War Heritage Research Initiative
This website contains learning resources on Canada’s heritage related to the world wars. These resources contribute to our understanding of remembrance and commemoration in the 21st century by exploring a range of perspectives on how war impacted the lives of people, communities and the nation.
Reflections on the Service of Indigenous Veterans: The Memory Project Series
This Memory Project online panel discussion features three Memory Project speakers, moderated by award-winning journalist Shaneen Robinson-Desjarlais.
The film, ‘A Moral Awakening’, explores the heritage of service and sacrifice of the people of Délı̨nę in the making of the atom bomb during the Second World War. It is also a story of what is remembered, forgotten, and silenced in history.
The "Trees of Remembrance" are a row of London Planetrees along Shelbourne Street in Saanich and Victoria, B.C., originally planted in the 1920s to honor fallen soldiers and nurses from WWI and the Boer War.
I'm just Anneke : accepting a gender non-conforming child
Anneke is 12. She loves ice hockey and has a loving, close-knit family. She's also a hardcore tomboy. Everybody who meets her assumes she's a boy. That makes puberty even harder for her than most girls. Anneke's not sure if she wants to be a girl, a boy, or something in-between when she grows up. To give her more time to decide, her doctor has put her on a medication that will suppress the hormones that are causing her body to change before she's ready.
A Nation honours its history. Three times in the 20th century, Canada played a major role in a terrible war. 116,000 Canadians were killed in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. They are buried overseas, where they fell. But 27,000 Canadians who were killed have no known graves. Their final resting place is marked by a headstone with no name, or it is at the bottom of the sea.
Kwekànamad - The Wind Is Changing
Annie Smith-St-Georges is an Algonquin mother and wife who led a largely uneventful life. Then tragedy struck in 1990, when her teenage son Yanik ended his life. Annie wanted to forget and yet to remember, to understand and yet to deny. Then one day she had a vision of a glass teepee ten storeys high, in Ottawa, to house a National Aboriginal Arts and Performance Centre.
Parade : Queer Acts of Love & Resistance
An unflinching journey through Canada's 2SLGBTQI+ history, capturing the pivotal protests and passionate voices that ignited a movement of love and resistance.
In early 2016, when a dark wave of anti-transgender “bathroom bills” began sweeping across the nation, The Human Rights Campaign published a report identifying 2016 as THE MOST DANGEROUS YEAR for transgender Americans. In Washington State, six such “bathroom bills” were introduced in the State Legislature. Documentary filmmaker Vlada Knowlton captured the ensuing civil rights battle from the perspective of a small group of embattled parents as they banded together to fight a deluge of proposed laws that would strip away the rights of their young, transgender children.