Awarded projects submitted as part of the 2025 call for proposals
18 May 2026
Following the Advisory Committee evaluations, Digital Museums Canada (DMC) is pleased to announce an investment of over $2 million in 19 new online projects from the 2025 Call for Proposals.
DMC received over 170 proposals from every province in Canada and would like to thank organizations for their continued interest in the program.
Digital Projects
(Note: Project titles may change)
Stories Woven in the Mural: Digital Teachings of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation
Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation
Stories Woven in the Mural: Digital Teachings of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation is an interactive digital museum that brings the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation’s (MCFN)teachings, history, and cultural presence to audiences across Canada. Centred on MCFN’s monumental 30-by-50-foot mural, the project transforms this powerful work into an online experience that guides visitors through key themes, stories and relationships that shape the Nation’s identity. Users can explore layered pathways built from oral histories, archival materials, photographs, and educator-informed content that offers accessible and engaging learning for youth, educators, and the general public. Designed with community input and grounded in cultural protocols, the digital museum shares the Nation’s perspective on its past and present while supporting curriculum-aligned learning. The project allows users anywhere in Canada to explore the teachings embedded in the mural and gain a deeper understanding of the MCFN’s enduring cultural strength and presence.
Songs of Two Cities: Little Burgundy & Little Jamaica Music Histories
Discover Songs of Two Cities, an interactive digital timeline celebrating Black Canadian music history. Journey through Little Burgundy’s jazz golden age and Little Jamaica’s reggae rise, two vibrant neighbourhoods that shaped Montréal and Toronto’s cultural landscapes. Explore rich stories of resilience, creativity and community through audio clips, oral histories, and iconic venues. This unique project connects parallel musical eras side-by-side, revealing the powerful legacy of artists and entrepreneurs who defied segregation and gentrification. Immerse yourself in a living history that preserves and honours the sounds and spirit that defined a nation’s musical identity.
Walking the Dena Cho Trail: A Digital Journey Through Kaska Land, Culture, History, and Knowledge
Walking the Dena Cho Trail invites audiences into the cultural heart of the Kaska Dena. Stretching roughly 67 kilometres between Ross River and Faro in the Yukon, this historic route has guided generations of travel, harvesting and connection across Kaska territory. The project brings the trail to life through Elder-led stories, interactive mapping, high-quality field documentation, and carefully curated archival materials. Users will be able to explore key points along the trail, hear Kaska narratives in their own voices, learn about land-based responsibilities, and understand the cultural relationships that shaped movement across the region. Designed with community guidance, the online experience positions the trail not as a relic of the past but as an active source of identity and resilience. The project preserves knowledge for future generations while offering all Canadians a deeper understanding of northern Indigenous history and the enduring strength of Kaska culture.
Legacy of the Chinese Public School: A Century-Long Living Heritage of Learning, Belonging and Community
Victoria Chinese Heritage Foundation (Victoria, British Columbia)
Legacy of the Chinese Public School explores the enduring impact of the Victoria Chinese Public School — an institution that has shaped generations and served as the heart of cultural preservation in Canada’s oldest Chinatown. Through oral history interviews, historical photographs, and short documentary videos, the project captures the voices and memories of students, teachers, and community members who found identity, resilience and belonging within its walls. Presented in English, French and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), this trilingual digital experience connects audiences across cultures and generations. Developed in collaboration with the Victoria Chinese Public School, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, and community partners, the project preserves a living legacy of education and cultural continuity, inviting visitors to explore how one school became a symbol of the Chinese-Canadian journey and its lasting contribution to Victoria’s civic and cultural life.
From Field to Future: An Agricultural Decision Journey!
Step into the shoes of a Prairie farmer! This interactive, story-driven game invites you to navigate the real-world challenges of sustainable farming. Inspired by the Saskatchewan Science Centre’s Ag-grow-land exhibit, the game brings the farm to life, showing how every choice — from crop selection and soil management to adapting to unpredictable weather — shapes the environment, economy and community. Guided by the wisdom of an experienced farmer and alongside diverse characters like agronomists and market experts, you’ll face critical decisions, experience triumphs and setbacks, and unlock the farm’s rich history. Discover how science and technology are transforming agriculture and gain a deeper understanding of the complexity, strategy and impact behind the food we grow. Play From Field to Future and explore the power of informed, innovative choices in shaping a sustainable future!
We Tried Something New – Fifty years of Creation at the Baie-Saint-Paul International Contemporary Art Symposium
Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul
We Tried Something New celebrates 50 years of creation at the Baie-Saint-Paul International Contemporary Art Symposium through stories related to 50 works created during the event. A true creative laboratory, the Symposium has allowed generations of artists to explore, experiment, and exchange ideas about constantly evolving contemporary practices by creating directly in front of an audience.
