What is the Millennium Industrial Trail?

The first phase of the Made-in-Hamilton Heritage Project is a trail which will link important industrial heritage sites in east, west and downtown Hamilton and environs. It will incorporate walking, biking, driving and bus routes. The Steering Committee has chosen to focus on the trail first because it will bring Hamilton's industrial heritage to life and reach a wide audience. The trail will honour the achievements of those who built Hamilton's industrial base and contributed to its social and cultural fabric.

26 Works, 26 Letters

This literacy program at the Centre national exposition in Jonquiere, Quebec concluded in December 1998. For an appreciation of the project, here is a column published in the Chicoutimi newspaper "Le Progres-Dimanche" and reprinted here with the author's permission.

Students from the Centre Alpha in Jonquière
are simply excited about their museum visit.

Learning to read at the Museum: What a pleasure!
Yvon Bernier

Chicoutimi—The Centre national d' exposition (CNE), in co-operation with the ALPHA literacy centre in Jonquiere, have laid the groundwork for a new literacy program called "Reading the Museum." Remi Lavoie, educator at the CNE, explains that five Canadian museums were chosen following a competition last January in which the CNE was the Quebec museum selected. Literacy learners get a chance to discover artworks and artists whose names begin with a specific letter. "This pilot project involves all kinds of activities: language games, reading texts, presentations, art workshops, etc.," explains Lavoie. "It is receiving financial support from the National Literacy Secretariat and taking place over a 10-week period, from September 22 to November 25." continued on page 8