Archive of funded projects
Projects funded through medium and large investments streams formerly available through the Virtual Museum of Canada website (now Digital Museums Canada). For small investment projects, visit the Community Stories collection.
2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008 • 2007 • 2006 • 2005 • 2004 • 2003 • 2002 • 2001 • 2000 • 1999 • 1997 • 1995
2014
Prairie Pollination
Creator(s): The Manitoba Museum
Launch date: 2014-07-03
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Magnificent Rocks
Creator(s): New Brunswick Museum
Launch date: 2014-07-01
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The great peace of Montréal
Creator(s): Pointe-à-Callière, musée d’archéologie et d’histoire de Montréal
Launch date: 2014-05-12
The Human Side of Lake Saint-Pierre
Creator(s): Biophare (Marc Mineau)
Launch date: 2014-04-22
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David Cronenberg: Virtual Exhibition
Creator(s): Toronto International Film Festival
Launch date: 2014-04-01
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In the House of Paul-Émile
Creator(s): Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Launch date: 2014-02-10
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2013
Expedition Arctic
Creator(s): Canadian Museum of Nature
Launch date: 2013-12-16
The Painting Project
Creator(s): Galerie de l’UQAM
Launch date: 2013-12-04
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Sharing the Meal!
Creator(s): Musée de la civilisation
Launch date: 2013-09-17
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Warming Up: A Canadian History of Automated Heating and Social Change
Creator(s): HVACR Heritage Centre Canada
Launch date: 2013-03-26
2012
Rivière-du-Loup AT FULL THROTTLE – Hub of the eastern railway network
Creator(s): Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent
Launch date: 2012-10-20
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‘Enemy Aliens’: The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-43
Creator(s): Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
Launch date: 2012-09-01
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You are here. 80 years of Canadian Geographic maps
Creator(s): Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Launch date: 2012-08-01
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Greatest Sporting Moments: The Bobbie Rosenfeld and Lionel Conacher Award Winners
Creator(s): Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame
Launch date: 2012-06-25
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The Beginning of a New Era
Creator(s): Musée québéquois de culture populaire
Launch date: 2012-03-29
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The St. Lawrence Iroquoians
Creator(s): Centre d’interprétation du site archéologique Droulers – Tsiionhiakwatha
Launch date: 2012-03-19
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All Aboard! Exploring the Newfoundland Railway
Creator(s): Railway Coastal Museum
Launch date: 2012-03-01
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Investigating Forensics
Creator(s): Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
Launch date: 2012-02-01
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2011
The Burgess Shale
Creator(s): Royal Ontario Museum
Launch date: 2011-12-01
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In Search of the Canadian Car
Creator(s): Musée des sciences et de la technologie du Canada
Launch date: 2011-11-09
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Trees Inside Out
Creator(s): Jardin Botanique de Montréal
Launch date: 2011-10-05
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The Farmers’ Bank of Rustico
Creator(s): Farmers’ Bank of Rustico Museum
Launch date: 2011-03-31
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The Legends of the Depths
Creator(s): Musée du Fjord
Launch date: 2011-01-27
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2010
NAC Musicbox
Creator(s): National Arts Centre
Launch date: 2010-12-31
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Collections from Storage: A Visit to our Hidden Treasures
Creator(s): Musée de la nature et des sciences de Sherbrooke
Launch date: 2010-12-23
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History of hydroelectricity in Quebec
Creator(s): La Cité de l’énergie
Launch date: 2010-12-15
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Nametau innu: Memory and knowledge of Nitassinan
Creator(s): Musée régional de la Côte-Nord
Launch date: 2010-12-01
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Return to the wild: Evolving perspectives on Canadian Wildlife
Creator(s): Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Launch date: 2010-09-10
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The Cobalt Adventure
Creator(s): Cobalt Heritage Silver Trail
Launch date: 2010-08-15
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Media Art
Creator(s): Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Launch date: 2010-03-31
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Climbing to the Clouds: A People’s History of BC Mountaineering
Creator(s): North Vancouver Museum and Archives
Launch date: 2010-03-29
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The Raven’s Call
Creator(s): Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
Launch date: 2010-03-20
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The Lou Marsh Legacy: Honouring Canada’s Top Athletes (The Game)
Creator(s): Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame
Launch date: 2010-02-23
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The Lou Marsh Legacy: Honouring Canada’s Top Athletes
Creator(s): Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame
Launch date: 2010-02-23
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Waters of life
Creator(s): Biophare
Launch date: 2010-02-18
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2009
The Trait-Carré of Charlesbourg: The Only Star-Shaped Village in Canada
Creator(s): Moulin des Jésuites
Launch date: 2009-10-07
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Norris Arm: Those Pine Clad Hills
Creator(s): Norris Arm Heritage Museum
Launch date: 2009-06-10
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Do you have what it takes to be a Buckaroo?
