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Canadian Heritage Gallery
 "...the most extensive collection of historical Canadian on the Internet."
"...by publishing via the Internet an extensive collection of historical photos, original documents, Canadian artwork, maps, and illustrations, fully documented and researched for historical authenticity."

Canadian Museum of Civilization
Includes a well designed Virtual Museum section with a number of fine online exhibits

Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC)
"...celebrates the stories and treasures that have come to define Canada over the centuries. Here you will find innovative multimedia content that educates, inspires and fascinates! ... This groundbreaking gateway is the result of a strong partnership between Canada's vast museum community and the Department of Canadian Heritage. Spearheading the enterprise is the Canadian Heritage Information Network."

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1880's Newfoundland: A Pictorial
"This album of photographs appears to be the work of Simeon H. Parsons (1844-1908), one of Newfoundland's earliest professional, self-taught and award-winning photographers."

Arctic Dawn: The Journeys of Samuel Hearne
"...a fifty-thousand word document comprising 127 text files, 55 pictures (including one animation), and 5 sound files interconnected by more than one thousand hyperlinks."

Building Canada
A Selection of Images from the John Bland Collection of Canadian Architecture
Includes a brief history of architecture in Canada

Canada War and Military
"Offers a selection of Library and Archives Canada resources on the topic of war and military."

Canadian Social Progress
"The site traces the history of social and democratic development in Canada over the last two centuries. Currently, the site has two components. The first focuses on the history of Canadian labour, providing two different but corresponding paths for visitors to follow: the historical, scholarly history of the labour movement, as well as a shorter, more audio-visual account of labour's progress through the eyes of Canadian citizens. The second component traces the evolution of Canada's electoral system. Additional histories will be added in the near future."
The Canadian Museum of Civilization

Canadian War Museum

  • Canvas of War
    Masterpieces from the Canadian War Museum (1914-1918 ; 1939-1945)

Canadian War Poster Collection
"This website contains basic descriptions and images of each poster, an artist index, and an essay about Canadian War Posters."
Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Libraries

CanPix Gallery
CanPix is an image base of over 3,500 pictures and audiovisual resources for Canadian Studies

Early Canadiana Online
"When the project is completed in 1999, the ECO collection will include over 650,000 page images representing approximately 3,500 volumes of Canadian primary source materials."
Description of the project and progress reports

Exploring Saskatchewan History through the Decades
 Story of the Missouri Coteau Region
Sections include: Geological History of the Area ; Aboriginal History of the Area ; The Trader's Trail & Railway ; Homesteading on the Prairies ; The Saloon ; Villages in the Area ; Kids & Games.
Canada's Digital Collections

First Among Equals
The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics
National Library of Canada and National Archives of Canada
Sections include: Alone at the Top ; The Path to Power ; Leading Canada ; Private Life ; Afterwards ; Profiles ; Speaches.

Ghosts of the North West Coast
"This site is designed to piquÈ the viewers interest in our British Columbia heritage...The objective in this site is to use the original music supplied by Bruce, coupled with bright, eye-catching and sometimes humorous graphics and text, as the focal point of each 'chapter' or topic of interest, thereby engaging the viewer with more than one level of experience."
"Chapters" include: Steamboatin' Jamiesons ; Ned McGowan's War ; Ghosts of Read Island ; Voyageurs ; John Antle ; Auld Lang Syne ; Spanish Banks ; Richard Moody.
BC Heritage Websites Program

The Glenn Gould Archive
"This site was developed by the National Library of Canada which is the official repository of the archives of the late concert pianist, Glenn Gould. A supremely gifted artist and Canada's most renowned classical musician of the 20th century, Gould was a recording artist, radio and television broadcaster and producer, writer and an outspoken apologist for the electronic media. Visitors to this site will find a virtual exhibition drawn from his archival papers, a look at the National Library's audio archival tapes available using RealAudio, two searchable databases of the National Library's Glenn Gould Papers, research aids such as two chronologies, a Gould bibliography, lists of films, videos and radio broadcasts made by and about Gould, selections of writings by Gould and writings about Gould, works of art and of poetry inspired by him, and links to other related internet sites."

