Archives

A Digital Library of Canada and other links. 

• Primary Source Documents sorted by Topic, Media, Product Type
• Canadian Information by Subject - Use these indexes to look at the many resources available on this site.
  • Alphabetical Order
  • Canadian Information by Subject
  • Aboriginal Resources
  • Political Cartoons - A unique review of Confederation as presented by 19th century Canadian media.

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has a collection with a major emphasis in history, literature and music.

• For Students - links to sites by subject area
• Educators Toolkit - tools to improve research skills.
• Defining Primary and Secondary Sources
• Internet Research Skills
• Copyright for Students
• Decoding Political Cartoons
• A Tale from the Map Vault

An educational project meant to help you learn more about primary sources held at Library and Archives Canada. You will find a wide selection of documents -- texts, photographs, maps, newspaper clippings and much more. All the sources featured on The EvidenceWeb are linked to specific themes in Canadian history or culture.

• Theme - choose to investigate a theme
• Format - select text, map, photographs, or art
• Time - select a time period
• Place - select a place to start your investigation

On this Website you'll find an outstanding selection of radio and television clips from the Archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

• Explore the Archives Timeline to access subject specific links and useful information.

• On This Day: Canada and world news items linked by the day.
• For Teachers: Educational material for grades 6-12.
• Topic Index
• CBC Days to Remember: Links through the decades. 

Our Ontario is a collection of digital images, text, audio and video materials about Ontario history, heritage and culture. 

For more than a century, newspapers have produced special colour supplements to mark important events. This site presents a selection of these unique publications from the collection of the National Library of Canada.

Databases

• A Nation's Chronicle: The Canada Gazette
  The Canada Gazette. Often referred to as "the official newspaper of the Government of Canada," the Canada Gazette has been an important instrument in the Canadian democratic process for more than 160 years. It has served to inform Canadians of the operations of government and to involve them actively in the legislative process.
•  Educational Resources- Resources include The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Democracy in Action, The SARS Crisis and the Irish Potato Famine, and Understanding the Canada Gazette and Historical Sources.
•  Photographs- Access to over 41,000 primary source documents and images.

Virtual Exhibitions

• Engine of Immortality: Canadian Newspapers from 1752 until Today
• News Sites
• Selected Almanacs in Library and Archives Canada Collection
• The Canada Gazette
• Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers

• Online Exhibits
• Educational Programing
  • Teaching with Primary Documents
  • Lesson Plans Grades 3-12
  • Ontario History Quest - Grade 7

Digital collections and research links

• Themes:First Peoples, New France, Newcomers, Women, War, Politics and Government, Arts and Culture
• By Period:
  • The Early Years from 1565-1760
  • From Conquest to Confederation: 1760-1867
  • The First Century of Confederation: 1867-1967
  • Into the Second Century
• By Media Type- Manuscripts and Private Collections, Documentary Art, Audio Visual, Postal Archive, Maps, Photography, Government Records
• Games: Top Ten, Puzzles, Pop Quiz, Map Trap
• Site Map

Your Gateway to Canada's Past

• Search Archives
• Archive Networks across Canada
• Virtual Exhibits: browse by province/territory, institution, subject, all titles
• Complete list of Virtual Exhibits
• Canadian Archival Resources on the Internet

ArchiviaNet, the National Archives of Canada's online research and consultation tool, provides access to a variety primary source documents.

Educational Resources - Images Canada

• Using Pictures to Read the Past
  http://www.imagescanada.ca/r1-302.1-e.html
  Lesson plan using the Images Canada site.

- Collections 

 
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

• Online Exhibits
• For Educators and Students
  • Analysis worksheets for primary source material
    

Links to electronic resources around the world.

American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Look at this site for primary source documents for the Ontario Grade 7 New France curriculum.

• Find a Document
• Browse Images
• Historical Highlights
• Resources for Teachers - Read about nomenclature, sensitive content, interpretation of documents
  • Lesson Plans

100 milestone documents that chronicle United States history from 1776-1965, and teacher's guides. Documents will be added. Translations are provided when necessary.

Archive of Early America primary source material from the 18th century displayed digitally.
 

• Explore The World of Early America 
  • American Freedom Documents
• Movies On-line
  • The Life of George Washington
  • Declaring Independence
  • Paul Revere- Messenger of the Revolution
  • The shot heard around the world
  • The treason of Benedict Arnold
  • The real face of George Washington
  • Molly Pitcher- An American Heroine
• How to read a 200 year old document - explanations of the spelling and meanings of words. Well worth taking the time to read.
• The Early American Digital Library - historical pictures and maps.
• The Early American Review - A Journal of Fact and Opinion On the People, Issues and Events Of 18th Century America.