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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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No links yet.
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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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no links yet
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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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no links yet
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- Yukon and Alaska
History site by Explore North.
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no links yet
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