PROGRAMS | Historica Canada

Citizenship Challenge

Put your national knowledge to the test! We challenge Canadians to test their national knowledge by studying for and writing a mock citizenship exam.

Encounters with Canada

Our country’s largest youth forum, students aged 14 to 17 years visit Ottawa to discover Canada and to explore various career pathways.

Here’s my Canada

Here’s My Canada is a multilingual, nation-wide contest inviting Canadians to express what Canada means to them in a 30-second video. Here’s My Canada is a project of Historica Canada and is a Canada 150 Signature Initiative.

Heritage Minutes

Our collection of Canadian 60-second short films depicting a significant person, event or story in Canadian history.

Indigenous Arts & Stories

Indigenous Arts & Stories invites talented young First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists to interpret an aspect of their culture and heritage through literary and visual arts.

The Memory Project

Veterans and Canadian Forces members to share their military experience with fellow Canadians, young and old.

Passages Canada

Invites newcomers and established Canadians to share their personal experiences of identity, heritage, and immigration with groups of all ages.

The Canadian Encyclopedia

The only established, free, bilingual, national encyclopedia of its kind in the world, offering the largest collection of authored, accurate, and continually updated articles focused on Canada and Canadiana.

Sesqui

ExploreSesqui invites educators and students to engage with Horizon, a 360° film produced by SESQUI Inc.

OUR PROGRAMS

Historica Canada provides educators, students and all interested Canadians with a variety of educational programs, events and resources that help Canadians—young and not-so-young—engage in meaningful ways with our history, identity and shared citizenship.

CURRENT PROGRAMS