Maritime Museum (Vancouver)

Learn about the cost of maintaining a maritime empire in America by considering the wreck of the British sloop Industry, which sank off the coast of Saint Augustine in 1764. The loss of the ship along with her cargo demonstrates that...

Think Math offers a collection of 43 KET-produced resources from Math at the Core: Middle School, including 17 Scale City videos and interactives about proportional reasoning, 14 Wild Fractions animations and games that feature visual...

An experiment to investigate how bacteria causes oil to degrade over time, a process that helps the ocean slowly recover from an oil spill.

Information about John Cabot and Sebastian Cabot provided in a question-and-answer format.

A look at whaling in history worldwide, and specifically, whaling in the American "Golden Age" of whaling.

Find five lesson plans, about the Titanic, the Empress of Ireland, and the Lusitania, developed by the producers of the PBS documentary "Lost Liners" to complement the film and its companion website. This collection of classroom...

A map from 1912 of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, including New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. The map shows the provincial capitals of Fredericton (New Brunswick), Halifax (Nova Scotia), and Charlottetown (Prince...

A map from 1909 of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, including New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. The map shows the provincial capitals of Fredericton (New Brunswick), Halifax (Nova Scotia), and Charlottetown (Prince...

Description and pictures of what was found on the shipwreck, the Henrietta Marie. This ship contained many important objects from the early years of the slave trade.

View the Smithsonian's collection of patent models that demonstrate marine inventions from the 1770s to the 1950s that attempted to change and improve the challenges Americans encountered working and traveling on the water.

Maritime Garter Snake

Conventions, treaties, and official papers, organized by title, country and year. The site also includes sections on memorials and reminiscences, a biographical dictionary, an image archive, the maritime war, the medical front, as well...

African-Canadian music encompasses the West Indies, Africa, the United States, South American and the Maritimes. This excellent reference resource provides information about the many kinds of music and the talented individuals who make it.

As part of a series, this resource profiles the Bluenose schooner. She sailed in Maritime competitive races and now has a replica in Halifax harbour. Learn about the Bluenose's history and her competitive spirit. Includes a brief video...

This site is particularly interesting as it focuses on the artifacts taken from the site of the sinking of the Titanic that are now located in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The Smithsonian's maritime collections contain many objects relating to the steamship Leviathan, the largest American passenger ship of the 1920s and 1930s. View these mementos originally preserved by passengers and crew to remember...

Who maintains our maritime infrastructure? Step back to the 1920s and meet some of the men and boats of the U.S. Lighthouse Service while learning about the hundreds of aids to navigation in New York Harbor.

A history of the United States Navy, from pre-Revolutionary times through the nineteenth century. Learn about the maritime commerce, wartime influence, and Congressional actions relating to the development of the Navy.

Enter the world of the sea and find out how women have played an active role in maritime affairs throughout history. Read about everything from mythical mermaids to real women in the navy.

Scroll through to find information about canals in the United States and Canada during their development, particularly how it reduced transport time of products.

Scheepvaartmuseum (Maritime Museum) (Amsterdam)

This Oklahoma Climatological Survey explores how air masses form, as well as the weather formations, which tend to appear on the edges of these masses in what is known as a front.

This resource is a gateway to digital collections dealing with merchant marines and shipping during the 19th century.