That just shows our extreme dedication since most of the water is frozen solid for 4 months, freezing cold for 5 months, and really chilly for 3 months. 😅
As a Canadian it's all I know about our history. Our education system has failed history, but ask me about any country on earth and I can tell you where to find the best cafes or what climate they have.
McLuhan's "The Medium is the Message" is such a seminal theory in modern philosophy and humanities that even my then 13-yr old grandsons were given this theme for their long Christmas holiday report last year. His book, The Global Village is still a must-read today. The man even predicted the World Wide Web about 30 yrs before Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented it.
I remember when that one of 'the medium is the message' was on tv during my childhood. I remember being rather confused by it but it was memorable. Now I see how right he was. The medium most definitely affects how the message is perceived. Shorts on Tik Tok are clear examples of that
“We don’t know who discovered water, but it wasn’t a fish.” - Marshall McLuhan The medium is the message. The medium one uses to tell the story impacts the story. Think about how different these minutes would be if they were made for the radio (there are radio versions of these minutes) or into short story books with pictures. How different the same story is as a musical, a drama or a comedy. As live action or cartoon. How different a video game is when it is it is more immersive with its own universe rather than like atari. How lighting impacts mood - what is seen clearly and what is seen only in shadows. How weather is used to convey moods - rain sadness sunshine happiness. How different a step into reading book (for those just beginning to read) and a juniour novel are when conveying what happened in a movie.
Understanding Media was my favourite text in my 4th year Canadian Thought and Culture course. I’m still not sure, twenty-some years later, that I really get it, but I love going back to it and trying!
Canadian Nursing Sisters , 1939-1945 During the Second World War Canada’s Nursing service was expanded to all three branches of the military: the Canadian Army, the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Each branch had its own distinctive uniform and working dress, while all wore the Nursing Sisters’ white veil. They were respectfully addressed as “Sister” or “Ma’am” because they were all commissioned officers. With the average age of 25, by war's end 4,480 Nursing Sisters had enlisted, including: 3,656 with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, 481 with the Royal Canadian Air Force Medical Branch, and 343 with the Royal Canadian Naval Medical Service. The army sisters, after training in Canada, were the first to go overseas, where they joined units which had preceded them to the United Kingdom. With the soldiers going overseas, the sisters travelled by ship in large convoys, running the perilous gauntlet of German submarine action in the North Atlantic. Upon arrival in England, they worked in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps’ hospitals at Taplow, Bramshott and Basingstoke. To illustrate the demands of their work, following the Dieppe raid, the hospital at Basingstoke received more than 600 casualties and in one 19 1/2 hour period, 98 operations were performed. The surgical staff took only a few minutes’ break to rest between operations. In military service they achieved an elite status well above what they had experienced as civilians. The Nursing Sisters had much more responsibility and autonomy, and had more opportunity to use their expertise than civilian nurses. They were often close to the front lines, and the military doctors - all men - delegated significant responsibility to the nurses because of the high level of casualties, the shortages of physicians, and extreme working conditions. 🫶🏻🇨🇦🫡
Proud to say that my Great Aunt Mary was one of the first Canadians to go to WAR as a Nursing sister (at 20 yr old).she went "front line" and for the rest of her life she referred to all the soldiers as HER BOYS and they would continue visiting her for some good laughs, good food and a wee dram..as they shared their hidden "scars" and tears and she was always THERE for them.. They were truly the BEST of Canada... Thanks for not forgetting them..
Canadian subscriber here. It warms my heart to see at least one U.S. citizen show such a great interest it getting to know about our amazing history, it's people, our heritage, our landscape and so much more. Thank you! ❤ from 🇨🇦
@TomHuston43 I enjoy his content, but that is irrelevant and doesn't answer my question. What did you find so humorous about my comment that you chose to leave three laughing emojis?
The Heritage Minutes had to "dive you right in" for each of these because they were only 60 seconds. I loved when these came out, and it's great seeing them again. Thanks!
If you took any Arts courses in Canada; philosophy, english lit, drama... You wrote an essay on 'the Medium is the Message'. It's usually misunderstood, and is extremely difficult to explain without just providing a full text of his writings.
Most Commonwealth countries followed the British when enlisting nurses into their militaries. The UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand still use the "Nursing Sisters" designation. The UK used to call all nurses "Sisters", but that might not be true today. Here in Canada it is only used for those serving in one of the three military branches.
I am Canadian and I didn’t even realize they continued these after they left public access television 📺 I’m learning stuff about Canada from an American now lol
I did a paper on Marshall McLuhan in college. People misinterpret "the medium is the message" and the person that McLuhan became in his later years. The best book I read on McLuhan was by Douglas Coupland, another very intelligent Canadian artist/author etc. McLuhan's body of work is taught in uni in media studies.
