February 17 & February 21-24, 2012
Welcome to the Festival du Voyageur Great-West Life School Program Online Guide
The Festival du Voyageur Great-West Life School Program, through its many workshops and activities, offers your students a front row ticket to a unique learning experience on the historic character of the voyageur and their day-to-day life. Activities are open to all ages, from preschool children to senior students. Since 1987, an average of 12,000 students attend the Great-West Life School Program every year. We wish to thank you, devoted teachers, for believing in this Program and offering your students the opportunity to learn more about the history of Manitoba.
The Great-West Life School Program offers a basic package of activities that are repeated annually. These activities are very well anchored in the history and folklore of the fur trading period and/or are the most in-demand activities. Around this basic package are other related themes and activities presented in rotation every few years, thereby offering greater variety over time.
Message from Great-West Life
The Great-West Life School Program offers students an educational voyage to an important era in Western Canada’s history, the fur trade.
We invite you and your students to experience this rich and exciting period through a range of activities designed to educate preschool to Grade 12 students about the dramatic lives of the Voyageurs, at work and at play – and these explorers’ contributions to the settlement of the West.
Like our country, Great-West Life was built by those with adventurous hearts and pioneering spirits. We’ve grown and prospered with Manitoba since 1891, when our nation-wide business was founded here.
We are proud to be associated with a Winnipeg winter tradition, the 2011 Festival du Voyageur.
Bon Festival!
Step 1 – Reservation Guide
CLICK HERE to view the Registration Guide for the 2012 Great-West Life School Program. Please see page 13 of this guide for important dates and deadlines.
Step 2 – Activity Guides
Please download the activity guide for your students’ grade. The Registration Form is included in all the activity guides.
The Winterers- Senior Students
Step 3 – Documents and Kits
Voyageur Park Map for the GWL School Program (coming soon)
Step 4 – Evaluation/Draws
A link will be sent to you via e-mail to answer the online Evaluation Questionnaire. The questionnaire will be online as of February 28th, 2012. We thank you in advance for all your constructive feedback and suggestions.
For more information about registration for the GWL School Program, please contact
Booking Agent
reservations@festivalvoyageur.mb.ca
Phone : (204) 237-7693 ext. 222
Fax : (204) 233-7576
Volunteering at the 2011 Great-West Life School Program
Hé Ho!We are looking for grade 10, 11 & 12 bilingual students from French and French Immersion Schools to volunteer for the Great-West Life School Program. Students who want to accumulate volunteer hours or practice their French outside the classroom are welcome.
Dates available to French Immersion groups are: Friday, February 17th, Tuesday, February 21st and Wednesday, February22nd, 2011. Only students with excellent French oral skills will be asked to volunteer on the French School dates of Thursday, February 23rd and Friday, February 24th , 2011.
Call Joëlle Brémault at (204)237-7692 ext. 232 to schedule your volunteer experience with the Great-West Life School Program.
For more information, please call :
Festival du Voyageur
jbremault@festivalvoyageur.mb.ca
Phone : (204) 237-7692
Fax : (204) 233-7576
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Great – West Life
The Great-West Life School Program offers students an educational voyage to an important era in Western Canada’s history, the fur trade.We invite you and your students to experience this rich and exciting period through a range of activities designed to educate preschool to Grade 12 students about the dramatic lives of the Voyageurs, at work and at play – and these explorers’ contributions to the settlement of the West.
Like our country, Great-West Life was built by those with adventurous hearts and pioneering spirits. We’ve grown and prospered with Manitoba since 1891, when our nation-wide business was founded here.
We are proud to be associated with a Winnipeg winter tradition, the 2009 Festival du Voyageur.
Bon Festival!
