Schools can now borrow Second World War artifacts through Canadian War Museum program

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Grade 7 student Tristan Levesque tries on a Second World War era battle dress jacket as classmate Olivia Puff looks on at their middle school in Saint John, N.B. The clothing is one of several items in a kit provided free of charge to schools by the Canadian War Museum focusing on Canada’s role in the Second World War.

Boxes booked through the museum’s Supply Line program contain clothing, wartime art and photos and other artifacts, as well as lesson plans that explain the contents.Many of the clothing items, including a Mark II helmet, an army battle dress jacket and a woman’s head scarf worn in a factory, are reproductions, but some authentic artifacts are included in each box, such as an emergency ration kit and a camera specific to the period.

“There is something about being able to touch objects, being able to feel history in a way that you don’t necessarily get to when you’re reading it on a page,” Lyons said in a phone interview. Items in the boxes and accompanying photos were selected to reflect the diversity of Canadians’ wartime experiences, something Lyons said teachers across all grade levels expressed interest in after the First World War boxes launched in 2014.“It can be hard to look at a helmet and imagine that that helmet could have just as easily been worn by an African-Canadian civilian volunteer in Halifax … as it could have been by a French-Canadian soldier serving in Europe,” Lyons said.

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