Time
travelling in
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 Hurons lead their adopted son Étienne Brûlé to Toronto
[the name means a "meeting place" for trade] C.W. Jefferys |
Reference sources for Canadian
history
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Lesson plans for teachers
CBC: Canada: A People’s History plans & episode summaries of the videos/DVD Canada’s
Schoolnet resources
NLC / NAC First Among Equals: The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics Canadians in the Making: Aboriginal treaties & relations UCalgary, ULaval: Our Roots / Nos racines: resources Thinkquest: teaching history with GIS map and timeline Canadian Geographic atlas online Everyone’s
guide to the
Geography Network download
K.J.Rea Canadian economic
history with maps Jean
Talon’s census of 1665-66 role-playing game
UWO Virtual
Historian teacher’s guide, lesson plans and digital history NLC: Learning
Centre Learner’s
Portal: Atlantic Canada
NAC: Susannah
Moodie and Catherine Parr
Trail 1830s
pioneers *McCord Museum: Eduweb
resources by theme, Clioclic guide
and personal
folders *City
of Winnipeg: Pathways:
the
emergent city, typhoid, safe milk supply. Documents, photos and
lesson
plans. First Nations of the Pacific northwest coast of BC Salmon: Spirit of the land and sea BC UNESCO World Heritage KitStelly’s School Div BC: Canadian novels by theme |
 Papineau campaigns for Reform,
1837
C.W.Jefferys (NAC C-073725) |
General sources for Canadian history
*CBC / SRC Canada, a People’s History /
Canada: une histoire populaire *Fordham U: Canada Historica: encyclopedias, film and radio minutes, youthlinks *LoC: cartographic formation of America 1507-1775 *NLC: Pathfinders and Passageways 16th-20th c. explorers Enchanted Learning: explorers of Canada, maps J.B. Tyrrell's The Barren Lands (now Nunavut ) expedition 1892-1894 CMC Wave Eaters
Native Watercraft in Canada Indian Affairs Canada's Indian Treaties, Ontario's 1923 Williams Treaty *TPL:
Frozen Ocean Arctic
explorers D.
Garneau thumbnails
of historical
pictures *CMC: First Peoples exhibits , Native History of Canada , and Inuit history Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami: 5000 years of heritage UWO Arctic
Archaeology Paleo, Thule and Dorset UConn Gwitchin Dene of Yukon and Alaska Innu Nation - Mamit Innuat aka Montagnais, of Labrador and Quebec Québec Affaires Autochtones First Nations, claims, agreements Ontario Petun-Wyandot history (not working Oct 2007) Union of Ontario Indians Anishinabek Nation Turtle Island: many First Nations sites CMC Storytelling:The Art of Knowledge Algonquin, Inuit, Mi'kmaq, Métis-Cree, Nisga'a and Abenaki Gilder Lehman Institute of
American History Historic
Maps UCalgary : Canada’s First Nations, and Peopling North America *Charlottetown Art Gallery : Telling Stories narratives of nationhood (Canadian painters and sculptors) Chinook: Immigrant Voices Canada online: Canadian women in history Mt Allison U. Centre
for Canadian Studies Great
Canadian Explorers: websites for Cabot, Cartier,. Champlain, La Verendrye,
Mackenzie, Thompson, Franklin, Stefansson
|
 [voyageur] canoes
in fog, Lake Superior F.Hopkins (© Glenbow)
 pioneer homestead, Chatham, Upper Canada
1828 P.J. Bainbrigge
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Newfoundland and Labrador history
|
 Acadian Expulsion,
Grand Pré 1755
C.W.Jefferys (NAC 1985-230) |
Acadia / Nova Scotia
Metepenagiag: where the spirits live (Red Bank NB) a 3000 year old Mik’maq village *Mik’maq territory satellite photos & maps *CMC: Aboriginal fishing in Atlantic Canada *Historica: Champlain
in
Acadia and the Mikmaq NSARM: Mik’maq historical pictures & crafts Mik’maq food recipesPete Landry: Indians of NS *Pete
Landry Acadian
history Yvon Cyr: Acadian genealogy with censuses of 1679-1801, songs, maps La Roque 1752 census of Cape Breton http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/2229/laroque.html UMoncton: Musee Acadien click on English, Permanent exhibits with illustrations, and History Robert Duguay: Il était une fois l’AcadieTim Hebert: Acadian-Cajun history and Acadian Memorial UCCB: Fortress of Louisbourg, history, re-enactments . See also Fitzgerald Studio and Coal history CanHist 101 for Americans: Part 3 Battle for N.America (Abenaki and Acadian viewpoints) *NLC: Cityscapes