Creator(s): Historic O’Keefe Ranch
Launch date: 2009-05-27
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The Story of Ranching in BC: Buckaroos in BC
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Launch date: 2009-05-27
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Salaberry-de-Valleyfield – At the Heart of Industrial History in Canada
Creator(s): Musée des Deux-Rives
Launch date: 2009-04-24
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Nunavik: A Land, Its People
Creator(s): Laboratoire de recherche sur les musiques du monde – (OICRM-Université de Montréal)
Launch date: 2009-03-15
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Alvir Champrobacter has disappeared
Creator(s): Centre d’interprétation des biosciences, Musée Armand-Frappier
Launch date: 2009-01-14
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Outsmart the sinister JavelWater
Creator(s): Centre d’interprétation des biosciences, Musée Armand-Frappier
Launch date: 2009-01-14
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2008
For Valour: Canadian Airmen and the Victoria Cross
Creator(s): Air Force Heritage and History
Launch date: 2008-10-23
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ArtPad: A Collection. A Connection
Creator(s): Glenbow Museum
Launch date: 2008-09-16
Lighthouses of Prince Edward Island, Beacons of Light
Creator(s): Community Museums Association of PEI
Launch date: 2008-08-01
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Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music
Creator(s): University of Alberta Museums
Launch date: 2008-07-01
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ARTothèque – Overview of Contemporary Art in Acadie
Creator(s): Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen de l’Université de Moncton
Launch date: 2008-05-04
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Asahi: Canadian Baseball Legends
Creator(s): National Nikkei Museum and Heritage Centre
Launch date: 2008-02-25
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Mt. Logan: Canadian Titan
Creator(s): Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre
Launch date: 2008-01-23
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2007
Flora of the Grand lake Meadows
Creator(s): Mary’s Point Shorebird Reserve and Interpretive Centre
Launch date: 2007-12-20
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Miguasha National Park: From Water to Land
Creator(s): Musée d’histoire naturelle du parc de Miguasha
Launch date: 2007-12-03
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Window on the Mont Saint-Hilaire Biosphere Reserve
Creator(s): Centre de la nature du mont Saint-Hilaire
Launch date: 2007-10-01
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Balance of Power: Hydroelectric Development in Southeastern British Columbia
Creator(s): Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History
Launch date: 2007-08-24
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Once Upon a Roof… A short history of house architecture in Eastern Canada
Creator(s): Société d’histoire du Lac-Saint-Jean
Launch date: 2007-06-12
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Regina Clay: Worlds in the Making
Creator(s): MacKenzie Art Gallery
Launch date: 2007-05-01
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Emily Carr
Creator(s): Vancouver Art Gallery
Launch date: 2007-04-10
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Klondike: The Rush for Gold
Creator(s): Dawson City Museum
Launch date: 2007-03-31
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Dubious Views
Creator(s): Gallery TPW
Launch date: 2007-03-30
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Dane Wajich- Dane-zaa Stories & Songs: Dreamers and the Land
Creator(s): Doig River First Nation Cultural Center
Launch date: 2007-01-01
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2006
Sandford Fleming, The knight of time
Creator(s): Exporail, The Canadian Railway Museum
Launch date: 2006-12-11
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Storm Spirits – Aboriginal New Media Art
Creator(s): Urban Shaman Gallery
Launch date: 2006-11-03
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Koluskap: Wolastoqewi-atkuhkakonol – Stories from Wolastoqiyik
Creator(s): New Brunswick Museum
Launch date: 2006-10-16
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Canada Under the Stars
Creator(s): ASTROLab du Mont-Mégantic
Launch date: 2006-10-12
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Land of the Spirits
Creator(s): Davenport Centre Heritage Hall
Launch date: 2006-07-27
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Back to Batoche
