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The Musee Collections: 1900 2000
The Musee in Quebec offers a collection of works from artists dating from 1900-2000. Featured artists include Suzor-Cote, Gagnon, Huot, Pellan, Lemieux, Borduas, Riopelle, among others. Click on the artist's name for biographical details.
Terres en Vues (Land InSights)
Land in Sights: Visual Arts: Ginette Aubin
Learn about Ginette Aubin who is a painter and engraver from the Malecite nation in Quebec and view examples of her work.
Read Works
Read Works: The Canadian Beaver
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text Canadian beavers in Tadoussac, Quebec. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
McGill University
Mc Gill University: Canadian Biodiversity: Ecozones: Mixedwood Plains
This Mixedwood Plains ecozone extends along the Quebec City- Windsor corridor and the densely-populated region of Southern Ontario. This brief, concise description includes a collection of images of the animals and birds native to the...
Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia: Radio Canada
Radio Canada has been a major contributer to the promotion of culture in Quebec. A history, as well as their mandate is included here.
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Canadian Tourism Commission: Maps canada.travel
This interactive map is an excellent student and teacher resource. Select Places to Go to show regions, provinces or territories and capital cities. Hover over the area to get links to more detailed information. Get up to the minute...
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Chez.com: Nager
This website on swimming contains interesting articles with news, links, and tidbits.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Rene Levesque
Presents information about the life of Rene Levesque and how he influenced the Parti Quebecois.
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: The Intolerable Acts
This resource gives a comprehensive account of the Intolerable Acts, why they were passed, colonists' reactions, and particulars surrounding the Massachusetts Government Act and other Coercive Acts with text links and references.
Curated OER
Cbc: Adventurers and Mystics: Europe and the New World
From the CBC television series about Canadian history comes this summary of the English and French search for a Northwest Passage. Find out how these explorations laid the basis for their claims in the New World.
Digital History
Digital History: The Seven Years' War
A good overview of the French and Indian War, the part of the Seven Years' War that was fought in North America. Read about the reasons for the war, important battles, and the terms of the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Bloc Quebecois
Presents the formation of the Bloc Quebecois and how this new political party would influence Canadian politics.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: That Was Phoebe: A Community Remembers Its Past
The love of a generational home is seen in this exhibit. Phoebe Nobbs Hyde willed her home to the community to be used by all those who loved history. Archival photographs are included.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: On the School Benches
The Ursuline Sisters of Trois-Rivieres who devoted their lives to the education of girls are profiled. Their contributions to the students and to the life of the community is explored through audio presentations as well as archival...
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Worchester Polytechnic Institute: The Intolerable or Coercive Acts
A brief listing and description of the Acts of the British Parliament that were to be known as the Coercive Acts by Parliament and the Intolerable Acts by the Colonists.
Other
The St. Lawrence River
This site is a brief history of the St. Lawrence River and its historical and geographical importance.
Atomic Archive
Atomicarchive.com: The Manhattan Project
A collection of primary source documents on the Manhatten project and the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan in 1945. Content includes letters to and from J. Robert Oppenheimer, written deals and agreements, internal memorandums,...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Intolerable Acts
Find the response by the British Parliament to the dumping of tea into Boston Harbor. So many laws were enacted that the colonists lumped them together and called them the Intolerable Acts.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Intolerable Acts
Details explaining what the Intolerable Acts were, as well as providing the full text of each act passed by the British Parliament in 1774.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: t.b. Macaulay and Mount Victoria Farm
Because of T. B. Macaulay,early president of Sun Life Insurance,a small herd of Holstein cattle grow to become one of the most purebred herds in the world today. Archival photographs and stories of the family and farm are included.
Curated OER
Mine Albert, Quebec, Before and After Reclamation. Government of Quebec
A fascinating article on orphaned or abandoned mines in Canada.
Hartford Web Publishing
World History Archives: The Mohawk Defense of Kanasetake
Students looking for a different perspective on the Oka Crisis get it here. The Lubicon Nation is an Aboriginal community in northern Alberta. They have reprinted on this website an opinion from Lubicon News Station, and part of an...
Open Door Team
Open Door Web Site: The Seven Years' War
This website gives a brief account of the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) up to the Fall of Quebec.
Walled Lake Consolidated Schools
Loon Lake Elementary School: Samuel De Champlain
A biography of Samuel de Champlain (1570-1635), a French explorer who founded the Canadian city of Quebec. He helped colonize French North America, once known as New France, and is often called the Father of New France. This site has a...
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