Peace Train receives National Community Peace Award from the Canadian Peace Museum









Peace Train Canada has received a National Community Peace Award from the Canadian Peace Museum. 

The Award—the first time the Museum has given a national award to an organization—recognizes Peace Train Canada for “creating a national movement calling for peace.” 

“We were impressed with Peace Train Canada’s grassroots effort to promote peace, along with their event in Ottawa which was attended by Members of Parliament from all of Canada's major political parties,” says the Museum’s President, Chris Houston. 

For Keith Wyton, who organized the Peace Train along with his wife, Bernie, the award is “amazing, wonderful.” 

“It’s so encouraging to receive it,” Keith said, adding the Award went to everyone who was on the Peace Train last November when it went to Ottawa and when it went to the United Nations in New York in March—and for all who support it and its efforts. 

“We’re all just regular people, lighting a candle when it is darkest,” Keith said. 

Other awards given out by the Museum were in categories such as digital, video, painting, murals and podcasts. 

Awards were also given for local peace promotion, peace training and for responding to poverty, inequality, homelessness and food insecurity. 

In the two previous years that the Museum offered the awards, they were given only to individuals, schools and businesses located near the Museum in Bancroft, Ont. 

Last year, the Museum’s Stories of Peace Awards ceremony itself won the Best In-Person Award at the Ontario Culture Days Spotlight Awards, a recognition that celebrates outstanding programming that fosters deep meaningful engagement within the community. 

The goal of the Canadian Peace Museum is to promote peace and to showcase the links between peace, conflict, equity, cohesive communities, art, activism and climate change and to promote important conversations about our individual and collective responsibilities to be peaceful and promote peace.



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