Primary Source Websites
National Archives of Canada: The Canadian West
http://www.archives.ca/05/0529_e.html
The exhibition concentrates on those aspects of the settlement process in the 1930s in Western Canada that are documented in the collections of the National Archives of Canada. Media type includes, art, maps, medals, photos and text information.
National Library of Canada
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/index-e.html
The Digital library of Canada containing music, history, and literature links. Canadian information by subject, AMICUS the Canadian National Catalogue, and Images Canada.
Veterans Affairs Canada
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca
This site contains a great variety of information for military historians, genealogists, teachers, students or veterans, including a digitized version of the Book of Remembrance for those who died in the First World War; the site also includes a guide to Canadian war memorials currently online.
Sheet Music from Canada's Past: The First World War Era
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/4/1/index-e.html
This National Library site features Canadian sheet music from 1914 to 1920, some with full scores available, and includes an article about music on the Canadian home front.
The Virtual Gramophone: The First World War Era
http://www2.nlc-bnc.ca/gramophone/src/1e.htm
This recent addition to the National Library's Virtual Gramophone site includes biographies of major Canadian musical personalities, song lists and audio recordings from the time of the Great War.
Canadian Olympians
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/15/index-e.html
This site provides a searchable images database of Canadian athletes at the Olympics, from 1936 through 2000. The images are taken from the Canadian Olympic Association photograph collection.
Images Canada
http://www.imagescanada.ca/index-e.html
The gateway to over 65,000 images from Canada's cultural institutions.
The Jesuit Relations and the History of New France
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/19/index-e.html
Jesuit relations text, Reuben Gold Thwaites translation, and an essay in five parts.
Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/3/1/index-e.html
This website is designed to help readers and students enter into the worlds of these two remarkable sisters.
It makes available some of their surviving letters and selections from their books. Using original photographs and other illustrations, the site seeks to make the worlds of Susanna and Catharine in England and in Canada come alive for today's readers and aims to provide them with material for further research and study.
Canadian Illustrated News
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/1/index-e.html
The Canadian Illustrated News site is a selection of almost 4000 images of people, places and events across Canada and around the world taken from the popular 19th-century magazine. Canadian Illustrated News was published in Montreal, Quebec by George Desbarats from 1869 to 1883 and was notable for its innovative use of half-tone photographs.
First Among Equals: The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/4/index-e.html
It features a digitized version of the National Archives 1994 exhibition "First Among Equals". The site replaces and builds on two earlier Web sites, Canada Speaks and Prime Ministers of Canada: 1867-1996, which were funded by the SchoolNet Digital Collections Program of Industry Canada in 1996. This new site also incorporates additional speeches.
First Among Equals: The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics Children's Site
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/9/index-e.html
Children's version of the site intended for grades 4-6.
Canadian Confederation
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/index-e.html
Information on the territorial evolution of Canada, Timeline: Britain, Canada and the Civil War 1861-65, the path to confederation, towards confederation: Lower Canada (1791-1842), fear of annexation by the U.S., raids and skirmishes, the blacks, antislavery and the underground railroad, confederate operations in Canada, some little-known stories, confederation 1867, postwar tensions, and historical documents.
Celebrating Women's Achievements
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/12/index-e.html
In each theme (science, sport, activism, book trade, politics, librarianship and bibliography, society, music and literature) you will find a selection of Canadian women who have made outstanding contributions. Each woman's life and achievements are described, followed by a list of suggested readings.
Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/14/index-e.html
For more than a century, newspapers have produced special colour supplements to mark important events. This site presents a selection of these special items from the collection of the National Library of Canada.
North: Landscape of the Imagination
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/16/index-e.html
Visitors to the exhibition are able to view the art from more than two thousand years of Canada's northern history. Contains information and images.
Heroes of Yore and Lore: Canadian Heroes in Fact and Fiction
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/6/index-e.html
Canadian heroes, information and images.
Building Canada
http://cac.mcgill.ca/bland/building/
Award-winning site about the history of Canadian architecture, with over 2000 images.
The Symbols of Canada and the Music of Canada
http://www.pch.gc.ca/ceremonial-symb/english/emb.html
The symbols of Canada can heighten not only our awareness of our country but also our sense of celebration in being Canadian.
Path of Heroes
http://www.pch.gc.ca/poh-sdh-2000/
The history of our country is alive with stories of people whose remarkable achievements have made Canada, and the world better. These are Canada's heroes, people who inspire us by their deeds, people in whom we take great pride when we say: "They are Canadian."
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