Cold Case? Hot Interest In Unsolved Mysteries Website

It was a hot summer, but very cold cases involving Canadian history remained poplar with Internet sleuths when school was out. The UVic-led 12 Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History website attracted as many as 2,200 visitors a day. Activity will likely increase once classes resume and teachers can use the rich archival material on the award-winning website to instruct everything from history and criminology theories to architecture and religion.
        Created by a team of team of historians, archaeologists, educators and other specialists from across Canada, and based at the University of Victoria, the project is popular in both school and university classrooms. Students from over 45 countries have analyzed the documents, maps and 3-D crime scene reconstructions available on the popular Canadian website. Mysteries range from unsolved historical murders to the actual location of the first Viking settlement on the East Coast.
        “We’ve obviously struck a chord with mystery lovers everywhere,” said project co-director John Lutz of the University of Victoria. “History is too important to be boring, and these mysteries are too intriguing to be left to historians alone.”
        Visit Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History at www.canadianmysteries.ca
 

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