The digital experience highlights the creative process, the diversity of approaches, and the human encounters behind each work. The project allows users to discover the creation of contemporary art as a living process, offering an accessible experience that arouses curiosity, develops critical thinking, and encourages the pleasure of exploration.
By connecting the past and the present, archives, and current voices through its narrative, the project offers direct access to contemporary art, making it more accessible and strengthening the link between the Symposium, the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, its collection, and the public.
Unfolding The Body Politic: Connecting Queer Communities in Canada Through Print Culture
The Body Politic (1971–1987) brought people together and pushed the boundaries of how Gay Liberation was understood in Canada. More than a national newspaper, it became a forum for activism, debate, and community connection, linking correspondents and readers across the country and attracting an international audience. Despite police raids, censorship attempts, obscenity charges, and political attacks, the publication and its collective persisted, galvanizing queer communities nationwide into action.
Inspired to Create: L.M. Montgomery Crafting Emily of New Moon
Confederation Centre of the Arts
Inspired to Create invites viewers to explore what it means to experience a daily lived passion for words and creativity. The project combines scanned and transcribed pages of the fragile hand-written manuscript alongside contemporary artists’ audio, visual and textual interpretations and responses to Emily’s story, and to the moment of creative inspiration L.M. Montgomery famously called “the flash” in the novel. Readers will be able to trace the author’s editing processes firsthand through digitization of her own reconstructed notes and additions. Additional articles on Montgomery’s life and times, linked to and from the manuscript, will show how the story’s tangles and clusters of edits reveal the care the author took in creating this (self)portrait of the young artist inspired.
Community Stories
(Note: Project titles may change)
Innu Landscapes Through the Eyes of Paul Provencher: Art, Geography. and the Duty to Remember in a Colonial Context
Innu Landscapes Through the Eyes of Paul Provencher offers a sensitive immersion into the heart of Nitassinan in Pessamit, through the little-known works of engineer-artist Paul Provencher. Watercolours, sketches and paintings become the meeting point between a colonial perspective from the early 20th century and the living memory of the Pessamiulnuat. Carried by the voices of today’s Innu people, this narrative offers a unique reinterpretation of a long-scattered heritage, revealing both the beauty of ancestral landscapes and the major transformations imposed by industrialization. By returning these visual archives to the community, the project opens up a unique space for cultural mediation, where generations and bodies of knowledge come together to breathe new life into places, histories and fragile connections. At the crossroads of art, geography, and the duty of remembrance, this story is above all one of profound resilience and a renewed affirmation of cultural identity.
Beneath the Bison Trails
Beneath the Bison Trails explores more than 40 years of archaeological work at Wanuskewin Heritage Park and presents the full story of Wanuskewin’s archaeological record. It follows how researchers, students, and community members uncovered evidence of continuous human presence over the course of 6,400 years. The project traces the history of the digs and the return of the objects to Wanuskewin in the summer of 2025. It brings together field notes, journal records, photographs, interviews, and selected objects . The goal is to give visitors an accessible account of how the digs unfolded, what was learned, and why these materials matter for understanding the depth of human history at Wanuskewin.
From Saint-Jean-de-Dieu to the University Institute: A History of Mental Health in Montréal
Atelier d’histoire Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
From Saint-Jean-de-Dieu to the University Institute offers a sensitive and well-documented insight into one of the most significant institutions in Quebec’s history. Through photographic archives, stories, testimonials, and audio clips, the exhibition traces 150 years of evolution in psychiatric care, from the first charitable acts of the Sisters of Providence to contemporary mental health practices.
A Brief History of a Great Educational Garden: The Birth of the Daniel A. Séguin Garden
A Brief History of a Great Educational Garden highlights the 50-year history of the Daniel A. Séguin Garden, from its inception to the present day. It showcases some of the key figures in this narrative, as well as other lesser-known individuals who were equally essential to its history. Discover the local and regional agri-food history through the key milestones in the design of the Garden.
This Community Story will also be published in a third language.
Fixed Fishing: An Ancestral and Ecological Tradition Still Alive in Charlevoix
Immerse yourself in a unique craft that has been passed down for centuries in Charlevoix: fixed non-directed fishing, commonly known as weir fishing. Initiated by First Nations and continued today by the Mailloux and Gauthier families, this artisanal practice allows for the capture of various species while respecting the ecosystem of the St. Lawrence River. Fixed Fishing highlights the history, techniques, knowledge and ecological issues associated with this type of fishing, as well as its influence on the local culinary heritage and folk art.
