Content-Based Sites

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• 1880's Newfoundland - A Pictorial

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• A Virtual Tour of the Architectural Heritage of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, is a website that evolved from a collaborative course-based project supervised by Laurie Stanley-Blackwell, Department of History, St. Francis Xavier University.
• Acadian History
• African Canadian History in Atlantic Canada
• Archaeology in Kingston and Eastern Ontario, Canada courtesy of the Cataraqui Archaeological Research Foundation
• "Arctic Dawn"--The Journeys of Samuel Hearne
• Artifacts, BC
• Asian Canadian History-Resources

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• Follow the links to explore Batoche through poetry and fun on the internet through projects geared towards gr. 9-12.
• Black History Canada by Historica, an annotated guide to online resources on the history of Canada's black communities.
• Black History in Guelph and Wellington County
• British Columbia Archives' Amazing Time Machine contains a number of thematic sections on British Columbia's History aimed at various grade levels (K-12). A fabulous educational resource.
• British Columbia's History of Education Homeroom courtesy of Malaspina University College's History Department.
• Becoming Canadian: Pioneer Sikhs in Their Own Words, which contains personal accounts and oral history on the process of transforming from "immigrant" to "Canadian"
• Books of Remembrance, which contain the names of Canadians who fought and died in wars
• The British Columbia Archives' Amazing Time Machine, contains a number of thematic sections targetting grade K-12 students.
• Western Canadian Aviation Museums Site on Bush Flying

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• Canada's Digital Collections, one of the largest sources of Canadian content on the WWW on a variety of Canadian cultural and historical topics. Many are listed here individually, but they are always adding new and exciting websites so it is best to check their homesite.
• Canada's Flag
• Library and Archives Canada's Canadian Confederation, including documents, images, and articles about how three colonies (Canada East and West, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick) came together in 1867 to form the Dominion of Canada
• Canadian History Portal, a joint Canadian Historical Association/Chinook Multimedia project designed as a guide to digital sources for Canadian History and to facilitate teaching and learning about Canada's past. (NB: the last time I visited this site, it was still in its earliest stages of development).
• Christine Hastie's Canadian History Timelines with illustrations and lots of links to other historical websites.
• Canadian Landscapes
• Canadian Navy of Yesterday and Today
• Canadian Railway Telegraph History
• As part of the Canadian Social Progress Gallery courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, there are these three websites: Canadian Labour History, 1850-1999 and A History of the Vote in Canada and The History of Public Pensions.
• Canadian Veterans Recollect
• The Library and Archives Canada's Celebrating Women's Achievements
• If you've ever wondered how long it took to get from Ft. William to Ft. Chipewyan by canoe in the 18th century, or what they had packed on board, you must check out The Canoe: Portraits of Great Fur Trade Canoes
• A Chinese Canadian Story: The Yip Sang Family
• Chronology of Canadian Coins, a novel way to view Canadian history
• Commemorating Canada's History by Parks Canada
• Confederation: Charlottetown Conference of 1864
• The National Library of Canada's Confederation Exhibit
• Courage Remembered: The World Wars Through Canadian Eyes
• Cradle of Collective Bargaining: A History of Labour and Technology in Hamilton and District

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• Diefenbaker Web, dedicated to Canada's 13th Prime Minister, John George Diefenbaker.
• "Disappearing a Lake", Laura Cameron's meditation on history, method, and Sumas Lake, B.C. (with loads of great text, graphics, and sound clips).
• Diving for a Sunken Canadian Treasure: Rediscovering the P.S. Lady Sherbrooke
• The Official Donnelly Hompage, about the infamous "Black Donnellys," a family in Biddulph Township killed by vigilantes in Feb 1880.

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• Early Transportation on the Skeena River
• East to West: The Story of Japanese Settlement in Southern Alberta
• "Emily Carr at Home and at Work"
• Empire of the Bay, a companion website for the video production of the same name on stories of merchants, explorers, and traders of the Hudson's Bay Company.
• "Our Heritage" is home of the Explorers of the West Sketchbook Project an illustrated collection courtesy of Bruce Haig, as well as other links on Western Canadian History.
• Canada hosted a world fair the year it celebrated its first cenentary. Learn more about this at Expo 67.

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• Fishing?--It was a Way of Life and Lost at Sea, a website dedicated to fisherfolk and mariners of Atlantic Canada who have been lost at sea.
• First Among Equals: The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics courtesy of the National Library of Canada
• "Canada and the First World War," courtesy of the National Archives of Canada
• Five Ancient Cultures of the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland
• The Fort Henry Adventure
• Fortress of Louisbourg
• From Colony to Country: A Reader's Guide to Canadian Military History, courtesy of Library and Archives Canada.

