About
Frame 44 is a Canadian, veteran-founded company. Our historians research and build interactive map exhibits for museums, historical societies and heritage sites — real, sourced history, made easy for visitors to explore.
We built the archive first. Project '44 exists because the record should be public — eight years of mapping and digitization, owned by a registered nonprofit and free to anyone. Then museums started asking for it in their galleries, which a public map was never built to do. So we built Frame 44: the technology that puts that archive on your gallery floor, licensed from the people who made it, built by the historians who mapped it.
CEO and co-founder
Nathan builds maps and the technology that runs them. Over roughly eight years he researched and mapped Project '44 by hand — more than 160,000 WWII unit positions drawn from the war diaries — then founded Frame 44 to build that research into guided map exhibits for museums and heritage sites. He spent 13 years in the Canadian Army before turning that work to history.
CTO and co-founder
Ondrej is Frame 44's technical co-founder and the engineer behind the platform. He built the Project '44 web map — the engine our exhibits run on — on MapLibre GL JS, Svelte and PostGIS. He also built and installed the gallery kiosks in our first Dutch museums himself — software and hardware, both.
Lead Historian and Researcher
Ellis Jones is Frame 44's lead historian. He studied International Relations and Military History, wrote his thesis on air power in the Malayan Emergency, and spent four years researching and writing for The Operations Room, the military-history YouTube channel, rising from scriptwriter to project manager. At Frame 44 he researches and writes the guided map-stories our exhibits are built from. He also serves as a junior officer with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada.