against them on a daily basis. (the fact that we might end up seeing "French need not apply" signs in windows, instead of just having our CVs tossed in the bin is irritating.) It was illegal to teach our language during the same time as the schools were open. And there is more active attempts to wipe us out, even from the First Nations who we fought hard to help protect their rights...
The fact the father of our current PM continued the Residential School System and advocated assimilation of First Nations somehow gets overlooked, PE Trudeau's name shouldn't be on a single public institution.
@@Gerhardium I agree. He was a monster, and personally, I find that's the least monstrous thing he's done.
The entire FLQ actually being a CIA operation in order to flatten French Canadian resistance in public opinion...
Disgusting man, and his son is no better.
(Although I hear the other son actually didn't like the family business and wanted out.)
In some countries, like the USA, teaching their actual history is illegal in some parts of the country, so it wouldn't fly down there.
I love that you found these and are sharing your experience watching them with the world. Thank you for the words of respect and appreciation for Canadians who try to make the world a better place. I feel likewise to Scotland and the UK in general.
Today (April 9th) happens to be the anniversary of the start of the assault on Vimy Ridge. "In those few moments, I witnessed the birth of a Nation." - Brigadier General A.E. Ross
Canada's sons left for the Great War as young colonials, but they returned as Canadians.
106th anniversary IIRC
@@Ottawajames Yes, April 9-12, 1917.
I have a book of vimy ridge I got for Christmas one year when I was 4 or 5. Its displayed along with my memorial coins and other pieces.
Birth of a nation and my birthday lmao
Flanders field was a poem every kid knew growing up in Canada on the 11th. The country shuts down for a minute, radio stations go silent, the only thing you hear in the distance is before the minute silence is horns and bagpipes.
The final video was largely about Sir Arthur Currie, arguably the most successful Canadian commander of WWI. He instituted a new version of the creeping barrage during the battle of Vimy Ridge. Which is what enabled them to take Vimy Ridge in less than a week when other Allied forced failed for over a year. Sir Arthur Currie was quite interesting and a once in an era level talent. The right man for the right time. His many battlefield innovations and tactics solidified him in the history books.
The Avro Arrow was the best fighter craft of its day. It would have been in service until 1980, but Boeing from the USA petitioned their government who bullied on the Canadian government to shut down the program and destroy all the prototypes and parts. The workers hid the nose section, which is now in our aviation museum. NASA then hired away all of Avro's designers and engineers for the space program. The lead actor in the video is famous Canadian actor Dan Aykroyd from Ghost Buster, Saturday Night Live and many other films. Thanks for recognizing the historical significance of my country.
My dad worked on the Arrow. One week he was sent to Danbury, Connecticut, first time he had been sent to the US about any project. I remember being a kid at the kitchen table and he was furious. He said the damned Americans want us to scrap the Arrow because it's more advanced than anything they have. Why were all the prototypes destroyed? Parts dumped in Lake Ontario! A lot of the workers were then recruited for NASA but my dad refused to go to the US. 👍👍I am eternally grateful for his decision. If the project had continued there could have been a brain drain to Canada instead of the US! Canada could have been a major aerospace player. In fact we still are but via NASA.
@@susieq9801 I cannot even imagine how outraged all the engineers and workers who dreamed, engineered and built this amazing aircraft must have felt. Now I understand why Diefenbaker was so reviled - but also have sympathy for being in a position to be overpowered and outgunned by the States. All that brain drain to NASA just infuriates me - and the brain drain in all fields is still happening today. This was a pivotal decision in our history and wonder what might have been. So glad your father decided to stay put in Canada. (My father, an Italian immigrant, wanted to move to the US - and in fact worked there for a number of years, but my 3rd generation Irish CDN mother dug in her heels - and said no - and I'm eternally grateful to her as well)
What's the excuse today? You're flying nothing more significant than ancient hornets, while other U.S. allies are flying super hornets and beyond.
@@SilvanaDil Right, like NORAD isn't completely crawling with Canadians.
Your propaganda is bad and you should feel bad.
@@SilvanaDil - HI TROLL! Gosh, I've missed you so much. Canada bashing is your hobby but I suppose everyone needs a hobby. All my love. 😁😁
In Canada, the Heritage minutes were aired as commercials regularly. The 1980 Vietnamese refugees were nicknamed "the boat people" in Canada. Now, we are welcoming Ukrainian refugees. One more tidbit - I remember someone saying that the Canadians are more like the adults in the room, verses the Americans being like the teenagers. 🤔 😄☺
And the Syrians before, and the Lebanese before that, and the Irish before that. And Canada is better for it.
