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- Welcome to Australian Reacts, where an Australian reacts to all types of videos from around the world! In this video we check out 'Canada Heritage Minutes!'' and I see how they measure up against real knowledge from a local of "the land down-under". Overall we get to see a glimpse of what this incredible country has to offer and have some laughs along the way!
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Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow : • Heritage Minutes: Avro...
Heritage Minutes: Valour Road : • Heritage Minutes: Valo...
Heritage Minutes: Nitro : • Heritage Minutes: Nitro
Heritage Minutes: Winnie : • Heritage Minutes: Winnie
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6:02 "Maybe that is Valour Road, maybe it isn't..." -- Canadian Heritage Minutes were made by the CBC, a Canadian government corporation, to teach Canadians about our history. They had every reason to make them as accurate as possible. If they show a photo of Valour Road, you can bet they had someone go to Winnipeg and take the photo.
No, not by the CBC, they were (and are) made by Historica Canada, a foundation
My uncle worked on the Avro project . He took the USA offer and moved with the project . You know how groundbreaking the tech was if the Americans were willing to move the entire workforce and their families providing them with green cards, and housing to get it.
In the video (and the movie) Aidan Devine (the guy with the glasses who says "Dammit") played the role of Jim Chamberlin. Chamberlin was the de facto leader of "The Avro Group" and was a big VIP at NASA.
For the Nitro story, it is poignant for the Chinese-Canadian citizens & has great importance to our country.
Before the invention of airplane & air travel, Vancouver a major city on the West Coast is cut off from the Rest of Canada by the Rocky Mountains. So the CP or "Canadian Pacific" Railway was built.
Since the Rocky Mountains are tall vast & take up all of Interior British Columbia & parts of Alberta, there were times where you can't go up a jagged peak or go around without dipping into a river valley. The best is to blow a hole & make a tunnel, using Nitro or nitroglycerin. China in the late 1800s where going through a lot-from the Japanese conquering Manchuria in the 1st Japanese-Sino War, the Opium Wars with Great Britain, so many Chinese moved to Canada for a "better life and away from war".
With so many immigrating to the country, so many young men help worked on building the rail & blowing up tunnels (and many died in the process. The story of "one dead Chinese man for every mile of railway"-I'm not sure if there are any surviving records, but It wouldn't be surprise if that is the truth which is really sad & dark)
There was also the Canadian shield in the East which required a bit of explosions to burrow through.
That unfortunately is the sad truth, and volunteers was a nice term, made it sound friendlier
Canada had "colonization" in it's history (thanks to Great Britain) so there are a LOT of historical things that aren't pretty or I don't like the idea of sugar coating it.
When we get to "Chanie Wenjack", I'm gonna have a field day on that one! (Just a heads up)
The young bear was bought from a hunter (who had probably found it orphaned or had shot its mother) for $20 by the Canadian soldier on his way to England. It was brought somewhat secretly to England and was the unofficial regimental mascot. She was left at the zoo and officially donated to it after the war, as she would have been full grown by then.
Harry Colebourn was a veterinarian before and after he returned from the war.
Check out White River Ontario. Their clans to fame is being the home of Winnie. It’s on the rail line going to Winnipeg. They have an extensive museum.
@@Kidneygirl303 I seen the giant Winnie in White River on the way home from Thunderbay. We had to stop and take a picture.
1200 + Chinese People died blasting their way through the Rocky Mountains. When the Gentleman spoke of every mile he meant the section tunneling through the Rockies and his statement is very close to accurate They came seeking a new life for them and their families in NA. They were very brave and sadly used as disposable pawns in the tunneling. We as Canadians feel very strongly that we must face the evils of our past as well as Celebrate the great parts of our history. So you'll see a few of these Heritage Moments show darker parts of Canadian History so as not to forget.
The actor at the beginning of Avro Arrow vignette ("And now you guys, my guys, are saying that it can't be done?") is Dan Aykroyd, a well-known Canadian actor and comedian. He's probably best known for his many appearances on Saturday Night Live and in films such as Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers, Coneheads, Trading Places, and Dragnet.
