Check out the awesome images of the railroads as they helped to connect Canada's east and west.

Government claims to lands in Western Canada was one matter but maintaining sovereignty over these lands was quite another. Sir John A Macdonald's approach to maintaining sovereignty in western Canada by not losing the land to American...

A look inside the history of the province of Alberta. The resource delves into the following topics: Alberta's pre-contact history, its native origins, its political history, and contemporary issues, such as Alberta's vast resources in oil.

A contemporary account by Alexander Campbell, a Canadian soldier of the "Rebellion of 1885" in which the Metis tribe revolted against the Canadian government.