Last updated: 8/16/2016 Some travellers are expressing concern over the spread of the Zika virus. Together with our partners at WorldStrides, we sat down with WorldStrides Medical Director Dr. Christopher Lang to answer some commonly-asked questions: Q: Zika is getting extensive media coverage, with more and more countries added to the CDC list of impacted destinations. The underlying Read More …
TORONTO, ON—January 14, 2016—Explorica, Inc., a leading provider of educational student tours around the world, has joined with WorldStrides, the largest educational travel company in North America. Founded in 1967, WorldStrides provides industry-leading global educational programs to more than 400,000 students from more than 5,000 K-12 schools and universities each year. “Joining WorldStrides presents an Read More …
During their history tours abroad, many of our Canadian student travellers visit famous WWI and WWII cemeteries and battlefields to understand how and where soldiers fought and died. It’s in these moments of travelling that students begin to realize just how young the soldiers were, often only a few years older than themselves. In an effort to continue to Read More …
Canadian history teachers from the Ottawa Catholic School Board, Vanessa Kirtz and Erin Stokes took a particularly creative approach to this challenge. Since 2013 and 2007 respectively, they’ve worked on an ambitious project in which students research the lives of Canadian soldiers who died while serving in the First and Second World War. Calling it a “Soldier Project,” the Read More …
Wow! Exploricans, you’ve done it again. Thank you for submitting such fantastic images to our annual photo contest. It was incredibly difficult to choose just a handful of winners from the hundreds of great images we received, but here are the photos that stood out from the rest: Let’s be honest, just by going on an Explorica tour, you know you’re Read More …
Interview with Dee Dauphinee on His New Novel While backpacking in Europe in 1988, Dee Dauphinee stumbled upon the World War I memorial at Vimy Ridge, not knowing what it represented. When Dauphinee noticed the engraving of a soldier who carried his last name, his curiosity grew into a 3-year exploration and in-depth research tracing the fallen soldier’s life across Canada, Read More …
Engaging Students in the (Senate) Chamber of Secrets Students easily recognize The Parliament of Canada as an iconic part of Canada’s political history. Seated among the grand and exquisite Gothic revival architecture of Parliament Hill, it is home to the legislative process that we often see on CPAC. Yet there is much more history there than meets the Read More …
Article by History Tours Specialist Stephanie Crosbie. As the 100th anniversary of WWI comes to a close, let us remember a year of breathtaking commemorative exhibits and events across the world. Of these, one of the most fascinating was “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red,” an art installation composed of 888,246 ceramic poppies. Starting Read More …
Calling all Ontario teachers: You could win a trip to London! Just join the contest hosted by the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT). Explorica has always supported the OCT, and over the past 15 years, we have worked together on a number of projects. This year, we’re sponsoring their contest for teachers to win a trip to London! OCT Read More …
This summer, we sent a group of students dubbed “Canada’s Youth Ambassadors” to the 70th D-Day anniversary celebrations in Normandy. The group was accompanied by Tony Balch, a Second World War veteran who shared his story with the students attending the event on Juno Beach. We’re proud to announce that our students have been featured Read More …
