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Mission Possible : The Untold Story of Canada's Military Engineers
and Communicators showcases a century of innovative contributions
and tells the story of how these two groups have combined to achieve
success in both war and peace, while overcoming a wide range of
challenges. Mission Possible is the Canadian War Museum's major
summer exhibition, and a must see for all.
For more than 100 years, military engineers and communicators have
provided vital services to their country and to their comrades in war
and peace. The exhibition tells the story of Canadian military
engineers and communicators, people who operate behind the scenes
yet play a vital role in making our military and peacekeeping
operations such a success. It presents the human experience and
accomplishments of these people in peace and war, in Canada and
overseas. From Vimy Ridge in 1917 to Afghanistan in 2002, they
have built roads, established radio links, laid and removed landmines,
and performed hundreds of other tasks in support of military
missions from British Columbia to Bosnia.
Mission Possible will challenge visitors to test their own
communications and engineering skills as they send messages, build
a bridge and clear a virtual minefield. Visitors will discover that
these tasks, routine to military engineers and communicators, have
played an important role in military operations and in the
development of our country.
The First Floor Gallery will catch the visitor's eye and tell the story of
our military engineers and communicators through four themes:
wartime, the arctic, peacekeeping, and civilian applications. The
Third Floor Gallery will show "What it Feels Like" to be a military
engineer or communicator, through audio stations, photographs and
war art. While changing technologies are displayed, the human face
of these achievements is portrayed through various audio-visual
components allowing the participants to describe their personal
experiences.
Mission Possible: The Untold Story of Canada's Military Engineers
and Communicators is proudly presented by the Canadian War
Museum in partnership with the Department of National Defence.
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