Fundraising

The Loyal Edmonton Regiment Museum's fundraising campaign to support the creation of this Web site is called Educating for Success. Several important sponsors have already contributed to Educating for Success, but we need your help to attain all of our goals. Below, you will find acknowledgement of our current sponsors and a description of our goals. We urge you to contribute to Educating for Success. Please give generously.

coming soon

The Loyal Edmonton Regiment Association

http://www.millennium.gc.ca/

Canada Millennium Partnership Program

For assistance in exploring the
site, please proceed to the
User Information page.

If you have any comments,
questions, or suggestions,
please contact us at ler@chinookmultimedia.com.

This website and its contents
are the intellectual property of
The Loyal Edmonton Regiment Museum.

Any reproduction of any part of
the site to which copyright laws
apply without the consent of
the owners is strictly prohibited.

http://www.legion.ca/english/abnwt
/index.htm

Alberta-N.W.T. Command, The Royal Canadian Legion

[pending]

http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/
cwmeng/cwmeng.html

http://www.albertahumanrights.ab.ca/

Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission

Canadian War Museum/Musée canadien de la guerre

coming soon

Chinook Multimedia Inc.

By creating this Web site, the Loyal Edmonton Regiment Museum hopes to achieve the following general objectives:

to use digital resources to enhance the ability of the Museum to fulfil its mandate to preserve and communicate The Loyal Edmonton Regiment's history;
to help Canadians to understand the importance of our military history;
to develop educational materials about Canada's military history specifically for young children;
to nurture a special relationship with Edmonton's L'Académie Vimy Ridge Academy, which emphasises the teaching of military history;
to develop closer relations with other museums in Canada by consulting with the larger museum community and sharing out experiences in creating this important digital resource; and
to research and model best practice for museums using digital technologies.

These general objectives will be attained by reaching the goals of the individual modules:

The Loyal Edmonton Regiment History Goal:
to create a new history of the Regiment written by a professional historian and presented with full multimedia accompaniment;

Cost of Freedom Goal: to honour the sacrifices made by the Canadian military and their families and to communicate those sacrifices in an effective manner to Canada's young people;

Canada's Military History Goal:
to create an interpretative history that will provide essential context for the other resources found on the site;

The Canadian Military History Timeline Goal:
to highlight the most important events in Canada's military history;

The Virtual Museum Goal:
to create a digital version of the experience of visiting The Loyal Edmonton Regiment Museum;

The Kids' Page Goal:
to create age-appropriate learning resources, including and versions of The Canadian Military History Timeline and the Regimental History, so that our children will understand and be able to evaluate Canada's military history;

Teachers' Resources Goal:
to create aids that will assist teachers to incorporate this Web site's materials into the school curriculum;

Links Goal:
to provide a reliable, comprehensive index of links to WWW resources on Canadian military history.