How can anyone not recognize Elwood Blues? He’s been on a “mission from Gawd”😂
I thought that was him but I couldn't quite believe it.
Because he also starred as the same character in the movie made about the Arrow project.
I met Dan Aykroyd in an LCBO in downtown Ottawa several years ago.
@@scottmills2843 As did the other people in the video
The Avro is a bit a sore spot for a lot of Canadians. It went over budget and was cancelled as mentioned. It was arguably the most advanced jet aircraft interceptor made in its time though. The most advanced specs being worked on may have detailed a craft capable of rivalling the MiG-25 that was put into production 10 years later in Russia.
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I am fairly sure this is referencing the Pals Battalions. They were a recruitment drive that promised men that grew up together and that were from the same neighborhoods and towns could fight in the same battalion together in the war. It was largely discontinued because if a pal battalion had bad casualties it would mean entire towns suddenly lost an entire demographic. Nonetheless, some of them were quite heroic when fighting with and for each other.
My grandma always bitterly said that the real reason the Arrow was destroyed was because it was so advanced the Americans forced us to destroy it.
@@labyfan1313 I knew a man who worked on the Arrow and that was his opinion as well. He stayed in Canada, a lot of his colleagues got poached south of the border to work at places like NASA.
Imperialist bastards, the American empire just can't help itself from fucking over the rest of the world in its pursuit of absolute hegemony.
@@labyfan1313 I heard the same. They pushed Canada into destroying the Avro then took the whole team to the US so it would become owned by the US.
Funny you said that the Avro Arrow reminded you of the space shuttle. Many of the people who worked on that project were hired to work on the US space program after the Avro Arrow was shut down.
Pine Street is in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada where the 3 men lived on the same street. That street was changed to Valour Road where it has been that same name sense and there is a Commemorative Plaza on the street. Only 1 made it back from the war.
9:14 "Why the Hell were they using nitro glycerine? I mean, I guess they were tunnelling a little bit..." -- Dynamite hadn't been invented yet. They had to get through several mountain ranges to connect the west coast with the prairies. In some places near Kicking Horse Pass the railroad tunnels form a complete spiral so as to reduce the grade.
The Spiral Tunnels were an amazing engineering feat for it's time and is still in use today
Dynamite was invented in the 1860s by Alfred Nobel. They named a prize after him.
There was a movie about the Avro. Also there is a front end of the jet remaining that can be seen in the Aeronautic Museum in Ottawa
Many of the engineers who worked on this prototype went on to work on the Mercury and Apollo program for NASA
The Heritage Minute episode is actually clipped from that film. I'd love to find it for streaming somewhere.
@@JamesSerapio It's currently on Prime, the movie is called The Arrow
@@AndreVandal Danke. 👍
Winnie was found as an orphan cub and would have died if the officer, an army veterinarian (armies still relied heavily on horses) hadn't decided to save/raise him. When the regiment was sent to England they snuck Winnie along with them and when they were found out they "saved" him again by claiming him as a regimental mascot. When the regiment was sent to the front in Europe though, Winnie couldn't go and was left in the care of the zoo. Which is where years later the writer took his son for a visit and the idea of Winnie the Pooh began.
I actually met some of the officers decendents years ago when I worked in childcare. He was their great-great uncle if I recall correctly.
The consensus of historians is that 1) the plane was definitely ahead of its time, and probably would have been the dominant design for the next decade or so --- the test flights demonstrated this clearly 2) it did go into serious cost overruns, not because of the manufacturer's incompetence, but because the military kept changing their required specifications, and 3) the U.S. was definitely opposed to it, chiefly because they wanted to sell their own planes to Canada and didn't appreciate the competition for other foreign sales 4) newly elected Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker hated the project and was very keen on keeping the Americans happy. The fact that the plans and prototype were so aggressively squelched demonstrates that it was more than budget problems. Many of the resulting unemployed Canadian engineers ended up moving to the U.S. and became the engineering core of a new American agency --- NASA. The engineering skill that made the Arrow found a new task in landing men on the moon.
