DMC StoryMaps

This StoryMap collection includes all the resources linked to the Black Canadian Experience Podcast, organised visually to help learners interact with the content in different ways.

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On this page, access all storymaps from our Juno Stories project. Each storymap is viewable within this collection, but also independently in each section of the project (D-Day, Battle of Normandy, Serve Supply and Support, and D-Day Dodgers).

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D-Day Dodgers refers to Canadians who “dodged” D-Day in 1944, not by refusing to fight or by missing the call, but rather by fighting in Italy at the same time. This section shows the story of Tom Gilday, who was one such soldier.

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In D-Day, you can learn firsthand about the experience of D-Day itself, from the beaches to the sea and sky. Taken together, these interviews highlight the joint efforts of the Canadian Army, Navy, Air Force, and Airborne divisions.

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In the Battle of Normandy, you will hear the stories of those who landed after D-Day to help with the advance into France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany by 1945.

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In Serve, Supply, and Support, learn more about those men and women whose contributions elsewhere in Europe and back in Canada were essential to the success of the Canadian, and Allied, war effort.

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Discover how former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson earned a Nobel Peace Prize for creating the first United Nations peacekeeping force and defusing the 1956 Suez Crisis on an ESRI StoryMap.

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Explore the life and career work of Canadian chemist, John Polanyi, on an ESRI StoryMap. Dr. Polanyi was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in chemical kinetics.

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