Refuge Canada
Canada has had an uneven record when it comes to welcoming refugees — reacting generously to some, while overlooking others. Dive into their personal stories of fear, loss, survival and hope.
Canadian History in Your Classroom
Browse the Canadian-history-themed packages below — each is full of museum objects, archival documents, short interviews, activity suggestions and more. All content has been developed in consultation with diverse cultural communities and topic experts, and reflects current Canadian curricula.
Please check back often, as we will continue to enrich these packages and develop new ones, while also reflecting the latest in scholarship, learning, and ways of teaching.
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Refuge Canada
Canada has had an uneven record when it comes to welcoming refugees — reacting generously to some, while overlooking others. Dive into their personal stories of fear, loss, survival and hope.Search packages and objects
Packages
Organized by theme, each package features a collection of digitized museum artifacts, archival documents, video clips, audio clips, and activity suggestions for your class. Browse packages below.
“More Than a Game” – Black Sports Figures in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Explore the contributions of Black sports figures to better understand the inner strength and perseverance they possessed to play their sports in Canada.
Revolution Remix: Systemic Racism and Black Empowerment Movements in 1960s Canada
In the 1960s, the civil rights movement gathered support through protest marches, university sit-ins, and the awareness of scholars and leaders of African descent. It was a time of empowerment, liberation and awareness for people seeking equality.
Survivor Truths: The Art of Reconciliation
Explore artworks produced by a group of Indian residential school students in Port Alberni, B.C., as well as oral histories conducted with those Survivors after the return of those paintings to them some 50 years later.
Black Women: Changemakers of the 19th and 20th Centuries
This Teachers’ Zone package explores the pivotal roles Black women played in shaping a more just and representative Canadian society in the 19th and 20th centuries through activism, community building, culture, education, and politics, and their resilience in the face of systemic anti-Black racism.
Early Black Communities
Since the 17th century, people of African descent have come to Canada in various capacities, have formed thriving communities, and, despite battling decades of systemic anti-Black racism across the country, have continued to enrich Canada’s cultural, social and historical identities.
Objects
Objects are the key elements in each package, and include digitized museum artifacts, archival documents, and video and audio clips. To explore individual objects, click on the items below.
Artifact
Apothecary Jar
Artifact
Religious Statuette
Document
Record of Marriage of Catherine Moitié and Désiré Viger, 1667
Document
Map of the Government of Quebec, 1709
Document
Family Tree
Artifact
Maple Sugar Mould
Document
Letter from Agathe de Saint-Père de Legardeur de Repentigny to the Minister of Marine and Colonies
Offensive Language
Women of New France
Artifact
Teacup
Thank you to our donors!
This project has been generously supported by The Rossy Foundation.
With support from the Wilson Foundation and individual donors across Canada.