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Baldwin & LaFontaine

June 28, 1992

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Heritage Minutes - S2 - E14

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

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Heritage Minutes: Season 2 - 14 Episode s

2x1 - Governor Frontenac
June 28, 1992
New France, under the leadership of French governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac, repels the British invasion at the Battle of Quebec (1690).
2x2 - Midwife
June 28, 1992
A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.
2x3 - Agnes Macphail
June 28, 1992
The first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons Agnes Macphail fights for penal reform.
2x4 - Emily Carr
June 28, 1992
The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work.
2x5 - Joseph Tyrrell
June 28, 1992
Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.
2x6 - Basketball
June 28, 1992
Sports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois.
2x7 - Saguenay Fire
June 28, 1992
One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in the Saguenay, Quebec.
2x8 - Joseph Casavant
June 28, 1992
Joseph Casavant, world renowned organ maker, builds his first organ.
2x9 - Jean Nicollet
June 28, 1992
French coureur des bois and explorer Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to reach Lake Michigan, but thinks it's the Pacific.
2x10 - Peacemaker
June 28, 1992
The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.
2x11 - Rural Teacher
June 28, 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.
2x12 - Emily Murphy
June 28, 1992
Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.
2x13 - Vikings
June 28, 1992
L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is settled by Norsemen (Vikings) around the year 1000 CE.
2x14 - Baldwin & LaFontaine
June 28, 1992
Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.

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