Our Story
Shared Histories Canada is a digital heritage education organization dedicated to commemorating moments in our shared histories through the stories that have made them significant.
Our Mission Statement:
To cultivate a deeper understanding of diverse histories in Canada through the creation, curation, and circulation of impactful stories and educational resources.
Our objectives
- To tell stories largely untold, from voices too long unheard
- To commemorate Canadian History on a ‘macro’ level by inspiring diverse ‘microhistorical’ projects in communities across Canada
- To demonstrate healthy equitable and inclusive storytelling techniques promoting global competencies for the 21st century learner as defined by CMEC – The Council of Ministers of Education Canada
- To model innovative commemorative digital methods to engage young Canadians with their history – shared, national, regional and local
- To refract Canada’s defining moments through an ‘interdisciplinary lens’ that call Canadians to see our shared histories from multiple perspectives
- To promote innovative commemorative digital methods in Inquiry Learning through digital research
- To encourage broad-ranging ‘Experiential Learning’ opportunities with each ‘defining moment’ in our shared histories
- To make all resources, assets, stories, learning tools and digital content free and openly accessible on the Shared Histories Canada / Histoires Communes Canada website
- To deliver all commemorations in broad-based collaboration with all of our partners – educational, heritage, institutional, public, private and corporate – to mark significant ‘moments’ of national import
Our partners
Shared Histories Canada is extremely proud of our partners!
We wish to thank the Government of Canada for their generous and on-going support.
Discover our project specific partners by clicking the Project Partners button on each project homepage.
Our network of partners keeps growing with each project we complete, and we are always eager to collaborate with new organizations.
See if your business, museum, institution or community group fits in with our existing partners, and reach-out to us to join us as leaders of digital heritage education in Canada!