Heritage Minutes: Season 6
Season 6 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 5.
- 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 6 Progress Shield
Richard Pierpoint
Oct 1, 2012 · 1 min
Richard Pierpoint was a formerly enslaved Black Loyalist who, at age 68, enlisted black men to fight in the War of 1812.
Queenston Heights
Jun 18, 2013 · 1 min
October 13, 1812, Mohawk Chief John Norton and 80 Grand River warriors surprised hundreds of advancing American soldiers and skirmished with them for hours until reinforcements arr
Sir John A. Macdonald
Jan 11, 2014 · 1 min
Sir. John A. Macdonald, George-Étienne Cartier and George Brown discuss how to go about uniting the colonies in British North America. The Charlottetown Conference is featured, and
Sir George-Étienne Cartier
Jan 11, 2014 · 1 min
George-Étienne Cartier was a dominant figure in the politics of Canada East (now Quebec) overseeing its entry into Confederation.
Winnipeg Falcons
Nov 6, 2014 · 1 min
A team of Icelandic-Canadians serve in the First World War before bringing home the very first gold medal in Olympic hockey.
Nursing Sisters
May 14, 2015 · 1 min
Nursing Sisters serve at the No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in France during the First World War.
Terry Fox
Sep 21, 2015 · 1 min
Terry Fox inspires the nation with his Marathon of Hope, a cross-country run to raise money for cancer research.
Viola Desmond
Feb 2, 2016 · 1 min
The story of Viola Desmond, an entrepreneur who challenged segregation in Nova Scotia in the 1940s.
Chanie Wenjack
Jun 21, 2016 · 1 min
The story of Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack, whose death sparked the first inquest into the treatment of Indigenous children in Canadian residential schools.
Naskumituwin (Treaty)
Jun 21, 2016 · 1 min
The making of Treaty 9 from the perspective of historical witness George Spence, an 18-year-old Cree hunter from Albany, James Bay.
Kenojuak Ashevak
Oct 20, 2016 · 1 min
As a founding member of Cape Dorset's famed print making cooperative, Kenojuak Ashevak introduced Inuit art to the world (1927-2013).
Edmonton Grads
Mar 8, 2017 · 1 min
The Grads challenge the self-proclaimed 'world champions' the Cleveland Favorite Knits to a two game tournament in 1923. They would go on to become the most successful team in Cana
"Boat People" Refugees
Jun 20, 2017 · 1 min
A family escapes persecution in Vietnam, traveling by boat to a Malaysian refugee camp before finding a new home in Montreal (1980).
Kensington Market
Oct 25, 2017 · 1 min
Neighbourhoods like Toronto's Kensington Market have helped shape our country by providing newcomers a first stop in Canada. In the first animated Heritage Minute, a single store i