Canada has a problem with not honouring their heroic moments in history. Unfortunately these heritage moments are no longer broadcast. Canada deserves to know more about themselves and these broadcasts were a great way to stir interest in Canadian history.
They are still made and broadcast. Maybe not as widely as the 90's, but I have seen some of the newer ones on tv.
@@mega0ringo I guess it's been too long since I watched broadcast tv.
I remember when Jacques Plante first wore the face mask. It was very controversial but it was a much needed change. A great invention. 👍
And, don’t forget-when he got hit in the mask with a shot, he would draw on the stitches that he would have received if he didn’t have the mask.
@@keithmills778 that was Gerry Cheevers who etched stitches on his mask
These days you would be absolutely ridiculed for not wearing a mask
I love the Nellie McClung story. My great grandmother Laura Jean Jamieson who is known in Canada for many things but she was actually the last Canadian suffragist to serve in a legislature. She was a colleague of Nellie and was a member of the British Columbia legislature .
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Remains the only poem I know by heart.
Damn. I still can't get all the way through it without tearing up.
Yes, you're absolutely right! Jacques Plante was the first goalie to wear a mask!
First to wear it in an actual game. Goalies would wear them in practice.
I'm a goalie and I thank him.
I am a Canadian originally from Sarawak of Malaysian Borneo.My adopted parents taught in Sarawak in the 60's as Canadian teachers under the Colombo Plan. All their lives my parents devoted their time to helping people. Our family took many Vietnamese refugees from Malaysia.
Yeah, the production value on most of the Heritage Minutes is actually really good. They really did put the effort in. That's probably part of why we remember them so well - they were good and worth watching.
Yeah, as a Canadian, I actually miss Heritage Minutes.
Because there were things that I as a Canadian never knew and never learned about in school.
I think Canada should make more.
Regarding the Avro Arrow, the official story is that it was canceled due to mounting costs, and being a very expensive program for a country of Canada's size. However, there is some speculation that It really may have been due to Canada's closest ally deeming it a threat. The speculation is fueled by the fact that the prototypes were "destroyed" and a few years later the United States developed a fighter jet more advanced than their previous predecessors. But most unfortunate of all is the impact that it had on aerospace engineering in Canada. Many of the talented engineers moved to the US to continue working in their respective fields. It had quite a long lasting impact. There are videos on the topic that you could definitely find.
My father in law was an electrical engineer at Avro working on the Arrow and lost his job that day the program was cancelled.
The Americans had little to do with the cancellation. The problem was that the Minister of War C.D. Howe had such a personal animosity for the president of Avro that he would rather destroy the Canadian aerospace industry than let Avro succeed. Canada's first jet powered passenger aircraft, the Avro Jetliner was set to debut with TWA, but C.D. Howe got it cancelled to prevent Avro from filling more orders for the CF-100 interceptor and then Howe cancelled the orders for more CF-100s.
The Americans offered to buy enough Avro Arrows to keep the program alive and just abandon them at RCAF bases, but C.D. Howe would have none of that. As far as he was concerned, C.D. Howe was Cato the Elder and Avro was Carthage-- "Cartago delenda est!
The US certainly took advantage of all of those unemployed aerospace engineers and who could blame them? They were probably all grateful for the work.
16:58 A random bit of trivia: the voice you hear narrating the close of this spot about the teacher is Jackie Burroughs. She was one of the stars of a massively popular Canadian TV series at the time called Road to Avonlea. She played Hetty King, a rural school teacher, on that show.
Also, Road to Avonlea is a bit of Canadiana you might want to check out. It's technically a spin-off of the 1980s Anne of Green Gables movies.
A quick TH-cam search will show quite a number of docs about the Avro Arrow. Worth checking out. It's a fascinating and inspiring , but ultimately enraging (for me, at least), story of Canadian ingenuity.
Edit: and you mentioned seeing Dan Aykroyd. Some of these Heritage Minutes come from actual full length movies made on the subjects, edited down obviously. There was a 1997 movie about the Arrow and Dan Aykroyd was in it.
