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This unique program enables students to interact with a veteran or a member of the Canadian Armed Forces, who will share compelling personal stories. Requests for this program must be made at least three weeks in advance. Volunteers representing the following conflicts and service areas may be available: Korean War, Afghanistan, domestic operations and service with NATO, NORAD or the United Nations. Please specify your top three preferences from this list in order of preference when you book your program. Final selection will be based on volunteer availability.

From May to June 2018, the Canadian War Museum will offer an exciting and dynamic theatrical orientation for school groups. This free, 15-minute introduction to the Museum’s themes and galleries will highlight the human experience of war.

This tour will offer first-time visitors an overview of our gallery spaces and will focus on star artifacts. You will also discover surprising facts about our world-renowned architecture.

This tour will feature lesser -known artifacts with fascinating stories- A great option for repeat visitors or those looking for an alternative experience!

Want to visit the War Museum but short on time? Let’s face it, you could spend months exploring every nook and cranny of our magnificent building. Let our Museum staff introduce you to two of their favourite tour stops before setting you loose to discover over 5000 years of history!

20 minutes

The lives and roles of various individuals during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham come to life with a hands-on investigation of primary and secondary historical sources. Using first-hand accounts of the Seven Years’ War and replica artifacts, students will consider how we know about the past and will explore the conflict that defined daily life for the people of this period.

CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
ON – Social Studies: Heritage and Identity; Language: Reading, Oral Communication and Media Literacy
QC – Geography; History and Citizenship Education; General History; English; Language Arts

Take a trip back in time to the War of 1812. Students will use drama to gain a better understanding of the conflict, as they take on the perspective of a member of one of its four principal participant groups: Canadians (including First Peoples), Americans, British and Native Americans.

CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
ON –History; Language Education: Reading and Oral Communication; the Arts: Drama
QC – Geography; History and Citizenship Education: Interpreting Change in a Society and its Territory; General History; Language Arts

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With access to works of art, artifacts, photographs and other primary sources, students will work together to create an exhibit about the First World War. They will be guided by themes and content related to Canada’s involvement in the First World War.

CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
ON – Canadian and World Studies: History; English
QC – History of Quebec and Canada; The 20th Century: History and Civilizations; English; Language Arts

This tour covers the South African War and the First World War, and includes the Battle of Vimy Ridge as well as the Conscription Crisis. The students will walk through a recreated First World War trench and discover impressive works of art.

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Bring the Canadian War Museum into your classroom with a Supply Line Discovery Box. This learning kit contains authentic and reproduction artifacts related to Canadian military history, along with everything you need to lead engaging hands-on activities and lessons with your students. Learn more

From May to June 2018, the Canadian War Museum will offer an exciting and dynamic theatrical orientation for school groups. This free, 15-minute introduction to the Museum’s themes and galleries will highlight the human experience of war.

A website, based on the Canadian War Museum’s vast collections, offers an authoritative and stimulating interpretation of the history of Canada and the First World War. Canada and the First World War offers access to over 700 interpreted artifacts, including photographs, art, letters, and diaries, as well as over 6,800 additional images. The unparalleled depth of Canadian subject matter includes a comprehensive range of topics and lesson plans, primary resource packs, book lists, and recommended links.

Online Exhibition

This Web module enables intermediate students to experience life in the trenches during the First World War. Part history and part adventure story, Over the Top allows players to determine the outcome of the story by making decisions at key moments. This educational resource includes follow-up activities, maps, films and document references.

Online Resource

A website rich in over 800 unique artifacts, photographs, art, posters, ships models, plans and audio-visuals telling the compelling story of Canada’s navy from its creation in 1910 to today.

Online Exhibition

A collection of essays on a variety of subjects in Canadian military history.

Online Resource

Students will examine and evaluate artifacts, images, documents and art as sources of information about the Second World War, periodically pausing to assess their reliability and objectivity. Students will deepen their knowledge and understanding of the implications of “total war” on land, at sea, in the air and on the home front.

CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
ON – Canadian and World Studies: History; English
QC – History of Quebec and Canada; The 20th Century: History and Civilizations; English; Language Arts

This tour examines how Canada’s fight against dictatorships transformed the country. It encompasses the home front, D-Day, the Italian Campaign and the war at sea and in the air.

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A collection of essays on a variety of subjects in Canadian military history.

Online Resource

This module enables senior students to search a digitized collection of 144,000 newspaper clippings describing events of the Second World War as they happened. Fifty-five short historical articles introduce the main facts, as well as some of the conclusions resulting from historical research and analysis undertaken since the Second World War. Democracy at War is an unparalleled online resource for research projects and units of study.

Online Resource

A website rich in over 800 unique artifacts, photographs, art, posters, ships models, plans and audio-visuals telling the compelling story of Canada’s navy from its creation in 1910 to today.

Online Exhibition

This unique program enables students to interact with a veteran or a member of the Canadian Armed Forces, who will share compelling personal stories. Requests for this program must be made at least three weeks in advance. Volunteers representing the following conflicts and service areas may be available: Korean War, Afghanistan, domestic operations and service with NATO, NORAD or the United Nations. Please specify your top three preferences from this list in order of preference when you book your program. Final selection will be based on volunteer availability.

A collection of essays on a variety of subjects in Canadian military history.

Online Resource

A website rich in over 800 unique artifacts, photographs, art, posters, ships models, plans and audio-visuals telling the compelling story of Canada’s navy from its creation in 1910 to today.

Online Exhibition

This ground breaking exhibition explored Canada’s participation in the Afghanistan conflict, as seen by two Canadian journalists, Stephen Thorne and Garth Pritchard.

Online Exhibition

The Canadian War Museum is pleased to partner with the Docs for Schools program, in association with the Hot Docs festival, to present two films that will engage your students with current issues, vital ideas, critical questions and new perspectives. The films chosen for the War Museum represent cutting-edge cinema with a focus on contemporary, conflict-related issues. In addition to the film screenings, these two specially curated days will each include a Q&A session with special guests and a self-guided visit to one of our new exhibitions.

Hot Docs is a national, charitable organization whose mission is to advance and celebrate the art of documentary filmmaking, and to showcase the work of and create production opportunities for documentary filmmakers.

Film screenings are free. Group admission is required to visit the exhibitions.

Tuesday, November 20

Amal, 83 minutes, rating: PG
10 a.m. in Arabic with English subtitles
12:30 p.m. in Arabic with French subtitles

Filmed over six turbulent years following the Tahrir Square uprising in Egypt, this documentary follows a feisty 14-year-old activist as she grows before our eyes into a commanding young woman, searching for her identity in a tinderbox of political turmoil and patriarchal systems.
Director: Mohamed Siam, 2017

Suggested exhibition: Canadian Experience Gallery 4 – From the Cold War to the Present

Wednesday, February 20

On Her Shoulders, 94 minutes, rating: PG
10 a.m. in English, Kurmanji and Arabic with English subtitles

After surviving enslavement and genocide, a resilient young Yazidi woman is thrust onto the international stage as a spokesperson for those who’ve suffered at the hands of ISIS. She must learn to navigate bureaucracy, fame and good intentions.
Director: Alexandria Bombach, 2018

Suggested exhibition: Canadian Experience Gallery 4 – From the Cold War to the Present

The War Museum’s Canadian Experience Galleries offer students the opportunity to learn about Canadian experiences of war and the country’s place on the international stage. Gallery 4 – From the Cold War to the Present was updated in 2017, and features very recent events and themes.