It offers a unique look at a little-known but fascinating practice. Through interactive maps, photographs, sound clips, and archival videos, the public will discover how this know-how embodies a concrete solution to the challenges posed by climate change.
Memories of Congolese Builders in Ottawa-Gatineau: A Living History of the Francophone Diaspora
Communauté Congolaise de la Région de la Capitale du Canada
Memories of Congolese Builders in Ottawa-Gatineau traces the inspiring journeys of the first members of the Congolese community to settle in the National Capital Region. This bilingual digital project, led by the Congolese Community of the Capital Region of Canada, highlights the social, cultural and economic contributions of these builders who helped shape a dynamic and engaged community.
Through testimonials, archival images, interviews, and artistic works, this digital history pays tribute to the resilience, diversity and initiative of Congolese Canadians. Accessible to all, this interactive narrative serves as a bridge between generations, promoting recognition of African heritage and the transmission of a collective memory that is essential to contemporary Canadian history.
In My Yesterday
In My Yesterday is a digital storytelling project presented by Onsite Gallery, OCAD University’s public art gallery. Through drawings, photographs, documents and voices in Taishanese, it shares the story of one Chinese Canadian family in Halifax whose lives and Canadian experience were shaped by the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act. Blending art and history through storytelling, the project transforms personal and historical memory into a collective space for reflection. It invites audiences to listen, to remember, and to see the exclusionary attitudes and enforced legislation, while celebrating the resilience and cultural legacy of Chinese Canadians. Accessible online in English, French and Chinese, In My Yesterday is a story of remembrance, reclamation and connection.
Voices of Armenia in Montréal
Voices of Armenia in Montréal highlights the history, culture and heritage of the Armenian community in the city. Through oral testimonies, 360° tours, visual archives, and original musical clips, the project reveals the richness of a heritage that has been too-little documented.
Organized into five thematic chapters (community history, iconic places, voices and memories, urban roots, and musical heritage), the narrative explores how Armenians have shaped their presence in Montréal for over a century.
Produced by Héritage Montréal, in collaboration with the professional vocal ensemble Les Rugissants for the musical portion, this project offers a sensitive encounter with the people, places and traditions that make up this living culture. Through its accessible, multimedia approach, this exhibition offers a documentary, human and artistic exploration of a heritage that is essential to Montréal’s cultural landscape.
Caribbean Creators Story
Caribbean Creators Story is an interactive digital experience celebrating the filmmakers and storytellers shaping Caribbean culture in Canada. Featuring oral histories, photos, videos, and archived materials from the CaribbeanTales International Film Festival and The Big Pitch, the project highlights migration journeys, creative breakthroughs, and community memory. Through timelines, maps, and immersive story modules, visitors can explore two decades of Caribbean creativity and discover voices often overlooked in mainstream archives. The archive invites audiences to learn, connect, and be inspired by the richness of Caribbean storytelling.
Where the River Speaks: The 5,000-Year Story of Akonakwasi Sakik
Where the River Speaks explores Akonakwasi Sakik, a historically significant river-mouth area where the Rivière Dumoine meets the Ottawa River (Kitci Sipi), on the traditional territory of Wolf Lake First Nation. Drawing on oral histories, archival records, photographs, maps, artworks, and underwater surveys, the project traces 5,000 years of life in and around this small but remarkable place: a long-used Anishinaabe travel route, a farm and log-boom centre, a hotel and ferry landing, and a forestry outpost connected to a network of fire towers. Centred on the surviving ranger cabin, the reopened trail, and a rich set of community collections, the exhibit invites local residents, Indigenous communities, visitors, and history enthusiasts to better understand how hydro dams, logging, and recreation have reshaped this confluence — and to reconnect family stories, place names, and landscape features across the Rivière Dumoine and the Ottawa River.
Exile, Solidarity, and Putting Down Roots: The History and Contribution of Refugees from South-East Asia and the Development of the Humanitarian Immigration System in Quebec
Immerse yourself in an important moment in Quebec’s recent history: the welcoming of Southeast Asian refugees to Quebec. Through poignant testimonials and touching and informative archives, discover the journey of thousands of people from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia who were forced to leave everything behind to rebuild their lives here between the 1970s and 1980s. The exhibition tells how — thanks to the solidarity of citizens, community organizations and reception and sponsorship programmes unique in the world — these families found a new start. It highlights the challenges they faced, but also all they have contributed to shaping today’s Québec. This exhibition invites you to rediscover an episode that profoundly marked Quebec’s history and identity, and affirmed its commitment to international solidarity and openness to others. It is a profound story of hope, creativity and humanism.