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• George R Pearkes, 1888-1984, a miliary leader in two world wars, he acted as Minister of Defense in P.M. Diefenbaker's cabinet (during the Avro Arrow cancellation among other things), and later became Lt. Governor of British Columbia.
• Discovering Canada's Geoscience Heritage (Geological Survey of Canada)
• The Great Canadian Story Engine (Canadian Film Centre), an interactive storytelling community where Canadians have a change to retell their own collective history.
• Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History: This is a fabulous website--well actually three in one--that shows what it's really like to "do history". Developed by professional historians, the site urges users to examine primary sources and secondary interpretaions on three historical mysteries in order to come to their own conclusions and solve the case.
  • Who Killed William Robinson: Race Justice & Settling the Land: Following the murder of three African Canadian settlers on Vancouver Island in 1868, an Aboriginal man was hanged for killing one of the men. But did he really do it?
  • We Do Not Know His Name: Klatassin and the Chilcotin War: In April 1864, a road construction crew in BC were surprised and killed by a group of men from the Tsilhoqot'in First Nation. What accounts for this deadly action? Was it murder? revenge? or an all-out war?
  • Aurore! The Mystery of the Martyred Child: In a quiet Quebec village in 1920 a ten-year girl was found dead, the apparent victim of brutal abuse. Who committed this crime, and why, in such a small village, had no one noticed?
  • Torture and Truth: Angelique and the Burning of Montreal: In 1734 when a fire ravaged part of Montreal, a Black slave woman, Marie Joseph Angelique was accused, convicted, and executed as an arsonist. The court's evidence was circumstantial at best, and the only eye-witness account that claimed to have seen Angelique go to start the fire, was that of a five year girl. But did Angelique really do it or was she made a scapegoat for the crime?

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• Heroes of Lore and Yore: Canadian Heroes in Fact and Fiction
• Heroines.ca: A Guide to Women in Canadian History
• The Herstory Exhibition, celebrating female Canadian experiences
• High Flyers: Canadian Women in Aviation
• Highlights in the History of Canadian Aviation
• Highlights of Canadian Collections, a broad survey of Canadian heritage as represented in 38 museums and galleries (with links to other websites)
• Historical Athabasca Landing [Alberta] 1880 - 1914
• History by the Minute: Looking for those Canadian Heritage minutes you've seen on television or heard on the radio? Well this site, by Historica is where you'll find them, plus student projects of their own heritage moments.
• History of Mining in Nova Scotia
• History of the Northern Cod Fishery
• A History of the Northwest Coast by Bruce Hallman
• Canada's History Television, which usually has information not only on its programming, but also other resources and links
• Hot Docs! Heroes of Medicine: The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
• Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Victoria

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• In Pursuit of Adventure: The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company is an excellent example of what the digital format can do for history. This site contains a mixture of primary and secondary sources pertaining to fur trading in Canada, including some 2100 leaves of the diaries of the wintering partners of the NWC. There are also a chronology, maps, and other images. This project is part of McGill Univeristy's Digital Library Collections.
• Internment of Ukranians in Canada, 1914-1920
• Inuit and Englishmen: The Nunavut Voyages of Martin Frobisher, a multidisciplinary research project into the Elizabethan explorer s three arctic expeditions, courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Civilization
• The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic: From Ancient Times to 1902
• The Islands: A History of Wolfe, Howe and Garden Island in Frontenac County; and Amerhest Island in Lennox and Addington County, Ontario.

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• Jack Turner's War, one man's photographic record of life as a Canadian soldier during World War I.

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• Living Landscapes: Thompson-Okanagan: Past, Present, Future is a joint project site of the Royal BC Museum and Okanagan University College, and is a fairly diverse and comprehensive selection of texts, interpretations, photos, maps, and other information related to the region.
• Lost Visions, Forgotten Dreams: Life and Art of an Ancient Arctic People. This site deals with the archeaological and material cultural records left by the Paleo-Eskimo Peoples, especially the Dorset, who lived in the Canadian Arctic before the arrival of the Inuit.
• Louisa's World: the 1815 Diary of a Nova Scotia Farm Girl, Louisa Collins, of Colin Grove, Darmouth, edited by Dale McClare.

