[3] The creation of the Canada Media Fund was announced by Minister of Heritage, James Moore in a speech given on March 9, 2009.

This channel was uniquely dedicated to licensing and making freely available outstanding legacy Canadian content, particularly series and films without an existing streaming service presence or physical home media releases.

[27] Over its lifetime, all Canadian content acquisitions and curation were led by programming and operations lead Paulina Abarca-Cantin.

[29] Over five years, Encore+ also commissioned the restoration of iconic Canadian feature films including Johnny Mnemonic, The Snow Walker, New Waterford Girl, Eclipse, Monica la mitraille, L'Arrache-cœur, When Night is Falling, Remembrance, La Cueca Sola, A Silent Love and Timothy Findley's The Wars [30] On November 17 and 18, 2022, official platforms announced that after more than five years of availability, the service (now considered a pilot project) was to shut down on November 30.

[31][32][33] All media was wiped from both YouTube channels on that date, and the Twitter account[34] and Facebook page[35] with lists of content and discussion were made unavailable.