Getting the Word Out

Canada has a rich history of grassroots activism. Getting the Word Out looks at how organizers and activists communicated information and ideas before the Internet. Since ‘before the Internet’ comprises most of our history, this offers a significant perspective on our story as a country, and on Canada’s place in the world.

Discover the stories of those who were working actively to make the world better, in ways large and small.

One of the central themes of this exhibit is how the idea of community informed activists and organizers. The idea of community might, and often did, represent a particular locality, a place. But it might equally represent other kinds of communities, defined by a sense of identity, or a common set of beliefs or shared problems, which might include people spread over a wide geographical area where people were facing, and fighting, injustice.

The Getting the Word Out exhibit showcases movements, projects, media and products, and technologies and methods. Explore the ways communities of activists worked to reach other people – in their local community, in their province or region, across the country, or even internationally.