Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Botwood Heritage Centre: Botwood: History of an Airport
This small town in Newfoundland has played a major role in Canada's aviation history. View historic footage of early planes and read of their feats.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The French Connection
This exhibit features narratives and pictures that recount the history of French settlers to the banks of the Detroit River in the 1700s.
Veterans Affairs Canada
Veterans Affairs Canada: Canada's Nursing Sisters
Canada' s Nursing sisters began in 1885. This history tells the story of these brave and dedicated women who endured the hardships of war to care for the troops.
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University of Victoria: Canada's Rights Movement: A History
The history of human rights movements in Canada from the 1930s is explained in detail and backed up by extensive support materials and primary documents. Much of the focus is on individuals and NGOs (non-governmental organizations)...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Air Canada
Air Canada is Canada's largest airline carrier. Founded in 1937, its history and expansion are traced on this site.
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Canada Tibet Committee
The Canada Tibet Committee supports Tibetans in Canada through ts fundraising and awareness campaigns. Here you can read news items, learn more about Tibet's history and the Tibetan community in Canada, and read about His Holiness the...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: A Prairie Mountain Promenade
The Prairie Mountain Regional Museum is a group of historic buildings that portray the history of southwestern Manitoba. You'll find here a one-room school, a Ukrainian Catholic church and an Anglican church, a police museum, settler...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Kinghorn School Days
The history of the one-room school house in Kinghorn, Ontario operated between 1895 and 1936. Its history is told here through narratives, sound and images.
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International Peace Gardens: International Peace Gardens Canada United States
Peace between Canada and the USA is celebratedat the International Peace Gardens which borders North Dakota and Manitoba. Its history and photographs of the immaculate gardens and memorials are included.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Mt. Logan: Canadian Titan
Mt. Logan in Canada's Yukon Territory is the tallest mountain in Canada and the second tallest in North America. Learn about the people who live around it, the history of mountaineering in the area, and the science - both geological and...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Remembrance and Hope
Embrace the history of Innisfail Alberta's residents through stories of soldiers, nurses, cooks, war brides and wives left behind as they join in the war effort during WW l and WW ll. Included are pictures and primary source documents.
Oxfam
Oxfam Canada
Oxfam Canada looks to rid the world of poverty and injustice. Their official website outlines their history and their mission.
Historica Canada
Historica Canada: Heritage Minutes: Home From the Wars
Part of a series, this resource addresses housing conditions following the wars. Homelessness and poor economic conditions led to the eventual development of a federal housing agency. Learn more about these troubled times and the Canada...
Veterans Affairs Canada
Veterans Affairs Canada: 85th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge
This series of learning activities is about the history of the Battle of Vimy Ridge and other First World War events. View the construction of the Vimy Memorial and explore Vimy today.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: A Little Brick Plant in the Middle of Nowhere
The Claybank Brick Plant is in the Dirt Hills of south-central Saskatchewan and the only complete example of such a plant in North America. Its equipment and structures are intact and functional, preserved as they would have been in the...
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: A Century of Education
This exhibit describes the history of education in southeast Saskatchewan over a 100-year period from its beginnings in one-room schools built by settlers up to today's modern system of education.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: A New Life for an Old Light
The West Point Lighthouse Museum is located in Prince Edward Island. This exhibit tells its history through stories, photos and documents. Some of the more interesting materials tell of sunken treasures and phantom ships, such as the...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Alberton: A Typical but Unique Small Town
This exhibit portrays the history and evolution of the town of Alberton, PEI. People who went on to gain renown in their fields are profiled. The paintings of a local artist, Hubert Rogers, show the beauty of the area and the...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Twentieth Century Todmorden
This exhibit looks at the twentieth century history of the Don Valley, which is located in central Toronto and has played a key role in its development and sense of place. Todmorden Mills is frequented by school groups, tourists, Toronto...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Sterling Flour Mill
Trace the history of milling and learn about the milling of flour as you explore the stories celebrating the history of the Sterling Flour Mill in Strome Alberta. Included are images of artifacts and primary source documents.
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Cape Breton Miners' Museum: History of Mining
The first coal mine was opened in Cape Breton in 1720. Read about the long history of coal mining there, mining techniques, how coal is formed, the industry's impact on immigration, coal miners' unionization, etc. There is a detailed...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Roots and Birth of Mirror 1870 to 1930
Looking at the history of the community of Mirror, Alberta, shows how this part of Western Canada gained population.
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada Science and Technology Museum: An Exhibit on Communications
Follow the development of telecommunications from the earliest times to the most advanced technologies! Useful research tool highlighting the telegraph, telegram, telephone todigital networks and computing in Canada.
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