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''Heritage Minutes'', formerly known as ''Historica Minutes: History by the Minute'', is a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. The ''Minutes'' integrate Canadian history, folklore and myths into dramatic story lines. The ''Minutes'' themselves have become a part of Canadian culture and been the subject of academic studies.〔 The ''Minutes'' were first introduced on March 31, 1991 as part of a one-off history quiz show hosted by Wayne Rostad.〔 Originally distributed to schools,〔 they appear frequently on Canadian television and in cinemas before movies and were later available online and on DVD.〔 In-addition there are "Radio minutes". ==Background== The thirteen original short films were broken up and run between shows on CBC Television and CTV Network. The continued broadcast of the ''Minutes'' and the production of new ones was pioneered by Charles Bronfman's CRB Foundation (subsequently The Historica Dominion Institute), Canada Post (with Bell Canada being a later sponsor) Power Broadcasting (the broadcasting arm of the Power Corporation of Canada), and the National Film Board.〔 They were devised, developed and largely narrated (as well as scripted) by noted Canadian broadcaster Patrick Watson, while the producer of the series was Robert Guy Scully. In 2009 "The Historica Foundation of Canada" merged with "The Dominion Institute" to become "The Historica-Dominion Institute" a national charitable organization.〔 In September 2013, the organization changed its name to "Historica Canada". While the foundations have not paid networks to air ''Minutes'', in the early years they have paid to have them run in cinema theaters across the country. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has ruled that ''Heritage Minutes'' are an "on-going dramatic series" thus each vignette counts as ninety-seconds of a station's Canadian content requirements.〔〔 In 2012, a few "Heritage Minutes" were created on the War of 1812, in anticipation of the war's bicentenary.〔 Then in 2014 two ''Minutes'' were released on Sir John A. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier, that had been filmed in and around Toronto in September 2013.〔 There are plans to come out with two every year until Canada's 150th birthday in 2017. A 2012 Ipsos Reid poll of 3,900 Canadians selected the five most popular Minutes.〔 Tied for first place was the episodes on Jackie Robinson and Halifax Explosion, followed by Jennie Kidd Trout, Winnie-the-Pooh and Laura Secord. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heritage Minutes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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