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  • Take Down Policy
    The Museum makes every effort to ensure that it has appropriate rights to collect and provide access to content held within the permanent collection. Where possible, we secure rights to use works that are in copyright. In cases where the rights are unclear, we archive but do not provide public …
  • Bison Stew from Parks Canada Heritage Gourmet Recipes
    Bison Stew from the Parks Canada Heritage Gourmet Recipes collection.  This recipe was tested by Chef Scott Warrick, Algonquin College School of Hospitality and Tourism. It is shared here with permission from Parks Canada. Bison Stew. Courtesy of Parks Canada. Step 1: Preheat the oil in a large pot …
  • Interpretation Guidelines and Resources for A History Exposed
    A History Exposed Welcome to the A History Exposed Information page. Below are documents and resources for marketing, programming, installing and maintaining the exhibition. Exhibition Questions If you have any questions, please contact: Julie Martin, Assistant Curator 902-425-7770 ext. 278 …
  • Chef Jenni Lessard’s Spruce Tip Butter
    Spruce tips are the young spring buds on the branches of spruce trees.  Spruce has been used by Indigenous peoples in salves, topical creams, teas, beers and in modern cooking. The tips can be harvested in the spring to add a delicious, aromatic flavour to many dishes. This spruce tip butter recipe …
  • Chef Trudy Metcalfe Coe’s Arctic Char Ceviche
    Inspired by trying ceviche for the first time in Costa Rica, award-winning Inuk chef Trudy Metcalfe Coe returned home with the idea of making a variation of the popular dish with Arctic char and local ingredients. Chef Trudy Metcalfe Coe’s Arctic Char Ceviche. Courtesy of Chef Trudy Metcalfe Coe. …
  • Rebecca Teitelbaum’s Orange Cake
    While in a Nazi concentration camp, Rebecca Teitelbaum risked her life to secretly record the recipes of fellow prisoners. She included her own recipe for orange cake, a dish that she would later make in Canada for her family every Sunday. Rebecca Teitelbaum portrait. Courtesy of the Vancouver …
  • Narrow Escapes to Canada
    We sometimes refer to this institution as a museum of stories. Stories of arrivals, of departures, of new beginnings. Among the stories are incredible, and often harrowing, accounts of escape. These are two stories of escape , from different places and time periods. They both ended with a new life …
  • Umeeda Switlo and Lella Umedaly
    Life in Uganda - The Ismaili Community Time 0:01:32 Transcript Umeeda Switlo (US): When we were growing up we had— communities were divided in that, white people went to white schools, black kids went to black schools, and Ismaili kids and Indian kids went to the Ismaili community school. And there …
  • John Halani
    Life in Uganda - Community Involvement Time 0:01:48 Transcript My two sisters went to India to study high school and university education, because at that time, India seemed to be the best option because it’s cheaper than to go to England. Most of the student from Uganda went to England to study, …

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