September 17 - December 19, 2025
Community Powered: Celebrating Canadian Co-operatives brings Canadian co-operators and museum visitors together to celebrate the United Nation's International Year of Co-operatives 2025 theme - Co-operatives Build a Better World.
From the prairies' iconic Wheat Pool, the Arctic co-ops art trade, to financial institutions that began in the east, this exhibit shares the story of co-operation before and after Canada's creation. These stories will bring to life the importance of co-ops in shaping markets and socio-cultural change across the world by offering democratic labour opportunities to working-class and marginalized communities.
Curated by: Helanna Gessner and Raymond Morstad
Presented by the Diefenbaker Canada Centre (DCC)
in partnership with the Canadian Centre from the Study of Co-operatives (CCSC)
