Historica-Dominion Heritage Minute Winners

Eamonn O’Keeffe of the Fort York Guard, aged sixteen, and his high school friend, Patrick Y. Lee, have won the Historica-Dominion Institute’s Heritage Minute contest for their dramatization of the 1100 km trek by the 104th Regiment from New Brunswick to Upper Canada in the winter of 1813. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8mWYjPHbVw Nine other members of the Guard (Cameron Anderson, Conran Cosgrove, Pierce Cosgrove, Samantha Horne, Simon Li, Baknel Macz, Stuart Murray, Sally O’Keeffe, and Graeme Sylvia) acted in the film based on a journal of the march kept by Lieutenant John Le Couteur, himself only eighteen years old at the time. The Huffington Post, CBC News, Sun News, and Global TV “Morning Show” all reported on the prize-winning entry, which has been selected as a Toronto International Film Festival Next Wave finalist. It even attracted notice from BBC Jersey Radio and The Jersey Evening Post on the Channel Islands where Le Couteur was born.