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Heritage Minutes
The Heritage Minutes collection is a bilingual series of history-focused public service announcements. Each 60-second short film depicts a significant person, event or story in Canadian history. They are produced by Historica Canada, the not-for-profit organization that also publishes this encyclopedia. First released in 1991, the Heritage Minutes have been shown on television, in cinemas and online. They have become a recognizable part of Canadian culture. The collection currently includes 100 episodes.
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![Heritage Minutes: Kenojuak Ashevak]({"id":"12919","disk":"s3","directory":"media\/media","filename":"c8645ca0-1fb2-4b94-8eaf-44c8d250e845","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":100000,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2016-03-30T18:01:28.000000Z","updated_at":"2016-03-30T18:01:28.000000Z","alt":"Heritage Minutes: Kenojuak Ashevak","title":"Heritage Minutes: Kenojuak Ashevak","caption":"Kenojuak Ashevak, a pioneering Inuit artist, portrayed by Miali Buschemi. en.","creator":"","source":null,"conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/media\/media\/c8645ca0-1fb2-4b94-8eaf-44c8d250e845.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/media\/media\/c8645ca0-1fb2-4b94-8eaf-44c8d250e845.jpg","credit":null,"pivot":{"mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Collection","mediable_id":"9c7f7978-6335-47c8-9748-09ef40f103b7","media_id":"12919","tag":"gallery","order":1},"translations":[{"id":"147a5abf-7b9a-431e-9e3b-46483b442c72","media_id":"12919","title":"Heritage Minutes: Kenojuak Ashevak","alt":"Heritage Minutes: Kenojuak Ashevak","caption":"Kenojuak Ashevak, a pioneering Inuit artist, portrayed by Miali Buschemi. en.","creator":"","source":null,"locale":"en","credit":null},{"id":"e7762845-a4f6-402d-bb57-edcddecb2ec3","media_id":"12919","title":"Minutes du patrimoine: Kenojuak Ashevak","alt":"Minutes du patrimoine: Kenojuak Ashevak","caption":"Portrait de Kenojuak Ashevak, pionni\u00e8re de l\u2018art inuit, r\u00e9alis\u00e9par Miali Buschemi. fr.","creator":"","source":null,"locale":"fr","credit":null}]} "Heritage Minutes: Kenojuak Ashevak")
Heritage Minutes: Kenojuak Ashevak
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Still from the set of Historica Canada’s Lucy Maud Montgomery Heritage Minute.
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Terry Fox Heritage Minute
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Viola Desmond Heritage Minute
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Remembering D-Day
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