Award Recipients

François Desmarais and Véronique Picard developed the Tissés serrés (Tightly Woven) project for their students, taking an innovative educational approach that puts history at the heart of the creative process.

Through Discovering Our Roots, Erin Quinn’s students became historians and museum curators as they explored their community’s local history.

Heather Howell’s students cultivated a heritage garden using traditional methods, growing vegetables and herbs similar to those raised by Burlington families in the late 19th century.

The Historytellers Project empowered students to uncover and share Canada’s often-overlooked 2SLGBTQ+ history.

The Black History Walking Tour was sparked by students’ concern over the near loss of a historic building — home to Canada’s first Black labour union.

Manouchka Otis designed and implemented the Uapush Project, a pedagogical approach rooted in Innu knowledge, perspective and lived realities, offering a culturally relevant teaching experience.

Jo Anne Broders and her Grade 8 class embarked on a year-long journey to uncover and honour the history of a little-known Mi’kmaq cemetery in Gambo, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Julie Gaudreault and her Grade 5 students explored various aspects of Quebec society around 1905. The story of Louis Cyr — the famous strong man of the time and a folk hero of the Lanaudière region of Quebec — served as a common thread to explore this important period.

Tasting History was an interdisciplinary project that combined Grade 11 and 12 classes in history, hospitality and tourism, and green industries to explore a broad history of European Jewry beyond the Holocaust.

Project True North invited Grade 10 students to explore the lives of Canadian nursing sisters, members of the No. 2 Construction Battalion, and Canadian military medal recipients, illuminating the often-overlooked contributions of these individuals.