Heritage Minutes: Joseph Casavant
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Episode 11 min1992-06-28
Governor Frontenac
New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec (1690).
Episode 21 min1992-06-28
Midwife
A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.
Episode 31 min1992-06-28
Agnes Macphail
The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.
Episode 41 min1992-06-28
Emily Carr
The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work.
Episode 51 min1992-06-28
Joseph Tyrrell
Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.
Episode 61 min1992-06-28
Basketball
Sports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois.
Episode 71 min1992-06-28
Saguenay Fire
One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in the Saguenay, Quebec.
Episode 81 min1992-06-28
Joseph Casavant
Joseph Casavant, world renowned organ maker, builds his first organ.
Episode 91 min1992-06-28
Jean Nicollet
French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.
Episode 101 min1992-06-28
Peacemaker
The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.
Episode 111 min1992-06-28
Rural Teacher
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.
Episode 121 min1992-06-28
Emily Murphy
Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.
Episode 131 min1992-06-28
Vikings
L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.
Episode 141 min1992-06-28
Baldwin & LaFontaine
Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.
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