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"As an endless source of discoveries, virtualmuseum.ca is a unique interactive space that brings together Canadian museum collections and riches in a variety of thought-provoking and instructive contents. It's your window on current museum news and your reference guide to plan your next outing. Enter your Canadian museum space." OK!

As an endless source of discoveries, virtualmuseum.ca is a unique interactive space that brings together Canadian museum collections and riches in a variety of thought-provoking and instructive contents. It's your window on current museum news and your reference guide to plan your next outing. Enter your Canadian museum space

"Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War is a fully searchable digitized collection of 144,000 contemporary newspaper clippings that report on the events of the Second World War as that great conflict unfolded." Awesome!

The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.

"The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955."

From Colony to Country: Canadian Military History

Great list of annotated websites for Canadian Social Studies

Very useful starting point for information on teaching about Canada (History, Geography, Politics, Law etc.)

Great Site for students to solve mysteries using primary sources using critical thinking.

A great website that uses primary sources to create critical thinking activities for students to solve. Recommended for upper level high school students.

Find out an english version on this canadian website Que devraient savoir les élèves après avoir étudié l'histoire pendant 12 ans à l'école? Que devraient‑ils être capables de faire avec leurs connaissances? Espérons que cette connaissance ne se résume pas à la simple mémorisation d'une foule de dates. Le projet Repères combine les recherches d'historiens et de pédagogues à l'expérience et aux compétences des enseignants sur le terrain afin de trouver des façons pratiques de favoriser la réflexion historique dans le contexte réaliste de la classe.

Thanks for this excellent link, Daniel. Those Canadians seem to have some pretty good ideas on how to study history.

Two weeks ago I heard a conference by Peter Seixas (the Canadian who is behind these benchmarks) and it was absolutely inspiring... if ever you have the opportunity, go and see and hear him talking about history teaching!

This is the site of the national archives of Canada. It seems there is quite a bit of stuff for the public to access. Gotta love those Canadians!

Storming Juno is a film based on the remarkable and determined actions of a handful of young Canadian men who stormed Juno Beach on June 6, 1944. D-Day.

A game from the Virtual Museum of Canada, explores the French and Indian War from the standpoint of British, French, Canadian and Native American perspectives.

Lesson 7 - Facts and Political Solutions.doc - Unit 2 - Lesson 7 - Facts and Political Solutions.pdf

really engaging simulation for teaching Canadian or American gov't, economics, citizenship

Reflecting the growing scholarly interest in transnational and comparative approaches to studying the past, British Atlantic, American Frontier offers a geographical perspective on the development of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It covers in detail not only the American eastern seaboard, but also eastern Canada and the West Indies, as well as the trans-Atlantic links to Western Europe and West Africa.

A list of links to sites focussed mainly on Canadian history. Has French bits too. I wish I could speak French.

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