American Reacts to Heritage Minutes: Insulin, D-Day, & Basketball
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As an American I don't know much about Canadian history, and Canadian heritage moments are a fantastic way to learn about important events and people in Canada's past. Today I am very excited to learn about the discovery of Insulin, Canada's role in D-Day, and the invention of Basketball by Canadian James Naismith. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
They all sold these patents to the University of Toronto for $1 each. Banting famously said, “Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world.” He wanted everyone who needed it to have access to it. Now some people can’t even afford it.
Because the pharmaceutical companies decided to change the insulin recipe slightly. This way they could claim it as their work and not use Banting and Best's recipe. Pure greed against peoples lives.
That the scientists gave this medicine to the world for free should really piss off Americans and their Big Pharma greed.
At least in the US, Biden has got one of the producers to agree to 35$ US/month as the retail price point. That’s a big reduction. And hopefully the competitors match.
Is insulin patented?
@@earnesta.brooks7123 Americans always find a way to ensure only their wealthiest people get the money from such things.
"I need those baskets back"...the most iconic line in the entire series and he missed it.
Right? He would have died laughing at it..
Agreed!!
Riiiight!! I was hoping he would rewind it to hear that part! ....it's as iconic as "burnt toast..dr Penfield I smell burnt toast"!
@@Sara-zx2wm we riot if he misses burnt toast haha
I’m unfollowing if he misses the burnt toast line 😂
That boy with diabetes, that's what my daughter was like before it was figured out she has Type 1 diabetes. She bounced back really fast once diagnosed. This heritage minute brings me to tears every time I see it. Drs. Banting and Best saved my kid's life
My sister's too.
The D-Day one brought me to tears.
@Tyler Bucket - In regards to D-Day, James Doohan (Scottie from the original Star Trek), fought in the war on d-day, got shot 6 times, lost a finger, and his life was saved by a cigarette tin that was in his right pocket.. it deflected the potentially fatal shot. and he was a canadian! the only red shirt in star trek to not die.. lol
VERY VERY VERY good point... A red shirt who on the landing party did not die... makes u think rodenberry had it in for him afterwards....
Literally! 😆
I will add t hat it was friendly fire. He was shot by a nervous Canadian sentry, while crossing between command posts late at night.
I say this with true peace and love but the Americans take a lot of credit for the hard work that many of the allied soldiers did during the first and second world war including the Korean war and a few other overseas operations. I'm so pleased that you're learning that it just wasn't the Americans that did all "the work".
What war has the USA actually won except the revolutionary war on their own. WW1 they came to France with less than a year left when the Germans were being pushed back thanks in part by the shock troops from Canada New Zealand and Australia. It was the ALLIES that won WW2 not the USA. The Korean war has yet to be resolved and that was another war that was fought by allies not just the USA. The U.S. got their ass kicked so badly in Viet Nam that it still hurts today.
I've watched many many documentaries and you're absolutely right. I'm not sure why that is other than America thrives on being better than everyone else and with that, they ignore the values of other countries. Sad but true
Naismith was the very 1st Athletics Director at McGill University in Montreal. His inspiration for basketball was an old childhood game he played growing up in Almonte, Ontario called 'ducks on a rock'. He wanted a sport to keep students fit over long cold winters. The Edmonton Grads were 4 time Olympic champions; never losing a game (1924, 1928, 1932, 1936). The NBA's first ever game took place in 1946 at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens when the New York Knickerbockers played the Toronto Huskies.
That is not completely correct. Women's basketball was not an official Olympic sport until 1976. Those wins from 1924 to 1936 were not officially recognized and the team did not receive medals
My dad was a part of the D-day invasion . He told me that when they were on the landing craft they were packed so tight that you couldn't move. Then one of the soldiers had a grenade drop off their belt. He said they couldn't do anything but count down. Luckily it turned out to be a dud , but dad had nightmares about that for the rest of his life!
Wow!!! That's intense! The only time ur happy ur grenade is a dud! Omg!
@@Sara-zx2wm Yeah ! We can't even imagine what sorts of things they went through !
All over Europe, there are military cemeteries that have large sections of Canadian graves all with the maple leaf. I toured several in Italy.
There is a large Canadian cemetery in Holland and the graves are cared for by school children.
@laurabailey1054 Groesbeek Commonwealth War Cemetery. 2,300 of 2,700 men are Canadian. My great uncle, David Hebblethwaite is there.
Holten is another, with 1,400 Canadians. Most of these men died in the final months of the war.
