Olympic Torches: Sparking Conversations About Sport and Society Torches help signal the beginning of the Olympic Games. Months before competition, the flame is lit in Olympia, Greece.... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 786
Portrait of a Prime Minister: Joe Clark Joe Clark’s term as Canada’s 16th Prime Minister was brief, lasting 273 days in 1979–1980. But those nine months represent... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 935
The closure of Encounters with Canada: Collecting pandemic history Over the past few years, research staff at the Canadian Museum of History have been collecting and documenting various aspects of... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1124
Portrait of a Prime Minister: Jean Chrétien Jean Chrétien served as Canada’s Prime Minister for 10 years, from 1993 to 2003. That alone would have been enough to earn him... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 2091
Portrait of a Prime Minister: Paul Martin Although Paul Martin was Canada’s Prime Minister for a relatively brief period, from December 2003 to February 2006, he had a... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1975
A Long-Awaited Synthesis: The Far Northeast The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact is a long-awaited synthesis representing decades of research in the field of Archaeology... Publications Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1048
Bone Detective – A Box of Secrets On the last day of excavations in the lot behind 62 Sparks Street, while digging a hole to get a good stratigraphic profile of an... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1362
Bone Detective – The “Iron Man” of the Barrack Hill Cemetery: A Life i... There are so many stories that came out of researching those left behind in the Barrack Hill Cemetery, it was difficult to narrow... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1243
Bone Detective – The Maiden: Could She Have Been a “Mad Hatter”? This woman was found lying on her back, arms to her sides, hands on her thighs, feet to the east, and head facing south. Like... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1419
Bone Detective – “The Violated”: Not Buried Alone This is the first blog in the series Bone Detective: Mysteries of Those Found Beneath Downtown Ottawa about the findings in the... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 2270
Bone Detective: Mysteries of Those Found Beneath Downtown Ottawa – Ser... The Barrack Hill Cemetery was the first settler cemetery in Ottawa, then known as Bytown. It was opened in late fall 1827 or... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 4137
Five Amazing Facts about Trivial Pursuit – The most successful Canadia... One afternoon in December 1979, Montréal journalists Chris Haney and Scott Abbott sketched out an idea for a board game. It... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 3793
Accessibility and Inclusiveness: Evolving Resources for People Impacte... The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Foundation’s collection sheds light on the ongoing creativity of designers... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 3549
Artifactuality Podcast: Prince of Plastic – How Karim Rashid advanced ... Why can’t the objects we use every day be beautiful, unique and useful? This is the question that drives Karim Rashid, an... Artifactuality Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 2766
Artifactuality Podcast: Hearts of Freedom – A new perspective on South... Between 1975 and 1985, political events in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos led to a humanitarian crisis that saw more than 100,000... Artifactuality Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1907
Artifactuality Podcast: We Have Always Been Here – Conversations with ... Wally’s Beach is the name local settlers have given to a stretch of land on the St. Mary Reservoir in southern Alberta. Around... Artifactuality Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 2369
Artifactuality podcast: Breaking Ice – The story of the Colored Hockey... Black hockey has a longer history in Canada than you might expect. It’s a story shared in Artifactuality, a podcast series that... Artifactuality Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 2335
Artifactuality podcast: The Meaning of Mitsou – A conversation about s... An artist’s signature look has a major impact on enduring memories around their music. Just ask Mitsou. Before she conquered... Artifactuality Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 2403
A Silk Robe and Ten Thousand Porcelain Dishes: Links Between Early Can... In 1634, French explorer Jean Nicollet carried “a robe of Chinese damask, adorned with flowers and multi-coloured birds” on... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 2175
A Spoonful of Mystery: In search of early Canada’s most famous pewter ... At least once or twice a year, pewter utensils — with their quiet charm — appear in auction catalogues and the inventories of... Museum Research Number of likes: 0 Number of views: 1877