Topics: Collective rights
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Truth and Reconciliation
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Truth and Reconciliation presents the tragic history of Canada’s residential schools and the ongoing efforts to use education and discussion to move towards reconciliation.
Stories
Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket
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Canadian civil rights trailblazers
By Jason Permanand
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Planting a seed: Creating a community garden at the Museum
By Matthew McRae
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Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
By Karine Duhamel
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Truth and reconciliation: What’s next?
By Karine Duhamel, Researcher-Curator, Indigenous Content
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Lighting the flame
By Rhea Yates, Manager, Digital Outreach
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The Chinese head tax and the Chinese Exclusion Act
By Matthew McRae
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Japanese Canadian internment and the struggle for redress
By Matthew McRae, Communications Advisor
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The story of the Komagata Maru
By Matthew McRae
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Approaching the human rights stories of Indigenous peoples
By Karine Duhamel, Researcher-Curator, Indigenous Content
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The nuts and bolts of reconciliation
By Karine Duhamel, Researcher-Curator, Indigenous Content
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Why reconciliation? Why now?
By Karine Duhamel, Researcher-Curator, Indigenous Content
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Reconciliation: A movement of hope or a movement of guilt?
By Karine Duhamel, Researcher-Curator, Indigenous Content
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Stories
One woman's resistance
Viola Desmond helped inspire Canada’s civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat in a movie theatre. Now, she is on the $10 bill.
Planting a seed: Creating a community garden at the Museum
By Matthew McRae
My partner and I have a small garden just outside the front door of our home. I will admit that it’s not much to look at.
Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
By Karine Duhamel
On September 13, 2017, people around the world will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
Truth and reconciliation: What’s next?
By Karine Duhamel, Researcher-Curator, Indigenous Content
This article series has focused on the way we present Indigenous content within the Museum and how we are approaching reconciliation.
Lighting the flame
By Rhea Yates, Manager, Digital Outreach
Fifty years ago, 10 young Indigenous athletes ran an 800-kilometre relay from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Winnipeg, Manitoba, carrying the torch that would open the 1967 Pan American Games.
The Chinese head tax and the Chinese Exclusion Act
By Matthew McRae
When he was a little boy growing up in Vancouver, Dr. Henry Yu didn’t understand why his grandfather frequently took him on long walks to visit Chinatown.
Japanese Canadian internment and the struggle for redress
By Matthew McRae, Communications Advisor
Before the outbreak of the Second World War, Lena Hayakawa lived what she describes as a very idyllic life.
The story of the Komagata Maru
By Matthew McRae
When Nimrat Randhawa and her family immigrated to Canada in the summer of 2003, they arrived completely in the dark – literally.
Approaching the human rights stories of Indigenous peoples
By Karine Duhamel, Researcher-Curator, Indigenous Content
This article focuses on the creation and development of exhibition content exploring the human rights stories of Indigenous people in this country. To tell these stories, the Museum engaged with communities and individuals in a process of truth-telling.
The nuts and bolts of reconciliation
By Karine Duhamel, Researcher-Curator, Indigenous Content
As a child, I often visited museums. I was lucky to be able to travel with my family, and to visit interpretive spaces across the country.
Why reconciliation? Why now?
By Karine Duhamel, Researcher-Curator, Indigenous Content
Since the publication of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s final report in 2015, more and more Canadians seem focused on the idea of reconciliation.
Reconciliation: A movement of hope or a movement of guilt?
By Karine Duhamel, Researcher-Curator, Indigenous Content
In Why reconciliation? Why now? I talked about the idea of reconciliation as an invitation to a new and shared future and as a pathway towards a good life, both for Indigenous people and for other Canadians.