While the super-dooperness of the Arrow has sometimes been exaggerated, it is nevertheless true that many of its innovative design elements appear later on in jet fighters, and that planes produced twenty years later look an awful lot like the Arrow did in 1958. You will notice that Dan Ackroyd (from Ghostbusters and other films) appears in the vignette. He starred in a film about the Arrow in 1997.
My father worked for Orenda and lost his job on Black Friday. The Arrow was a great plane but an interceptor and not a fighter. According to my dad, the real star of the show was the Iroquois engine.
Pretty typical of the Tories, especially during the XXth century. They always were imperialist. Since the British Empire was gone, they gave their fealty to the American "Empire" instead...
It was an interceptor and there were other interceptors that matched that speed and were in service before the arrow's first test flights. The F-106 and the arrow had the same speed at Mach 2.3, the F-106 was in service in late 1959 a full 3 years before the arrow was planned to enter service if the project didn't get delayed any further. I certainly wouldn't call it's performance legendary while compared to it's contemporaries:
- F-4 Phantom (Mach 2.23, Combat Range: 680km, Ceiling: 60,000 ft, Entered Service: late 1960)
- F-106 (Mach 2.3, Combat Range: 926km, Ceiling 57,000 ft, Entered Service mid to late 1959)
- SAAB Draken (Mach 2.0, Combat Range: 560km, Ceiling: 66,000 ft, Entered Service: Early 1960)
- English Lightning (Mach 2.0, Combat Range 250km supersonic, Ceiling 54,000 ft, Entered Service 1959)
- Mirage III (Mach 1.9, Combat Range 1,200 km, Ceiling 56,000 ft, Entered Service: 1961)
- Avro Arrow (Mach 2.3 Potential, Combat Range 660km, Ceiling 56,000 ft, Planned to Enter Service Late 1962 or 1963)
I think Diefenbaker gets a bad rap when it comes to the cancellation of the project, I don't think it would have mattered who was in office at the time there were a number of factors that influenced the decision to end it.
- The project was really expensive, it was over $200 million dollars back in the early 1960's (which would be $1.7 Billion 2019). It would be hard to justify spending that on that aircraft when you could get a very similar one that was already proven and in use with the F-106 and was significantly cheaper to purchase (Arrow between 5 -10 Million per unit vs F-106 which was 3 - 5 million per unit).
- The interceptor airframe was obsolete by the time the arrow was in development. By the time the 1960s rolled around the threat of high altitude bombers was replaced by ICBMs. Interceptors were starting to get phased out and replaced with multi role aircraft which are still in use today.
- Avro didn't have much success with their previous designs (CF-100) and the arrow project was falling behind on delivery by the time it was decided to cancel the project.
- There was pressure from the US, but it was more selling on the fact that interceptors were not the future but the BOMARC system was being sold as the way to go.
There are a lot of factors in the cancellation, but I can understand why the decision was made to scrap the whole thing
It would have made the Canadian Airforce the most powerful in the world. Pressure from the US killed it.
How so? having a fleet of interceptors? which was an outdated design in the 1960's since level bombers were phased out and replaced with the threat of ICBMs. Don't get me wrong, the arrow was impressive, but simply having it doesn't make Canada have the best airforce in the world.
Yep this is the story my grandma always bitterly tells. They were too advanced so the U.S. made us destroy them.
@@HeavyMetal82 Political pressure.
@@HeavyMetal82 the arrow was the most advanced aircraft of the time, at least a decade ahead of its time, maybe even two. The Americans, still hot on their 'we won WWII entering 6 years late.' Attitude, pulled a political stunt that inevitably killed the avro arrow project. It doesn't surprise me, tensions between Canada and US were pretty high during the beginning of the Cold War until Canada was all but forced to get on board with the Americans against the Soviets. The US need their clean up crew to fix their mistakes 🙄
@@Adamant1993 The most advanced aircraft at the time? which time was that, because when the time it was planned to enter service in either 1962/1963 it was already outclassed by other interceptors of the time.
