• Preparations for the Canada 150 event held at the Ismaili Centre Toronto. Salim Nensi
    23 April 2015 | Ismaili Centre Toronto

    Preparing for Canada's 150th Birthday

    Preparations for the Canada 150 event held at the Ismaili Centre Toronto. Salim Nensi
6:00 PM
25 April 2015
5:45 PM
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The Ismaili Centre Toronto
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Toronto, 24 April 2015 — The Ismaili Council for Canada hosted a partners’ meeting for Canada 150: Canada’s Untold Stories, the country’s largest initiative to bring organisations together to record their family and community stories. The goal of the programme is to encourage Canadians to record their personal stories as a digital gift to Canada for its 150th birthday in July 2017. Canada 150 was founded in 1997 by author and caregiving educator Harry van Bommel.
 
 
The event included remarks by Paul Jones, former director of Canada’s History Society, and Harry van Bommel. Members from partner organisations discussed the programme’s proposed signature project, the Canada 150 History Relay, which would further demonstrate the pluralistic nature of Canada through widespread storytelling.