The Canada Heritage Action Foundation

11/20/2025

This free lecture examines Canada’s role in Sub-Saharan Africa during the Cold War, and the connections between race and the battle for allegiances between East and West.

11/01/2025

11/01/2025

Today, November 1, 2025, marks a defining moment in the global field of heritage preservation with the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum.
More than a cultural institution, the Museum stands as a powerful affirmation of Egypt’s enduring commitment to safeguarding, studying, and re-articulating its ancient past within a contemporary, critically informed, and globally engaged framework.

The Grand Egyptian Museum invites visitors not merely to view antiquities, but to engage with them as living archives of history, identity, and cultural memory. Its collections including monumental statuary, architectural fragments, and everyday objects are presented in a manner that emphasizes both historical continuity and the dynamic exchanges that shaped the Mediterranean world.

What makes this institution remarkable is not only the scale of its holdings, but the narrative responsibility it embraces. The Museum affirms that heritage is not static; it evolves, dialogues, and challenges us to reconsider prevailing interpretations. It positions Egypt as the primary narrator of its own past, while also opening space for collaborative research and cross-cultural scholarship.

In this sense, the Grand Egyptian Museum is not a repository of objects, but a site of knowledge production, one that contributes to global conversations on cultural ownership, restitution, identity, and the ethics of display.

This is a milestone not only for Egypt, but for all who believe in the right of communities to tell their own histories, on their own terms.

11/01/2025

New Exhibition: Our Origin Story ✨

Celebrating 20 years of Collective Advocacy
Presented by The City for All Women Initiative (CAWI)

📆 October 2, 2025 to January 10, 2026
📍 Gallery 112 | 100 Tallwood Drive

🔗 https://ottawa.ca/en/node/1014059
Nouvelle exposition : Notre histoire d'origine ✨

Célébrons 20 ans de plaidoyer collectif
Présenté par L’Initiative : une ville pour toutes les femmes

📆 Du 2 octobre 2025 au 10 Janvier 2026
📍 Galerie 112 | 100, promenade Tallwood

🔗 https://ottawa.ca/fr/node/1014059

06/08/2025

In case you missed it: Canada Day 2025 lineup! 🇨🇦🎉

Check out all the details on our website: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/canada-day.html?utm_campaign=pch-pch-cday-fdc-25-26&utm_medium=smo&utm_source=fb&utm_content=artists-poster-en-250605-pch

Canada and the World | Capital Experience

10/22/2024

Ten years have passed since Cpl Nathan Cirillo was killed while standing sentinel at the Canadian National War Memorial.

That day, our nation united in grief and paid tribute to a life cut short.

Today, we solemnly reflect on Cpl Cirillo’s sacrifice as a reminder of the risks that members of the CAF face every day during the course of their duties.