Creator(s): Gabriel Dumont Institute
Launch date: 2006-07-25
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Conservation in Action
Creator(s): Vancouver Aquarium
Launch date: 2006-07-11
Echoes from the Past
Creator(s): Centre d’exposition de l’Université de Montréal
Launch date: 2006-07-07
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Flyover Lake Saint-Pierre
Creator(s): Biophare
Launch date: 2006-06-15
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Pirates or Privateers? Boarding on the St. Lawrence
Creator(s): Musée maritime du Québec
Launch date: 2006-05-19
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The Force in the North
Creator(s): MacBride Museum of Yukon History
Launch date: 2006-03-29
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Céilidh air Cheap Breatunn
Creator(s): Highland Village Museum / An Clachan Gàidhealach
Launch date: 2006-01-25
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History of the Basilica: From Cornerstone to Consecration
Creator(s): Basilica Cathedral Museum
Launch date: 2006-01-25
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The Commissariat 3D Reconstruction Project
Creator(s): Bytown Museum
Launch date: 2006-01-25
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Healing Power of Plants
Creator(s): Coalition of Canadian Healthcare Museums and Archives
Launch date: 2006-01-19
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The Dewdney Trail
Creator(s): Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History
Launch date: 2006-01-19
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Beauty in the Beast | The Mill at Britannia Mine
Creator(s): BC Museum of Mining
Launch date: 2006-01-15
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2005
EchoPhotograph
Creator(s): McCord Museum
Launch date: 2005-12-09
Watch The Birdie
Creator(s): McCord Museum
Launch date: 2005-12-09
Harvests of Prince Edward Island
Creator(s): Community Museums Association of PEI
Launch date: 2005-11-30
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1759 : From the Warpath to the Plains of Abraham
Creator(s): Commission des champs de bataille nationaux (Plaines d’Abraham)
Launch date: 2005-09-13
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On Canadian Ground: Stories of Footwear in Early Canada
Creator(s): Bata Shoe Museum
Launch date: 2005-08-31
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Nature Under Glass
Creator(s): Biodôme de Montréal
Launch date: 2005-04-12
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Seasons of New France
Creator(s): Centre de référence de l’Amérique française
Launch date: 2005-03-18
A Day in the Life of a Trappist Monk
Creator(s): St. Norbert Arts Centre
Launch date: 2005-02-01
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North-West Mounted Police – A Tradition in Scarlet
Creator(s): The Galt Museum & Archives
Launch date: 2005-01-25
2004
From Camp to Community: Cowichan Forestry Life
Creator(s): British Columbia Forest Discovery Centre
Launch date: 2004-12-01
From Camp to Community: Walkthrough a Logging Camp
Creator(s): British Columbia Forest Discovery Centre
Launch date: 2004-12-01
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Journeys & Transformations: British Columbia Landscapes
Creator(s): Royal British Columbia Museum
Launch date: 2004-05-21
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2K40
Creator(s): Centre des sciences de Montréal
Launch date: 2004-01-01
2003
Northern People, Northern Knowledge
Creator(s): Canadian Museum of History
Launch date: 2003-11-19
Acadia – Lifestyles in the days of our ancestors
Creator(s): Village Historique Acadien
Launch date: 2003-07-24
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The Inuvialuit Place Name Virtual Exhibit
Creator(s): Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
Launch date: 2003-04-15
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Great Upper Canada Adventure
Creator(s): Strathroy Middlesex Museum
Launch date: 2003-04-01
SydenhamDiscovery.ca
Creator(s): Strathroy Middlesex Museum
Launch date: 2003-04-01
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New Brunswick: Our Stories, Our People
Creator(s): Heritage Branch
Launch date: 2003-03-31
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The Women of Aspenland
Creator(s): Heritage Community Foundation
Launch date: 2003-03-31
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Fire + Earth
Creator(s): Burlington Art Centre
Launch date: 2003-03-25
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The Story of the Masks
Creator(s): U’mista Cultural Centre
Launch date: 2003-03-24
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Hands On!
