History by the Minute

Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Maintained by the Historica Foundation of Canada, History by the Minute is a superb site that provides educational movies about Canadian history and culture. It is designed with Canadians in mind but can be useful to any students of the English language.

Features:

• Historica Minutes: one-minute movies telling highlights of Canada's history

• Historica Footprints: one-minute documentary films about Canada's athletes and sporting traditions

• Historica Radio Minutes: 90-second dramas about 100 of Canada's significant moments and personalities

• Historica Screen Legends: one-minute television vignettes about the lives of famous Canadian actors and actresses

• Lesson plans for use with the movies

Site URL: http://www.histori.ca/minutes/default.do?page=.index

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