{"id":9144,"date":"2022-02-16T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/?post_type=nouvelles&#038;p=9144"},"modified":"2022-02-16T12:02:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:02:19","slug":"digital-museums-canada-great-stories-well-told","status":"publish","type":"nouvelles","link":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/news\/digital-museums-canada-great-stories-well-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Museums Canada: Great stories well told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">I enjoy reading about history, especially community history, and I\u2019m always looking out for interesting new resources<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week I discovered Digital Museums Canada&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitystories.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Stories Collection<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The collection includes more than 500 Canadian online community history projects funded by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmuseums.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Digital Museums Canada<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Want to learn more about the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitystories.ca\/v2\/histoire-seigneuriale_seigneurial-history\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Village History of Sainte-Anne-de-la-P\u00e9rade<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">? Interested in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitystories.ca\/v2\/grimsby-cooperative-homebuilders_constructeurs-habitation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grimsby Homebuilding Co-operative<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Ontario? How about a little bit about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitystories.ca\/v2\/bc-black-pioneers_les-pionniers-noirs-de-la-cb\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">B.C.\u2019s Black history<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week I read accounts of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitystories.ca\/v2\/fernie-community_communaute-fernie\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the history of Fernie, B.C.\u2019s early Italian community<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Ontario\u2019s 1942 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitystories.ca\/v2\/almonte-train-wreck_l-accident-de-train-d-almonte\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Almonte Train Wreck<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitystories.ca\/v2\/la-peche-a-l-anguille_eel-fishing\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eel Fishing in the C\u00f4te-du-Sud<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitystories.ca\/v2\/carrefour-mondial-de-l-accordeon-30-ans_30-years\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carrefour mondial de l\u2019accord\u00e9on festival<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Quebec\u2019s Montmagny r\u00e9gion, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitystories.ca\/v2\/chilliwacks-chinatowns_quartiers-chinois-chilliwack\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chilliwack, B.C.\u2019s historic Chinatowns<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The site is searchable by subject and by region and each story is available in both English and French.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have a look if you enjoy great community stories well told.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>I<em>mage:<\/em><\/b><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Marie Albertina Stark Wallace, age 98, author of \u201cThe History of the Stark Family\u201d. Salt Spring Island Archives\/Gulf Islands Driftwood Archives, August 19, 1965<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catherine Fisher, blogger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9148,"parent":0,"template":"","categorie-de-nouvelle":[63],"class_list":["post-9144","nouvelles","type-nouvelles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-de-nouvelle-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles\/9144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nouvelles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorie-de-nouvelle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie-de-nouvelle?post=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}