About
Historica Canada is a charitable organization that offers programs in both official languages that you can use to explore, learn, reflect on our history, and consider what it means to be Canadian.
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.
Historica Canada’s programs include:
- Heritage Minutes, our collection of Canadian 60-second short films depicting a significant person, event or story in Canadian history.
- The Canadian Encyclopedia, a free, bilingual online resource and the only established national encyclopedia of its kind in the world, offers the largest collection of authored, accurate and continually updated articles focused on Canada’s history and culture. To date, the Encyclopedia’s growing collection contains more than 24,000 bilingual articles by some 5,000 authors.
- The Memory Project, which invites veterans and Canadian Forces members to share their military experience with fellow Canadians, young and old. Through an online archive and speakers bureau, more than 3 million Canadians have heard their stories.
- The Citizenship Challenge, which has tested the knowledge of more than 1 million students since 2010. Participants study for and write a citizenship exam, based on the version taken by actual citizenship applicants.
Our Impact
We offer all our programs free of charge in both of our country’s official languages. Our online programs and resources are accessed by more than 28 million users annually, and our educational tools have been distributed to more than 65,000 teachers from coast-to-coast-to-coast.
In all our programs, we place a premium on accuracy and context, and work with subject matter experts toward those ends. We have enhanced efforts to ensure that the stories, achievements, and challenges faced by historically marginalized people are included and told by and in consultation with members of those communities.
