New Heritage Minute celebrates the life of Lucy Maud Montgomery

March 8th, 2018, 03:17 pm

New Heritage Minute celebrates the life of Lucy Maud Montgomery

We are proud to share the latest #HeritageMinute by @HistoricaCanada. It's directed by CFC alumnus @notstephendunn! 👏

This Minute celebrates Canadian literary icon Lucy Maud Montgomery. #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/Cot7lXSidT
— Canadian Film Centre (@cfccreates) March 8, 2018

Heritage Minutes are one minute commercials that celebrate Canadian history.

Released just in time for International Women's Day this Heritage Minute celebrates the life of author Lucy Maud Montgomery who is most well known for writing the Anne of Green Gables series, the Emily of New Moon series and whose works provided the source material for the TV show Road to Avonlea.

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Tagged: #heritageminute, #internationalwomensday, books / authors, canadian celebrities

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I don’t care, I love these cheesy heritage minutes.

“Toast! ... I smell burnt toast!”

lmao i remember that one

If someone ever said to me that they smell burnt toast, I would immediately panic. It's honestly traumatized me.

Perfect first comment. Came in here for toast!

<3

Lmao yesss there isn't a single person my age who doesn't immediately laugh if anyone says it

lol this is so true. It doesn't matter who you're with, if you say anything about burnt toast they will all laugh lol.

I love how you can say that to ANY Canadian under the age of 40, and they'll instantly know what you're talking about (and assure you that you're not having a stroke).

Aww, I love heritage minutes.

My heritage is that Avril Lavigne is my...third cousin, I think? My mom's family are rednecks and are spread out over the whole province so who knows who we're related to.

My favourite heritage minute is Kiefer Sutherland:

being the grandson of the father of Canada's universal healthcare system, Tommy Douglas:

Jack Layton ❤

Aw Jack <3

(no subject) -

cameltoee

ACKNOWLEDGE

And then everything exploded. The end.

This one used to make me so fucking emotional. Ugh.

omg, which one is this?

Halifax harbour explosion

Is this about the guy who stayed behind to send out that last message about the Halifax before it exploded? I just finished a book that talked about this last night and OMG ALL THE TEARS

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omfg I remember this! I remember all of these tips to this day! Canada had some brilliant PSAs in the 90s/00s tbh.

Oh man, now you are taking me back to that creepy PSA with that robot flipping through the saw world and his arm comes off and he's like "I can put my arm back on but you can't" or something. Add in the old War Amps commericals and I feel like I spent most of my childhood convinced that kids were losing limbs left right and centre.

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lmao my favourite heritage minute probably has to be laura secord running barefoot in the woods

as an east coast canadian all i have to say is HELL YESSSSSSSSSSSS

i was OBSESSED with anne of green gables as a kid. i have so many pictures of me reading the books, getting the VHS of the tv movie for christmas, etc. one of my favourite childhood memories is going to PEI and going to all the different anne of green gables themed places there.

UGH I JUST LOVE IT SO MUCH.

I devoured all the books and wanted to move to PEI. There's never been a better ambassador for Canada than LM Montgomery.

I swear to you that right now I have a set of the Anne of green gables VHS in the trunk of my car, I was supposed to get rid of it but I just can't lol

I finally saw the Anne of green gables musical a few years ago. Life complete.

Hell, I'm in my 30's and still haven't outgrown my obsession (completely).

awe hey the actress in this is the gf of one of my fav former profs

Woah this is really touching, especially as a Maritimer

Hopefully already in production:

#CAN #PyeongChang2018 pic.twitter.com/QWS0qdsimJ
— Andy (@_rallycap) February 22, 2018

but how dare they get rid of the classic graphics???

Edited at 2018-03-08 08:45 pm (UTC)

This made me laugh so much.

lmaooo

lmao this should definitely be the next one

okay but i got super emotional watching that bc i love you forever lucy maud

Did everyone else have drunken university evenings where everyone would start reciting Heritage Moments from memory in someone's dorm room?? Possibly a very specific Canadian 90s kid thing?

"JOHNSON, SIR, MOLLY JOHNSON"

"DR PENFIELD I CAN SMELL BURNT TOAST"

"BUT I'M SURE IT MEANS THE HOUSES, THE VILLAGE"

"I DON'T KNOW, JUST WINNIE. THE. POOH."

"RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT"

"I NEED THESE BASKETS BACK!!!"

There's so many good ones with easy to repeat phrases.

THROUGH THE AIR
ACROSS THE OCEAN
THE FIRST TIME EVER

THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I still have no clue what that one was going on about, tbh. lol

Yesssssssssssss

There are so many good Canadian PSAs with quotable lines lol. My friends and I still quote the one about acne or whatever, with the dude that says "people think I eat too many chocolate bars or I don't wash my face."

fuck yes I did LOL

FUCK YES luv a good heritage minute. damn i am like so happy to be back in canada lol like i hear a lot of (justified) bitching about canada but living in the states for the last decade rly put it into perspective

Edited at 2018-03-08 08:51 pm (UTC)

Welcome home!

Well, my family just found out that my mother’s grandfather isn’t her biological grandfather. We think we know who is, but he was never in the picture when my mom was a kid. So, we don’t have very nice ideas about what happened to my grandmother.

To be honest, I never thought my family would be one of the ones that had drama because of ancestry.com shit lol

My mom and Dad did recently do 23 and Me, so we’re just waiting on those. I just know I’m white through and through. Like my mom is pretty certain she had family in the Caucasus mountains. And my dad’s side (that we know of) is pretty much all Scandinavian.

My favourite was always the one that shows dumbass Jacques Cartier not understanding the word Kanata and ignoring the help he brought along with him to name the country Canada by accident. Our founding father, someone to stupid to listen to an expert!

I also liked the one where dumbass Jean Nicolet can't tell the difference between a lake and an ocean. Basically I like the ones that point out that the boring old men we focused on in school were dumb.

More seriously, I loved the Jennie Trout one, the Halifax explosion (that guy was a hero and it makes me cry) and the Underground Railroad one.

omg, i'm american and binge watched several a while back. that underground railroad one always makes me tear up.

lol I love that the government didn't shy away from showing how stupid some of these dumbass men were.

LMM was everything to me when I was younger. When I was younger I lived with my aunt since my mom was a live-in housekeeper/nanny and my mom and I used to connect through reading the Anne of Green Gables series. We did the same thing with Harry Potter and couple other books but I'm pretty sure Anne was her favorite series.

i read a LMM biography along with the Anne books when I was a child and her life really didn't seem that fun, no wonder she was depressed. you wouldn't necessarily be able to tell from her books though, except maybe the Blythes are quoted one

It shows in her diaries too.

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