What is your favourite Historica Minute

[yvr girl]

Agnes Macphail
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10212

Avro Arrow
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10220

Balwind & LaFontaine
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10140

Basketball
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10186

Bluenose
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10213

Emily Murphy
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10205

Flags
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10227

Halifax Explosion
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10203

Jennie Trout
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10173

John McCrae
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10200

[tuvor]

1. Oh, I hate those ads.

I never understood the government's various "be proud of your heritage" campaigns. How can I be proud of something I had no hand in creating?

[achtung_circus]

2. John McRae

Even though I had no hand in creating my country's past, it is also MY past. I grew up listening to my Grandfather (miss you, Bumpa) telling stories of life and death in the trenches of WWI. I heard first hand about Ypres, Vimy, Passchendaele and the Hundred Days.

As Alzheimer's took its toll, the stories became more graphic and disturbing. I heard why he brought home a leather belt I still have. He took it off the first man he bayoneted. His eyes as he told how it felt to feel a man's life ebb out while impaled on the end of my grandfather's rifle went a long way to convince me that while there may be good reasons for war, we need to be sure that they are good reasons.

[Canadian Socialist]

3. In Flanders Fields

that still brings a tear to my eye. My granddad was also in WWI. He was one of the "Old Contemptibles". Before he died he and the remaining veterans of that regiment went to see the Queen Mother. It was his proudest moment, I think. He never did talk much about the war. But what little he told us was horrific. And he really was just a boy at the time.

[Spazito]

4. My choice has to be the Halifax Explosion

My uncle was a child there when it happened and stuttered ever since. It was amazing as much for the overwhelming support that came from across Canada and the northern states to help out as it was tragic.

I don't know how many of you watch the History Channel but it has a series called Disasters of the Century and it is excellent.

[HEyHEY]

5. One that has to do with BC ... oh wait, there isn't one