School & Community Outreach

One of our mandates is public engagement and education. 

We have conducted over 50 sessions with youth through visits to schools all over the island and parts of Labrador.  We have created 3 educational kits comprising of sets of replica uniforms, helmets, gas masks, and daily tools a soldier would use from the Commonwealth, French, Belgian, and German Armies.

These kits are shared to groups who would like to use them, Trail of the Caribou Research Group (TCRG) also covers the shipping that each kit comes with a book describing the contents and slide-shows and scripts based on the ages of the audience.  Kits also contain the common medals of each military.  At each school we donate an age appropriate book to their library.  In 2022, we hosted an essay contest and took the winner, a 13 year old from Trepassey and her older sister, to the Dedication of the Caribou in Gallipoli. We conduct public talks on various topics.

We engage in heritage fairs and at times sponsor them and assist in hundreds of requests for information from all around the world.  We have been able to link French immersion classes in Newfoundland & Labrador with similar aged schools in towns with caribous from the "Trail of the Caribou".

One school in Monchy-le-Preux took on a history project on Gallipoli and we used it as a key part of our 2022 Caribou Dedication Pilgrimage Information Booklet.