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Veterans Affairs Canada

Veterans Affairs Canada: Anniversary of the Dieppe Raid: In Canada Events

For Students 9th - 10th
This beautiful collection of images highlights various events that were held in Canada to honour the bravery and sacrifices at one of the most devastating battles in Canadian Military History.
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Website
Curated OER

Cbc.ca: Ordeal by Fire Turmoil on the Homefront

For Students 6th - 8th
While Canadians enlisted to fight the enemy across the ocean in Europe, back home in Canada there was social and political unrest. This article proves a brief overview of the situations faced on the homefront.
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Website
Veterans Affairs Canada

Veterans Affairs Canada: The Landing at Inchon

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise, detailed account of the Canadian soldiers contributions to the war.
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Website
McGill University

Sir John William Dawson (1820 1899)

For Students 9th - 10th
A short biography of Sir John William Dawson, the first Canadian-born scientist to achieve international recognition.
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PPT
Veterans Affairs Canada

Veterans Affairs Canada: Canadian Forces Abroad Photo Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
Thirteen photographs demonstrate ways in which Canada has focused on peacekeeping since the World Wars and Korean War.
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Interactive
Other

An Exploration of Historic Prejudice: Italian Digital Photo Album

For Students 9th - 10th
This photo album shows the Italians as they lived in the Kootenays in Victorian days. They are seen here building the CPR, mining and going about their lives.
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Other

Parks Canada: Glacier National Park of Canada

For Students 9th - 10th
Glacier National Park of Canada is located in the Interior of British Columbia. This site has a wealth of information about the park, its history, management, geography, etc.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Marlene Epp, "Narrating the Canadian Mosaic: Immigration and Ethnicity"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on Canada's efforts to create a series of booklets about the immigration for each ethnic group in Canada. Thus far they have completed 34 booklets. They have 200 different ethnic groups in Canada.
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Other

Athabasca University: Centre for Language and Literature: The Jesuit Relations

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about The Jesuit Relations, early documents (seventeenth century) that chronicle the Jesuit missions to New France.
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Article
Curated OER

Cbc: Timeline of Canadian Tobacco Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
This CBC News article gives a timeline of Tobacco Laws in Canada. Read about legislation as dating as far back at the 1908 Tobacco Restraint Act through to today.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Empire of the Bay: Radisson and Groseilliers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Medard Chouart, Sieur Des Groseilliers were key to the establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company--this page by Empire of the Bay highlights their place in Canadian history.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Canadian Art Oil Painting of Two Men in Forest in Winter, 1900 1942

For Students 9th - 10th
View oil painting of two men in the Canadian forest in Winter.
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Graphic
Curated OER

The History of the Chinese in Canada

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives an overview of the history of Chinese immigration to Canada accompanied by historical photographs. One section is devoted to the life of Jean Lumb who became a leader in the Chinese community. Another section describes...
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Handout
Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Natural History Notebooks

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site from the Canadian Museum of Nature, a natural history museum, provides short information blurbs and fun facts on over 240 different common animals categorized by type (mammals, fish, reptiles, invertebrates, amphibians,...
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Interactive
Other

Multicultural History Society: Seeing Our Surroundings (Sos)

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a secondary project that was undertaken at a Toronto High school. Students interviewed people in their neighbourhood to explore the meaning of community. They also learned about what it means to be Canadian.
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Government of Alberta

Government of Alberta

For Students 9th - 10th
The Alberta government homepage offers links to current and historical information about the government of Alberta, its structure, policies, and initiatives.
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University of Alberta

University of Alberta: The Alberta Midland Railway

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief history relates the construction in 1909 of what was to be an extensive network of lines, of which only two were built. An engineering challenge was faced during the construction due to a deeply incised, old glacial meltwater...
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Lesson Plan
Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Bull's Eye Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Bull's Eye by Sarah N. Harvey is about a girl's discovery that her aunt was really her birth mother. She runs away to learn the truth about her family history and has many experiences, both good and bad. In the end, she and the aunt who...
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Website
University of Alberta

University of Alberta: The Galt Enterprises

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a brief history that describes the establishment of the Alberta Railway by Alexander Tilloch Galt. It would be a means of moving coal from his companies coal properties to Medicine Hat. Included are maps, photographs and primary...
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Handout
Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Charles Sherwood Noble

For Students 9th - 10th
One of Alberta's greater known inventors, Charles Noble, is explored through his biography and his impact on soil erosion, the invention of the "Noble Blade" and the history of Nobleford, a community in southern Alberta named for him.
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Website
Canadian Museum of History

Cmc: Marius Barbean: Virtual Museum Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan uses the internet to help students learn about museum exhibits. Focusing on aboriginal and French Canadian culture, it culminates in an imaginary exhibition.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Archeion Virtual Exhibit Sweetheart of the Cne

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource looks at the history of Toronto's Canadian National Exhibit with a focus on the Miss C.N.E. Pageant.
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Primary
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

Usas Library: A First Hand Account of the Rebellion of 1885

For Students 9th - 10th
A contemporary account by Alexander Campbell, a Canadian soldier of the "Rebellion of 1885" in which the Metis tribe revolted against the Canadian government.
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Handout
Other

Bytown Museum: The Timber Days

For Students 9th - 10th
The Bytown Museum looks at the culture, history, and the economic impact that the timber trade had on the growth and development of the City of Ottawa.

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