This Virtual Exhibition and online teaching tool offers a rare glimpse into a forgotten moment in Canadian, Russian, and World History, the journey of 4,200 Canadian soldiers from Victoria to Vladivostok in the wake of the Russian Revolution. The project combines engaging interpretive narratives in the English, French and Russian languages with a Digital Archive providing public access to 2,200 previously unpublished photographs and archival documents.
Project partners: University of Victoria Humanities Computing & Media Centre, University of Victoria Dean of Humanities, University of Victoria Special Collections, Centre for Research on Canadian-Russian Relations, Arseniev State Museum of Primorsky Region, Far Eastern National University Centre of Canadian and Americans Studies (Vladivostok).
