2011 Reading and Remembrance

In 2005, Angie Littlefield and Mary Cook of the Durham West Arts Centre developed a youth-based education initiative for Remembrance Day and Veteran’s Week which provided free online ready-to-teach lesson packages focusing on Canada’s heroic veterans and wartime stories.  This initiative, called Reading and Remembrance has become an award-winning national program supported by Veterans Canada as well as Ontario Power Generation.

Reading and Remembrance focuses on a different theme each year.  The 2011 program – Peacekeeping and Peacemaking, features the changing nature of war, peacekeeping and peacemaking from WWII into the present.  It is a complex world with dedicated individuals – well worth investigating.

Imagine thousands school children learning to honour those who served and serve in different countries all over the world and appreciate the many different ways individuals and countries can make a different for the good.

To register as a participating school or to find out more about the program contact ReadingAndRemembrance.ca

The Pickering Public Library supports this excellent program and congratulates Angie Littlefield and Mary Cook for their work!