About The Memory Project Speakers’ Bureau

Created in 2001, The Memory Project is one of The Historica-Dominion Institute’s most successful educational programmes designed to connect veterans, serving soldiers, and students online and in classrooms across the country. The Memory Project Speakers' Bureau includes 2,000 volunteers from across Canada who visit classrooms and community groups to share their stories with youth.

Memory Project speakers represent a wide range of conflicts, including the Second World War, Korean War, Peacekeeping Operations and other Canadian Forces experiences. To date, these veteran and Canadian Forces volunteers have reached more than 1 million young people.

The Memory Project Speakers Bureau is a project of The Historica-Dominion Institute, the largest independent organization dedicated to Canadian history, identity and citizenship.

Along with the Memory Project Speakers’ Bureau, The Historica-Dominion Institute has other veteran initiatives that you may be interested in. See the list below.

The Memory Project DVD: Witnesses to Our History

This DVD brings firsthand experiences of Canadian veterans to your classroom or community. This digital companion to the celebrated Memory Project Speakers’ Bureau offers a collection of 13 remarkable stories from Canadian veterans of the First World War to the War in Afghanistan.

Ontario Veteran Community Archive

An online collection of user generated stories, pictures, and documents which house the unique experiences of Ontario’s veterans.

The Memory Project Digital Archive

Explore over 90 years of military history, through over 2,500 first-hand accounts and artefacts shared by veterans from across Canada.