CHC 180

Inspired by the Canadian Heritage Minutes (and including many of them), the goal of this project is to curate at least 180 short (<5 min) video clips of significant moments in Canadian history for each year from 1914-2015. In addition, I've included a prologue of pre-1914 clips, and additional resources that I've found helpful. Check out CBC's On This Day for a great daily dose of Canadian history from their digital archives, and Today in Canadian History for a more thorough timeline of any day's historical events. Any suggestions, feedback, or links to other clips would be appreciated.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Prior to 1914

World War I: 1914 - 1919

Roaring 20's and Dirty 30's: 1920 - 1938

World War II: 1939 - 1945

Post-War Era: 1946 - 1969

Years of Change: 1970 - 1982

Modern Times: 1983 - present



1497 John Cabot
1534 Jacques Cartier (How Canada got it's name.)
1634 Jean Nicollet
1690 Governor Frontenac
1812 Richard Pierpoint
1812 Queenston Heights
1813 Laura Secord
1832 Hart & Papineau
1834 Joseph Casavant
1838 Etienne Parent
1841 Responsible Government
1841 Baldwin & La Fontaine
1850s Orphans
1850s Underground Railroad
1864 Sir John A MacDonald
1867 The Paris Crew
1870 Saguenay Fire
1875 Jennie Trout
1877 Sitting Bull
1878 Canada Vignettes: News Canada
1880 Les Voltigeurs de Quebec
1884 Nitro
1884 Joseph Tyrell
1885 Sir George-Etienne Cartier
1885 Rural Teachers
1885 Louis Riel
1885 Sir Sandford Fleming
1890s Soddie
1890s Midwife
1891 Basketball AR: Radio Interview
1898 Sam Steele
1901 Marconi
1905 Naskumituwin (Treaty)
1908 Tommy Burns
AR: 1911 vs 2011 Interactive Article

World War I: 1914 - 1919

May 14, 1914 Turner Valley Gas Plant
May 29, 1914 Empress of Ireland AR: National Post Article
June 19, 1914 Hillcrest Mine Disaster
August 4, 1914 The Great War (WWI) Begins (up to 1:31) AR: WWI History - Canada 1/2 and 2/2
1915 John McCrae AR: Leonard Cohen reading
April 22, 1915 Battle of Ypres (up to 5:20) AR: Dan Snow: The Dawn of Chemical Warfare
May 7, 1915 Lusitania AR: Dead Wake
January 28, 1916 Nellie McClung AR: Women's Suffrage
February 3, 1916 Parliament Burns
1916 Trenches at the Somme
1916 Battle of the Somme
July 1, 1916 Beaumont Hamel AR: Newfoundland & Labrador In The First World War
1917 Vimy Ridge AR: Vimy Ridge: Heaven to Hell
1917 Passchendaele
1917 Halifax Explosion AR: Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion
May 29, 1918 Nursing Sisters
1918 The Battle of Amiens
November 11, 1918 The End of World War I
1919 First Non-Stop Transatlantic Flight
June 28, 1919 Treaty of Versailles
AR: Front Lines - The Trenches (from letters and diaries; up to 7:40)

Roaring 20's and Dirty 30's: 1920 - 1938

1920 The Group of Seven AR: Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven
1920 Frontier College
1920 Joseph-Armand Bombardier
April 26, 1920 Winnipeg Falcons
January 10, 1920 The League of Nations
February 1, 1920 RCMP AR: History of the RCMP
July 27, 1921 Dr. Frederick Banting
1921 Ottawa Senators Stanley Cup Winners
1922 Nanook of the North Parody AR: Nanook of the North (Full Film) Nanook Revisited
December 5, 1922 Vimy Ridge Memorial 
1922 Magdalene Laundries
1922 Driving Left to Right AR: Vancouver Sun Article AR: 1920s Off Road
1923 Banting Nobel Prize
1923 AR: Marijuana Prohibited AR: The Union (documentary)
1923 Halibut Treaty AR: Canadian Encyclopedia
April 23, 1923 The Toronto Symphony Orchestra first performance
July 1, 1923 Chinese Immigration Act AR: Pier 21 Article
1923 Canadian National Railway AR: CNR
1923 Fort Frances Case AR: Article
1924 Winnie AR: Historical Story Clip, History of Winnie the Pooh, A Bear Named Winnie
January 26, 1924 Official Use of the Red Ensign
1924 Earl Bascom & Ray Knight
1925 Valour Road AR: Winnipeg Free Press article
1925 AR: Lake of the Woods Treaty
1925 Mount Logan AR: First Ascent of Mount Logan
1926 King-Byng Affair
1926 Balfour Declaration
1927 J.S. Woodsworth
1927 The Jazz Singer
1927 George Young
1928 Percy Williams
1928 New York Rangers
1929 Persons Case
1929 Emily Murphy
1930 La Bolduc
1930 National Parks Act AR: Parks Canada History
1931 Superman
1931 Inukshuk
1931 Statute of Westminster
1931 Maple Leaf Gardens
1932 The Mad Trapper of Rat River AR: Northern Mysteries
1932 The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)
1933 Race Riot at Christie Pits
1933 Holodomor AR: National Awareness Tour
1934 Wilder Penfield
1934 Dionne Quintuplets AR: "The Secret Life of the Dionne Quintuplets"
1934 Labatt Kidnapping AR: Lambton County's Infamous Abduction
1935 On to Ottawa / Regina Riot
1935 Grey Owl
1935 Agnes MacPhail
1936 Tasmanian Tiger
1936 Moose River Gold Mine AR: CBC Digital Archives
1937 Myrnam Hospital
1937 Trans-Canada Airlines
1938 Bluenose
1938 First Official US Presidential Visit