Marshall's son lives in our town. He's a very nice fellow. The actor portraying him was Cedric Smith. He played in the band The Perth County Conspiracy Does Not Exist. A great old hippie band from Stratford. He later became an actor and starred in one of the longest running Anne of Green Gables series.
@@martindonald7613 Did not know that... thanks for sharing! I really enjoyed writing the McLuhan assignment; I received permission to think outside the box for an "influencial educator".
@@cdes1776 I also had a co-worker and friend who, along with her husband, lived in Rochdale College. They were his students. They always had wonderful things to say about him. He was an icon of the time, as was Cedric.
My mother-in-law's Mother worked alongside Florence Nightingale, who gave her two beautiful vases as a thank you. My sister-in-law now has them displayed in her cabinet.
I remember one of the essay questions on my first political science midterm asked students to deconstruct the meaning behind "the medium is the message." Good times!
Hi Tyler, when you're done with the Heritage Minutes, I recommend you doing a video on the yukon gold rush. Also the Canadian Film Board has some great content, you would enjoy the story of an Ontario man who spends ++ money trying to build a suit to protect him from a grizzly bear encounter. He's very serious about it which makes it hysterical.
There’s the Heritage Minute on Sam Steele of the NWMP, set in the Yukon during the gold rush. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r00yaFwZ5bc.html
Senior nurses are still called "sister" in the UK and many Commonwealth countries. In several European countries, incl Germany, all nurses are colloquially referred to as "Sister", in German that is Krankenschwester (sister to the sick).
Great video, Tyler! I live in Saint John and have participated in dragon boat races in Renforth where they trained. James Renforth, leader of the “Tyne Crew,” collapsed and died during a race with the Paris crew. They named the village after him.
Love your channel Tyler...keep up the awesome work dude....love all these ..we (Canadians) grew up watching these amazing and entertaining shorts...another classic as well is (hinterland) who's who...which focused on animals and the forest creatures of Canada...it's awesome 👌 👏 👍
Nursing sisters were not nuns they were called “nursing sisters” because some of the earliest nurses belonged to religious orders but that was long before WW1. As early as the mid 1800 there were non religious nurses the most famous being Florence Nightingale who is credited as the founder of modern nursing.
Tyler - I emailed you some links to actual footage of different cities in Canada in the early 1900s, those show you what the streets and buildings were like back then
I enjoy seeing people check out and react to Heritage minutes. Some I remember really well, and others not as much. A few I look forward to seeing you react to are Avro Arrow, Maple Leaf Gardens, Expo '67, & Vimy Ridge.
So I think that Marshall McLuhan did see the internet coming. There were computers during this time so a man of his intellect would have seen the potential for the computer to be added to the list of mass media tools. He may not have been able to vocalize what form it would take but I believe if he had been introduced to Facebook or X/Twitter he would not have been shocked or surprised. “ the medium IS the message” was ahead of its time. I was at university in the eighties and one of my professors told the story of how he had attended a seminar over a few days on advertising. He said virtually every presentation was on “Delivering the Product”. He said initially he was confused because he thought they were talking about the commercials, but what was being said around the phrase did not match if the ‘Product’ was a commercial. Mid afternoon of the first day he realized that ‘The Product’ was the audience. The advertisers job was to provide a certain percentage of their audience as customers to the businesses that were paying for the commercials.
The title of a book on Marshall McLuhan's theory was "The Medium is the Massage". I thought they had made a spelling mistake, but then realized it was intended, so you'd think about the effect of the Medium.
So glad you are watching and learning from these. It really is part of us. Not sure many kids actually see them now as they were comercials and no one wants to watch them anymore. We watched them over and over because we only had 3 channels. 😁 I am a nurse. Nursing itself is a sisterhood. Only nurses can really relate to what it's like. Men are now becoming more seen and change the dynamics. Not Canadian history, but you may want to watch the Anzac Girls True story of nurses serving at Gallipoli. And of course Call the Midwife. Carry on. You are doing good!
Marshall McLuhan is now the premier theorist in current media studies programs all over the world. He coined "The medium is the message" and "global village", the latter being the basis of the ideas for the world wide web...
I just realized that the actor who played Marshal McLuhan was the voice of Charles Xavier in the 1990s cartoon of the XMen. Not at all related to this amazing Taylor's video. Just a tidbit of information, a drop in the bucket.
For your next look at Heritage Minutes, might I recommend "Louis Riel" and the "lost" videos of "Cyprus", "John A. MacDonald" and "George Etienne Cartier"
Hey Tyler, the term Sister is what a nurse was called up until the early 1980's, and is still used in England occasionally to denoted what we now call a Registered Nurse (though that may have changed too). Only rarely are they of of a religious order. I do believe that they were originally called Sisters though because they were Catholic or Anglican Sisters that made up all nursing staff, but that was centuries ago and the name stuck until the early 1980's. In almost every British colony all nurses were called Sisters when I was young.
