Archive of funded projects | Digital Museums Canada

Archive of funded projects

Projects funded through medium and large investments streams formerly available through the Virtual Museum of Canada website (now Digital Museums Canada). For small investment projects, visit the Community Stories collection.

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2014

 

Prairie Pollination

Creator(s): The Manitoba Museum

Launch date: 2014-07-03

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Magnificent Rocks

Creator(s): New Brunswick Museum

Launch date: 2014-07-01

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The great peace of Montréal

Creator(s): Pointe-à-Callière, musée d’archéologie et d’histoire de Montréal

Launch date: 2014-05-12

 

The Human Side of Lake Saint-Pierre

Creator(s): Biophare (Marc Mineau)

Launch date: 2014-04-22

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David Cronenberg: Virtual Exhibition

Creator(s): Toronto International Film Festival

Launch date: 2014-04-01

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In the House of Paul-Émile

Creator(s): Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire

Launch date: 2014-02-10

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2013

 

Expedition Arctic

Creator(s): Canadian Museum of Nature

Launch date: 2013-12-16

 

The Painting Project

Creator(s): Galerie de l’UQAM

Launch date: 2013-12-04

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Sharing the Meal!

Creator(s): Musée de la civilisation

Launch date: 2013-09-17

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Warming Up: A Canadian History of Automated Heating and Social Change

Creator(s): HVACR Heritage Centre Canada

Launch date: 2013-03-26

 

 

2012

 

Rivière-du-Loup AT FULL THROTTLE – Hub of the eastern railway network

Creator(s): Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent

Launch date: 2012-10-20

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‘Enemy Aliens’: The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-43

Creator(s): Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre

Launch date: 2012-09-01

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You are here. 80 years of Canadian Geographic maps

Creator(s): Royal Canadian Geographical Society

Launch date: 2012-08-01

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Greatest Sporting Moments: The Bobbie Rosenfeld and Lionel Conacher Award Winners

Creator(s): Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame

Launch date: 2012-06-25

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The Beginning of a New Era

Creator(s): Musée québéquois de culture populaire

Launch date: 2012-03-29

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The St. Lawrence Iroquoians

Creator(s): Centre d’interprétation du site archéologique Droulers – Tsiionhiakwatha

Launch date: 2012-03-19

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All Aboard! Exploring the Newfoundland Railway

Creator(s): Railway Coastal Museum

Launch date: 2012-03-01

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Investigating Forensics

Creator(s): Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Launch date: 2012-02-01

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2011

 

The Burgess Shale

Creator(s): Royal Ontario Museum

Launch date: 2011-12-01

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In Search of the Canadian Car

Creator(s): Musée des sciences et de la technologie du Canada

Launch date: 2011-11-09

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Trees Inside Out

Creator(s): Jardin Botanique de Montréal

Launch date: 2011-10-05

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The Farmers’ Bank of Rustico

Creator(s): Farmers’ Bank of Rustico Museum

Launch date: 2011-03-31

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The Legends of the Depths

Creator(s): Musée du Fjord

Launch date: 2011-01-27

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2010

 

NAC Musicbox

Creator(s): National Arts Centre

Launch date: 2010-12-31

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Collections from Storage: A Visit to our Hidden Treasures

Creator(s): Musée de la nature et des sciences de Sherbrooke

Launch date: 2010-12-23

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History of hydroelectricity in Quebec

Creator(s): La Cité de l’énergie

Launch date: 2010-12-15

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Nametau innu: Memory and knowledge of Nitassinan

Creator(s): Musée régional de la Côte-Nord

Launch date: 2010-12-01

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Return to the wild: Evolving perspectives on Canadian Wildlife

Creator(s): Royal Canadian Geographical Society

Launch date: 2010-09-10

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The Cobalt Adventure

Creator(s): Cobalt Heritage Silver Trail

Launch date: 2010-08-15

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Media Art

Creator(s): Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

Launch date: 2010-03-31

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Climbing to the Clouds: A People’s History of BC Mountaineering

