I love playing the game, where you try and name as many famous lines from Heritage Moments/Minutes as possible.
“I need these baskets back” (Sports coach James Naismith’s invention of basketball”
“Through the air, across the ocean, for the first time ever” (Inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signals in Newfoundland and is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics)
“There are 700 people aboard it. I got to stop it…Common, common, acknowledge” (Train dispatcher Vince Coleman sacrifices his own life to save a train from the Halifax Explosion)
For some reason these sixty-second short films, that share a moment in Canadian history have always stuck with me.
They started them back in 1991, and they continue to make them.
They have just released a new Minute and it shares the story of Oscar Peterson, a famous Canadian jazz pianist who was born and raised in Montreal.
One of the world’s most recorded and celebrated jazz musicians, Oscar Peterson entertained audiences from Montreal to Carnegie Hall – and beyond. This #BlackHistoryMonth, let’s celebrate his unique talent and lasting legacy with this new #HeritageMinute from @HistoricaCanada: pic.twitter.com/iz50G36MMr
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) February 17, 2021
