Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Young Heritage Leaders — Daniyal and Harris Elahi, 2026
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Between November 2025 and June 2026, Our Shared Sacrifice content reached more than 5 million views across Facebook and Instagram, including about 2.5 million organic views on Facebook. On Facebook alone, the content reached more than one million people. Content interactions exceeded 100,000, and a majority of views were organic. Paid distribution was supported by a Veterans Affairs Canada Commemorative Partnership Program grant.
Our Shared Sacrifice is a youth-led Canadian public history initiative dedicated to recovering overlooked soldiers of the First World War. Daniyal and Harris Elahi founded and direct the project. Both are Royal Canadian Army Cadets with 337 Queen's York Rangers in Toronto. The project's published research is carried by The Hill 70 Memorial, the Vimy Foundation, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and Veterans Affairs Canada. Educational programming has been delivered in classrooms and cadet corps across Ontario and internationally.
