Halifax Citadel National Historic Site

What’s in a Place Name?

The One Land, Four Peoples interactive explored encounters between the French, British, Acadian, and the First Nations peoples through the region’s most contested decades. Built with object recognition (OR) technology, visitors select a physical “lens” and place it on a touchscreen to activate cartographic content that outlines how specific groups experienced the land. Technology reinforces key learning objectives around perspective, empathy, and disparate experiences of the same events.

The Story Stations compel visitors to explore competing perspectives through dramatized portrayals of historical figures. These prominent people narrate their personal experience and understanding of key historical events from various moments in the Citadel’s history. All our animation and modelling work involved close collaboration with subject matter experts who had extremely detailed working knowledge of key design features from the Fort’s various phases and the city’s evolution.