In Flanders Fields 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.
As school children we were required to memorize In Flanders Fields. I’m in my 70s now and still remember the words. I remember it always seemed to make me sad. 🇨🇦
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.
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.
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.
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)
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 RU-vid) 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.)
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.
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
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A quick RU-vid 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.
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.
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.
@ 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 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.
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.
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. 🤔 😄☺
My condolences to your unfortunate relationship with a monster like that racist and sexist c***. I wouldn't advertise that, and I would be ashamed of someone who supported mass sterilization of undesirables, someone who felt that women were morally and intellectually superior to men and thought that men should be put in a meat grinder.
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 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.
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.
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.
@ 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.
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
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.
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.
You should check out the film “Peace by Chocolate”. A wonderful true story about a family who immigrated to Nova Scotia from Syria. The Hadhad family has given back so much to NS and Canada. Tareq Hadhad is an amazing speaker and his family’s story is very moving.
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 considered an engineering marvel and achieved Mach 1.9. The US government didn't want competition for its jet fighter industry and successfully pressured the Canadian government to cancel the Avro Arrow in 1959. 1000s of Canadian aerospace engineers lost their jobs overnight and resurfaced at US based companies like Lockheed and Boeing. I've learned more about Canada from Heritage Minutes than 7 years of Canadian public school history class.
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.
In Flanders Fields is probably the only poem Canadians can recite a few lines from. We learn it in grade school and repeat it every Remembrance Day. It's as embedded into Remembrance Day as poppies and the 2 minutes of silence. A Vietnam refugee suddenly appeared in my Grade 10 class. He barely said a word for weeks but we became friends after a few months.
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.
The Avro Aero project was a key reason the US made it to the moon, after the project was shutdown. This provided a surplus of much needed engineers that travelled to the US to work on the Apollo flights. I type this while wearing an Avro Aviation T-Shirt :)
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.
I went to Vimy Ridge when I was 13. It is officially Canadian land, like an embassy. The monument is beautiful, it has the names of all the Canadian soldiers who died and are buried anonymously in France written on the sides of the monument. The tour guide asked me my age (I was the youngest in the group) and he pointed to a name on the monument and said “he was younger than you.” It was the name of a twelve year old boy who lied about his age to enlist.
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.
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.
Hadn't seen the second one before, obviously fairly recent. The main actor in the short is Jared Keeso, the phenomenal headliner of the shows Letterkenny and Shoresy. If you haven't seen either show I highly recommend you check them out, as the two of them really do nail down the feel of Canadian culture in a hilarious way, and they're just great shows in their own right. I'd love to see you breakdown your take on Shoresy personally.
The rumour, according to a person who worked at Avro, was that the Americans told Canada they had to scrap the Avro Aero, because it was a better jet than the Americans could produce. In Vietnam, the Vietnam War is called the American War. Can you do a reaction to Col. Hadfield, who served as commander on the International Space Station, and who did a music video while up there. Also, a video on folk artist Maude Lewis and interesting and tragic figure.
Not really a rumour. My dad was on the project and was sent to Connecticut for a meeting. First and only time he was sent to the US. On return around the kitchen table I remember he said "The damned Americans want us to scrap the Arrow because it's better than anything they have". That is directly from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Most workers were offered jobs with NASA. My dad refused.
In Flanders Fields BY JOHN MCCRAE 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 so very proud to be the Niece & Cousin of Vimy Ridge Soldiers. We only recently learned 4 of my Cousins are lying at rest in the Vimy Cemetery. As a few in the Family have visited the Memorial & Battlefield, it's a shame we didn't know that then, as they could've paid their respects at the time. I've seen Jacque Plante's famous First Mask at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto _ I still can't get over how something so fragile & flimsy looking was so effective. 😁. I grew up reading Anne's adventures & it really helped me through the years, as I was also considered a bit too "different" & was also over imaginative as well. Still can't believe we were lucky to get to PEI back in the middle of the 80's. Not only visited Green Gables, but also L.M. Montgomery's grave. Not only paid my respects, but also thanked her for Anne. One last thing…When our Men's Hockey Team took the ice for their 1st Round Robin Game at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, not many understood, but… Take a guess whose Uniforms they'd gotten special permission for to wear for just that game? The Winnipeg Falcons yellow ones. Both as Tribute to their Service & being the 1st ever Olympic Hockey Champions. How awesome is that!?! Thanks for another video!! Take Care!! 😊
Agnes macphail is probably one of my favourite heritage minutes.. surprised to have not seen it on any of the 3 videos. She was the first women MP in Canada as well as her fight for penal reform.
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.
Burnt toast repeated so much when i was young and seizures and burning smell became ingrained in my memory helped me to realize I was having seizures as an adult
Some of the videos are from the 1980's, the others were created in 2000's, hence the difference in video quality, I have to say that since you didn't notice some were from the '80's they were and are still pretty good. Nelly McClung, Jacques Planter, Rural School Teacher, Wilder Penfield and Vimy Ridge. There were quite a few in your previous videos as well. We are inundated with American content so the CRTC enforces Canadian Television and Radio to provide so many minutes of Canadian content per hour. Heritage minutes playing during commercial breaks provides much of the required time. Hence sliding in the heritage moments during the cartoon hours on Canadian Stations. They are all awesome, and I am glad someone outside of Canada is watching and enjoying them.