When I was growing up there was a tv show in Canada called Road To Avonlea. It was something I shared with my grandmother, we would watch it every Sunday night. It was adapted from the books written by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
I remember Road to Avonlea, it was great! My favourite though was Emily of New Moon, which is also L.M. Montgomery. Gotta love the original 1985 Anne movie with Megan Follows.
The Winnipeg Falcons clip references the team living around Sargent Avenue. At that time, Sargent Ave intersected with Pine Street.
And as many of you already know, they changed the name of Winnipeg's Pine Street... to Valour Road.
I grew up a block away from that intersection.
The Avro Arrow was canada's top of the line interceptor. Designed to go mach 2, which in the 50s and 60s, was very impressive.
I highly recommend checking out more of that beautiful plane. My dad even has a tattoo of it mixed with a poppy. She is a wonderful part of canada's military history and just the same for aeronautics.
@ 19:38, a lot of work on the Avro Arrow ( a story you really want to see ) was done right here in Manitoba ( near the bottom of the list, way down here, remember, LOL. A story of Canadian history, military, and Canada / US relations. Was made into a Hollywood style movie( with Canadian Dan Aykroyd ( pretty sure that spelling is wrong ) )
I recommend looking up PSAs by “Concerned Children’s Advertisers.” They left as much impression on my young Canadian mind as did Heritage Minutes.
You should watch the video of the Syrian refugees coming to Canada. There was a huge number of people at the airport just cheering for them. Each family had a sponsor (often a group of people) who would help them adjust and get themselves set up to live in Canada. It was heartwarming, and it’s only one of the reasons I love being Canadian.
I love seeing you doing these reaction videos to my countries heritage minutes. So many of these I’ve forgotten about and it’s been so wonderful to watch them again!
It would be so funny for you to do a video on our “concerned children’s advertising” shorts and commercials. There are many of those that are great.
The narrator for the McClung clip was a legendary Radio personality, Peter Gzowski.
What's really funny about the seizure video is that people under 30 tend to think that "I smell burned toast" is about strokes so they think strokes have a smell of burnt toast. It's a Mandela effect thing. I have that video prepared to send to people to correct them!
The log drivers waltz, and house hippos videos are great canadiana.
I love both of those!
Everyone wants a house hippo!😅
There is a saying, that at Vimy Ridge, men went up they hill as Albertans, Manitoban, Ontarians and came down as Canadians!. Anne of Green Gables was required reading when I went to school and as much as it became known world wide. The Japanese also made it required reading. Anne became so beloved there, that Japanese tourists still visit Prince Edward Island in huge numbers.. My Dad attended a one room schoolhouse in Manitoba as a kid. His had a little stable attached to keep the horses warm in the winter, as my Dad would go by horse drawn sled. There were about ten to fifteen students at any one time.. The teachers weren’t teaching just one grade. The grades there went from one to Grade eight. So she might be teaching Grade two to one person, three might be in Grade five etc. So she had to make a wide range of lessons to cover all curriculums. In the winter, the boys would maintain the wood stove to keep them warm and all the kids would pitch in to tend to the horses, through the day. Nellie McClung was one of the names submitted to grace our ten dollar bill. Viola Desmond won that honour. Wilder Penfield saved many lives through his work. Before my retirement I worked largely with patients who suffered seizures. The lady who smelled burnt toast was experiencing an “ aura “ which is often a precursor to a seizure. It’s a warning that not all epileptics experience. It may be a certain smell, bright lights, strange sounds, tastes etc. It may be short or a bit longer. This warning is actually beneficial as it allows the person time to position themselves safely, on the floor , away from objects that can injure etc. His work led to specialized surgeries, anti seizure medication and even nowadays specialized companion dogs who are trained to sense the coming seizure and warn his owner to get safe!
My mother would get angry if I said that she was taught in a one room school house - her school had two rooms.
Both her mother and aunt attended Normal school so that they could teach school until their marriages. That is the part about the rural teacher that is often left out - the teachers (in the West, mainly female) had to quit teaching once they married. Both McClung and LM Montgomery taught school for a stint - and Montgomery's Anne Shirley was one of these teachers.
Really excellent content!) As a Canadian living in Ukraine these stories remind us of the things that are important to our identity. Cheers mate❤
Wilder Penfield's portrait is still on display in the hall of the Montreal Neurological institute today.