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• Memorials to Canada's War Dead, courtesy of Veterans' Affairs Canada
• Mennonites in Canada
• Metis Culture and Heritage Resource Centre Inc., a non-profit organization working towards maintaining Metis culture and heritage
• Multimedia History Tutorials (various topics, and always changing), courtesy of the University of Calgary's Applied History Group. This strikes me as an effective way of encouraging the learning of history: having students create the course content and teaching modules. Canadian topics iinclude: The Peopling of Canada, 1891-1921 and 1946-1976, Calgary and Southern Alberta, Canada's First Nations, Colonial North America, and Peopling North America: Population, Movements, and Migration.
• Moment in Time--Fort Steele: A Historic Metaphor, British Columbia

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• Native Soldiers, Foreign Battlefields, on the history of Canadian Aboriginal Veterans, courtesy of Veterans' Affairs Canada
• Hugh Doherty's Newspaper Museum, includes illustrated research papers on the history of various newspapers and newspaper men and women.
• "North: Landscape of the Imagination"
• Northwest Resistance of 1885

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• Les Patriotes de 1837-1838, (Bilingual site).
• Pieces of Paper: Japanese Air Balloon Bombings During World War II
• Pier 21 Society, a website dedicated to the Halifax pier where between 1928-1971 some one million immigrants first set foot on Canadian soil.
• Pioneer Asian Indian Immigration to the Pacific Coast is a site on the University of California library's site, by T.S. Sibia. It includes both American and Canadian experiences.
• Placentia: The Early Years
• Point Ellice: Collection of Household Victoriana

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• Claude Belanger's (Marianopolis College) has an academic course site on Quebec History Also included are helpful links for guidance in writing historical essays and research papers.

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• Rails Canada's Historical Canadian Railroads, for finding more about "lost but not forgotten rail lines."
• Ramsay Traquair: The Architectural Heritage of Quebec
• "Reading a Community: Doing Urban History at the Local Level. An Internet Course" by Gilbert Stelter et. al. for 49-464 Canadian Urban History, Guelph University, Canada.
• Religious Heritage
• Religion, Society, and Culture of Newfoundland and Labrador, an incredible site by Dr. Hans Rollmann, Dept of Religious Studies, Memorial University, Nwfd

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• Scattering of Seeds: the Creation of Canada, a website to complement the 52 part T.V. series (which runs on History Television), about the lives, contributions, and experiences of immigrants to Canada.
• Seven Years' War website or this older version of the site
• Storytelling : The Art of Knowledge, presents various traditions of storytelling among selected First Nations: Algonquin, Mi'kmaq, Inuvialuit, Abernaki, Metis-Cree, and Nisga'a.

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• Territorial Evolution of Canada 1867-1899 (National Atlas of Canada)
• Tighsolas (after the Gaelic word for "house of light" and the name of the Nicolson family home) provides a fasinating glimpse into early 20th century life in Richmond, Quebec through primary sources produced by the Nicholson family. The website's author, Dorothy Nixon has done a wonderful job of not only transcribing selected family letters written between 1908 and 1913, but effectively contextualized them within their times. Photographs, explanations of historical terms, and brief essays by Nixon provide the student (or instructor) with ample background to make good use of this collection of letters. The correspondence covers a wide range of topics including things like forms of transportation, early 20th century standard of living, the nature of the teaching profession, fashion, entertainment, and family life as they existed on the eve of WWI.

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• Usque-ad-mare A history of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services by Thomas E. Appleton.

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• A relaunch of the The "Valour and Horror" website (1400 plus pages of text, photos, and maps based on the controversial television series on the Normandy invasion, first broadcast in January 1992), including a section on Women in World War II
• Valour Remembered: Canada and the Second World War, 1939-1945 courtesy of Veterans' Affairs Canada. (note: this online book is one file, so will take some time to load).
• Victoria Tombstones: Tales of Ross Bay Cemetery
• "Victory Bonding": Wartime Messages from Canada's Government, 1939-1945 from Library and Archives Canada, is just a small sampling of what can be found among their collections, including posters and other war bonds propoganda which has been digitized. You can find more using their Archivianet search engine.
• Virtual Museum of New France
• Voices, Vessels and Vellum: Saint John History Real and On-line

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• The Walk to Canada, a site on the 19th century Underground Railroad to Canada and African-Canadian History.
• The Archives of Ontario provides this The War of 1812 online exhibit.
• Gala Multimedia's War of 1812
• Rob Taylor's War of 1812 website.
• West Coast Forestry Industry
• West Coast Shipbuilding
• West Icelanders in Manitoba
• Ruth Sandwell's and John Lutz's 19th century British Columbia real-life historical murder mystery. "Who Killed William Robinson?": Race, Justice and Settling the Land: A Historial Whodunit This is a fabulous resource that is ideal for use in senior high school or university level classes.
• Women in Alberta and Saskatchewan History (WASH), including a brief timeline of women in Canadian history and a quiz.

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• Yukon and Alaska History site by Explore North.

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