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Watercolour-Style Animation: Canadian History and Canadian Immigration

watercolour-style animation: Instead, watercolour-style animation tells the story of a little Jewish chicken shop that gave way to a Portuguese fish market that was itself replaced by a Jamaican music store, according to CBC. The 60-second story chronicles change in the popular downtown Toronto neighbourhood and half a century's worth of Canadian immigration. The latest Heritage Minute is unlike any of the 87 previous ones there are no period costumes or actors playing central figures in Canadian history. This Canadian women's basketball team ruled the world and now gets a moment of fame'Our history is not always good' Heritage Minute explores Indian residential schools Filmmaker Michael Goldlist pitched and wrote the new Heritage Minute, which begins with the story of a chicken shop his grandfather, Charles Goldlist, ran for decades. I know that that story is not just common to me, that is so many people's story, the 34-year-old filmmaker said on a recent visit to the Toronto neighbourhood. Charles Goldlist was a Holocaust survivor who immigrated to Canada from Poland in 1948 when Kensington Market was a largely Jewish immigrant neighbourhood. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.