Halifax Explosion – Information wanted
Notice in the Evening Mail, Saturday January 5, 1918. (Click for transcription below)
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Halifax Explosion – Newspaper Headline
The Halifax Herald / Halifax, Canada, Friday December 7, 1917. Headline: HALIFAX WRECKED / More than one thousand killed in this city / Many thousands are injured and homeless
Betty Nobel
Betty Nobel’s lengthy career in education and community work has always demonstrated a commitment to teaching and using Braille. She herself has been a Braille user since age five.
Kim Kilpatrick
Kim Kilpatrick coordinates the Ottawa “Get Together with Technology” (GTT) program of the Canadian Council of the Blind. GTT offers technology training by, and for, people who are blind or have low vision. They work on how to use assistive technology, and how to integrate it into their lives
Jim Sanders
Jim Sanders is a former CNIB president. Jim has been an avid reader throughout his life. He shares memories of his hands-on experience with the evolution of assistive reading technology over more than half a century.
Canada ratified the Marrakesh Treaty in June 2016
The Hon Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities symbolically unlocks a stack of books to celebrate Canada's ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty.
Children’s Discovery Portal
CNIB client Timothy Peters explores the Children's Discovery Portal, sponsored by Microsoft, with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
Sherman C. Swift, Chief Librarian
Sherman Swift sits opposite his assistant (his sister, Miss Swift) in his office, ca. 1918 in the College Street office
Sherman C. Swift
S.C. Swift, Chief Librarian of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, reading braille
Sir William Mulock
Pictured in his home with a book of appreciative letters and a silver statuette commemorating the 40th anniversary of the inauguration of free postage for braille literature