The cemeteries are kept in immaculate condition.
Canada is a country with a rich military history. We were born in war, and our soul was forged in the Vimy. World War 2 was when the world saw our strength, but our citizens saw our sacrifice. We took a different route after WWII to strive for peace. That said, we are a country built from combat, and we can bring the pain. We just want the fight to be the absolute last thing. Look to Leo Major, a hero who was a honest hard working man. Who sought nothing for his heroism, but he achieved amazing things when he did fight. I see Canada a lot like him. We will fight and fight hard, but we really do not like it and see our strength in other things. Our military are heroes, but it had its problems like everything else. It is still something we must honour and remember. They have left blood in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the America's, and for that, they are heros.
Bravo 👏 🇨🇦
I wouldn't go so far as to say Canada was forged in war - it wasn't - but everything else you said is absolutely true.
Canada evolved into a self-governing country. It was formed by the results of war.
Yup, Leo Major was something else!
Canada has never started a war nor had war declared on us, but we've won every single war we showed up for.
You forgot their contribution to WWI.
Canadian actor James Doohan(Scottie in Star Trek) landed on D-Day as a junior officer of an artillery regiment. That evening he was returning from a scouting trip in the dark and got shot up by a soldier with a Bren gun. He lost a finger and the silver cigarette case in his breast pocket saved him from another bullet.
He was unfit for front line service, so learned to fly and operated a single engine spotter plane for artillery targeting.
Because of that lost finger, whenever they showed a close-up of Scotty manipulating the transporter controls, they used someone else's hands so the missing finger wouldn't be apparent.
This was back when "bone spurs" was no excuse. I can't fathom why people accept such lame excuses these days (especially when the person who claimed the diagnosis surely lied and did not serve his country.) Doohan had a missing finger and shrapnel besides, and the last thing he would have complained about was fake bone spurs.
The only red shirt in Star Trek to not die in the away mission 👍
I am a type 1 diabetic born in the city of Toronto Canada, I have had diabetes for 60 years, I had the distinct honour of meeting Dr Best a few years before his death. Proud to be a Canadian born in the city that discovered Insulin!
juno beach was brutal, there's a high sea wall with barbed wire coils on top the length of the beach where the germans had a huge gun that could cover the beach and behind the sea wall. there is a town behind the sea wall so it was urban fighting, more canadians died as a percentage of those landed than in any other battle on d-day yet the canadians managed to push further inland than any of their allies and complete the most objectives.
A Canadian tank regiment, the First Hussars, was the only Allied unit to achieve its D-Day objective on the first day of operations. They went so far inland that they had to be pulled back to allow other units to catch up.
One of my maternal great uncles was in a Canadian artillery unit and was involved in the D-Day landings. His war diary, all four pages of it, relates how his artillery regiment and other Canadian artillery regiments in his area of operations were lobbing 13,000 shells per hour at German-held positions in the first few hours of the invasion. It's a very clear indication of just how intense the fighting was.
A movie was made about the Canadian D-Day landings, it's called 'Storming Juno'.
It was the only beach with French residents right behind the seawall, so that beach got little aerial or naval bombardment. Some of those houses turned out to be very well disguised German gun emplacements.
I would love to see a "canadian" historical video about NOFU in WW2.
Or the Blue Puttees.. IMHO the most bad ass "canadian" fighting force ever created.
@@TotensBurntCorpse Storming Juno is the movie to see for Canadian D day. There is a Doc on NOFU but can't remember the title, sorry. Will see if I can find it.
@@toddstevens13 I would love to see a documentary on NOFU... my maternal great grandfather died in '42 and as far as i was told was in NOFU... my paternal great grand father also signed up for NOFU and also dies but in '43... it was COMMON for NOFU people to be press ganged into the RN once they were suckered into going over there.
Dieppe is pronounced "dee-epp"
And you should check out the battle of Vimy Ridge. It was one of Canada's most profound moments. My grandfather was there.
As was day 1 of the battle of the Somme, or Gallipoli (NF reg only north american unit to fight there), or Baumont Hamel (the mine explosion there is an Iconic WW1 photo), or Ypres or Cambrai (first ever tank on tank battle).
Its why i grew up with July 1st in the AM being a memorial day.. remembering the Hawthorne ridge attack, not as "Canada Day" AFTER 715am it can be canada.. before that its Beamont Hamel day one of the battle of the somme...
The Newfoundland Regiment was the ONLY unit in ww1 elevated to royal status of all nations involved. At one time even Haig directly praised the unit.. shortly there after George V gave royal acclaim.