F-4 Phantom (Mach 2.23, Combat Range: 680km, Ceiling: 60,000 ft, Entered Service: late 1960)
F-106 (Mach 2.3, Combat Range: 926km, Ceiling 57,000 ft, Entered Service mid to late 1959)
SAAB Draken (Mach 2.0, Combat Range: 560km, Ceiling: 66,000 ft, Entered Service: Early 1960)
English Lightning (Mach 2.0, Combat Range 250km supersonic, Ceiling 54,000 ft, Entered Service 1959)
Mirage III (Mach 1.9, Combat Range 1,200 km, Ceiling 56,000 ft, Entered Service: 1961)
Avro Arrow (Mach 2.3 Potential, Combat Range 660km, Ceiling 56,000 ft, Planned to Enter Service Late 1962 or 1963)
You always hear how advanced the arrow was for the time and it is grossly over exaggerated especially compared to other interceptors of the time.
FYI: The Manhattan Project (Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings) is typically thought of as a U.S. military initiative ... but ... you may be surprised!
Canadian scientists were experimenting with nuclear fission in 1939 and Canada and Britain jointly started development of nuclear weapons early in WWII. The Canadian scientists were based out of a laboratory in Montreal when their program merged with the U.S.'s in 1943 to create the Manhattan Project. Canada provided 3-key components to the Manhattan Project, 1) it provided intellectual property and personnel, 2) it provided processed uranium and plutonium, and 3) it provided 'heavy water' from a small town in BC where I live. Interesting eh!
Just remember that the bulk of the funding was American; also: Oppenheimer was an American; Einstein, Fermi and Teller were all American immigrants.
@@SilvanaDil You seem threatened by my post for some reason SilvanaDil?
@@warrenpeterson6065 - No, Americans never feel threatened by anything Canadian.
@@SilvanaDil hey genius american immigrants are americans who move to another country..fermi was an italian immigrant, einstien was german and teller a hungarian immigrant...get it?
@@dubiousdistinction6500 - Americans who leave America are emigrants from America who immigrate to another country. My point was/is: These eminent big brains chose to come to the U.S., not Canada.
You will find many stories of Canadian solders capturing groups of enemy soldiers in bothe WWI & WWII.
During WWII one soldier name Leo Major liberated an entire town on his own.
You should watch Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal sing the Canadian anthem together after a shooting at the war memorial in Ottawa. It’s on the NHL channel. (You can hear the 50/50 English French split in Ottawa)
(There was also a game in Toronto where the mic stopped working so the Canadians finished singing the American anthem)
The Avro Arrow project was way over budget and the RCAF order wouldn't have bailed them out, so international sales would have been called for, and this plane was a potential threat to the US's B-52s.
In WWII Leo Major captured 97 Germans single-handedly.
As a Canadian who has lived in Australia for the past 7 years I’m loving your reaction videos. Keep them coming!
The Winnie the Pooh Story is indeed real - though they have taken a little artistic license with it.
Harry Coleborne was a military veterinarian who lived in Winnipeg.
He purchased the bear as a cub from a hunter who had shot its mother.
lt traveled to England as a mascot for his military unit - but of course would have been a problem to keep on the front lines.
After the war, Coleborne returned to Canada in 1920 - the bear, now fully grown, was likely thought to be better off as a zoo animal -
since it would have been a very challenging "pet" to keep - much less transport.
A.A. Milne's son, Christopher Robin did indeed name his teddy bear after Winnie.
A.A. Milne did indeed write the illustrated stories of Winnie the Pooh, based on his son's childhood play and fantasies...
though how much of that was with Christopher Robin's prior assent... is a complex question.
Really enjoying your reaction to these Canadian Heritage Minutes as a Canadian myself. I'm still going to suggest you watch Murdoch Mysteries for some of the Canadian historical elements of the show but keep going with these as well.
