Help Bring Remembrance to Life

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Bring a meaningful, curriculum-aligned remembrance project into your classroom. Students conduct real historical research, build evidence-based profiles, and contribute to a growing national collection.

Teachers and Schools

Take on the role of a historical detective. You'll be assigned a name from a local memorial, explore historical records, and uncover the person behind the name.

Students

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Photographs, letters, family records, newspaper clippings, and local knowledge can all help complete a story. If you have information that could assist student researchers, we'd love to hear from you.

Contributors

Help ensure profiles are accurate, evidence-based, and ready for publication. Historians, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, veterans, educators, and local researchers all have an important role to play.

Verifiers

(Roy Miller)
Credit: Image courtesy of Roy’s niece, Diane Harvey
Permission: Used with permission
(Roy Miller)
Credit: Image courtesy of Roy’s niece, Diane Harvey
Permission: Used with permission

Bring together schools, museums, historical societies, libraries, community organizations, and volunteers to document and preserve your community remembrance culture.

Community Projects

Faces to Names collaborates with organizations that share a commitment to remembrance education and preserving the stories behind Canada's First and Second World War memorials.

Partners & Collaborators

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Date: June 2024 Credit: © McMaster University Permission: Used with permission

Your support helps expand access to classrooms, strengthen community projects, recruit volunteer verifiers, and preserve more stories for future generations.

Supporters

  • Greater engagement in remembrance among young Canadians

  • More students discovering the people behind the names on local memorials

  • A growing, student-driven national collection of verified remembrance profiles and stories

  • More opportunities for communities, families, and local historians to contribute their knowledge

  • Free access and classroom-ready resources for participating schools

  • Continued development and maintenance of the Faces to Names platform

  • Expansion into new schools and communities across Canada

What Your Support Makes Possible

Join a Growing National Remembrance Initiative

Across Canada, students, educators, families, historians, community organizations, and supporters are helping uncover the people behind the names on local memorials.

Together, they are building a growing, student-driven collection of verified remembrance stories that connects names on memorials to the people and communities behind them.

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