My grandfather was terribly wounded at the battle of Dieppe and as a result met my grandmother who was a nurse in the hospital he was sent to recover in.
Also war of 1812 when Canada defending its neighbourhoods and then maybe did a little arsonism on the White House just for good measure lol.
@@slenderfoxx3797 No canada in 1812.
of course there was a Canada in 1812. Two British Colonies named Upper and Lower Canada that later federated with Atlantic Canada.
Canadian troops and airmen made a disproportionatly large role in WWII. They had troops on the ground and planes in the air in Britain over 26 months before the US even declared war. The Dieppe Raid in Aug 1942 was the effective trial run for D Day almost 2 yrs later. Many lessons were learned, at great human cost. 5000 of the troops which landed at Dieppe were Canadian, 1000 were British commandos, and 50 men were American.
And of course Brits and Americans only viewed Canadians as canon fodder and take all the credit. What an arrogant bunch of pantsies.
That's what always bugs me about WW2 war movies that almost always only include Americans. Canada was a major part of the war effort. At the end of the war we had one of the largest navies in the world. The only movies that us some justice are Devil's Brigade and Battle of Britain. In almost all other movies we are replaced with Americans... Even Argo ovelooks most of what Canada did during the Iran hostage crisis.
@@Trygvar13 We are the ones that walk softly and carry a big stick.
dieppe was a pinch raid... not a dry run for DDay to show stalin we couldnt do it... the ORIGINAL Dieppe raid (Rutter) that was cancelled was a trial run.. The ACTUAL dieppe raid (Jubilee) was to get Bletchley park an Enigma Machine. Ian Fleming is involved as part of british naval intelligence (yes james bond)
Exactly, Americans would not have even bothered until it became personal with Pearl Harbour.
There's a movie called Juno (2007) which covers Canada's taking of the beach minute by minute. And although the fighting was as heavy as it was at Omaha, Canada was the first to secure the beach.
In fact, Canadian units advanced farther inland than any other Allied troops and were *the only ones to complete all their D-Day objective,* though many ultimately fell back to strengthen defensive positions
Also, the iconic footage of the D-Day landing with the Higgins boat opening up to Normandy beach with the white house in the foreground was taken by New Brunswick’s North Shore Regiment from Miramichi, NB.
@@merritttrucker that famous picture was actually a picture of canadian troops landing at *juno beach* ...that house is still there and is called called: Canada House, which is also known as La Maison des Canadiens, or Maison de Queen's Own Rifles of Canada,... that picture was mistakenly or purposely used in many a USA news reel....as a picture of USA troops
@@debbie541 that is what I said lol
Americans tend to fixate on Omaha Beach (see Saving Private Ryan) as being the hardest beach but Juno Beach was as difficult if not more because the fighting was against fortified urban targets. Some of the hardest battles in WWII in Europe were given to Canadians. Dieppe, Ortona, Juno Beach, Falaise Gap, Scheldt Estuary.
The reason Naismith came up with the game was because, at the time, there were no athletic sports one could play indoors in the middle if winter. Most men weren't up to playing things like badminton or tennis, so Naismith needed a way to keep his rowdy men busy. He created basketball as a solution, and today, you'd be hard pressed to find a public or school gym without a basketball court.
I actually came here to say that exact thing. Since you beat me to it, I'd like to add that he used a combination of rules from rugby and soccer as a base for the rules to basketball.
@@Thundarr100 you can elements from lacrosse and ducks on a rock from his childhood.
My Dad lied his age to join the army. The Algonquin Regiment, Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa.
He landed on Juno Beach on D Day.
He was 20 years old. He made it home....never talked about it. Worked hard. Lived a good life until he was 89. Thank You Dad. 😘🇨🇦
True North Strong and Free. Thank you ❤️
Flanders Fields a poem by John Mcrae , where a lot of Canadians are buried in Flanders Fields in Belgium
As a Canadian with Diabetes, I’ve got a particular respect for Dr. Frederick Banting and his team. Even before being diagnosed, Banting was my pick for greatest Canadian. Tommy Douglas was a close second.
Banting discovered insulin but Tommy Douglas made it possible to get it, and all medication and all medical care, cheap.