Tyler should fully actualize the feelings of being a young person seeing a lot of these Heritage Minutes playing all throughout the day during commercialsl time quit often, when you couldnt FF and skip commercials and what not. Very very impactful on us growing up here, Calgary born moved to Toronto at 21 monthw old and also lived in Peterborough and Hamilton in my adult life but back in Toronto east end near the Scarborough Bluffs btw for your 411 just to put perspective, very impactful in all the best ways possible. Growing up less than lower middle class we didn't have an encyclopedia Britannica subscription nor Time Life magazine lol all this prior to the internet too, school and parents other adults and other kids too and the library were thr only way to expand your knowledge base and then classic educational tv and these Heritage Minutes. Makes me wonder who I'd grow up to be if I grew up in California or Florida instead. Buffalo and Toronto shared and share a lot of television stations broadcasts. What a truly magical time to grow up
The “costume “ the Canadian men are wearing is what the “coureur des bois” would ware . '"runner of the woods"'or coureur de bois( plural : coureurs de(s) bois) were independent entrepreneurial French Canadian traders who travelled in New France and the interior of North America, usually to trade with First Nations peoples by exchanging various European items for furs. Some learned the trades and practices of the indigenous peoples.
In the late 1800's right up to WW2 rowing was a huge sport that attracted hundreds of thousands of spectators that lined the shores of places like Poughkeepsie in the US and the Thames in England. Canada's first world champion in any sport was a rower, single sculler Ned Hanlan who won it in 1880 and retained it against all comers until 1888. In 300 races he only lost 6 times, once while battling typhoid. 😊
There is a Canadian feature film set in WWI about a nurse and a soldier from Calgary called "Passchendaele" - if you get a chance it is worth checking out.
Couple of things. A stationary unit would have been well behind the lines and not near the front. Which obviously did not protect them from shellfire. You might remember the show MASH which was mobile medical units they moved with the front. And traditionally nurses were called sisters they weren't necessarily nuns by any stretch.
Hi Tyler. Marshall McLuhan makes a brief appearance playing himself in the Woody Allen movie "Annie Hall"; clips can be found on RU-vid. I enjoy your work!
As some other commenters have noted, the medium is the message because it affects how the message is received. For example, movies have affected how people perceive the world for over a century. Movies use tropes to put messages across, and these tropes become part of our understanding of the world. Movies have their own timescale, their own logic, and they affect our understanding of time, and logic. This is, of course, only one way McLuhan's theory can be defined.
As I type this, I am a two an da half minutes in and am anticipating the face made when our intrepid host learns that martial got a lot right about the future of mass media.
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message, as it were, unless it is used to spell out some verbal ad or name." The light bulb is a clear demonstration of the concept of "the medium is the message": a light bulb does not have content in the way that a newspaper has articles or a television has programs, yet it is a medium that has a social effect; that is, a light bulb enables people to create spaces during nighttime that would otherwise be enveloped by darkness. He describes the light bulb as a medium without any content. McLuhan states that "a light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence". Likewise, the message of a newscast about a heinous crime may be less about the individual news story itself (the content), and more about the change in public attitude towards crime that the newscast engenders by the fact that such crimes are in effect being brought into the home to watch over dinner.[
Not that I expect Tyler will see this, but McLuhans Medium is the Message, is a Journalism/Communications icon. There us a message in which social format you use. Ie. Emailing an old friend as opposed to calling him, has a message embedded.
Just finishing this off but I wanted to let you know Canada is a commonwealth country so we especially back then did a lot of things and said a lot of things close to England sisters are nurses in England that's why for the early part of Canada they were called sisters
You should Do a 📹 on Best to Least Best Mid sized Canadian Cities! Example Brandon, Reddeer , Grande Prairie, Prince George , Lethbridge , Thunder Bay Are Examples Of Canadian Mid Sized Cities 😊!!
I dropped TV from my life back in the early '70s, when I was 17 years old. I've missed out on so much consumer grooming, alas! Sisters aren't nuns; they don't make a declaration of personal devotion and seclusion from the world at large like nuns do, but they are a part of a religious order.
The term 'sister' does not mean a nun who is a nurse. Sister is used to describe senior nurses in the UK. Canada, in 1899, formed the Canadian Army Nursing Corp, with the nurses being called Sisters. They were NOT Nuns. The Canadian Nursing Sisters have an amazing history of service, bravery and sacrifice, throughout all the military conflicts Canada has been involved in, with many giving up their lives in the line of duty. Chimo
Nurses are called sisters in the UK, even today. Traditionally at the time of WW1 they were also called that in Canada. Not nuns. Although nuns are nurses too
