Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Century Settlers of the Edison Westlock Area
As the population continued to spread through northern Alberta in the early 1900s, communities were established to provide services for the surrounding areas. Edison was one of these service communities, established just north of...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Arriving at the 6th Siding
This site provides a fascinating historical look at the flood of homesteaders who came to the area of Olds Alberta.
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Galileo Educational Network: What Stories Do We Have to Tell?
The teacher of this Grade 1/2 class won the 2006 Governor General's Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History for this project. Students explored the history of grain elevators in Alberta and connected their disappearance on the...
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Millarville Archaeology
The Grade 4 and 5 students involved in this project explored the history of Millarville, Alberta, an oil boom town in the 1940s. In the process, they interviewed residents and local historians, learned how to 'read' artifacts and...
University of Alberta
University of Alberta Library: Peel's Prairie Provinces
This site allows you to view newspapers from around Alberta, Canada.
Glenbow Museum
Glenbow Museum: Glenbow Museum of Calgary
This is the official web site for Calgary's Glenbow Museum. Collections, exhibits, and school programs are found at the museum as well as on-line. Though this is a commercial site, the wealth of historical information presented makes it...
Glenbow Museum
Glenbow Museum: Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta
The Glenbow Museum presents the stories of almost 40 different mavericks who shaped the history of Alberta. The website breaks down the province's history into the following nine areas: Uninvited Guests, Mounties, Railway, Ranching,...
Glenbow Museum
Glenbow Museum: Calgary in the 1950's
Jack de Lorme was a photographer for the Calgary Sun in the 1950s. His photographs form the basis for this exhibit which explores the city of Calgary at that time. It is designed for Grades 3 to 6. This was a critical time in Calgary's...
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Alberta Airphoto Collection, 1922 1956
The Alberta Airphoto Collection consists of around 30,000 public domain images from the University of Calgary Library's collection of airphotos. The images cover urban areas at various scales and years between 1924 and 1952. These...
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Digging Up History: An Overview of Archaeology in Alberta
Learn in detail the archaeology of Alberta from earliest times to pre-contact. Almost 1000 images are included.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Pattern of Ukrainian Immigration and Settlement
A detailed article focusing on the waves of Ukrainian immigrants who settled across the Canadian prairies. Links to additional topics are found on the right side menu bar making this encyclopedia entry a fine resource.
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Alabama Division of Wildlife
Alabama Divion of Wildlife offers a comprehensive web site that includes, but is not limited to, game conservation.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Heritage: How the West Was Young
A look inside the history of the province of Alberta. The resource delves into the following topics: Alberta's pre-contact history, its native origins, its political history, and contemporary issues, such as Alberta's vast resources in oil.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Dickson Store
Follow the growth of a small town local store in Dickson, Alberta. The many roles played by it are included in the exhibit.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Seeking the Story of Mission Beach
Mission Beach, Alberta has a history of Aboriginal people of different tribes and Christian missionaries of different faiths meeting together, making it the first mission west of the Red River Settlement.The exhibit includes historic...
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Alberta's Extant Grain Elevators
A map containing the location of nine of Alberta's Grain Elevators points to information about each of these structures from their construction to their usage to their current status.
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Ghost Towns of Alberta
Explore Alberta's ghost towns! Johnnie Bachusky, a writer/photographer living in Red Deer, Alberta, and Susan Foster, a photographer in Toronto, Ontario tell the stories of over 20 ghost towns in the province through both narrative and...
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Methodist Missionaries in Alberta
Following the arrival of European fur traders and explorers, Christianity and religion soon followed to convert the aboriginal peoples. churches and missionaries spread throughout the prairies.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Wings Over Alberta
Wings Over Alberta explores a period during the formation of Alberta, including the role that it played in World War II. The focus of this site, 'Canada's Air War', provides a background to the Royal Canadian Armed Forces efforts...
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta's Francophone Heritage Edukit: Elementary
Through information, photographs, texts, a quiz and audio, learners are able to expand their knowledge of the Alberta Francophone community.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta's Francophone Heritage Edukit: Secondary
Through information, photographs, texts, a quiz and audio, learners are able to expand their knowledge of the Alberta Francophone community.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta's Francophone Heritage Edukit: Teacher
Learning outcomes, background information and material, activities and teacher support documents all supplement Alberta's Francophone Heritage Edukit for both the Secondary and Elementary levels.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta's Francophone Heritage Edukit: Biographies
Resource highlights the biographies of twenty-four (24) significant contributors to the development of the Franco-Albertan heritage and culture.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Women of Aspenland: Images From Central Alberta
The Women of Aspenland Virtual Exhibit explores with learners the history of the women, the region and the social landscape of Central Alberta.