And let us not forget the doggos that Banting stole from locals to experiment on.. they might not have given their lives willingly but I think they should still be honoured@@fedodosto3162
I want to incourage you to please be extremely careful with your diet even if you're a type one or type two. And please try to get at least an hour of exercise 7 days a week. It will change your numbers drastically. Maybe you do this already. I don't know. I work in the medical field. And I always try to encourage diabetics. So please don't take this wrong. Have a great day.❤
@@personincognito3989 don’t worry, I do. My most recent bloodwork was great :)
@@personincognito3989 Wise advice indeed!
A school friend's grandmother was nurse who worked with Banting and Best in the lab during the discovery of insulin. She met Dr Banting working in a MASH until during WW1 in France. An amazing lady.
I worked in a lab in UofT's Banting building a few years back. Best building is right beside it of course. it was quite interesting to be working in a building named after such important Canadians! Do you know about the "Eternal Flame" in London ON, dedicated to them? I'm not sure of the details, but apparently the property with that flame is where Banting and Best's actual lab used to be, when they weren't working out of the UofT building that now hold their names.
On the topic of US minds blown...
John Kay of Steppenwolf once said "Born to be wild was written by one Canadian and sang by another (himself); it must be the most Canadian song."
In Winnipeg, where I am from, there is a street called Valour Road. In World War One, there were 3 recipients of the Victoria Cross all from the same street. Please look at the Heritage Minutes for your next video. Also, the Canadians were the first to get on mainland on D-Day.
I love heritage minutes, watch them all the time.
May I suggest the Avro Arrow, Winnie, and Underground Railroad.
As a Canadian, I second this opinion. 👍
I live in London, Ontario where Frederick Banting's home is located and which is now a museum. Very cool place to visit, especially if you wish to learn more about his life and his part in Insulin's discovery.
I live in London also and work as a nurse at Children's Hospital. Went to the museum years ago and loved learning everything about him! ❤
He used his dog as his first subject. He sold the patent for insulin to the U. of Toronto for 1$ with the caveat that it never be sold for a profit. So that has been the case since then.
Sadly, that's not the case. He would have given the patent for free, but sold it for $1 to create a legally binding contract (both sides need to gain something for it to be legally binding). As you said, the caveat was that the pharmaceutical companies would not make a profit on it. However, through a loophole they argue that they have further refined Banting's process, so they aren't making profit on his part but they are on their part. That is why a vial of insulin costs $12 in Canada, and $98.70 in the US.
I agree Tyler and find most Americans don't know that insulin was developed here in Toronto, Canada. We have a beautiful small museum with original objects from Banting and Best's lab right near where I live in downtown Toronto. It is an amazing discovery that created the Banting and Best Institute here in Toronto as well. The institute is recently working on finding a way to get the body to create it's own insulin again. So inspiring. I believe B&B injected insulin into dogs before trying it on a human.
The Banting homestead is in our town and is a small museum. It is really interesting to visit.
The entire coast of Normandy was attacked on D-Day. There were 5 beaches stormed that day. The Americans at Utah and Omaha, the Brits at Sword and Gold and the Canadians at Juno. Omaha and Juno suffered the most casualties. Sadly, most Americans aren't taught that WWII began in 1939 and the U.S. didn't enter the war until 1942 after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, Dec. 7th 1941.
There were some British marines on Juno beach too.
I would argue that World War Two actually began in 1937 with Japan's invasion of mainland China. 1939 (and the invasion of Poland) is rather an arbitrary and Eurocentric choice for the egining of hostilities.
@TheCanadiangirl4
Yes, of course. The entire war was fought by allied forces all over Europe.
@@andreraymond6860
Historically speaking, it wasn't a World War until England declared war on Germany in '39. Japan was still at peace with the rest of the world.
There's quite a lot about Canadian military history on YT.
More heritage minutes please. I love love these commercials.
I'm from the same town as the guy who discovered insulin. When to the high school named after him, been to his house which is now a museum for him. Frederick Banting is our towns claim to fame
Hi from London Ontario too!!
I recognized one of the nurses in the insulin one, actress Jewel Staite, known for Firefly and Stargate Atlantis, currently on Family Law.
Heritage Minutes suggestions: Sir Sandford Fleming. Bluenose. Avro Arrow. & Jackie Robinson. I know he's American, but he has a connections to Canada. You'll have to watch to see.
Hi Tyler. It's "dee-ep" The Canadians were used as Guinee pigs years before D-day to land on the beaches in tanks. The tracks just slipped on the ground and the Germans slaughtered the entire Canadian force. (short version)
incorrect about being test subjects... over 50% of the brand new churchill tanks got off the beach and over the seawall, less than 30% were destroyed / bogged down on the beaches... this is a common mistake based upon the propaganda photos the germans took of several churchils up to the hull bottom sunk in the shingle cobblestones. Red and White beaches where they landed were directly in front of Dieppe town proper and were needed to support the ESCAPE of the pinch raid teams in the event the ship commanded by Red Ryder could not get the commando pinch team out that way.
