Partners
Driving Canada is produced by Qissa in partnership with the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 and the Toronto Ward Museum, and is supported by Digital Museums Canada.
Funding
This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada through Digital Museums Canada, with additional support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.
Digital Museums Canada
Funder
Investment programme support
Canada Council
for the Arts
Funder
Project funding
Ontario Arts Council
Funder
Project funding
Toronto Arts Council
Funder
Project funding
Project partners
Qissa
Producer · Interviews
Anam Zakaria
Haroon Khalid
CMI at Pier 21
Lead partner · Oral history
Emily Burton, Oral Historian
Toronto Ward Museum
Fiscal sponsor · Guidance
Project guidance and archival support
Participants
This exhibition exists because five drivers agreed to sit down and talk about their lives at length. Their names appear here with their consent.
The Drivers
Participants
Kulbir Singh Bhullar, Yalgar Singh, Mohd Javed Khokar, Rammah Mohammad, Mehakjot Singh
Sources
The map of the Greater Toronto Area is drawn from open government data. Municipal and census boundaries come from Statistics Canada; the road network comes from the Government of Ontario. Both are used under open licences that require attribution.
- Contains information licensed under the Statistics Canada Open Licence. Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Cartographic Boundary Files.
- Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. Ontario Road Network, Land Information Ontario, via the Ontario GeoHub.
Working with us
Qissa collaborates with museums, community organisations and researchers on oral history projects. If you would like to talk to us about a collaboration, get in touch.