Heritage Minutes
8.0
Season 9
S9 · E1 · Apr 19, 2023
Episode 1 Episode 1
S9 · E2 · Oct 26, 2023
Episode 2 Episode 2
S9 · E3 · Feb 13, 2024
Episode 3 Episode 3
S9 · E4 · Oct 29, 2024
Episode 4 Episode 4
S9 · E5 · Dec 3, 2024
Episode 5 Episode 5
S9 · E6 · May 7, 2025
Episode 6 Episode 6
S9 · E7 · Oct 2, 2025
Episode 7 Episode 7
S9 · E8 · Sep 2, 2026
Episode 8 Episode 8
8 episodes in Season 9
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Heritage Minutes, also known officially as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, are a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. They appear frequently on Canadian television and in cinemas before movies and are now also sold on DVD. The Minutes were first introduced on March 31, 1991 as part of a one-off heavily-promoted history quiz show hosted by Rex Murphy. The thirteen original short films were broken up and run between shows on CBC Television and CTV Network. The continued broadcast of the Minutes and the production of new ones was pioneered by Charles Bronfman's CRB Foundation, Canada Post Power Broadcasting, and the National Film Board. They were devised, developed and largely narrated by noted Canadian broadcaster Patrick Watson, while the producer of the series was Robert Guy Scully. In 2009 Historica merged with The Dominion Institute to become The Historica-Dominion Institute. While the foundations have not paid networks to air Minutes, they have made them freely available, and in the early years paid to have them run in cinemas across the country. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has ruled that Heritage Minutes are an "on-going dramatic series" thus each minute counts as ninety-seconds of a station's Canadian content requirements.
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Cast
401 people
Katherine Trowell
Narrator
Known for
The Time Traveler's Wife
Thanksgiving
Jean L'Italien
Père adoptif / George-Étienne Cartier
Also in
Evil Words
Virginie
Patrick Watson
Narrator
Also in
Countdown to Looking Glass
So Long, Marianne
Steve Cumyn
Percy / John A. Macdonald / Alec / Soldat canadien
Known for
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol
Versailles
Alanis Obomsawin
Narrator
Also in
Amisk
Bones of Crows
Siobhan Williams
Eden Lyal Pringle
Known for
Deadly Class
Forsaken
Martin Roach
Daniel Peterson
Known for
See
The Umbrella Academy
John Tench
Cochrane
Known for
Alias Grace
The Colony
Julian Richings
A.A. Milne / Roi Henri VII
Known for
The Umbrella Academy
The Witch
Graham Greene
Sitting Bull
Known for
The Green Mile
Dances with Wolves
Barbara Eve Harris
Eliza
Known for
Sharp Objects
FUBAR
Donny Lucas
Josh
Known for
Tin Man
Wayward Pines
Richard Ciupka Director · Bruce Mackay Director Grant Harvey Director
Director
Richard Ciupka
Director
Bruce Mackay
Director
Grant Harvey
Writer
Patrick Watson
Writer
Hayley Gray
Writer
Stephen Massicotte
Executive producer
Nathan Lusignan
Cinematographer
Craig Wrobleski
Cinematographer
Steve Cosens
Cinematographer
Bobby Shore
Editor
Bridget Durnford
Editor
Ryan Noth
Editor
Véronique Renaud
Costume designer
Fidge Fletcher
Costume designer
Marie J. Sharpe
Total runtime 1h 52m · Episode length 1 min · Type Documentary
Show info
Premiered
March 31, 1991
Latest episode
September 2, 2026
Status
Returning series
Network
CBC Television
Country
Canada
Type
Documentary
Episode length
1 min
Total runtime
1h 52m
Original language
English
Production
CBC
Production
Languages
Spoken on screen
English · French
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