Actual pictures captured AFTER the war from the heights of Pourville above Green beach show only a handful of tanks and strangely enough Daimler Dingos bogged down.. MOST tanks lost getting off the beach were lost on the open ground after the cobbles on the sand to the seawall. ie a VERY good showing given the murderous crossfire on them.
Exercise Smash in april 1944 kinda showed that IF Dieppe was a "Trial run" for DDay then the allies didnt learn a damn thing... in the intervening two years.
Hi Totens. Thank you for the detailed historical information. I frown on disinformation myself. I appreciate you correcting my error. I have never heard that version before but from the way you describe it. I believe your statements. One more example of our "CanaPropaganda" as I call it. I will investigate Dieppe a bit further now. Cheers!!
@@seanseguin7253 there was a GREAT history channel documentary done just before covid (by Dan Snow) that brought out after 15yrs research what REALLY happened related to dieppe... guys like Lord Mountbattan, Ian Fleming of James Bond fame (yes he was a comander in the royal navy intelligence divsion) or Red Ryder (the insane bastard that commanded the ship that rammed the locks in the St Nazarine raid), what was being done... who was involved... Dieppe was really a Smash and Grab (pinch raid) where EVERYONE was disposable in order to get our hands on a 4 rotor enigma machine...
Banting's inventiveness was evident in other fields of medicine. Banting was instrumental in designing the "G" suit worn by fighter pilots to reduce black out/red outs due to the high G forces in aerobatic maneuvers.
Banting's suit was pant like with tubes that inflated by air at the body's lower extremity's pressure points thus keeping the blood from draining/flooding the brain in tight turns.
Many fighter pilots died because they became blacked out due to G forces and could not control their aircraft. They were easy meat for a conscious enemy pilot.
Banting was taking his invention to England when the RCAF aircraft taking him to Halifax crashed in New Brunswick . Banting died in the crash.
For the Heritage Minutes, I kind of wish Tyler would watch these and then comment on them, since they are only a minute long..... I kind of feel that pausing right in the middle of "but we need these baskets back!" is some sort of crime in Canadian lore
6:07 (the beech was sectioned into 5). Juno was secured by canadians. Who then flexed to assist Omaha afterwards. Its what allies do!
Some more facts about D-Day more Canadians lost their lives per the number of troops involved then any other country. Also the the German troops were of greater degree than other beaches. Believe it or not we Canadians got almost all their targets captured we got further inland than anyone else including the U.S. troops on Utah beach
Canadian James (Scotty) Doohan of star trek fame took six bullets on D Day.
Juno Beach is considered by some accounts to be almost as bloody as Omaha Beach was (Saving Private Ryan). But, they landed and went inland that day and secured all their D-Day objectives. In the following days and weeks it got nasty as the 12th SS Panzers arrived and attempted to stop the Canadians. For the Canadians, after Normandy, came the Falaise Gap, and the liberation of the French ports on the English Channel from Le Havre to Belgium. Then the infamous Battle of the Scheldt (more bloody than D-Day) and finally the Liberation of the Netherlands.
Juno Beach is on my bucket list to visit (and Vimy). You can just imagine when the owners of Juno Beach were considering putting condos on Juno Beach. The uproar in Canada got the government to buy it.
I can't imagine the people who live there would have liked that either. They have too much respect for the Canadians who fought for their freedom. The area is memorialized. The graveyard a short drive from there is beautiful and well kept. The residents still put flowers there. It's very touching to be there.
You should go! It is very moving and definitely worth the trip. My husband’s great grandfather was killed at Vimy, so we went to see his grave site close by. We also went to Juno Beach and walked along the cliffs. There’s a great little museum that features the Dieppe invasion.
You need to watch and research Leo Major....now that should be made into a movie. Real Canadian "Rambo" type hero.
Tyler, for a bigger impact you should try watching the whole video at once then commenting on it and THEN read up on it. Most of these minutes were things Canadians didn't learn in school and there was no internet back then.... so our first learning of these moments were in one shot in these commercials. It was impactful for us because we never knew where the commercial was going or what it was going to tell us, it was attention grabbing. You might enjoy them better watching them in this way.
