Libraries

On this Website you'll find a 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.

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.

Library of Congress lesson plans and Collection Connections.
 

• Collection Finder
• Why Use Primary Sources? - a pdf file that highlights the purpose of using primary sources in the classroom.
• Lesson Plans -Click on using Using Primary Soruces in the classroom for getting started ideas.
• The Historian's Sources - Lesson Plans including student worksheets
• Teaching With Documents
• Document Analysis Worksheets - Written document, Photograph, Cartoon, Poster, Map, Artifact, Sound Recording, Motion Picture
• Introductory Research Activity
• Features and Activities

You will find images national parks, monuments, battlefields, and historic sites of the United States.

 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 - Canadian Confederation

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has a collection strong 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

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 special items from the collection of the National Library of Canada.
 

• Special Colour supplements

 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

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

Using Pictures to Read the Pasthttp://www.imagescanada.ca/r1-302.1-e.html

Lesson plan using the Images Canada site.

The CBC has digitized significant moments in Canadian history from over 70 years of our award-winning radio and television coverage of politics, the arts, sports and science.
 

• For Teachers: Materials for grades 6-8, 9-10, 11-12.

•  Online Exhibits

•  Collections 

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.

Library of Congress Science Reference Services answers and posts everday mysteries.
 

• Archived answers

• American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850
• Online Exhibitions - Historical documents, maps, art, artists, music and more.
• Small Town America - Stereoscopic Views
• Images of African Americans from the 19th Century

The Authentic History Center is comprised of artifacts and sounds from American popular culture.Audio clips, images and artifacts posted.
 

• Teaching Diversity with Multimedia

• For Teachers - eXplorations, Classroom Handouts, Learning Modules, Resource Guides, Lesson Plans
• Interactive Timeline
• Images
• Advertisments
• Ad*Access
  Collection of over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.

Primary source documents on film, in print, on display, on the air, timeline

Online Exhibits.