World War II: 1939 - 1945

Post-War Era: 1946 - 1969

1946 Jackie Robinson
1946 Viola Desmond
1946 Home From the Wars
1947 John Humphrey
1947 Snag, Yukon
1948 Barbara Ann Scott AR: The Death Spiral
1948 Steep Rock Mine
1949 Newfoundland
1949 NATO
1949 SS Naronic AR: Albert Guay Article
1950 Winnipeg Flood
1950 Korean War
1951 Bill Barilko
1951 Massey Report
October 11, 1952 First Hockey Night in Canada TV Broadcast
1952 Citizen Gangster
1953 Stratford
1953 National Library of Canada is Founded
1954 Toronto Subway
1954 The Miracle Mile
1955 Marilyn Bell
1955 Richard Riot
1956 Wilbert Coffin
1956 Suex Canal
1957 Paul-Emilie Borduas
1957 NORAD
1958 Trans Canada Microwave
1958 Ripple Rock
1958 Maurice Ruddick
1959 Jacques Plante
1959 St. Lawrence Seaway
February 20, 1959 Avro Arrow "Black Friday" AR: Avro Arrow Documentary
1960 Harry Jerome
1960 Right to Vote
1961 Marshall McLuhan
1961 Vikings
1962 Lucille Teasdale
1962 50 Mission Cap
1963 Dextraze in the Congo
1963 Flight 831
1964 Tim Hortons and Boston Pizza
1964 Northern Dancer
February 15, 1965 - Flags
1965 Hope Slide
March 1, 1966 Ken Leishman AR: This Was Winnipeg
1966 Residential Schools AR: Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack
1966 CPP Begins
1967 Expo '67 and Canada Centennial Song
1967 NHL Expansion AR: History of NHL Expansion
1967 O Canada Designated as the National Anthem
1967 AR: Robert Gauchie
1968 Mexico Olympics Salute
1968 Nancy Greene and Sandra Post
1969 Montreal Expos
1969 Moon Landing AR: Canada's Gift to NASA

Years of Change: 1970 - 1982

1970 FLQ
1970 First Arctic Winter Games
1971 Greenpeace
1971 First IMAX Theatre
1971 Churchill Falls
1972 Nat Taylor
1972 Munich '72 and Beyond
1973 AR: Christine Demeter
1973 AR: Lavell Case
1974 National Lottery
1974 Mikhail Baryshnikov
1975 CN Tower
1975 Edmund Fitzgerald
September 15, 1976 Canada Cup
1976 Metric System Introduced
1976 Montreal Olympics AR: Games of the XXI Olympiad
1977 Tommy Prince AR: Devil's Brigade
1977 Toronto Blue Jays
1978 Cosmos 954
1979 You Can't Do That On Television
1979 Mississauga Train Derailment
1980 Terry Fox
1980 Water Pump
1981 Bathhouse Riots
1981 Canada's Wonderland
1981 Canadarm
1981 Ken Taylor
1982 Canadian Independence
1982 Gilles Villeneuve
1982 Trivial Pursuit
1982 Ocean Ranger

Modern Times: 1983 - present

1983 Gimli Glider
1983 Fraggle Rock
1984 MuchMusic & TSN
1984 Marc Garneau
1985 Shamrock Summit
1985 Rick Hansen
1985 Northern Lights
1985 Air India Flight 182
1986 Expo '86
1986 West Edmonton Mall
1987 Meech Lake Accord
1988 Eddie the Eagle and Cool Runnings
1988 Henry Morgentaler
1988 Apology to Japanese Canadians
1988 9.79*
1989 The last Canadian dollar bill
1989 SkyDome/Rogers Centre
1989 Montreal Massacre
1990 Oka Crisis
1990 Gerald Bull
1991 Goods and Services Tax Introduced
1991 The Gulf War
1991 Ferguson Jenkins
1992 Manon Rheaume
1992 125th Anniversary of Confederation
1992 NAFTA
1992 Roberta Bondar
1993 Toronto Blue Jays

1994 Rwanda Genocide

1995 Turbot War

1996 Last Residential School is Closed

1998 Kosovo Refugees
1998 AR: Death Penalty Abolished
1999 Nunavut
1999 Lake of the Woods AR: Walleye War

2004 Giant Mine

February 14, 2005 YouTube
November 26, 2005 Clarence Laking

2011 Asbestos Mining Ends in Canada
2011 Polymer Bank Notes
2012 DEW Line cleanup

2013 Arctic Camels
2014 Van Doos
2015 People Watch Canadian PSAs
2016 Trudeau Pride Parade



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