If you're interested in more of the film aspects, the National Film Board of Canada has a long history of supporting filmmakers in Canada and has some really brilliant shirt films in the collection. Including the Heritage Minute series and a numberbof Oscar contenders.
Paddle to the sea I always loved!
My favourites were The Big Snit and Black Fly.
@@SharonFromNB and The Cat Came Back!
I love the content Heritage Canada produced. They do an outstanding job of showing our history, that which made us who we are today, knowing the good, the bad and the ugly of our history is important, maybe it can help prevent the ugly from continuing to happen.
The coach in the Winnipeg Falcons minute is Jared Keeso, who is also one of the creators of "Letterkenny", which I highly recommend if you can find it.
I've seen all of these before, some many times; but some reason I am just bawling watching them on your reaction vids. I think we are really lucy to have had these.
These commercials are hitting my nostalgia bone, these were running during my childhood. Love the vids, take care!
I honestly think every Canadian raised person can recite the majority of Flanders Field off the top of their head, we hear and/or recite it at least yearly.
Not since I left school.
Canadian currency changes on a fairly regular basis. For a while, the $10 bill was dedicated to “Remembrance and Peacekeeping,” and had the first few lines of “In Flanders Field” as part of the design on the back of the bill.
The AVRO Arrow is a controversial plane and some say the death of Canadian aerospace industry. Many engineers moved on after the Arrow was destroyed to NASA where they were instrumental in going to the moon.
Avro Arrow is a sore spot for us. It was ahead of the class. The government cancelled it. There were a few reasons. You can find a video on it.
Glad you enjoyed the Heritage Minutes; always loved those. I've seen most of them but there are several you've watched that I never saw before. (L.M. Montgomery -- didn't know she suffered from depression), never saw the boat people one either. There is another about women finally winning the right to vote (Kate Nelligan is in that one). I also like the Inukshuk.
Finally pei representation my home my favourite place my heaven pei and i love anne thank you for pei representation!
Legally here in Canada women were not considered people until 1929. Lucy Maud Montgomery and her characters are still remembered and celebrated today. One of the first musicals that I remember watching as a child was Anne of Green Gables.
Please don't tell him Women weren't people until 1929 without a spoiler warning. We just ruined that other for another Heritage Minute. /s
Part of the Anne of Green Gables movies (the ones from the 80s) was filmed very close to my old high school. Just having that small little connection made the people there very proud.
@@petertamCDN I gave very few specifics, not sure how I have ruined it?
Thanks for showing the Gander story. I'm sure I'm not the only one who cried again.
the springhill ns mining disaster (there were two explosions and one bump... which my grandfather narrowly avoided in 58) is a great heritage minutes... the only time the carnegie medal was given to a town, and not a person
The Avro Arrow was sufficiently cutting edge that when I was a kid in the '90's and early 2000's we were told that it would have still been in service at the time if the programme hadn't been cancelled. It's generally accepted that it was cancelled for political reasons. (Officially due to costs, but given the sunk costs and the amount of money that was spent buying jets from elsewhere - which didn't have the added benefit of boosting the Canadian economy, that's not really considered plausible). My grandfather apparently worked on some of the castings for the prototypes - he remembered them having to burn the moulds they used.
The burnt toast line is so ingrained in Canadian culture that it gets used as a bit of a shorthand to (generally jokingly) suggest that someone might be about to have a seizure. Only in watching this video did I realise that that was only a Canadian thing.
I love the story of the Winnipeg Falcons! Playing Ice Hockey in the 1920 Summer Olympics(Not a typo) in Antwerp, Belgium.
Canada won every game, outscoring their opponents a combined total of 29-1. 15-0 against Czechoslavakia, 2-0 against USA, & 12-1 against Sweden for the Gold Medal
Also the two players that died in the First World War were George Cumbers, and Frank "Buster" Thorsteinson
Thank you for your interest in our amazing country. It's filled with Scots as you know by now. My great grandmother Katherine MacLaughlin is from Glasgow.
The Avro Arrow was North America's first Mach 2 fighter, beating the Americans by months. The AVRO Canada company (like many companies with Canada in their name) is subsidized by the Canadian government. America was heavily racing towards the development of their own Mach 2 fighter as this was less than 10 years after WWII. The Canadian government was threatened with sanctions and the company had experienced unusual supply chain issues. By the time the company was in late development fighting internal design and external socio-political issues and the Canadian government pulled their funding. Simultaneously the US government was creating NORAD and was taking control/ownership of North America's defense. The cancellation of the Avro Arrow jet fighter was under questionable circumstances. Months later records of the development and 4 of the 5 prototypes were ordered destroyed, the 5th flying fighter being unaccounted for in the destruction process (the show proposes an interesting hypothesis). Then around 10 years later the cancellation of the company closed.
