Historica Canada Movies

This Heritage Minute follows Canada’s most honoured jazz musicians from his humble beginnings in the Black neighbourhood of Little Burgundy in Montrea...

Between 1944 and 1945, the Canadian Army was given the important yet deadly task of liberating the Netherlands.

A founding member of Cape Dorset’s famed printmaking co-op, Kenojuak Ashevak introduced Inuit art to the world.

As a pioneering trans soul singer in the 1960s, Jackie Shane’s unapologetic and authentic presence in Toronto contributed to the local R&B music scene...

Terry Fox inspires the nation with his Marathon of Hope, a cross-country run to raise money for cancer research.

Nursing Sisters serve at the No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in France during the First World War.

This Heritage Minute follows Chloe Cooley, an enslaved Black woman in Upper Canada in 1793. Her acts of resistance in the face of violence led to Cana...

This Heritage Minute celebrates Saskatchewan’s Mary “Bonnie” Baker, an all-star catcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and a p...

Canada's first Prime Minister outlines his vision for Confederation en route to the Charlottetown Conference.