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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Century Settlers of the Edison Westlock Area

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Arriving at the 6th Siding

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a fascinating historical look at the flood of homesteaders who came to the area of Olds Alberta.
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Other

Galileo Educational Network: What Stories Do We Have to Tell?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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University of Alberta

University of Alberta Library: Peel's Prairie Provinces

For Students 9th - 10th
This site allows you to view newspapers from around Alberta, Canada.
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Glenbow Museum

Glenbow Museum: Glenbow Museum of Calgary

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Glenbow Museum

Glenbow Museum: Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
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Glenbow Museum

Glenbow Museum: Calgary in the 1950's

For Students 3rd - 5th
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...
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University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Alberta Airphoto Collection, 1922 1956

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Digging Up History: An Overview of Archaeology in Alberta

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn in detail the archaeology of Alberta from earliest times to pre-contact. Almost 1000 images are included.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Pattern of Ukrainian Immigration and Settlement

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
Alabama Divion of Wildlife offers a comprehensive web site that includes, but is not limited to, game conservation.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Heritage: How the West Was Young

For Students 6th - 8th
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.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Dickson Store

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the growth of a small town local store in Dickson, Alberta. The many roles played by it are included in the exhibit.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Seeking the Story of Mission Beach

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 3rd - 8th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Methodist Missionaries in Alberta

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Wings Over Alberta

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta's Francophone Heritage Edukit: Elementary

For Students 3rd - 8th
Through information, photographs, texts, a quiz and audio, learners are able to expand their knowledge of the Alberta Francophone community.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta's Francophone Heritage Edukit: Secondary

For Students 9th - 10th
Through information, photographs, texts, a quiz and audio, learners are able to expand their knowledge of the Alberta Francophone community.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta's Francophone Heritage Edukit: Teacher

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta's Francophone Heritage Edukit: Biographies

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource highlights the biographies of twenty-four (24) significant contributors to the development of the Franco-Albertan heritage and culture.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Women of Aspenland: Images From Central Alberta

For Students 9th - 10th
The Women of Aspenland Virtual Exhibit explores with learners the history of the women, the region and the social landscape of Central Alberta.