In 1997 a made for TV miniseries was created about the Avro Arrow, starring Canadian actor Dan Akroyd. The Canada Heritage moment that you see contain clips from the 4 episodes:
th-cam.com/video/aJwBHtYHIaw/w-d-xo.html
John McCrae was born in Guelph, Ontario. His home is just down the street from me, and is a museum. He went to McGill University, in Montreal. Since he enlisted in Montreal, they portray him as being from there.
I played hockey,as a young lad. and My position was goal tender.and I got slap shots too the face, But I had a wire mask. and the pucks left dents in my wire mask...and black marks.From the puck.
Flandors field,was In grade 5 we had to memorize this poem adn every student had stand in front of the class and repeat every word by word.
Mrs Weaver's class. Czar Alberta, Canada.
Doctor Penfield was studying epileptic seizures. Epileptic seizures have 'auras'. Penfield conducted experimental procedures where he found the location on the brain associated with the aura and caused a very localized lesion that prevented the stimulation of the aura. The experiments were successful as the localized lesion not only prevented the aura, but also prevented future seizures associated with the auras. Doctor Penfield was considered 'The greatest living Canadian' by sufferers of epilepsy, but deserves to be more highly regarded, generally.
19:45 The Heritage Minute about the Avro Arrow is actually footage edited from the 1997 mini-series The Arrow, that yes, starred Dan Aykroyd. If you're interested in the story behind the Arrow it's actually a really good mini-series.
I grew up in guelph (john macrae's hometown) and attened the school he had named after him and the same school. his poem is read aloud by the entire school on remembrance day
Nellie Mc Clung’s moment was narrated by the late Peter Gzowski. I listened to his CBC radio show every weekday.
Canada is also quite important to science and we created and developed the Canadian used in space exploration while most of the credit gone to USA as they launch from there, but we have contributed in large way in science. . Dr Frederick Banting who discovered Insulin treatment for Diabetes was Canadian. Also Canadians breakthrough in medicine were Insulin, invented
Pablum for babies, and tamper proof pill bottles. Open heart surgery, genes present in Cystic Fibrosis, transplantable stem cells 1961
T cell receptors in cancer research,
HAART Therapy and treatment of HIV AIDS and prevention.
Everyone in Canada knows Lucy Maud Montgomery and Anne of Green Gables, set on Prince Edward Island. There’s now a second iteration of a tv series re: Anne. Such an iconic character.
I actually was at the unveiling of the McRae statue in Guelph in 2015 while I was serving out of CFB Borden going through medic training. I still have the challenge coin somewhere.
My maternal side were/are refugees to canada. I never want to forget the struggle or history. Unfortunately Im finding many older relatives who seem to have forgotten
" I smell burnt toast '" is a Canadian figure of speech that is still used today. It became a thing right from this video.
Re Dr Penfield…he (and Dr. Brenda Milner - check her out, she’s a 104 y.o. Boss) got me into neuro as an 80’s child growing up with these Heritage Minutes. Got the PhD myself (including some years in Montreal with time spent at the MNI in undergrad). I don’t know how many people were inspired by Dr Penfield’d legacy, but I was!
These heritage minutes were such a part of my childhood (only had 1 channel, crap reception even). I think these were the first memes for Canadian millennials like me.
As for Flanders Fields, I had to memorize it as part of a school assignment in early elementary school, more than 25 years ago. I can still recite it word for word. There aren't many poems that I can do this with.
In general, the Heritage Minutes are an excellent introduction to Canadian history. It gets the conversation started for sure. But there's a lot of nuance that can't be communicated in a minute that is important to keep in mind when understanding the context of these events.
The painting is called "A Meeting of the School Trustees."
There is a movie called Arrow. That will give you the history of the Avro arrow . Great channel.
I'm very involved in the Royal Canadian Legion. This year. for the first time in my life in front of an audience, it will be my absolute honour to read In Flanders Fields at our cenotaph on Remembrance Day.