Just a "note" for you these clips are actually produced by the Canadian government and the Canadian Broadcasting Corperation which is owned by the ppl of Canada. Real historians doing real work to educate the public the good parts of our history as well as the darker parts. Some were actually longer than these when they first aired! Laura Secord famous for her chocolates is actually a Canadian heroine!!!!
There were 2 purposes for these Heritage Minutes: 1. To inspire patriotism and pride in Canadians. And 2. To encourage young people to research and learn more about these and other Canadian stories.
When the Heritage Minutes first began, many Canadians knew more about American history than there own, due to the fact that Canadians were inundated with American television, books and movies.
i appreciate you taking the time to learn more about Canada as a Canadian it means a lot as far and i can tell your the only youtuber so far that's reacted to these heritage minutes even I've learned a few things i didn't know about Canadian history
They had to blast through the Canadian Rockies.
The 20,100 km of CPR track is the length that is currently owned by CPR in 2021 and not what was completed to connect eastern Canada to the Vancouver in 1885. The CPR track from Montreal, PQ to Port Moody, BC is about 4700 km.
Canada used chinese workers to build the railroad across the country and it was especially perilous in the rockies as they had to blast many tunnels out through the mountains. Many chinese did the dangerous work because Canada had a head tax on chinese people for them to enter the country and many were working to bring their families to Canada
Since there are 95 of these heritage minute vignettes, I'm looking forward to you working your way through all of them.
the arrow was decades ahead of it time when it comes to all the flight control systems and it's overall performance ... i heard they got pressured by the us government to cancel the program ... and some of the designers from avro went to work for the us
I remember reading somewhere where some engineers looked at what is still known about the Arrow, and it's design and came to the conclusion it probably would have been in service right into the early 21st century.
@@Roche_Furman yea it was easily 40 if not 50 years ahead of it's time
@@pympin87 It probably would have been used purely as a bomber in it's later years, IIIC.
Yes the Arrow was ahead of its time. It had true fly-by-wire. The Iroquois engine was the most powerful for that time period. 5000 psi hydraulic Servo system.
The problem was the US company that was going to build the weapon system decided not to. This also happened with Rolls-Royce not building their engine. AVRO was going to just build the fuselage, but then had to pay for the development of the Iroquois engine. And then they needed to have an in house weapons system developed. It is sad that the Iroquois engine got scrapped too, since it was flight certified and ready to go.
The Arrow, a 1997 movie about the Avro’s arrow plane is where those scenes from the heritage minute are directly taken from. I recommend it’s viewing
My Grandfather worked in finally assembly of the Avro Arrows. The program was cancelled as part of a deal with the USA. The American's convinced the government to purchase a bunch a lemon missle's they didn't want called the CIM-10 Bomarc. The pitch being missles would replace interceptors as a cheaper & more effective defense from russian attack's coming in from over the North Pole. Canada had become a leader in Aircraft production & design during WW2. Almost everyone involved in the Arrow design went on to work for places like Boeing & Lockheed's Top Secret Skunk Works
The Skunk Works is Lockheed
@@sanytram1 my bad missing the "&"
@@craigc1463 none of us are perfect we all make boo boos
Valor Road is a residential road with small minor corner store businesses on it. Re-named from pine Street, 4 Canadian solders received the Victoria cross. They all lived on that road at the time.
Mattteeeeeeee - Loving all the Canadian videos you're pumping out! Keep up the good work :) Much love from 🇨🇦
There is a 3 hour movie about the avro arrow on CZcams, scenes of which are what they used for the heritage moment, look it up
They are talking about the Canadian Pacific Railway line - especially where it crosses the Canadian Rockies - constructed in 1881 - 1885, the CP used up to 15,000 Chinese building the Railway.
When the Americans were building the Central Pacific over the Sierra Nevada in California in the 1860's they began using a lot of Chinese laborers (10,000+),
among other things, they found that the Chinese were more adept and willing to use Nitroglycerin than their other laborers.
By 1885 Dynamite (which is safer) would have been available - but it may have been more expensive -since there was a monopoly on its manufacture in the US.
