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Reporting on the Canadian Peace Museum

Recent News

  • New book about artist Arne Roosman launches at Canadian Peace Museum, Nov 205
  • Peace museum in Bancroft takes a big step, Sept 2025
  • What does peace mean to you? 3rd annual peace awards in Bancroft, Sept 2024
  • Canadian Peace Museum celebrates its third annual Award Ceremony Sept 2025
  • "What does peace mean to you?" asks Canadian Peace Museum contest, Aug 2025
  • Design of Canadian Peace Museum underway in Bancroft, Aug 2025
  • Submissions are now being accepted for Stories of Peace Award, Aug 2025
  • Peace is more than a military construct, June 2025
  • Community members supportive of Peace Museum, April 2025
  • ‘We’re delighted’: Peace Museum gifted North Hastings Community Trust building, March 2025


2024 News


  • Efforts to open new Canadian Peace Museum in Bancroft sees progress with new peace pole and Best In-Person Programming Award, MUSE Magazine, Winter 2024/25
  • Stories of Peace Awards wins award, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Peace Museum president reflects on war’s true cost 19 Nov. 2024
  • Stories of Peace Award 2024 handed out Sept. 24
  • Peace pole unveiled in Bancroft’s Cenotaph Park
  • Coe Hill School in Hastings County wins the Canadian Peace Museum’s Stories of Peace Award, 25 Sept 2024
  • #StoriesofPeace2024 Award, 9 Sept 2024
  • In a Troubled World, Where Do We Begin Talking About Peace?, 29 Aug 2024
  • Bancroft pledges financial support to Canadian Peace Museum, 19 July 2024
  • Bancroft proclaims Sept. 21 as Peace Day, 26 June 2024
  • Canadian Peace Museum founder hopes for federal support 3 April 2024
  • Will Peace have its museum in Canada? (in French), 1 April 2024.
  • Canadian Peace Museum given charitable status 11 March 2024


2023 News


  • Canadian Peace Museum awards local students, 17 October 2023
  • Turtles, butterflies, and common ground, 10 October 2023
  • Birds Creek students win first ever Stories of Peace Award, September 26, 2023
  • Museum award program asks for reflections on meaning of peace, 15 September 2023 
  • Bancroft backing Canadian Peace Museum plans, 5 September 2023
  • What are we fighting for? Bancroft This Week, August 1, 2023
  • Former humanitarian worker planning Peace Museum for Bancroft, Moose FM, July 28 2023
  • Canadian Peace Museum looks to make Bancroft home in 2025, Bancroft This Week, July 26, 2023.

Interviews and public discussion

Television Interviews

  • CBC Power & Politics Interview on Gaza Aid (at 11 minutes, 53 sections) 6 March 2024

Radio Interviews

  • Mix97 FM chat about launching Stories of Peace 2024, 9 Sept 2024
  • Brian Crombie Radio Show Interview on Gaza, aid worker mental health and the Canadian Peace Museum 12 March 2024

Letters to Editors

  • Canadian Peace Museum an important development for Bancroft , Marilyn Jones, B.A., M.S.W., RSW. Social worker 31 Aug 2024

Stories of Peace newspaper column

Stories of Peace is a weekly newspaper column in The Bancroft Times written by Chris Houston

Other editorials by our team

  • Donald Sutherland: Remembering a Peacemaker, Counter Punch June 2024
  • Gaza air drops of food are woefully inadequate response to humanitarian crisis Toronto Star, March 2024
  • Dropping food from the sky might deliver more harm than help Globe & Mail March 2024
  • Toronto’s peace memorial is a neglected mess, Toronto Star, November 2023
  • Queen's Plinth commemorates Black medical students banned from university in 1918, Whig Standard, September 2023

Press Releases

  • Sept 2025, Building Gifted
  • Dec 2024 Open Letter
  • 25 Nov 2024 Ontario Culture Days
  • 4 July 2024 Town of Bancroft support, call for other levels of government support
  • 15 March 2024, New Survey Reveals Strong Canadian Support for Learning About Peace

All photos below are © Canadian Peace Museum 2025. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License

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