My great-grandmother was a rural teacher in Paisely, Ontario Canada in 1857 to 1859 and was paid 50 pounds a year. She left teaching as women were not allowed to teach if they were married.
The Rural teachers while not focused on anyone in particular are an important part of our heritage.
PEI is the province just off the east coast, within a rock's throw of New Brunswick, so it isn't exactly "remote", but at the time it would certainly have qualified, especially population wise. (To this day, the population of the entire province is smaller than the size of the capital cities of 8 other provinces; only Fredericton, New Brunswick's population is smaller than PEI's and it sometimes feels like Freddy is in a race to surpass PEI).
But the tradition of the rural teacher going out into the boonies to make sure children learn what they need to learn is still very important. One of my coworkers has a sister who regularly flies out to the Territories to teach up there; all to make sure that whether you are from Taloyoak, Nunavut or from Toronto, you still have the same basic knowledge base as all Canadians so you can have the same opportunities if you want to reach for them.
PENFIELD AVE in Montreal is near The Royal Victoria Hospital (The Royal Vic), is named after Dr Penfield. A very well to do area.
This is the actual poem “In Flanders Field” which I think most Canadians know
In Flanders Fields
John McCrae - 1872-1918
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Heritage minutes used to be interspersed with commercials when I was growing up in the 60’s and 70’s. I much preferred them over commercials.
Thanks for doing these heritage minutes. I've seen them all before but it has been so long that I have forgotten many of them. They should show these in our schools.
Nellie McClung - Not familiar with her name, though I probably should be. It was a long hard road for women to get the right to vote, run for office, own property, etc.
Winnipeg Falcons - Hadn't heard that story. Canada's first gold medal in hockey, eh! Go Falcons Go.
Lucy Maud Montgomery - Everybody knows Anne of Green Gables.
Refugees - Canada has long had a reputation for welcoming refugees although we did once turn away a whole ship full of them. A black mark on our record.
Rural Teachers - So important in sparsely populated areas. Sometimes they were opposed by parents who were illiterate and saw no reason their children needed to read and write.
The Avro Arrow - Oh boy, what a can of worms. Still controversial to this day. Many reasons why it was cancelled. One commenter mentioned C.D. Howe's animosity and that could certainly have been a major reason. It had also become very expensive and the penny pinchers in the government didn't like that(maybe that was just an excuse). Up until that time, with the exception of the CF-100, we had been buying our fighters from the US and they wanted that to continue. They didn't want us to have the biggest, fastest, most powerful interceptor in the world cause then they would have to buy from us. Their president pressured our prime minister, who I shall not name here, convincing him that the soviet bombers the Arrow was designed to intercept were obsolete and no longer a threat. The threat now, he said, was from missiles (ICBM's) and we needed anti-missile missiles. So we ended up buying the useless Bomarc missiles from Boeing.
The worst part was the effect it had on our Aerospace Industry. Avro Canada had staked everything on the success of the Arrow and the cancellation was the death of the company. Many of the engineers ended up working for NASA and helped put man on the moon. It may have been the end of Orenda too, the engine manufacturer. I never heard much about them after. To add insult to injury they destroyed all the prototypes, five I think, and all the production drawings and blueprints. It's like they wanted to sweep it away completely as if it had never existed.
The movie they made about it with Dan Ackroyd was very good and pretty factual. Worth it just to see the scale models they built. Your only chance to actually see the Arrow.
I remember when the Vietnamese Boat People, as we referred to them, came to Canada. Now there are third generation Vietnamese from that immigration throughout Canadian society in every walk of life.
@ 16:00 Today, we are welcoming Ukrainians, as well as many others. Immigration , and multiculturalism, is our great strength ! Can you imagine how may diverse ideas and innovations come, from mixing different viewpoints and ideas from all over the globe ?
Yes. It's called the USA.
@@SilvanaDil I prefer a country where the main cause of death of young people is not GETTING SHOT.
@@SilvanaDil The US is all about assimilation. Americans generally don't like multiculturalism. Become like us, or leave. In Canada it's different. Not perfect, mind you, but much better than in the US.
FYI: Every little town in Canada has a hockey rink. Hockey is (almost) an obsession in Canada. Almost every Canadian kid, both boys and girls, have played hockey at one time in their lives.
my favourite passtime of late has been watching people from other countries react to heritage minutes and our weird PSAs from the 80;s and 90's
I learned In Flanders Fields as a child from my dad. I still know it by heart❤️
I love these heritage minutes. Makes me very proud to be Canadian.
