With the financial assistance of the Millennium Bureau of Canada, the Peel Heritage Complex was able to coordinate an inter-generational program, the "Oral History Project", where students could interview local seniors about their childhood and lives.

Helping to create lasting partnerships between schools and the seniors' facilities, the project also created lasting friendships between youth and seniors.

The Participants

Four schools were paired with four senior's facilities including approximately 108 students and 49 seniors in the Project: Holy Family School and The Davis Centre in Bolton, Wm. G. Davis School and Elder Help Peel in Brampton, St. Timothy School and Chelsey Park Nursing Home in Mississauga, and Dixie School and the Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre in Mississauga.

Mykah and Crystal from Dixie Public School interviewed Ann Deschamps at the Dixie Bloor Neightbourhood Centre.

Students from Holy Family School met with their senior partners.

Maureen Couse, Curatorial Assistant at the Peel Heritage Complex, has been the lead on this project and has seen it through successfully from concept to completion.

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