^^^^ This! Been saying the same.
He has to stop and do commentary partly thru the videos ELSE UA-cam will demonitize him for lack of "fair use" rules... ie he has to create CONTENT... otherwise he's plagerizing someones work....
@@TotensBurntCorpse Disregard the "whole video" thing, the gist of korivex's suggestion is in the order. First watch, then read. Just like most every one of us learned about these. They wouldn't pepper the tv with bits about things every Canadian already knew, they peppered the tv with bits about things every Canadian *should* know. So that they'd know, y'know.
@@TotensBurntCorpse I've watched others watching the full videos without being demonetized, so I'm not sure.... and even if he comments through out the video, fine, but I think it would be more impactful for him to watch the video before reading up on it.
@@korivex742 i agree,, but it seems tyler is playing by the rules...
you should look up why canadians were feared by the Germans....You'll see us in a very different light....not necessarily bad, but very different. We Canadians have a ruthlessness that is often overshadowed by our kindness.
🇨🇦 Well said.
The Canadian First World War night raids were legendary. 🪖😈
"If I had Canadian Soldiers, American technology and British officers I would rule the world." - Winston Churchill
Oh the devils brigade or something
Another Heritage you should watch is Valor Road, 3 Canadians who all live on Winnipeg's Pine Street, where all 3 Canadian got the Victoria Cross, for their bravery.
Juno beach was the second heaviest defended beach and Canadian took a lot of casualties, yet they went farther than any other beach.
You'd be Surprised by How Many Americans, cross the Border to BUY THEIR INSULIN, Which is CHEAPER in Canada,Then in the States. The American pharmaceutical companies charge Three times the amount for IT Then what's charged in Canada. Also the U S Dollar is worth more in Canada. One U S dollar is $1. 33 in Canada($ 100 U S = $ 133. CND).
"But I need these baskets back."
One of the many Heritage Minute quotes from my childhood.
For basketball... I thought it was at McGill (as on the sweater) University not a YMCA. But the instructor needed a way for the men to exercise inside during bad weather so... he came up with something... that something grew and changed to become the BASKET ball (after those peach baskets) we know today.
These heritage minutes are a one minute movie designed to teach, but also inspire you to look for more info... and they were around long before the internet was able to answer all your questions. You had to go to these places known as libraries to learn more.
Sadly, now the internet has "fact-checkers" who alter history as they see fit.
You should really watch about some of Canada’s greatest achievements in war and it’s dark history that was specifically written against in the Geneva Convention. But also a video on the one eyed pirate who saved an entire town single handedly and caught off thousands of Chinese with a couple others
For your next video, check out the Heritage Minutes about the vikings, and Dr. Wilder Penfield
Great one Tyler
#1 is always house hippo. #2 "I need those baskets back!!", but you missed that line! #3 "I smell burnt toast!!" (Dr. Penfield). The This Hour has 22 Minutes clip on the last one is great too
The MVP Award for the NBA Finals is now The James Naismith MVP Award. Love they've done that.
Greetings from Almonte, Ontario - the town from which the man who invented Basketball hailed. There is a life-sized bronze statue of him in the town square. Wish UA-cam allowed you to post images - it's pretty cool. No one from Chicago or the US has ever heard about him...until now.
Interesting. I’m also from Almonte. Small world.
@@Jasper0o0 Friendliest town in Ontario they say.
You might have spotted Jewel Staite in the insulin one
Pronounced 'Dee-epp' it's another beach/town on the French coast. The Dieppe invasion was a failure that contributed to the success of Normandy. There is another minute about Dieppe too and it's very good; one of my favourites. There are a lot Canadian battles that could easily make a good movie, it's a shame it doesn't happen more.
Basketball was one the originals, might be one of the most famous, and has some famous lines too.
haha there are movies of canadians in world 2 and they are presented as american soldiers, the great escape for one (no americans in that great escape, later also the movie abiut the the 1979 Iran hostage crisis (argo). also the picture every body sees of a landing craft at normandy is a canadian troop landing craft
I have a stone my uncle found on the beach of Normandy that has a hole in it. He said it probably started as a chip from a bulletin and the water wore the rest away.
I was mistaken it was actually a commercial of all things, still very good though: ua-cam.com/video/Dd1FNPx_YN4/v-deo.htmlsi=Ivi06J6Tn_z4HFls
I live 6 miles from Almonte Ontario where Naismith lived. The town is so proud of him and there are many plaques , a park and a museum all dedicated to Naismith.
