CRB Foundation (CA) Movie Trailers

Most Popular CRB Foundation (CA) Trailers

Total trailers found: 63

Heritage Minutes: Rural Teacher Trailer (1992)

28 June 1992

Teacher Kate Henderson sways school trustees to embrace new methods, and the event is represented in the famous painting by Robert Harris: A Meeting of the School Trustees.

Heritage Minutes: Jacques Plante Trailer (1991)

31 March 1991

Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL player to wear a goaltender mask in regular play.

Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

Canadian aerospace engineers design and test the world's fastest, most advanced interceptor aircraft.

Heritage Minutes: Baldwin & LaFontaine Trailer (1992)

28 June 1992

Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.

Heritage Minutes: Sitting Bull Trailer (1995)

22 May 1995

Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.

Heritage Minutes: Hart & Papineau Trailer (1995)

22 May 1995

Two decades after Ezekiel Hart is denied his seat in the assembly, Louis-Joseph Papineau's government enacts religious tolerance laws in Lower Canada.

Heritage Minutes: Emily Murphy Trailer (1992)

28 June 1992

Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.

Heritage Minutes: Midwife Trailer (1992)

28 June 1992

A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.

Heritage Minutes: Marconi Trailer (1993)

30 April 1993

Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Heritage Minutes: Myrnam Hospital Trailer (1995)

22 May 1995

The town of Myrnam, Alberta forms a non-denominational hospital.

Heritage Minutes: Jacques Cartier Trailer (1991)

31 March 1991

The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name.

Heritage Minutes: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Trailer (1993)

30 April 1993

Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering.

Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad Trailer (1991)

31 March 1991

An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

Heritage Minutes: Paris Crew Trailer (1995)

22 May 1995

The surprise victory of the Paris Crew, a group of unheralded Canadian rowers, at the 1867 World Championships.

Heritage Minutes: Orphans Trailer (1991)

31 March 1991

French Canadian families adopt Irish orphans in the 1850s while allowing them to maintain part of their Irish heritage.

Heritage Minutes: Sir Sandford Fleming Trailer (1993)

30 April 1993

An engineer who planned three railways plays a pivotal role in the creation of Standard Time (1885).

Heritage Minutes: Laura Secord Trailer (1993)

30 April 1993

Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance.

Heritage Minutes: Inukshuk Trailer (1993)

30 April 1993

An RCMP officer watches an Inuit family build the Northern landmark, a sign of human activity on the vast arctic landscape.

Heritage Minutes: Nellie McClung Trailer (1991)

31 March 1991

Feminist, politician, and social activist Nellie McClung demands the right to vote in Manitoba.

Heritage Minutes: Vikings Trailer (1992)

28 June 1992

L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.

Heritage Minutes: Marshall McLuhan Trailer (1993)

30 April 1993

Philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan coins the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village.

Heritage Minutes: Winnie Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

A Canadian soldier's bear becomes the object of adoration and inspiration for a young boy and his father, A.

Heritage Minutes: Soddie Trailer (1991)

31 March 1991

Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

Heritage Minutes: Pauline Vanier Trailer (1995)

22 May 1995

One of Canada's most remarkable families works tirelessly to aid displaced persons and refugees during the Second World War.

Heritage Minutes: Nitro Trailer (1993)

30 April 1993

A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Heritage Minutes: Wilder Penfield Trailer (1991)

31 March 1991

A one-minute vignette on renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield's pioneering procedure to cure epilepsy.

Heritage Minutes: Jean Nicollet Trailer (1992)

28 June 1992

French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.

Heritage Minutes: Basketball Trailer (1992)

28 June 1992

Sports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois.

Heritage Minutes: Responsible Government Trailer (1991)

31 March 1991

Queen Victoria decides to grant Canada responsible government after the crushing of the Rebellions of 1837.

Heritage Minutes: Jennie Trout Trailer (1991)

31 March 1991

The first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada faces prejudice in the classroom.

Heritage Minutes: Nat Taylor Trailer (1997)

01 May 1997

An enterprising Canadian cinema operator invents the modern multi-screen movie theatre.

Heritage Minutes: Joseph Tyrrell Trailer (1992)

28 June 1992

Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.

Heritage Minutes: Frontier College Trailer (1997)

05 August 1997

A volunteer teacher brings basic literacy and mathematical skills to a lumber and work camp in the Canadian bush.

