Heritage Minutes: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Heritage Minutes Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Laura Secord
Apr 30, 1993 · 1 min
Canadian heroine Laura Secord aids the British in the War of 1812 with an overland trek to warn of an American military advance.
Marshall McLuhan
Apr 30, 1993 · 1 min
Philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan coins the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village."
Marconi
Apr 30, 1993 · 1 min
Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Les Voltigeurs de Québec
Apr 30, 1993 · 1 min
The band of this famous French Canadian regiment rehearses for the first performance of O Canada in 1880 at Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations.
Louis Riel
Apr 30, 1993 · 1 min
What thoughts ran through Louis Riel's mind as he stood on the scaffold, waiting for the trap door to open to his death?
Étienne Parent
Apr 30, 1993 · 1 min
Journalist and government official Étienne Parent demands equality for French and English.
Nitro
Apr 30, 1993 · 1 min
A young Chinese Canadian risks his life helping to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Sir Sandford Fleming
Apr 30, 1993 · 1 min
Engineer and inventor Sir Sandford Fleming develops the system of international standard time.
Maple Leaf Gardens
Apr 30, 1993 · 1 min
Considered one of the "cathedrals" of ice hockey, the construction and history of the Maple Leaf Gardens is featured.
Le Réseau
Apr 30, 1993 · 1 min
Engineer Thomas Wardrope Eadie develops the Trans Canada Microwave telecommunications network.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Apr 30, 1993 · 1 min
Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering.
Maurice Ruddick
Apr 30, 1993 · 1 min
Miner Maurice Ruddick recounts the 1958 Springhill mine disaster.
Inukshuk
Apr 30, 1993 · 1 min
An Inukshuk a stone landmark or cairn is built on Baffin Island.
La Bolduc
Apr 30, 1993 · 1 min
The story of how Mary Travers becomes a famed popular singer in Quebec.
Sam Steele
Apr 30, 1993 · 1 min
Major General and police official Sam Steele (portrayed by Alan Scarfe) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bars an unruly American (portrayed by Don S. Davis) from entering the Y