Creator(s): North Vancouver Museum and Archives

Launch date: 2010-03-29

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The Raven’s Call

Creator(s): Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art

Launch date: 2010-03-20

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The Lou Marsh Legacy: Honouring Canada’s Top Athletes (The Game)

Creator(s): Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame

Launch date: 2010-02-23

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The Lou Marsh Legacy: Honouring Canada’s Top Athletes

Creator(s): Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame

Launch date: 2010-02-23

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Waters of life

Creator(s): Biophare

Launch date: 2010-02-18

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2009

 

The Trait-Carré of Charlesbourg: The Only Star-Shaped Village in Canada

Creator(s): Moulin des Jésuites

Launch date: 2009-10-07

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Norris Arm: Those Pine Clad Hills

Creator(s): Norris Arm Heritage Museum

Launch date: 2009-06-10

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Do you have what it takes to be a Buckaroo?

Creator(s): Historic O’Keefe Ranch

Launch date: 2009-05-27

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The Story of Ranching in BC: Buckaroos in BC

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Launch date: 2009-05-27

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Salaberry-de-Valleyfield – At the Heart of Industrial History in Canada

Creator(s): Musée des Deux-Rives

Launch date: 2009-04-24

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Nunavik: A Land, Its People

Creator(s): Laboratoire de recherche sur les musiques du monde – (OICRM-Université de Montréal)

Launch date: 2009-03-15

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Alvir Champrobacter has disappeared

Creator(s): Centre d’interprétation des biosciences, Musée Armand-Frappier

Launch date: 2009-01-14

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Outsmart the sinister JavelWater

Creator(s): Centre d’interprétation des biosciences, Musée Armand-Frappier

Launch date: 2009-01-14

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2008

 

For Valour: Canadian Airmen and the Victoria Cross

Creator(s): Air Force Heritage and History

Launch date: 2008-10-23

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ArtPad: A Collection. A Connection

Creator(s): Glenbow Museum

Launch date: 2008-09-16

 

Lighthouses of Prince Edward Island, Beacons of Light

Creator(s): Community Museums Association of PEI

Launch date: 2008-08-01

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Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music

Creator(s): University of Alberta Museums

Launch date: 2008-07-01

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ARTothèque – Overview of Contemporary Art in Acadie

Creator(s): Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen de l’Université de Moncton

Launch date: 2008-05-04

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Asahi: Canadian Baseball Legends

Creator(s): National Nikkei Museum and Heritage Centre

Launch date: 2008-02-25

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Mt. Logan: Canadian Titan

Creator(s): Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre

Launch date: 2008-01-23

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2007

 

Flora of the Grand lake Meadows

Creator(s): Mary’s Point Shorebird Reserve and Interpretive Centre

Launch date: 2007-12-20

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Miguasha National Park: From Water to Land

Creator(s): Musée d’histoire naturelle du parc de Miguasha

Launch date: 2007-12-03

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Window on the Mont Saint-Hilaire Biosphere Reserve

Creator(s): Centre de la nature du mont Saint-Hilaire

Launch date: 2007-10-01

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Balance of Power: Hydroelectric Development in Southeastern British Columbia

Creator(s): Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History

Launch date: 2007-08-24

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Once Upon a Roof… A short history of house architecture in Eastern Canada

Creator(s): Société d’histoire du Lac-Saint-Jean

Launch date: 2007-06-12

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Regina Clay: Worlds in the Making

Creator(s): MacKenzie Art Gallery

Launch date: 2007-05-01

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Emily Carr

Creator(s): Vancouver Art Gallery

Launch date: 2007-04-10

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Klondike: The Rush for Gold

Creator(s): Dawson City Museum

Launch date: 2007-03-31

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Dubious Views

Creator(s): Gallery TPW

Launch date: 2007-03-30

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Dane Wajich- Dane-zaa Stories & Songs: Dreamers and the Land