Heritage Minutes: Agnes Macphail Trailer (1992)

28 June 1992

The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.

Heritage Minutes: Peacekeepers Trailer (1991)

31 March 1991

Canadian peacekeepers are stationed in Cyprus to help diffuse tension between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

Heritage Minutes: John Humphrey Trailer (1997)

01 May 1997

Legal scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate John Humphrey drafts the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Heritage Minutes: Étienne Parent Trailer (1993)

30 April 1993

Journalist and government official Étienne Parent demands equality for French and English.

Heritage Minutes: Le Réseau Trailer (1993)

30 April 1993

Engineer Thomas Wardrope Eadie develops the Trans Canada Microwave telecommunications network.

Heritage Minutes: Les Voltigueurs de Québec Trailer (1993)

30 April 1993

The band of this famous French Canadian regiment rehearses for the first performance of O Canada in 1880 at Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations.

Heritage Minutes: Stratford Trailer (1997)

05 August 1997

Tom Patterson’s vision transforms a quiet railway town into a world-renowned cultural destination.

Heritage Minutes: Marion Orr Trailer (1997)

01 May 1997

The ferry command pilot delivers fighter planes to Britain during the Second World War, and plans her post-war career as Canada's first female flight school operator.

Heritage Minutes: Louis Riel Trailer (1993)

30 April 1993

What thoughts ran through Louis Riel's mind as he stood on the scaffold, waiting for the trap door to open to his death?

Heritage Minutes: La Bolduc Trailer (1993)

30 April 1993

The story of how Mary Travers becomes a famed popular singer in Quebec.

Heritage Minutes: Sam Steele Trailer (1993)

30 April 1993

Major General and police official Sam Steele of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bars an unruly American from entering the Yukon with pistols, despite being threatened at gunpoint.

Heritage Minutes: John McCrae Trailer (1995)

22 May 1995

Author, artist and physician during World War I John McCrae pens In Flanders Fields.

Heritage Minutes: Valour Road Trailer (1991)

31 March 1991

Three men from Pine Street in Winnipeg win the Victoria Cross in World War I, and the street's name is changed to Valour Road in their honour.

Heritage Minutes: Superman Trailer (1991)

31 March 1991

Toronto cartoonist Joe Shuster describes the comic book hero he created.

Heritage Minutes: Flags Trailer (1995)

22 May 1995

Lawyer, judge, and politician John Matheson looks at candidates for Canada's new flag.

Heritage Minutes: Maurice Ruddick Trailer (1993)

30 April 1993

Miner Maurice Ruddick recounts the 1958 Springhill mine disaster.

Heritage Minutes: Jackie Robinson Trailer (1997)

05 August 1997

Montréal Royals players and fans welcome the first African American player, marking the beginning of the end of baseball's colour barrier.

Heritage Minutes: Halifax Explosion Trailer (1991)

31 March 1991

Train dispatcher Vince Coleman sacrifices his own life to save a train from the Halifax Explosion.

Heritage Minutes: Emily Carr Trailer (1992)

28 June 1992

The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work.

Heritage Minutes: Water Pump Trailer (1995)

22 May 1995

Mennonite communities in Southwestern Ontario serve as inspiration in the design of tools and practices of sustainable development for developing countries.

Heritage Minutes: Saguenay Fire Trailer (1992)

28 June 1992

One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in Saguenay, Quebec.

Heritage Minutes: Peacemaker Trailer (1992)

28 June 1992

The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.

Heritage Minutes: Governor Frontenac Trailer (1992)

28 June 1992

New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British c

Heritage Minutes: John Cabot Trailer (1991)

31 March 1991

Italian navigator and explorer John Cabot discovers the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and runs "aground" on a bounty of fish.

Heritage Minutes: Syrup Trailer (1997)

01 May 1997

A First Nations family teaches early settlers how to make maple syrup.

Heritage Minutes: Paul-Émile Borduas Trailer (1995)

22 May 1995

Paul-Émile Borduas, Québec's voice of the Quiet Revolution, reflects on the impact of his writing and art in his Paris studio.

Heritage Minutes: Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trailer (1991)

31 March 1991

After moving his family from one end of Montréal to the other, the hockey legend scores 5 goals toward a 9–1 victory against the Detroit Red Wings.