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Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation 2000–2001 Annual Report Canadian Museum of Civilization Canadian War Museum Canadian Museum of Canadian War Museum Civilization 330 Sussex Drive 100 Laurier Street Ottawa, Ontario P.O. Box 3100, Station B K1A 0M8 2 Hull, Quebec J8X 4H2 www.civilization.ca www.warmuseum.ca Information: (819) 776-7000/ Vimy House 1-800-555-5621 221 Champagne Avenue North Teleprinter (TDD): (819) 776-7003 Ottawa, Ontario Group Reservations: (819) 776-7014 K1R 7R7 Facility Rentals: (819) 776-7018 Members of the Museum: (819) 776-7100 CWM Information and Other Volunteers: (819) 776-7011 Services: (819) 776-8600/ Financial Support to the CMCC — 1-800-555-5621 Development: (819) 776-7016 Fax: (819) 776-8623 Cyberboutique: www.civilization.ca Friends of the CWM: (819) 776-8618 Museum of New France Passing the Torch Campaign: Creator of the Virtual Museum of (819) 776-8636 or New FranceTM 1-800-256-6031 www.vmnf.civilization.ca www.passingthetorch.ca Published by Corporate Communications (819) 776-8380 Public Affairs Branch, Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation Cover photos: CMC — Shiva Nataraja, by S. Rajan, bronze, 1977. Owners: George and Joanne MacDonald. Photo: H. Foster CWM — Canteen, Nijmegen, by Molly Lamb Bobak (1922–). Painted in Holland, 1945. Table of Contents Page Page 4 Board of Trustees 40 Exhibitions and Programmes 5 Corporate Governance 40 • Permanent Exhibitions 7 Chairman’s Report 40 • Temporary Exhibitions 10 President and CEO’s Report 42 • Travelling Exhibitions 12 Corporate Plan 44 • Upcoming Exhibitions 12 • Planning and Strategic Objectives 44 • List of Exhibitions 12 Canadian Identity and Unity 47 • Public Programmes 15 Safeguard and Promotion 49 Canadian Children’s Museum of Canada’s Heritage 51 • List of Exhibitions 18 Financial and Operational Viability 52 Canadian Postal Museum 22 Key Achievements 54 • List of Exhibitions 22 • Objectives, Targets and Achievements 55 Public Affairs in 2000–2001 61 Canadian War Museum 25 Upcoming Challenges for the Corporation 61 • New CWM Facility 25 • Provision of a New Purpose-Built Facility 62 • Exhibitions for the Canadian War Museum 63 • Publications 25 • Maintenance of the Corporation’s 64 • Conferences and Lectures Financial Viability 64 • The Speakers’ Series 25 • Responding to Swiftly-Changing 65 • Educational and Outreach Activities Technological and Economic Environments 65 • Hartland Molson Library 25 • Fostering a Greater Understanding of 65 • Canadian War Museum Archives Canadian History and Culture 66 • Photographic Archives and Image 3 26 Museum Services Reproduction Services 26 • IMAX® Theatre 66 • Special Events 27 • Property Management, Security and 67 • Private Events Client Services 69 • Media Broadcasts 27 • Hosting Services 69 • List of Exhibitions 27 • Human Resources 70 Canadian Museum of Civilization 28 • Volunteer Services Donors and Sponsors 28 • Boutiques 72 Canadian War Museum Donors 29 Research and Collections 74 Canadian War Museum 29 • Archaeological Survey of Canada Passing the Torch Donors 31 • Cultural Studies 76 Financial Overview 32 • Canadian Ethnology Service 33 • History 35 • Publishing Group 36 • List of Publications 38 • Collections Management and Planning 38 • Library, Archives and Documentation Services Board of Trustees 4 The Board of Trustees and Officers of the Corporation From bottom left to right: Claudette Roy (Vice-Chairwoman), Marianna Simeone (Trustee), Victor Rabinovitch (President and Chief Executive Officer), Gloria Webster (Trustee), Thérèse Spénard-Pilon (Trustee), Louise Dubois (Corporate Secretary and Director General, Strategic Planning), Joe Geurts (Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice-President, and Director and CEO — CWM), Robert Ojolick (Trustee), Robert Bothwell (Trustee), John English (Chairman), Peter Allen (Trustee), Paul Manson (Trustee), Pierre Dufour (Trustee) Absent: Patrick Polchies (Trustee) Photo: H. Foster “Museums are, at heart, institutions of higher learning. Staff researchers remain on the cutting-edge of new knowledge in their various fields of endeavour, adding to the world’s amassed scholarship on every conceivable topic. Far more important, however, is a museum’s ability to share this information with the widest possible constituency. For it is in the sharing of our expertise, scholarship and insight that we contribute to the advancement of human knowledge, understanding and achievement — a fitting role for museums in this information age.” — Dr. John English, Chairman, Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation Corporate Governance s stated in the Museums The Board’s Executive but does maintain appropriate Act, the Corporation is Committee is subject to by-laws controls over significant financial A