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Hong Kong Space Museum
Besides an introduction to exhibitions and events at the museum, the site provides a guide to stargazing, an astronomy FAQ, space news, virtual tours (see site map) and research resources (including Chinese-English star and constellation...
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Colonial Williamsburg Museum
This is the Colonial Williamsburg home page. Includes a virtual field calendar educational information, calendar of events, and tourism information.
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History View: King Tut Museum
Take a virtual trip to the King Tut Museum in Genena City, the most important sightseeing in South Sinai.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Admiral Digby Museum: Digby County: A Journey Through Time
Digby, Nova Scotia is a community with a long history of oral tradition. This has played a large part in preserving the community's history as elders' stories, gleaned from interviews, have been preserved for the future. This exhibit...
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Virtual Museum of Labrador: History
Become acquainted with the "rich and diverse history" of the people of Labrador. Over the years there has been a variety of cultures that have inhabited the land including the Inuit, Metis, Europeans, and more. Information is also given...
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Virtual Museum of Labrador: People
Discover the varied and diversified people that make up the population of Labrador. The four separate cultures include the Inuit, the Innu, the Metis, and the Settlers. Learn all about them.
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Virtual Museum of Labrador: Labrador Culture
Learn about the diversity of Labrador culture by gaining an understanding of its traditions, art, crafts, music, and folklore.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Albert County Heritage
This exhibit portrays the history of Albert County, New Brunswick, located on the shores of the Bay of Fundy. Along with First Nations legends, it gives slices of history such as the French expulsion of 1755, the arrival of the...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Botwood Heritage Centre: Botwood: History of an Airport
This small town in Newfoundland has played a major role in Canada's aviation history. View historic footage of early planes and read of their feats.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Facades of Wingham: Past and Present
Wingham, Ontario is writer Alice Munro's home town. This exhibit looks at Josephine Street, Wingham's main street, at places that fed Munro's imagination and thus her stories.
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...
Gabriel Dumont Institute
The Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture
The Gabriel Dumont Institute has pulled together a variety of educational resources surrounding the Metis Peoples. From Bison hunting to the Metis Food and Diet, educators can access both lesson plans and resources to support teaching...
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Food and Diet
Article looks at traditional diet of Metis and the health impact of a shift away from that. Includes discussion questions and Metis recipes to try.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Family Life
Article looks at Metis family life from fur trade days on. Includes discussion questions and a bibliography. The document is sixty-six pages.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Educational Life
Essay looks at the history of Metis education since the fur trade days. Includes discussion questions and a bibliography.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Bison
Article describes the importance of bison to the Metis, bison hunting culture, foods made from bison, and what the loss of the herds meant to the Metis way of life.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Fur Trade Employees, Etc.
This paper looks at the various working roles played by Metis in the nineteenth century - as fur traders, free traders, guides and scouts. It includes discussion questions and a bibliography.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Spiritualism
Metis spiritual beliefs and practices are covered in this paper. Discussion questions and a bibliography are included.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Trappers and Hide Working
The Metis are skilled trappers. Trapping was a mainstay of their livelihoods in the past but this is not the case today. This article on Metis trapping also includes discussion questions and a bibliography.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
The Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Resources
Part of a larger web site, this site lists a series of links to Metis research documents.Useful for anyone collectingbackground data on the Metis of Saskatchewan.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Writers
Metis writers are profiled in this document. Their works of fiction most often addressthe complicated nature of being mixed-heritage, finding acceptance of that fact, and fighting racism.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: The Red River Cart
The Red River Cart, an invention of the Metis, played an important role in the settling of the West by improving transportation of goods. Cart making became an industry for the Metis later on. This article explores the history of the Red...
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: The Sash
This article explains the importance of the sash in Metis culture and its history. There are weaving activities and a bibliography included.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Traditional Metis Housing
The many forms of housing and shelter that the Metis used are presented. Discussion questions and a bibliography can be found at the end of the article.