The 15,000 miles of track - is the modern track milage - the CP is still in business.
From Vancouver, BC - the western terminus to Lethbridge, Alberta, on the Eastern side of the mountains is more than 700 miles -
though in 1885 the CP stretched roughly 3,000 miles to its eastern Terminus at Montreal.
Yep - One Canadian can overpower 20 Germans. In 1944, a single Canadian soldier liberated the Dutch town of Zwolle. He's also captured 93 Germans. (fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Major)
Do some Canadian PSA commercials, we've had some interesting ones.
Winnie the bear was a named after Winnipeg when a Canadian soldier bought him as a cub at train station in Canada. He became a mascot for his Troop went to England and unsure why a bear was allowed to travel, but it was the war so crazy things occurred. When the troop went to France struct orders said the bear couldn't come, and he was loaned to the London Zoo. Not sure how a blackbear becomes a pet but it did and apparently the soldiers loved her and played with her all the time. There is a plaque at the London zoo that explains everything, apparently Winne was very tame and children could pet her.
Winnie came from White River Ontario
They were tunneling in BC through the mountains.
i love these reactions as i grew up watching these heritage minutes!!!
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The bear was the mascotte of the Canadian 2nd infantry brigade, which the soldier was a part of.
They brought the bear with them to Europe for luck but had to donate it to a Zoo since they couldn' take it with them in combat.
The man we see later with the boy is the author of Winnie the Pooh
The Winnie the Pooh story won't make much more sense when you know the facts. A soldier travelling to the East Coast to board a ship for England bought the bear cub and brought her with him. In England, she was like the mascot of his unit. They'd play with her during down time, etc. But, when orders came that his brigade was to ship out to the front, he wasn't allowed to bring her with them and so she was "loaned out" to the London Zoo where she presumably spent the rest of her life. Because she'd grown up with the army unit, she was super tame, so kids could feed her and ride on her. And, basically, A.A. Milne and his son were big fans, so when Mr Milne wrote his children book about a bear...
valour road (pine street ) is in winnipeg manitoba ,, their new CPL soccer team is now named valour
It was the American government that convinced the Canadien government that the next war would be a ground war.
Then the Americans hired all the people that worked on the Avrow
My Dad worked at Avro Air on those very planes. He wasn't a mechanic, but somebody had to tighten the bolts!
The master of winnie was killed in WWI, A. A. Milne wrote winnie the pooh, and he often went about London with his illustrator, (My mother met him, Christopher, and the illustrator), in case they saw something that Milne thought should be in one of his books. Winnie was a real bear of the Canadian 2 expeditionary force and he was from North America AKA Canada, and the character winnie the pooh was based upon that bear, Valour Street still exists to this day in Winnipeg, and there is a statue commemorating the 3 brave men 2 of which died in WWI, they received their medals posthumously. The 3rd person a Captain in the Canadian second expeditionary force, he in fact was there at the name change ceremony from pine street to Valour Road. They all lived within the 700 block of pine street. All 3 men were very brave men who despite the odds against them did heroic acts not to get an award but to save lives and try to shorten the war. The Canadian heritage foundation with CBC produced these very accurate. Taken from eyewitness accounts and from what I know messages from the front to command, and in commendation recommendations which are viewable in the Canadian history archives.
winnie the pooh was banned in China because people were making memes about how Xi Jinping resembles him. The bear was the mascot for their brigade, but they weren't allowed to bring the bear to France so they had to leave it in England (where soldiers were sent first before going to war in Europe). I have no idea why the bear was left there.
The bear was a mascot for a Canadian Army Regiment, the officiary left the bear in the care of the gentlemen as he was going to France in WW I. The book character Winnie the Poo was created in reference to the Bear Winnie.
FYI, the announcer's voice is that of Patrick Watson, a respected Canadian journalist.
If you like this Heritage Minute, there is a C.B.C. movie called The Arrow, I think all the scenes in this Heritage Minute come from that movie.
For Minutes 4, checkout the move 'A Bear Named Winnie. It will give a more clear image of that particular story.