Halifax NSARM: Halifax and its people 1759-1999 Beaton Institute: CapeBreton history links (some obsolete) McCord Museum: Collections search by place |
New France
*Rouge
River, Toronto: First
Nations Wikipedia St Lawrence R Great
Canadian Rivers: St
Lawrence *MCQ: Seasons of New France *Northern Blue: HCO History of Canada Online: The founders aboriginals, explorers, New France Champlain’s maps of 1607 , 1608, 1612 and 1613 , 1632FordhamU:
Champlain reports the founding
of Quebec 1608 Wisconsin: Jean Nicolet at Green Bay 1634 FordhamU:
The early modern West: living
conditions in 17th c Europe, explorers NLC: The Jesuit Relations CMC : Exploration game: Heavens, my ship! (based on La Salle) DCB: Radisson in NF and Hudson’s Bay 1651-87 Dollard and Anahotaha at the battle of the Long Sault 1660: the popular version and DCB professional historians’ biographies of Dollard and Annaotaha ; a Huron view of Annaotaha The Miville family in NF 1649-1735 *LoC:
La France
en Amérique ; Joliette’s map
of 1673 Lasalle in Texas 1684-87 museum , state history Wisconsin:
natives
and explorers of the ‘pays d’en haut’ – documents, maps CMC: Antoine Laumet dit de Lamothe Cadillac voyages 1694, 1701 Phips fleet 1690: jeu Une épave raconte [Elizabeth and Mary, Baie-Trinité] its archeology in French and English Canadawiki:
Frontenac
vs Phips 1690 , Historica reenactment
PaC:
Le château
de Louis-Hector de Callière, Gouverneur de la Nouvelle France HCO: daily life in NF Angélique, a Montreal slave 1734 *CM:, two , three HCO: wars with the EnglishCMHG: Seven Year War *Massachusetts Historical Society Maps of the French and Indian War CanHist 101 for Americans: Part 2 New France , Part 3 Battle for N.America (Abenaki and Acadian viewpoints) Wolfe
captures Louisbourg
*[US] fur trade history & natives maps, paintings Fondation du Patrimoine religieux du Québec see 'thematic', 'related sites' |
Les filles du roi, Québec
1667
C.W. Jefferys (NAC C-10688)  Lasalle claims
Louisiana for France 1682
J.A.Bocquin (© BNF)  The taking of Quebec...Sept 13 1759 (NAC C-148370)  Quebec city in ruins 1760 Richard Short (NAC C-000357)  |
British North
America 1763-1867
Eastern natives and settlers to the
American Revolution 1775
|
 [Mississauga
Ojibway camp] Sketch on Lake
Huron
Paul Kane oil painting ca.1848-52 (ROM) |
Western natives and the fur trade
|
 Kelsey sees
the buffalo hunt 1691
Rex Woods (NAC C-010089) |
The fur trade
of the Columbia
|
Mt Hood from the Dalles of the Columbia
River F.F.Schafer (Craigdarroch
coll.)
 |
 eyewitness sketch of Loyalist refugees at
Johnstown, Upper Canada 1784
[now Cornwall ON] James Peachey (NAC C-002001)
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 Loyalist refugees land at St. John NB 1783 J.D.Kelly |
Loyalists in NS and NB
*United
Empire Loyalists in Wikipedia
and picture
gallery Winslow and McQueen letters *Black Loyalists of the 1770s one , two , three , four Fredericton NB in the 19th c. photos St John NB in the 19th c. photos *St John NB black community black poet George Elliot Clarke’s Saltwater Spirituals Louisa’s World
diary of Luisa Collins, a Dartmouth farm girl 1815 Joseph Howe, reformer one , two NSARM: 19th c Halifax virtual exhibits UMoncton: The
Acadian renaissance 1870-85 and Standardbearers
|
 An election in Upper Canada C.W.Jefferys [There was no secret ballot until 1874] |
Loyalists, settlers and rebels in Upper and Lower Canada
Toryism
in Wikipedia and Answers.com Lake
Ontario settlements 1812 Historical
Atlas of Canada: War of 1812 and 19th c. agricultural settlement Tourism in Ontario through Time maps and pictures G.Stelter, UWO: Canada Land Co and founding of Guelph ON one , two 1827-1900s LAC:
Montreal, Ottawa R and Rideau canal map
by Bouchette 1831 LAC:
Upper Canada settlement map
by Chewitt 1825 Kingston 1828 Welland canal 1829 one, twoUpper Canada history: cholera 1832, Bond Head 1837 HCO: Background of discontent leading to 1837 rebellion ECO:
A
settler’s tale (Susannah Moodie, Catherine Parr Trail, Robert M.
