Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Mt. Logan: Canadian Titan
Mt. Logan in Canada's Yukon Territory is the tallest mountain in Canada and the second tallest in North America. Learn about the people who live around it, the history of mountaineering in the area, and the science - both geological and...
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Statistics Canada: 2006 Census: Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
According to Canada's 2006 census, the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba had the highest urban, aboriginal population in Canada. Statistics for other urban and regional areas are included on this government site.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Here is an introduction to the Aboriginal Peoples who live in Canada, also called "First Peoples." Learn about their history before and after colonization, treaties and legislation, the diverse cultures and their demographics.
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Aboriginal Digital Collections: From the Bush to the Internet
An aboriginal photographer T displays his work at this resource. The photos cover many of the issues facing First Nations people today.
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Images Canada: Picturing Canadian Culture
This site contains images of Canadian events, people, places and things. Search for images as well for more pictures on Canadian culture at this site.
Archives of Ontario
The James Bay Treaty Turns 100
This online exhibit explores the events leading up to the signing of the James Bay Treaty, also known as Treaty No.9. Through this series on archival documents, photographs, and accompanying text, explore the impact of the James Bay...
Glenbow Museum
Glenbow Museum: Teacher Resources: Mounties
Many students view Mounties as simply policemen on horses. But it is important to understand the Mountie not only as a Canadian symbol, but also for the role they took in shaping the development of Western Canada. This site has many...
Gabriel Dumont Institute
D Day Plus 60: Remembering Canada's Second World War [Pdf]
A four page document in PDF format that describes the sacrifices made by Canadian soldiers during the D-Day invasion of World War II and the role the Metis peoples played in the Canadian war effort.
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First Nations Art
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is the only major public gallery that dedicates itself to the acquisition and display of only Canadian Art. Unlike many displays of First Nations Art, here the focus is on contemporary pieces instead...
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Office of the Treaty Commissioner: Historical Biographies
Click on a treaty number to access biographies of important aboriginal figures in treaty negotiations in Canada.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Montagnais Naskapi
Learn about the culture of the Montagnais-Naskapi people. Explore topics such as their history, economy, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Nature's Law
Nature's Law looks at the traditions, culture, governance and spiritual life of the Indigenous People residing in Alberta, such as the Woodland and Plains Cree, Blackfoot and Dene. Videos, quotes and a bibliography all bring this culture...
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Aboriginal Youth Identity Series: Teacher Zone
This website provides educators with an opportunity to learn and teach about Aboriginal Leadership in Canada. The elementary section focuses on identifying Aboriginal role models and heroes such as Bill Reid, Buffy Sainte-Marie, or...
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: How the West Was Young
Alberta's early history is presented for students in this website covering pre-contact native people's history and fur trade exploration. Teachers looking to incorporate audio in organized lesson plans will like this website prepared by...
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Legacy of Hope Foundation: Where Are the Children: Legacy of Residential Schools
A history of aboriginal children who attended residential schools in Canada from 1831 to the 1990s. Traces the implementation of government policies of forced assimilation, outcomes, and impacts. Includes video of residential school...
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Cbc News: A History of Residential Schools
Need a better understanding of residential schools? Through a series of pertinent Q&As, this article provides a clear history and timeline of the schools, the controversy they caused, and the final apology by the Canadian government.
Veterans Affairs Canada
Historically Speaking: The Human Cost of War
This learning module gives students the opportunity to view and listen to hundreds of interviews with people who experienced first hand the Korean and First and Second world wars. This is an excellent teaching resource that helps...
A&E Television
History.com: 10 Things You May Not Know About Sitting Bull
Get the facts about one of the most legendary Native Americans of the 19th century. Sitting Bull was born around 1831 into the Hunkpapa people, a Lakota Sioux tribe that roamed the Great Plains in what is now the Dakotas.
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Drawings: Cups, Spears, Etc. Drawn by Shawnadithit, the Last Beothuk
The treatment of First Nations people deteriorated as more and more explorers arrived in Canada. This fact is highlighted in New Foundland where the Beothuk nation died out in 1929.
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Portrait: Demasduit (Mary March)
The treatment of First Nations people deteriorated as more and more explorers arrived in Canada. This fact is highlighted in New Foundland where the Beothuk nation died out in 1929.
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Trade Summit Protesters Battle in Quebec City 2001
An American left-wing website reports on the protesters in Quebec City in 2001 that accompanied the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) Summit hosted by Prime Minister Jean Chretien. Offers students a glimpse at the wide variety...
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Canadian Native Art
Nokomis, a 70 year old Ojibwa artist tells stories about the Eastern Woodland Indian culture north of Lake Superior and interprets the native legends and myths that provided much of the imagery of Ojibwa artists like Morrisseau.
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Hesquiaht Woman From the Central Nootka Tribe, British Columbia, 1916
View aspects of the history of the aboriginal peoples of Canada through photographs. Culture, ways of life, and struggles can be examined in this database of primary source images (most from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century).
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Photograph of an Aboriginal Man Standing in a Graveyard, Fort Qu
View aspects of the history of the aboriginal peoples of Canada through photographs. Culture, ways of life, and struggles can be examined in this database of primary source images (most from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century).