Love your reactions we Canadians grew up with this.
Great to see your little channel growing with subscribers.
The AVRO ARROW minute is a cut from a Canadian tv movie
I know I'm late to this, but you really need to watch the miniseries "The Arrow", which tells the story about the creation and destruction of this brilliant plane. As a Canadian, it's heartbreaking that they cancelled it.
maybe someone already mentioned, but same Cdn actor at 0:35 playing Avro engineer Jim Chamberlain (who went on to key Nasa roles for Mercury/Apollo) as playing soldier at 4:00. Neat to see them bach to back.
It wasn't just tunneling, the Province of BC is all mountains, if they weren't tunneling they were building terraces to hold the tracks as they built the railway on the sides of mountains.
Minute 3. There is 1 dead Chinese man for every mile of that track. It refers to the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Trans Canada Rail roads that runs between the BC coast, and the foot hills of Alberta. The 2 mountain ranges of Rockies, and Costal Mountains. The Canadian Govt used mostly Chinese laborers imported to build that section of the railway.
8:35
This is the construction of the trans-canadian rail road. At the time, it was the longest rail road in the world and chinese immigrants were used as the labor force to make it. And tehre was a lot of casualties
He smuggled the bear over the Atlantic on a troop ship. He was the mascot of his unit.
Nitro is about the construction of the TransCanada railway through the Rocky Mountains.
Valour Rd. is a real thing, it intersects with Portage Ave. in Winnipeg, MB. It's not a particularly nice part of Winnipeg, but it produced three VC winners.
NASA was in trouble and needed Canada's help to bring Apollo 13 home
You should check out Leo Major a Canadian War hero
yes, I suggested this a little while ago, would love to see it
"The One-eyed Scout who Liberated a Whole Town by Himself"
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The bear is actually from a small town, near where I am originally from, White River, Ontario (Fun Fact: Town symbol is a thermometer set to -72F, which was the coldest temperature recorded there). There is a movie about the story and it is called "A Bear Named Winnie". The movie is on youtube in parts. And if I may...stop being so ridiculous handsome. :-)
Animal mascots were REALLY popular in WW1 and 2, so... yeah, that unit's happened to be a bear. Which wasn't actually that unusual. Wojtek is possibly even more famous.
The Province of B.C. joined the dominion of Canada in 1871 and one of the conditions of B.C joining Canada was having a railroad from Coast to Coast. The most treacherous part of building that railroad would have been through the Rocky Mountains.
The CP railroad connects Canada from East to West ... right across the Prairies and through the Rocky Mountains. The Rockies are up to 450+ kilometers wide ... starting in Alberta and spanning the entire province of British Columbia.
Look up "spiders on drugs" It's a heritage minute parody from like 2005 and its a classic
For the world's best museum re flight, go to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
Context - The Avro Arrow rollout occurred on the same day that Sputnik was launched by Russia in 1957. Ushering in the future of ICBMs which helped convince some that the age of the manned bomber was over.
Must dive down the Winnie the Pooh rabbit hole.
Dan Aykroyd also did the THE WORLD WITHOUT CANADA EPISODES
Thank you for taking a interest in Canada and our history. I would venture to guess most Canadians don't know as much of our history as you have already posted due to the fact we really don't teach much of it in schools here. Thanks great job,
the part he was refering to was was the part through the Rocky Mountains not the whole railway.
I could be completely wrong , but I was told the illustration of Winnie’s appearance was his red shirt for the Canadian flag and yellow fur for his love of honey. It’s probably wrong but sounds possible. 😊🧸🍯
My cousin who lives in Winnipeg lives on Valour Road.
I love that you're sharing our history with the world 👏👏👏🇨🇦🇦🇺
No worries, I'm happy to learn along the way!
The fear of Soviet spies was the reason the Arrow was cancelled. President Eisenhower went on a fishing trip with Prime Minister Diefenbaker, and reveled that Soviet spies were everywhere in North America. This was the period of time when the plans for Nuclear weapons were stolen by the Soviets from the American's. It is believed, that Eisenhower big fear was that Soviet spies had already infiltrated Avro, and it was just a matter of time before they would steal it's designs. Giving the Soviets an airplane capable of delivering those nukes over the arctic, with a speed and from an altitude that terrified the two leaders, at the time.
