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Contact: Andrew Cohen
phone: 1-866-701-1867
email: info@historica-domion.ca
Website: Encounters with Canada
Website: The Canadian Encyclopedia
Website: FYI Canada: Canadian Teens Express Themselves
Website: The Memory Project
Website: The Canadian History Report Card
Website: Social Studies Resources for Canadian Teachers
The Historica-Dominion Institute began operating in 2000 as the Historica Foundation with a mandate to engage young Canadians in the history of their country and in so doing to raise their levels of knowledge, awareness and historical literacy. It has become the leading national organization in its field. Historica produces the English and French Minutes series of 60-second TV dramas initiated by the philanthropies; it has also produced some 100 Historica Minutes, 100 Radio Minutes, as well as 100 Footprints – 60-second TV clips of Canadian sports heroes using documentary footage.
The Historica-Domion Institute’s website features a large volume of resources for teaching plans, including digitised versions of the Minutes and accompanying lesson plans, and receives approximately 50,000 visits a month. It also owns and makes available free of charge both The Canadian Encyclopedia, the basic reference work on Canadian history, and The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada which can receive up to half a million visits in a given month.
To proactively reach students, The Historica-Dominion Institute runs a nation-wide program of Encounters with Canada is Canada's largest youth forum. Every week of the school year, 120 to 138 teens from across Canada (ages 14-17) come to Ottawa; there they discover their country through each other, learn about Canadian institutions, meet famous and accomplished Canadians, explore exciting career options, develop their civic leadership skills and live an extraordinary bilingual experience.
In 2009, Historica merged with the Dominion Institute. Using groundbreaking public opinion research and innovative TV, new media and in-school programs, the Dominion InstituteInstitute helps hundreds of thousands of Canadians connect in meaningful ways with the country’s history, shared citizenship and democratic institutions and values. The Institute’s programs fall under three themes: memory, democracy and identity.