Creator(s): Doig River First Nation Cultural Center

Launch date: 2007-01-01

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2006

 

Sandford Fleming, The knight of time

Creator(s): Exporail, The Canadian Railway Museum

Launch date: 2006-12-11

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Storm Spirits – Aboriginal New Media Art

Creator(s): Urban Shaman Gallery

Launch date: 2006-11-03

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Koluskap: Wolastoqewi-atkuhkakonol – Stories from Wolastoqiyik

Creator(s): New Brunswick Museum

Launch date: 2006-10-16

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Canada Under the Stars

Creator(s): ASTROLab du Mont-Mégantic

Launch date: 2006-10-12

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Land of the Spirits

Creator(s): Davenport Centre Heritage Hall

Launch date: 2006-07-27

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Back to Batoche

Creator(s): Gabriel Dumont Institute

Launch date: 2006-07-25

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Conservation in Action

Creator(s): Vancouver Aquarium

Launch date: 2006-07-11

 

Echoes from the Past

Creator(s): Centre d’exposition de l’Université de Montréal

Launch date: 2006-07-07

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Flyover Lake Saint-Pierre

Creator(s): Biophare

Launch date: 2006-06-15

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Pirates or Privateers? Boarding on the St. Lawrence

Creator(s): Musée maritime du Québec

Launch date: 2006-05-19

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The Force in the North

Creator(s): MacBride Museum of Yukon History

Launch date: 2006-03-29

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Céilidh air Cheap Breatunn

Creator(s): Highland Village Museum / An Clachan Gàidhealach

Launch date: 2006-01-25

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History of the Basilica: From Cornerstone to Consecration

Creator(s): Basilica Cathedral Museum

Launch date: 2006-01-25

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The Commissariat 3D Reconstruction Project

Creator(s): Bytown Museum

Launch date: 2006-01-25

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Healing Power of Plants

Creator(s): Coalition of Canadian Healthcare Museums and Archives

Launch date: 2006-01-19

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The Dewdney Trail

Creator(s): Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History

Launch date: 2006-01-19

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Beauty in the Beast | The Mill at Britannia Mine

Creator(s): BC Museum of Mining

Launch date: 2006-01-15

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2005

 

EchoPhotograph

Creator(s): McCord Museum

Launch date: 2005-12-09

 

Watch The Birdie

Creator(s): McCord Museum

Launch date: 2005-12-09

 

Harvests of Prince Edward Island

Creator(s): Community Museums Association of PEI

Launch date: 2005-11-30

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1759 : From the Warpath to the Plains of Abraham

Creator(s): Commission des champs de bataille nationaux (Plaines d’Abraham)

Launch date: 2005-09-13

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On Canadian Ground: Stories of Footwear in Early Canada

Creator(s): Bata Shoe Museum

Launch date: 2005-08-31

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Nature Under Glass

Creator(s): Biodôme de Montréal

Launch date: 2005-04-12

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Seasons of New France

Creator(s): Centre de référence de l’Amérique française

Launch date: 2005-03-18

 

A Day in the Life of a Trappist Monk

Creator(s): St. Norbert Arts Centre

Launch date: 2005-02-01

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North-West Mounted Police – A Tradition in Scarlet

Creator(s): The Galt Museum & Archives

Launch date: 2005-01-25

 

 

2004

 

From Camp to Community: Cowichan Forestry Life

Creator(s): British Columbia Forest Discovery Centre

Launch date: 2004-12-01

 

From Camp to Community: Walkthrough a Logging Camp

Creator(s): British Columbia Forest Discovery Centre

Launch date: 2004-12-01

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Journeys & Transformations: British Columbia Landscapes

Creator(s): Royal British Columbia Museum

Launch date: 2004-05-21

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2K40

Creator(s): Centre des sciences de Montréal

Launch date: 2004-01-01

 

 

2003

 

Northern People, Northern Knowledge

Creator(s): Canadian Museum of History

Launch date: 2003-11-19

 

