‘Canadian Honours’ exhibit stops in Dresden

From hockey star Sidney Crosby, to astronaut Chris Hadfield, students at DACS learned about some of Canada’s most prestigious award winners today in Dresden.

“It’s An Honour!” a travelling exhibit, features interpretative panels, multimedia elements and artifacts about the Canadian Honours System and is currently making its way across the country.

“We mostly target smaller communities,” said Francois Grenier, tour manager. “Not everyone gets to go to Ottawa… it’s pretty far away and it is a big country. This is one of the reasons this travelling exhibit was put on the road. We want to teach the people about the honours, we also like to inspire people to do more and also bring pride with the upcoming of the 150th in 2017. We also like to share stories with people.”

The exhibit will be open to the public in Dresden from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. both Monday and Tuesday, with tours for the Dresden students during both days.

“This is a very hand-on type of exhibit, so the kids come in, I give them a guided tour for about 10 minutes,” Grenier said. “We have about 12 touch screens inside of the exhibit.. they get to hold the medals, plus there is an iPad station. They can learn a lot of information really quickly.”

Grenier said the top honours in Canada are featured in the exhibit, which is mounted in a specially designed 1000-square-foot vehicle.

“We speak about the Order of Canada, which is the cornerstone of the honours systems, which is for lifetime achievement in a certain domain,” Grenier said. “There is a lot of people that got it, over 6,000 of them, including Michael J. Fox, Clara Hughes, many, many people. ”

“There is also a section for military honours, inducing the Victoria Cross, which is the highest honour that a Canadian can get. All of the stories related to the Victoria Cross are always fascinating, they are always mind blowing.”

Grenier said there are some artifacts from famous Canadians as well.

“A Sidney Crosby jersey from the 2013 playoffs, Steve Nash autographed basketball, and a holographic message from astronaut Chris Hadfield,” he said.

From January to the end of April, the exhibit will travel throughout Ontario.

Here are some photos of Cherie Elliott-Pegg’s Grade 1 class from DACS:

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