Im 36 years old. diagnosed TYPE ONE DIABETIC at age of 9. THANK YOU FOR THE EXTRA 27 YEARS OF LIVING LIFE ALIVE
Great stuff! Yeah, We're awesome. I remember as a kid growing up (I'm in my 30s) the discovery of insulin was regularly brought up in classes of mine as something to be proud of.
I'm glad we have heritage minutes, but 60 seconds isn't enough time to adequately tell these amazing true stories, but it atleast gets them out to the public. Which is important.
If you really want to see the Canadian perspective on WWII I suggest you read the book Vimy by P. Burton. It will open your eyes to the actual scope of the conflict. Once you are finished, then look towards the Donbas oblast and think some more.
vimy by pierre berton is about WWI.
typo. you are right of course.
@@blackberrythorns
I love these episodes. Keep ‘‘em coming.😊
Juno Beach was the second most defended beach. Only Omaha was better defended.
Basketball wasn't something played in Canada, but there was a game kids played in Naismiths day called duck on a rock where a rock is placed on a stump or large rock. Kids would try to knock it down by throwing other rocks...Naismith noted the succesful kids used a basketball style arcing shot...this was the inspiration for basketball
I'm proud to say that my daughter went to the University of Toronto. It's a fantastic place. ❤
Do you know Leo Major, heros of second war world?
There's a great video about Leo Major out there!
the 'not pure enough' thing, the early treatment used boiled and filtered sheep pancreas for a good while, up till it was synthesised it was a purified extract. being a natural product it was quite limited and prone to allergic responses, the more detailed story begins with the extract and ends with the synthetic.
I would be honored if you were to go down the Canadian Military History rabbit hole and make a few episodes on the stuff you found memorable but atleast check out Leo Major, Sir William Stephenson, Billy Bishop . The disaster at Dieppe. The Medak Valley in the Bosnian War. lol just run a " top ten canadian military engagements" search and remember bring snacks and stay hydrated as you will be there a while. Love the content hope you are well and having fun.
Would love to see that as well... Let's secretly turn Tyler into a mouth piece of Canadian Military history! 😆
Unfortunately merchant Marines were greatly disrespected after the war. They were told that they weren't soldiers and their contributions downplayed despite having the most losses of the war. It's rarely talked about today and most of them died having never been recognized despite nearly all being under 16 at the time enlisting.
The doctors then went to all the hospitals around and into the wards of dying children and by the time he was at the last child in the room the first ones were up and playing.
I like the bluenose one also there's one about Terry Fox also the superman one and the Winnipeg falcons
This being Lucy Maud Montgomery's birthday, it is fitting that I ask that you should react to her Heritage Minute. She changed literature for women forever. Being from Prince Edward Island, I admit my bias.
“But I need these baskets back!” Was such a meme in my household because of the basketball one, lol
My son once played a university aged James Naismith in a community theatre in Almonte Ontario (where James Naismith was from) during the week of the plays run, James’ grandson and his wife happened to be in town. He apparently visited Almomte every so many years from his home in Texas. When the producer of the play got word that he was in town she made sure that he and his wife were given complimentary tickets for a show. He came to the show and invited the cast and crew and families back to the bed and breakfast he was staying in for a reception. It was great. Three different actors played Mr. Naismith in the production, there was the childhood James, the university aged James (played by my son, who was in high school at the time) and the adult James. The three actors had a picture taken with James’ grandson, I should search for the photograph and post it for you.
Seeing those graves with the Maple Leaf brings a tear to me eye. Some from sadness, but also a huge sense of thanks and pride.
I love you watching these Cdn Heritage minutes... there us one specific one I can't wait to see you watch as I grew up in the small town in Alberta (Myrnam Hospital Heritage minute)
3:08 this boy is not the first to receive insulin. There is a movie called Glory Enough for All that does an amazing job of following the efforts of the scientists who worked with dogs to prefect the dosage and use of insulin. These dogs gave their lives in the journey to discover, use and perfect the insulin so that this boy could receive the first safe dose of the insulin. The movie also does an amazing job of showing the scientists gratitude to the dogs as they gave their lives. I am diabetic myself. I owe those dogs and the scientists for what I am able to receive to stay alive. Insulin has bought me time.
The Canadians on Juno Beach got further inland on D Day than the campaigns on the other beaches.
I love your positivity
This was a well curated selection. I rode the emotional rollercoaster with you.