Acadia – Lifestyles in the days of our ancestors

Creator(s): Village Historique Acadien

Launch date: 2003-07-24

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The Inuvialuit Place Name Virtual Exhibit

Creator(s): Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre

Launch date: 2003-04-15

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Great Upper Canada Adventure

Creator(s): Strathroy Middlesex Museum

Launch date: 2003-04-01

 

SydenhamDiscovery.ca

Creator(s): Strathroy Middlesex Museum

Launch date: 2003-04-01

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New Brunswick: Our Stories, Our People

Creator(s): Heritage Branch

Launch date: 2003-03-31

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The Women of Aspenland

Creator(s): Heritage Community Foundation

Launch date: 2003-03-31

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Fire + Earth

Creator(s): Burlington Art Centre

Launch date: 2003-03-25

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The Story of the Masks

Creator(s): U’mista Cultural Centre

Launch date: 2003-03-24

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Hands On!

Creator(s): Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library

Launch date: 2003-03-05

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Ilititaa… Bernier, his men and the Inuits

Creator(s): Musée maritime du Québec

Launch date: 2003-02-24

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2002

 

A Scholar’s Garden

Creator(s): Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Launch date: 2002-12-31

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The Fungus Among Us

Creator(s): Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History

Launch date: 2002-12-31

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Fort Selkirk – Virtual Museum

Creator(s): Government of Yukon

Launch date: 2002-11-30

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The Bishop Who Ate His Boots

Creator(s): Old Log Church Museum

Launch date: 2002-11-30

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University of Alberta Museums KidZone

Creator(s): Museums and Collections Services

Launch date: 2002-10-25

 

Through the Eyes of the Cree

Creator(s): Allen Sapp Gallery

Launch date: 2002-10-25

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Saguenay – An Exceptional Fjord !

Creator(s): Musée du Fjord

Launch date: 2002-09-13

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Picturing A Canadian Life: L.M. Montgomery’s Personal Scrapbooks and Book Covers

Creator(s): Confederation Centre Art Gallery

Launch date: 2002-08-30

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Remembrances: Canada and the Second World War

Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network

Launch date: 2002-08-14

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Getting Better

Creator(s): University Health Network Artifact Collection

Launch date: 2002-08-07

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Open Hearts – Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project

Creator(s): Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre

Launch date: 2002-06-30

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The Making of Treaty 8 in Canada’s Northwest

Creator(s): Heritage Community Foundation

Launch date: 2002-06-01

 

Maison Saint-Gabriel, A Present From The Past!

Creator(s): Maison Saint-Gabriel

Launch date: 2002-05-08

 

Artwork Awaiting Discovery

Creator(s): Maison Saint-Gabriel

Launch date: 2002-05-08

 

The Adventure Train!

Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network

Launch date: 2002-05-01

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Holman: Forty Years of Graphic Art

Creator(s): Winnipeg Art Gallery

Launch date: 2002-04-15

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Urban Life through Two Lenses

Creator(s): McCord Museum

Launch date: 2002-04-01

 

The Astonishing World of Musical Instruments

Creator(s): Laboratoire de recherche sur les musiques du monde – (OICRM-Université de Montréal)

Launch date: 2002-02-22

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2001

 

The Trace Fossil Mystery

Creator(s): Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History

Launch date: 2001-10-15

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The Fleetway

Creator(s): Windsor’s Community Museum

Launch date: 2001-09-15

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The ‘Respect to Bill Reid’ Pole

Creator(s): Museum of Anthropology

Launch date: 2001-06-21

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Interactive Investigator Game

Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network

Launch date: 2001-04-10

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2000

 

Interactive Investigator

Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network

Launch date: 2000-04-10

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1999

 

Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries

Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network

Launch date: 1999-12-31

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Butterflies North and South

Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network

Launch date: 1999-01-01

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1997

 

Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Victoria

Creator(s): BC Heritage Branch

Launch date: 1997-01-01

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1995

 

Christmas Traditions in France and in Canada

Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network

Launch date: 1995-01-01

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