Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Project New MysteryQuests

The Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Project (GUMICH), based at the University of Victoria, is pleased to announce the completion of some exciting new tools for teaching Canadian history. Thanks to financial support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in 2012-13, the GUMICH Project was able to develop  nine new MysteryQuests, three for each of the following Mysteries: The Redpath Mansion Mystery, Death on a Painted Lake: The Tom Thomson Tragedy, and Death of a Diplomat. The Critical Thinking Consortium (http://tc2.ca) created the new MysteryQuests for the GUMICH  Project, working with historical researchers Annmarie Adams (McGill University), Gregory Klages (University of Guelph-Humber) and Larry Hannant (Camosun College), and our co-director Ruth Sandwell (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education). You can find these new MysteryQuests – and all of the original thirty quests – at MysteryQuests.ca (http://www.mysteryquests.ca/indexen.html).

Funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council also enabled GUMICH to create some new interactive whiteboards, which you can download for free (http://www.mysteryquests.ca/whiteboards/indexen.html). The nine new whiteboards were developed by a team of students from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto under the guidance of Garfield Gini-Newman, with design input from Mary Abbott. Each of the whiteboards is designed for use with one of the popular mystery websites.