I always loved the fact that so many television and movie stars appeared in HM
As a mark of gratitude, the French government gifted Vimy Ridge to Canada as Canadian soil. A monument was erected there.
"Doctor, I smell burnt toast" has been the punch line of so many jokes over the years because we all remembered it from seeing these on TV so So SO many times. To this day, I get very uncomfortable when I smell burnt toast. I know it's ridiculous, but I always double check I'm not having a seizure until I catch myself!
I think there is a Heritage Moment about the Bluenose boat. It is now on our dime the 0.10 piece.
Hi Mert, The CF-105 was designed as a twin-engine, long-range, high-wing delta, all-weather supersonic interceptor. It was specifically designed and built to fly at Mach 2 (1,321 mph/2,126 kph; 1,148 kn) at altitudes of over 60,000 ft (18,288 m). On the weapons front the Arrow’s complement of AIM-7 Sparrow missiles, were to be carried internally. Each would be lowered for attack on its own launch rail. And to just give you a general idea of how truly capable it actually was; In full maximum dry thrust a CF-105 Arrow Mk.1 would be cruising at around Mach 1.5 (990 mph/1,593 kph; 860 kn) and flying at 50,000 ft (15,240 m). By Comparison an F-106 Delta Dart would be cruising at around Mach 0.98 (650 mph/1,046 kph; 564 kn) and flying at 42,000 ft (12,801 m) when it was in full maximum dry thrust. One of the other key features which set the Arrow apart from other aircraft of the day was that it was the first production aircraft to be designed and flown with a fully-electronic flight control system known as fly-by-wire. Incorporated into the design was transistorized technology. A little-known fact is that instrumental in the design of the fly-by-wire controls of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, were Jim Chamberlin and Richard R. Carley, drawing on their experience as ex-Avro Arrow engineers, who went to work for NASA immediately after the cancellation of the Arrow.
"In Flanders Fields" is always used to help honour veterans.
We learned it young and always recited it in school & any memorials we go to about military or for Remembrance Day.
Poppies go hand in hand with this. People sell poppy pins every year several weeks leading up to Remembrance Day to raise money for veterans.
Jacgues Plante was the inverntor of the goalie mask. Great hockey player.
one of the best audio renditions of Flanders Fields is on the Sabaton album 'The Great War'
the Battle of Vimy Ridge was a cultural turning point for Canada on the worlds stage. on April 9th 1917 Canada marched up a former colony and came back down a country
Jaques Plante created the Hockey goalie mask and also the poke check before him the goalie would stand still taking the shots and the injuries. He did what Theodore Roosevelt did for American Football but for Hockey Goalies.
I did most of my neuroanatomy studies in the states and Penfields work did indeed form the basis of mapping the anatomy of the brain.
Since you have a fondness for Canadian History, you may want to look into some videos on Upper Canada Village. It's a Heritage Park/Living Museum, popular for school trips, which shows what daily life was like in Upper Canada.
Love these videos. Highly reccomend a video on the devils brigade. Knowing your love of military
I remember hearing that the Scottish soldiers were so fierce in battle they were called “devils in skirts” ❤️🇨🇦
What an amazing poem by John McCrae. I love Heritage Minutes and grew up watching all of these.
I work at an aircraft maintenance/repair and restoration facility at a regional airport in Southern Alberta Canada. We specalize in DHC-6 Twin Otter (British Antarctic Survey, US Navy, Canadian RCMP, NOAA, etc) Down the street from us is a hanger that has a AVRO AERO replica in production. They have tours once a month. I've never been.. Something I should Definitely do!
My best friend was Vietnamese and was one of the 'Boat People'. Her family came over on ships so crowded there wasn't even enough room for everyone to sit (on the floor), they came over via Hong Kong and while in Port in Hong Kong, my friend fell overboard and her uncle jumped in and saved her even though he didn't know how to swim.
I meet her through a church girls group called Explorers, many different churches sponsored these 'Boat People', she came over in either 1979 or 1980 and I met her in 1981 and we became best friends. We spent lots of time with each other's families. It was the first time in my life that I was introduced to a culture so vastly different than my own. It was a wonderful experience and her family was always welcoming and my family was the same.