Parks Canada’s Underwater Archaeology Team and a Government of Nunavut Archaeologist have begun the archeological investigation of HMS Terror - the second ship of Sir John Franklin’s tragic 1845 expedition - in the waters of Nunavut.
Parks Canada, together with the Yukon Arts Centre and the US National Park Service, today announced the names of the three artists selected for the 2017 Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency Program.
Linking the Canadian suffrage movement with the Imperial Pankhurst “suffragettes,” Helena Gutteridge was unique in making a space for wage-earning women within the predominantly middle-class feminist movement.
After immigrating from England in 1911, Helena Gutteridge joined the Vancouver Trades and Labour Council Executive (VTLC), an umbrella organisation for Vancouver’s labour movement, and helped to organize female workers.
The University of New Brunswick’s Department of Anthropology, in partnership with Parks Canada, will offer a bioarchaeology field program at the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site during the summer of 2017.
Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, Catherine McKenna, announced that the grade 8 class of Lethbridge Christian School won the Canada’s Coolest School Trip. A total of 69 classes participated in the video competition and student from this grade 8 class are the winners of the trip of a lifetime to visit Parks Canada’s treasured places in magnificent Nova Scotia.