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There are perhaps no more iconically Canadian things than the Heritage Minutes and the music of The Tragically Hip.

TORONTO – May 13, 2025 – It was the day in which a small, remote Newfoundland community opened its doors to the world.

Historica Canada’s newest Heritage Minute, starring the veteran Canadian Hollywood and stage actor Victor Garber, will be released on May 7, 2025 to coincide with Jewish Heritage Month.

For this Canada Day, after a year of unprecedented focus on who we are and who we are not, Historica Canada has produced an extended Minute; a tribute — with an assist from the Tragically Hip — to just some of the Canadians who’ve made our history, and al

In a sweeping, half-century stage, film and television career, Canadian actor Victor Garber has played everyone from Ernest Hemingway to the Marquis de Lafayette to Liberace.

Both Baker and Hamilton fit within our working rule for the Minutes that they be devoted to people or events that in some way helped shape life in the country in which we live today.

How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism During the Second World War