I'm surprised you didn't recognize Dan Aykroyd from Ghostbusters, in the first one about Avro. Hahaha
There is a movie called Winnie. It tells the story of how a Canadian Black Bear from Ontario became Winnie the Pooh.
It's kinda funny. They dumped all the Avro Arrows in lake ontario right off the coast were I live
I live in Winnipeg and can say definitely that Valor Road is an actual street named after the soldiers depicted in this vignette. It wasn't a random compilation but a real bunch of kids who did remarkable things under duress and in harrowing circumstances. These vignettes are without exaggeration and try to remain true to the individual stories .
Here's a Heritage Minute to consider reviewing: it's about a successful Japanese Canadian baseball team in Vancouver that came to an end with the WW2 Internment: czcams.com/video/wBv-MYAf9P0/video.html
"On that track" refers to the Canadian Pacific Railroad (one of the longest railroads in the world.
I have a set of the.original Winnie the Pooh volumes. The original drawings do not look like the yellow and red bear of today. As with lots of classic stories Disney got their hands on it and did their thing.
The arrow was a beast.
The tunneling through the mountains claimed many lives.
At a certain stage in the war the common soldier was thinking "We're not going to win this, I'm not too crazy about the government I've got, if I'm gonna survive I'm probably do well to surrender. I hear the Canadians are nice." One of my great Uncles was taken prisoner by an Italian Corp in North Africa -- they finally surrendered to him as a way out of their current predicament.
Officer: Don't let him capture you men! There are 20 of us and only one of him - he can only shoot one of us!
Soldier: You go first.
Railroad across Canada through the rocky mountains
"I don't know how that guy could just capture twenty guys." Look up Leo Major. Only reason we don't have films about him is because nobody would fucking believe they happened.
The American government put pressure on the Canadian government to pull the project. There was alot of politics and economic pressure. The Arrow was years ahead of its time.
Yah it's really hard to get everything in a minute it was more to start a convo so kids could ask there parents and teachers
The nitro. That was just going through the mountains.
They used nitro to blow holes and paths through the mountains. A lot of Canada isn’t flat ; )
The bear was rescued as a cub after its mother was killed. It traveled to a Canadian military base with the man who saved it and became the base mascot. For some reason, probably because no one wanted to be responsible for it while it was away from the man it bonded to, it traveled to England with the regiment. The English were not so casual about bears in the military 🙄 so it ended up in a zoo.
Thanks for the info, certainly makes me feel better knowing what the likely other outcome would have been...
Here's something about the Avro Arrow that's not common knowledge. The plane would have flown higher than any fighter bomber interceptor (what the plane was built for), in the world. Flight speed was tested at Mach 1.8 in a climb, at 3/4 throttle. It was estimated that it could have flown past Mach 3 or faster. It's also rumored that the US saw the plane as a threat to their fighter interceptor program, and kind of bribed the Canadian Govt with a missile defense system to be set up across the arctic at a discount. Canada Cancelled that Arrow and got the missile system. Later it was found, that the missile defense system was faulty. It didn't work the way it was supposed to. A huge money waste because of US interest in their own fighter projects.
Re: Winnie the Pooh, the rest of the characters are based off of Christopher Robin's stuffed animals! Winnie herself inspired the creation of Pooh.
they say after zoo hours were closed to the public they allowed winnie to walk free around the zoo during the night
These Canadian Heritage Minutes are ALL TRUE!
AVRO Arrow was the fastest plane on Earth at that time. Two times the speed of sound at mach 2, faster than anything the Americans had. So the Diefenbaker government got pressure from the Americans to take a cutting torch to all planes and parts (which cost less than the Americans were spending building their planes). I imagine the all plans went south of the border, along with everyone who worked there to work for NASA and the moon business.hehe