You should really watch a video about Léo Major. He’s a québécois that fought in ww2 and he’s the guy with the most badass story I have ever seen period. He captured a city by himself after his friend got shot in front of him
The D-Day one, they have Michael Shanks as the Major. He is a well know Canadian actor (10 years as Dr. Daniel Jackson on Stargate SG-1 and 5 years as Dr. Charlie Harris in Saving Hope). I guess it helps with the cinematic of it all.
Hi Tyler. I've been enjoying your reactions. I sent you an idea few weeks back. I want to say it again. As far as I know, you haven't reacted to the Gander stories. Other reactions have been to the Tom Brokaw video or the CBC one. The best one is entitled "You are here a come from away story. That one doesn't just skim the surface. You get to know, in depth, what really happened. I look forward to watching your reaction. Be amazed!
The Dieppe landing was a big, dark, one for our history too (well, in my family anyway). It was badly prepped, and Canadiens basically were canon fodder. Massive, MASSIVE PTSD for the soldiers who survived. CBC made a miniseries in the 90s about it, but I can't say if it aged well.
Banting and Best would go on to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery. They would share the award money with their research colleagues. They gave away the patent for FREE with the caveat that insulin be kept cheap. ( which obviously di NOT happen). I don't know if you caught it, but Major MacNaughton was portrayed by actor Michael Shanks of Stargate :SG1 fame.
My father was one of those men who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. I’m among the youngest ‘children’ of those veterans - born in 1966.
His mother sent her 4 sons, in 4 different regiments (3 in NB and my father was in a Quebec regiment) in hopes at least one would come home: all 4 did.
I heard so many stories from my father growing up (told so I’d know why but also I heard much via flashbacks). Then this past year I found his regiment’s log online and read it. Had I not already been prepared it would have been a much more difficult read.
My father and his brothers came home each in one physical piece, but not one of them came home while mentally/emotionally. The toll of their time, what they had to do, and the horrors they both saw and experienced, left indelible marks that no amount of peace time could ever heal.
I miss seeing these on TV they never should have stopped showing them it's important to remember our history
Since you just did one about D-Day, it only makes sense to do one on Vimy Ridge next.
At this point Tyler, you know more than most Canadians know about Canada. Bravo!
Watching Hollywood produced movies about WW2 can be pretty frustrating. They usually write out the role of Cdns and use the British as an afterthought or comic relief. The Great Escape is a good example of this, Canadians were heavily involved in digging the tunnels out of the camp but Hollywood switched it to Americans. There were many countries involved in this war including Australia, NZ, India, Chinese, Russia, free people of France and Poland. I'm sure I'm forgetting more allies.
Tyler, Saving Private Ryan was literally about D-Day. 😂 thats why it reminded you of it.
*ALLIED* troops who landed on the D-Day beaches were from the *United Kingdom, Canada,* USA *Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland.* ..the 5 target beaches were UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO, and SWORD
My friend and I were discussing the Canadian Heritage Minutes and reciting the famous lines from them. We as Canadians learned alot of history from them. They are so popular, that they started making new ones.
If you get the chance, and you don't mind getting a little depressed, you should take look for information on two of the more tragic moments for the Canadian army in WW2: the attack on the french town of Dieppe, and the defense of Hong Kong. Both cost a lot of Canadian lives, and unfortunately not a lot of Canadians are really aware of what happened in Hong Kong.
The great nephew of James Naismith was my teacher. Naismith's childhood home is a nature conservation area now called the Mill of Kintail. In Almonte, Ontario, the same little town where they make so many of those Hallmark Christmas movies, you can go to his childhood home and enjoy the nature trails and the museum that is the house. His statue is on Mill street. If you Google James Naismith statue Almonte, it comes right up.
Juno Beach was 2nd to Omaha for casualties. Almost 1,200 casualties, 340 KIA. They landed against heavily fortified towns. Some infantry companies had less than 30 men out of 120 who got off their landing crafts get off the beach.
My grandfather and great uncle were combat engineers, landing in the 3rd wave. Both survived the day. 5,000 Canadians died in the 3 months of the Normandy campaign.
Hello, My name is Clara. I am actually The little girl in the 10:16 moment. It was amazing watching everything get put together. BUT HOLY IY WAS COLD. There was also a deleted scene, when I was sitting on the rail of the porch crying while reading the letter.
Also bros face when he saw me.. XD. Really got me laughing. It was actually filmed in Calgary Alberta. Close to Canmore where I live.
Another great video Tyler, would be great to see you also review the following video titled... The World Without Canada (Science and Technology) Season 1, Episode 1