The Heritage Fair Program is part of the Charles R. Bronfman Foundation's National Heritage Project. The objectives are to encourage greater knowledge and interest in our history and to increase pride and sense of belonging. The project involves Canadians in sharing stories and values with each other and the world. Since 1993, the CRB Foundation of Montréal, Québec, has worked with the community heritage groups and schools to sponsor annual Heritage Fairs for young Canadians. The Fairs increase students' awareness of and interest in Canadian history.

Newfoundland and Labrador is now heavily involved in three of the five Heritage Project components:

• Heritage Minutes (broadcast across Canada)
• Heritage Learning Resources (for classroom use)
• Heritage Fair Program (for students and heritage organizations in every province)
• E-Fair (an electronic component linking students throughout a national web site and other computer links)
• National Heritage Data Base (a partnership project between the CRB Foundation and Memorial University)

In the summer of 1998 the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site Project placed two students' projects on the web. These projects, Andrew Woodland's Saltbox Architecture and Margaret Hawco's Child Labour in Bell Island Mines, were featured in the 1998 St. John's Heritage Fair.

Some of the information on this page was taken from the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Fair Programme Web Site. Reproduced by permission of the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Fair Programme.