governed by a Board of and the direction of the Board, transactions, by requiring that all Trustees appointed by the and facilitates the Board’s financial transactions exceeding a Governor-in-Council. The Board decision-making process, if quarter of million dollars are is responsible for fulfilment of the necessary, between Board reviewed by the Committee prior policies and overall financial meetings. During the past year, to final approval by the Board of management of the Corporation’s this committee held one meeting. Trustees. During the past year, affairs. During 2000–2001, the this committee held three Board of Trustees had seven The Audit Committee fulfils the meetings and one teleconference. committees to help expedite its role required by the Financial work. These committees met Administration Act. The Audit The Development Committee regularly before Board meetings Committee serves as the Board’s advises and supports management, — in person and by teleconference advisor on audit-related matters, and participates in the — and reported their and ensures maintenance of sound Corporation’s development and recommendations to meetings of internal controls. During the past fundraising activities. During the the Board of Trustees. Each Board year, this committee held three past year, this committee held one Member has duties on at least one meetings and one teleconference. teleconference. Board committee. During the past year, there were four meetings and The Finance and Compensation The Board’s Canadian War four teleconferences of the Board Committee serves as the Board’s Museum Committee advises the 5 of Trustees, and fourteen meetings advisor on accountability and Board of Trustees on matters and five teleconferences of the planning, in relation to finance related to the Canadian War Board’s committees. and compensation. It does not Museum. Its membership includes involve itself in the Corporation’s members of the Board of Trustees day-to-day financial operations, and representatives from veterans groups. During the past year, this committee held two meetings. The Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation is a Crown Corporation established pursuant to the Museums Act (Statutes of Canada 1990, Chapter 3), which came into force on July 1, 1990. Under the Museums Act, the Corporation has a specific mandate “to increase, throughout Canada and internationally, interest in, knowledge and critical understanding of and appreciation and respect for human cultural achievements and human behaviour by establishing, maintaining and developing for research and posterity a collection of objects of historical or cultural interest, with special but not exclusive reference to Canada, and by demonstrating those achievements and behaviour, the knowledge derived from them and the understanding they represent.” Dating from its first incarnation as part of the Geological Survey of Canada in 1841, the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (CMCC) now comprises the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) — Canada’s national repository of social and cultural history— and its affiliate museums: the Canadian War Museum (CWM) — Canada’s national museum of military history — and the entirely virtual Museum of New France. The Canadian Museum of Civilization is also home to the Canadian Postal Museum, the Canadian Children’s Museum, and the world’s first combined IMAX® and OMNIMAX® Theatre. Corporate Governance The Canadian War Museum The Board’s Working Group on Building Committee is Governance is mandated to responsible for directing the examine and deliberate matters development and construction of related to the governance of the the new Canadian War Museum. Canadian Museum of Civilization This committee has a mandate to Corporation, including matters The Board of Trustees review all contracts and major related to the application of its John English, Chairman, policy issues associated with the by-laws. During the past year, it Waterloo, Ontario building project, and to oversee its held one meeting. Claudette Roy, Vice- overall development. To date, this Chairwoman, Edmonton, committee has held seven Alberta meetings and two teleconferences. Peter Allen, Trustee, Toronto, Ontario Robert Bothwell, Trustee, Toronto, Ontario Pierre Dufour, Trustee, Aylmer, Quebec Paul Manson, Trustee, Ottawa, Ontario Members of the Corporation’s Executive Committee Robert J. Ojolick, Trustee, Dr. Victor Rabinovitch, President and Chief Executive Sydney, Nova Scotia Officer 6 Patrick M. Polchies, Trustee, Michel Cheff, Director, Operations, Office of the Kingsclear First Nation, New President and CEO Brunswick Louise Dubois, Corporate Secretary and Director Marianna Simeone, Trustee, General, Strategic Planning Montréal, Quebec Joe Geurts, Senior Vice-President and Chief Operating Thérèse