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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 will be partnering with the Hot Docs’ Docs for Schools program to bring you and your students cutting-edge cinema with a focus on contemporary, conflict-related issues. Docs for Schools films will engage your students with current issues, vital ideas, critical questions and new perspectives. In addition to the film screening, this specially curated day will include a Q&A session with special guest(s) 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.

November 22^nd: What’s next for Afghanistan?

Film: What Tomorrow Brings (screenings at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.) *English only
Exhibition: New World Disorder (Cold War to Present)

WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS
D: Beth Murphy | USA | 52 min | 2016
In Dari and English, with English subtitles.
Optimism and excitement fill a remote Afghanistan village’s first school to accept female students–all-girls institution founded by an inspiring local woman. As U.S. troops depart, the next generation of Afghans study their past and dream of their future.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/159128739
Education package

Special guest speaker: Razia Jan
Razia’s Ray of Hope Foundation would not exist without the spirit, vision, and tireless efforts of founder and president Razia Jan.

Razia’s Ray of Hope Foundation is a nonprofit organization that empowers young women and girls in Afghanistan through community-based education in the district of Deh’Subz. Founded on the knowledge that education is key to positive, peaceful change for current and future generations, we provide young Afghans with the opportunity to learn and grow in a safe, nurturing environment, so that they may work toward brighter futures — in their own villages and beyond.

Our flagship project is the Zabuli Education Center, an all-girl K-12 school that provides free, exemplary education to more than 625 students. The founder of our school and foundation is Afghan native Razia Jan, a CNN Top 10 Hero and tireless humanitarian.

In March 2017 our doors opened at the adjacent Razia Jan Institute, providing our graduates and other community members with a clear path to empowered employment as midwives while bringing medical services to a desperately underserved area. The institute also provides classes in English and computer literacy.

February 21^st: Challenging Perceptions of Middle Eastern Identity

Film: Speed Sisters (English at 10 a.m. / French at 12:30 p.m.)
Exhibition: She Who Tells a Story (Photographic Exhibition)

SPEED SISTERS
D: Amber Fares| Palestine, USA, Qatar, Denmark, UK, Canada | 80 min | 2015
In Arabic and English, with English subtitles, and for French screening, French subtitles.
Bold and fearless, the first all-female car racing team in the Middle East is burning rubber and tearing up tracks all over Palestine as they defy the odds and shatter stereotypes of Arab women.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/125648413

• Film screening is FREE. Group admission is required to visit the exhibitions