Ballantyne) 1830s Susannah Moodie Roughing it in the Bush and Poems fulltext *Edunet: the 1837 rebellions (some links obsolete) *Agora: Les rebellions de 1837-38 (some links obsolete) *SSJB: Québec en images: Les insurrections de 1837 |
 View from the citadel of Quebec 1840
W.H.Bartlett
(NGC 39312)
|
Life in the Canadas 1837-67
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British Columbia
CMC Where Sea and Land
Meet Northwest Coast Native settings in the art of Gordon Miller and Bill
Holm Salish native life see also Wikipedia and Encyclopedia of BC on trial Bruce Hallman History of the NW Coast Vancouver chronology Royal BC Museum galleries Imperial Paradise: Capt. Cook and the Songhees BC Heritage: Fort Victoria 1843-60s HBC’s Craigflower farm, Victoria *UVic
student projects: Victoria’s Victoria
BC 1843-1900 Métis Nation of BC *William Hind paintings 1862-64 *BC
Heritage: The Cariboo Gold Rush
*CM: Klatsassin and the ‘Chilcotin War’ 1864 *BC Archives Time MachineBC Cartographic Records maps 1849-1935 |
Haida
canoe arriving for potlatch ceremony (AMNH) |
Canada after 1867
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Montreal, capital of a new commercial empire
*Old Montréal / The Vieux
Montréal virtual tours McGill Library list of archives in Montreal Fondation du
Patrimoine religieux du Québec see 'thematic',
'related sites' Canadian
Heritage Gallery: transportation
PaC: SOS History Montreal in 1877, 1926 McCord
Museum, Montreal: e.g. Notman photos or search
by theme Lachine
rapids
, Lachine canal
|
 Montreal harbour from Customs House ca.1887-88
Notman
photo (McCord Museum, View-1941)
click to enlarge |
Prairies – natives and settlersUM Manitoba Culture History: Overview First Nations *Rindisbacher paintings of Red River settlement 1823-29, documents *CineFocus:
Paul Kane paintings
1844-49 ParksCan:
Head-Smashed-In
Buffalo Jump Glenbow:
Kainai history on a buffalo
robe Poundmaker /
Pitikwahanapiwiyn
(Plains Cree chief) Jerry
Potts, Blackfoot/metis Metis Resource
Centre Manitoba SBHS:
Louis Riel
(in French) NAC Metis scrip
RCMP history from 1873 Historica reenactment: Sitting Bull 1877 Lac La Biche history: Big Bear, religious schools, transport, agriculture Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture CM: Almighty Voice John Palliser explorer 1857 George Dawson surveyor 1872 UofT: J.B.Tyrrell Dominion surveyor 1884-87 Yellowhead surveys Manitobia: settlement, WW1, French schools question, women, Winnipeg Strike 1919 Manitoba Timelinks 1910-20 CMC : The last best west railway ads 1870-1930HCO: The settlers: the West 1867-1900 People for the Prairies an immigrant role-play game MHS A Great Movement Underway women's writing in the Grain Growers Guide 1908-28 *City of Winnipeg: Pathways the emergent city, typhoid, safe milk supply. Documents, photos and lesson plans. |
Poundmaker 1885 (NAC
C-001815)
Louis Riel 1870 (U.