My great uncle fell at Vimy Ridge and my grandfather fught in France as well, something that as a vetern myself, l take solem pride in. On a different note, the Comedy Network here made some parodies of these videos. Some are quite hilarious, such as the creation of the Maple Leaf flag and the School Teacher videos.
What I like about Heritage minute is that sure they have inspirational messages but they also don't shy away from the country's mistakes, evil acts and horrors and don't try to white wash them for propaganda purpose.
I grew up in a small town in BC. We had Sam Steele Days every year. It was very near Fort Steele which was a Mounty base and town. We would go there for school field trips. We'd learn how they lived back the. Churn butter, bake in a wood stove. See a blacksmith at work etc.
Definetly watch a video on the Arvo Arrow ☺ Worlds first supersonic interceptor. Completely changed combat aviation and aeronautic engineering. Pointlessy killed by politics......tragic. But damn...she was awesome ☺😎
Today’s reaction is close to home for me. I live on PEI Lucy Maud Montgomery and Anne of Green Gables is everywhere here. The one room school houses were the only schools in a lot of communities until way into the 1960’s here at least. And finally my husband’s grandmother went to McGill University and worked with Wilder Penfield.
Jacques Plante specifically was the first NHL goalie to wear a mask full time during games-he wore it during practise but as you heard in the video, he thought it might obscure his vision. The only reason he was allowed to wear it this time was he basically said 'let me wear it or im not going out' and they didn't have extra goalies so, if they wanted to keep playing he had to let him. And yes, we know In Flanders Fields very well, we hear it every Remembrance Day (Nov 11th). In fact, he was born in my city!
I lived 30 years in Cranbrook British Columbia at town of 20,000 Every year they celebrate “Sam Steele days” that recognize his major roll in founding the community. There is also a heritage town near by called fort Steele. It’s a fully functional fort. With a blacksmith. Train rides. Museum. Old fashioned candy shop Theatre. Etccc. It’s a very popular tourist destination. Love your videos 🇨🇦🇨🇦
The boat people refugee story didn't really fully explain what is going on and the point of the clip. In response to the dire need for refugees fleeing Vietnam, Canada created a program where private citizens could sponsor refugees. In order to qualify you had to have a certain threshold of money set aside for them as well as housing and be able to prove that you could help integrate them to Canada. The program was unique to Canada for decades with a few other countries like Australia looking at also implementing similar programs. There have been two major waves of refugees to Canada under private citizen sponsorship, the first was the Vietnamese refugees in the late 70s and the second was the Syrian refugees just in the last 5 years or so. The government is still responsible for screening and selecting of refugees for security reasons.
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.
You should watch Anne of Green Gables. It's a novel by L. M. Montgomery which was made into a tv miniseries. It shows about small town living in PEI. at the end of the 19th century.
So glad you watched the "nice women don't want the vote" video! My husband and I have watched all 3 of these videos with our kids and we currently live in the first house that Premier Roblin built for his family! Love that connections much.
Every child learns "In Flanders Field" in school. I remember it still. In Flanders Field the poppies grow 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 Field. Take up our quarrel with the foe, To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be it yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders Field. ❤
My younger co-worker came to Canada with his parents and siblings as boat people. His youngest brother died on the way. It was amazing to me how many countries turned them away when their plight was so dire. The boats were barely seaworthy. I remember it well.
One of the keys to the Canadian victory at Vimy Ridge was how Generals Curry and Byng revolutionized military tactics into the modern world. The Western Front was such a stalemate because they were still using Napoleonic tactics against new defensive technology. At Vimy though, Canada invented the platoon with specific objectives to achieve, they choreographed the assault for weeks beforehand like they did at Normandy in WW2, and they instituted a widespread use of a mobile machine gun to make defensive weapons offensive
Absolutely loving these videos pal. I'm a Canadian living in Scotland. Grew up watching these heritage minutes. Two things you might be interested in are the stories of Roméo Dallaire who had a huge role in the Rwandan crisis. Also the October Crisis in 1970 was a big one for Canada and Québec. I'm originally from Montreal which is where it all went down.
There were two Avro projects being done at the same time, the first is the Avro Arrow and the other is the VZ-9 Avrocar. The latter was partly declassified in the early 2000's and a Joint Canadian/US attempt of making a flying saucer, there is test flight footage released by the Canadian Military (as well other info) on youtube. It also goes by the name of Project 1794, which is just 1947 (Roswell crash) jumbled.
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.
Look up the story of the Bluenose. Check out videos from the NFB (National Film Board of Canada) They support Canadian artists in film, in this case, animation. These were shown on TV alongside Heritage Minutes and are woven into our culture. The Sweater Log Driver's Waltz Black Fly The Cat Came Back Another NFB film worth watching is Waterwalker, featuring Bill Mason. A look into canoeing but also it shows a respect for the natural wonders of Canada.
I am a Canadian veteran ....I would like to thank you for the memories of our fallen heroes and for the recognition of service members who came back with permanent wounds and unwanted memories ...Not only in Flanders, but everywhere and when our forces were deployed to help ... Remember though ... sadly, history is often packed with lies around the globe ... But since, WE Canadians, always stood for others problems, we will always stand proud of the service we've provided to others and we pray that a new Govt. will rise in our country to make it shine like it used to .... Ho 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.
There’s a mural titled “Our Nellie” of Nellie McClung (and oddly William Lyon Mackenzie) at the Queen Street subway station in Toronto. She was also one of the “Famous Five” of the “Persons Case” (the Heritage Minute of Emily Murphy goes into that one).
