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Significant events and history of the people of the northwest Canada from 1774 to present day. Includes journal entries from Captain Cook, fur traders, Indian prophets, and ethnographers.
http://www.hallman.org/indian/.www.html
Provides a collection of photographs, stories and maps documenting ghost towns in a number of provinces.
http://www.ghosttownpix.com/
Photographs, maps, and documents from two exploratory surveys conducted by J.B. Tyrrell of the region west of Hudson Bay.
http://digital.library.utoronto.ca/Tyrrell/
Maps, graphs and text based on print volumes and redesigned for online, interactive viewing. Includes downloadable data in tabular form as well as printable map images.
http://mercator.geog.utoronto.ca/hacddp/page1.htm
Interactive and authoritative source of data with over 350,000 official and formerly official geographical names available in both English and French.
http://whistler.ccm.nrcan.gc.ca/
Information about the 1837 Mackenzie-Papineau rebellions that rocked Upper and Lower Canada. Site includes chronology, biographies of the leaders, background, reactions, aftermath and other information.
http://www.edunetconnect.com/cat/rebellions/
Book and poems of pioneer life by Susanna Moodie.
http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?doc=26276
Extensive documentation of Manitoba school legislation of 1890, which was regarded as anti-Catholic, and involvement of Quebecers in the controversy. Bilingual site.
http://www2.marianopolis.edu/que...chistory/docs/manitoba/index.htm
All about the fur trade in Canada, and how it led to the exploration of Canada, as well as the formation of the oldest and largest company in Canadian history: Hudson's Bay Company.
http://www.canadiana.org/hbc/
Presents stories, information and photographs about the Hudson's Bay Company and Canada's early history.
http://www.hbc.com/hbc/e_hi/tales/tales.htm
Frobisher's expeditions to Nunavut in Arctic Canada are described as well as the search for a Northwest Passage to Asia, the first mining venture in Canada, and the earliest attempt by the English to establish a colony in the New World.
http://www.civilization.ca/hist/frobisher/frint01e.html
A guide to materials on Canadian history in digital format. Content is supervised by an expert editorial board.
http://www.canadianhistory.ca
A scholarly site illustrates and documents heroic age of fur trade. Examines exploits of the North West Company and other Montreal-based fur trading companies. Includes full texts of manuscripts known as the Masson Papers from 1790 -1820.
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/nwc
Traces history and development of this firm from creation in Toronto up to its takeover by Gulf Canada in 1969.
http://www.britishamericanoil.ca/history.html
Describes Fenian plans in the 1860s to attain control of what is now Canada and hold it in ransom for the freedom of Ireland.
http://www.irishclans.com/articles/fenians.html
Collection of photographs, documents, illustrations, and maps highlighting Canadian history.
http://www.canadianheritage.org/
A passage from the Canadian Encyclopedia describes the origins of the name, "Canada".
http://www.thecanadianencycloped....cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0001216
Story of the pioneer homesteaders of Ladder Valley in Saskatchewan, Canada. Contains autobiographies, photos and links for further reading.
http://www.mixedbunch.com/ladder/
An online library, archive, museum and school all in one providing Canadian local histories and educational resources.
http://www.ourroots.ca/
Hundreds of radio and television clips from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
http://archives.cbc.ca
An alphabetical list of national historic sites in Canada. Offers links to these sites as well.
http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/lhn-nhs/list_e.asp
Weekly presentation on aspects of Canadian history related to commemorations by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada and National Parks.
http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cseh-twih/index_e.asp
The conditions and challenges of emigrants' lives in 19th-century Canada as reflected in the lives and writings of Catharine Parr Traill(1802-99) and Susanna Moodie (1803-85).
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/moodie-traill/t1-3100-e.html
Online exhibit from the National Archives of Canada.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/05/0531_e.html
The National Archives of Canada presents this virtual exhibition. A gateway to the large-scale digitization of selected holdings. Topics include the fur trade, scientific expeditions, aboriginal claims and urbanization.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/05/0529_e.html
Online National Archives exhibit on the 1927-1929 "Persons Case" in which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council declared women to be "persons".
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/05/0530_e.html
Details about the discovery and exploration of Canada with emphasis on explorers and mapmakers.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/24/index-e.html
Provides maps that depict the evolution of the nation's international, provincial and territorial boundaries from 1783 through 1905.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/18/h18-2101-e.html
Marking the 400th anniversary of the French presence in North America in 2004, France and Canada have created this portal to a virtual exhibition and a database containing more than one million images.
http://www.archivescanadafrance.org/english/accueil_en.html
An exhibition of the Peter Winkworth Collection, a nationally significant, rare, and valuable art collection that documents more than four centuries of Canadian history.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/05/0506_e.html
Government of Canada's bilingual directory of links on historic sites in Canada.
http://culturecanada.gc.ca/displ....cfm?lang=eng&prov=21&category=7
Publication of Canada's National History Society, devoted to popularizing Canadian history and to make Canadians more aware and appreciative of their past.
http://www.thebeaver.ca/