of Manitoba Library)
 Red River expedition
at Kakabeka Falls 1870
Frances Hopkins (NAC C-002775) [The army was sent to enforce Canada's takeover of HBC territory] |
BC joins Confederation
*CM:
Who killed
William Robinson? a BC black settler 1868 Ranald
Macdonald a metis in Japan 1848 Chinese Canadian historical photos BC History Digital Collections photos History of Metropolitan Vancouver NAC: Electoral
map 1895 of
the Dominion of Canada Washington State
History Museum Golden
Dreams- The Quest for the Klondike Asahel Curtis photos 1897-98 David Mattison British Columbia
History Internet/Web Site |
 Looking south, Victoria and Songhees village 1864 (BC
Archives PDP02611)
by W.G.R.Hind [who also painted the Cariboo Gold Rush] |
Canada 1900-20
OA: James Bay Treaty 1905-06, the expansion of New Ontario Ontario: geology and mines NAC:
1901
Census database search (not working Oct 2007) McCord: Canadian cities and industries ca 1900 Hydro-Québec: history of hydroelectric power in Quebec Niagara Falls Power in Ontario Hamilton Ontario labour history Northern
Blue: HCO History of Canada Online: The settlers: demand for change 1867-1900:
poverty & social reform, *MSB: Agriculture in French Manitoba UCalgary: The peopling of Canada 1891-1921 Saskatchewan: agricultural history Virtual Saskatchewan e.g., Motherwell, ‘Teach a man to farm’ Alberta Heritage: Our Future, Our Past *Glenbow: Mavericks in Alberta history CBC: Henry Wise Wood farmer premier of Alberta RAM: United Farmers of Alberta Farm
life: Alberta: rural
life , the
lamp , hempseed
mill , grain
elevators , present-day full
circle David Nemirovsky: Ukrainian pioneers NGC:
pioneer
life by William Kurelek A labour spy against the IWW (excerpt) IWW song Where the Fraser River Flows Vanishing
BC: old GTP
stations *Canada
in the Making: Asian
Immigration CM: Sikhs aboard the Komagata Maru refused 1914 InfoUkes: internment of
Ukrainians 1914-20 CBC: World Wars I and II *Canadian Letters & Images: Boer War letters War Museum Canvas of War paintings and posters Canadian
Letters & Images: Vimy
Ridge memoirs and diaries; LAC James Dempsey Aboriginal Soldiers and WWI Ontario war heroes letters and photos UWO-Malaspina Canadian
Letters and Images - letters from
soldiers WW1, II, Korea and peacekeepers *Veterans Affairs: Heroes Remember: Boer War, WWI CBC: Halifax explosion 1919 *LAC: Winnipeg Strike newsreel 1919 ECO: women’s rights |
 immigration
brochure
1907 (NAC C-03060)
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Canada 1920-39
|
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WW II poster by H. Rogers (NAC
C-103527)  |
World War II to 1970
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Kwagiutl family
by David Neel / T'la'lala'wis (NAC C-140324)
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Natives in WW II and after
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 Trudeau, Turner, Chrétien, Pearson after cabinet change in 1967 photo by Duncan Cameron (NAC PA-117107) |
Canada 1960s-2000s
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Canada in 2006
CCPA Monitor Environment, peace and social justice links NFB films and CitizenShift Wakiponi vidéos par jeunes des Premières Nations au Québec Rond-point Histoire du Quebec (in French) farm crisis of 2005 and NFU brief, Saskatchewan farm types, Quebec's Union paysanne , the National Farmers Union *CBC: Legacy photo essays on rural Canada |
 Pointe du Bois dam on Winnipeg River built in 1928 (Manitoba Hydro) |
Deep Integration with the USA, Canada’s future?
Murray Dobbin in The Tyee: Afghanistan…nothing to do with peacekeeping Conservative military historian Jack Granatstein’s prediction:
threat of a US takeover US
Pentagon's Abrupt
Climate Change Scenario: the end of Canada Wikipedia on North American Union ViveleCanada’s
timeline
to North American Union (omits 66 years of joint defence agreements
aka military-industrial integration with US) NAFI secret
conference
at Banff Sep 12-14, 2006. Canadian government first denied its
participation, then claimed it was purely a 'private' meeting. See the full
guest list and topics. NAFI North American Forum proposing 'deep integration' 2007 |
 Paul Kane, White Mud Portage on the Winnipeg River ca. 1844 (ROM 912.1.21) |