Creator(s): Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library
Launch date: 2003-03-05
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Ilititaa… Bernier, his men and the Inuits
Creator(s): Musée maritime du Québec
Launch date: 2003-02-24
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2002
A Scholar’s Garden
Creator(s): Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
Launch date: 2002-12-31
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The Fungus Among Us
Creator(s): Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History
Launch date: 2002-12-31
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Fort Selkirk – Virtual Museum
Creator(s): Government of Yukon
Launch date: 2002-11-30
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The Bishop Who Ate His Boots
Creator(s): Old Log Church Museum
Launch date: 2002-11-30
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University of Alberta Museums KidZone
Creator(s): Museums and Collections Services
Launch date: 2002-10-25
Through the Eyes of the Cree
Creator(s): Allen Sapp Gallery
Launch date: 2002-10-25
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Saguenay – An Exceptional Fjord !
Creator(s): Musée du Fjord
Launch date: 2002-09-13
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Picturing A Canadian Life: L.M. Montgomery’s Personal Scrapbooks and Book Covers
Creator(s): Confederation Centre Art Gallery
Launch date: 2002-08-30
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Remembrances: Canada and the Second World War
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network
Launch date: 2002-08-14
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Getting Better
Creator(s): University Health Network Artifact Collection
Launch date: 2002-08-07
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Open Hearts – Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project
Creator(s): Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
Launch date: 2002-06-30
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The Making of Treaty 8 in Canada’s Northwest
Creator(s): Heritage Community Foundation
Launch date: 2002-06-01
Maison Saint-Gabriel, A Present From The Past!
Creator(s): Maison Saint-Gabriel
Launch date: 2002-05-08
Artwork Awaiting Discovery
Creator(s): Maison Saint-Gabriel
Launch date: 2002-05-08
The Adventure Train!
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network
Launch date: 2002-05-01
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Holman: Forty Years of Graphic Art
Creator(s): Winnipeg Art Gallery
Launch date: 2002-04-15
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Urban Life through Two Lenses
Creator(s): McCord Museum
Launch date: 2002-04-01
The Astonishing World of Musical Instruments
Creator(s): Laboratoire de recherche sur les musiques du monde – (OICRM-Université de Montréal)
Launch date: 2002-02-22
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2001
The Trace Fossil Mystery
Creator(s): Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History
Launch date: 2001-10-15
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The Fleetway
Creator(s): Windsor’s Community Museum
Launch date: 2001-09-15
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The ‘Respect to Bill Reid’ Pole
Creator(s): Museum of Anthropology
Launch date: 2001-06-21
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Interactive Investigator Game
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network
Launch date: 2001-04-10
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2000
Interactive Investigator
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network
Launch date: 2000-04-10
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1999
Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network
Launch date: 1999-12-31
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Butterflies North and South
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network
Launch date: 1999-01-01
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1997
Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Victoria
Creator(s): BC Heritage Branch
Launch date: 1997-01-01
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1995
Christmas Traditions in France and in Canada
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage Information Network
Launch date: 1995-01-01
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