For a brief period, Jackie Robinson, famed for breaking the colour line in professional baseball, had played for a baseball team in Montréal. In this episode, we describe how a man who was more focused on football and found himself discharged from the military, ended up being a baseball great, winning a World Series in Major League Baseball, and also a civil rights activist.
Also forgive the three minutes of international Tim Horton's talk at the end.
If you feel like suffering through a trailer for a dead-on-arrival TV series about a real estate agent, have at you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68zSutRvfhU
Heritage Minute:
https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes/jackie-robinson
News articles:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/eels-vancouver-airport-tarmac-1.7260133
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-ont-elver-seizure-1.7208615
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Shawinigan Moments is written and recorded on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Stó:lō (Stolo), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) first nations in what is otherwise called Vancouver.