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Toronto Public Library and Passages Canada Present Destination Canada Exhibit

by Mike Simpson | Jul 13, 2017 | Ancestry, Ancestry Project, Canada, History, Immigration, Refugees, Travel, Uncategorized

Running from May 20 – July 30, 2017. Destination Canada is an exhibit at the Toronto Reference Library’s TD Gallery. This gem is almost hidden away at the side inside the entrance of the massive central library. Fortunately I was alerted to its presence by a...

Interview with Patrice Palmer

by Mike Simpson | Jul 4, 2017 | Ancestry, Ancestry Project, Canada, Canada 150, Education Technology, Immigration, Interview, Travel, Uncategorized, Websites, Writers

Interview with Patrice Palmer conducted by Mike Simpson, June 2017. Patrice Palmer is a teacher and entrepreneur from Hamilton, Ontario, who has launched a business as a “teacherpreneur.” She’s conducted over 50 interviews for her blog/newsletter and...

Interview with Mike Simpson

by admin | May 15, 2017 | Ancestry, Ancestry Project, Canada, Canada 150, Education Technology, Interview

Why did you create Ancestry Project? What is your role? I wrote about this in a recent blog post but I’m happy to summarize it here. As a teacher and designer interested in bridging the worlds of education and design-media, it was a curiosity to me to see how I might...

NY Times’ Nicholas Kristof’s Family Immigration Story Told Via Engaging Documentary

by Mike Simpson | May 6, 2017 | Ancestry, Ancestry Project, Immigration, Refugees, Uncategorized, Video

Nicholas Kristof is a Pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, who covers human rights, women’s rights, health, and global affairs. In the column and short documentary, “Mr. Trump, Meet My Family,” Kristof describes the journey his father took as an...