Hudson's Bay Company Digital Collection

Impressions: 250 Years of Printing in the Lives of Canadians
 "The exhibition, which features more than 200 items drawn entirely from the Library's extensive collection, shows how books reach into every corner of our lives. The books and broadsides on display -- many with annotations -- give evidence of frequent use by their previous owners. These often-handled texts are the printed items that have played a role in Canadian life for 250 years. Magazines and newspapers, a 200-year-old lottery ticket, and advertising broadsides are also on display."
National Library of Canada

Inuit and Englishmen
The Nunavut Voyages of Martin Frobisher
"...the outcome of a ten-year, multidisciplinary research project by scholars from North America and Europe, into the Elizabethan explorer's three Arctic expeditions. Their work has led to a reconsideration of this episode in history, long dismissed as a failure and dead-end, yet significant as the initiation of the search for a Northwest Passage, the first attempt to establish an English colony in the New World (prompted by the prospect of exploiting its mineral resources), and a stage in the development of English navigational expertise which itself was a foundation for British imperialism. The web module retells the story of the voyages and summarizes the new findings and new perspectives."
Online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization

The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic
From Ancient Times to 1902

Last Best West: Advertising for Immigrants to Western Canada, 1870-1930
"Explores the advertising strategies, advertising media, and imagery used to promote immigration to western Canada from Britain and the United States (1870-1930), and from Europe (1870-1914). The Last Best West was a land of blue skies, golden wheat, red-and-gold maple leaves and farmers who sometimes dressed like cowboys."
Online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Living Landscapes
"Created by the Royal British Columbia Museum as a regional outreach program involving intensive cooperation with other museums, First Nations, educators, naturalists, and other agencies. Our goal is to encourage and facilitate the exploration and appreciation of the human and natural history of British Columbia from regional perspectives. "



MusÈe Virtuel de la Nouvelle-France
Virtual Museum of the New France
Online Exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization

National Library of Canada

  • Oscar Peterson: A Jazz Sensation
     A wonderful multimedia exhibit including an audio tour, photo gallery, selections, articles, history, biography and much more.

Newfoundland and the Great War
 "Based on glass plate images located in and provided by the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador in St. Johnís, supplemented with images from elsewhere, this site provides an introduction to what was experienced by the people of Newfoundland and Labrador during the Great War. The main sections deal with the home front, Newfoundlandís participation in the war, and the commemoration of the war after 1918."

[Ontario] Archives of Ontario

  • The Archives of Ontario Remembers the Home Front
    "We are remembering the contribution of Ontario, its citizens and all Canadian soldiers on that day by exploring how the Home Front supported the war effort through the recruitment and training of soldiers, the production of arms and raising the financial resources needed to pay for it all."
    Sections include: Joining Up ; Fund Raising and Volunteerism ; Military Training in Ontario ; Wartime Production ; Sources and Additional Information.

Pride and Dignity- Aboriginal Portraits (Excerpts from the Exhibition)
Online exhibit from the National Archives of Canada

Provincial Museum of Alberta

  • The Poster War Virtual Exhibit
    "The Poster War exhibit contains forty-six posters selected from the collection of the late Theodore Elizabeth Wright Macgillivray. These posters represent some of the work of Allied poster artists and the best work of their Canadian counterparts during the First World War...Particularly noteworthy is the evolution in the portrayal of women in the sections of the exhibit"
    By Maurice F.V. Doll

Rallye patrimonial de Lanaudiere
"Venez dÈcouvrir les trÈsors cachÈs de la rÈgion de LanaudiËre! Ce site vous fera dÈcouvrir 30 monuments historiques ‡ travers un voyage dans le temps."
From Canada's Digital Collections

Stones Unturned
"This exhibition presents a small selection of artifacts, representative of three subject areas: clothing; musical instruments; toys and games."
Online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Storytelling
The Art of Knowledge
This exhibition illuminates the diversity of, and importance of sharing, narratives in six Native communities: Algonquin, Inuit, Mi'kmaq, MÈtis-Cree, Nisga'a and Abenaki
Online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Threads of the Land
Clothing Traditions from Three Indigenous Cultures
"This exhibition examines the ways in which the clothing of three Canadian Native peoples (Dene, Copper and Caribou Inuit, and Nlaka'pamux) identifies individuals and their cultures."
Online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization

To the Totem Forests: Emily Carr and Contemporaries Interpret Coastal Villages
"...is the first exhibit in which the voice of First Nations people is used to describe drawings, paintings and prints which were created by Emily Carr, Walter Phillips, A.Y. Jackson, George Pepper, Langdon Kihn and F.M. Bell-Smith. This voice, through first-person testimony and anthropological records provides context for the artworks and corrects some misinterpretations unwittingly introduced by the artists...Further, the exhibit incorporates historical photographs, taken before and during the years these artists painted, which provide new insights into the depiction of Northwest Coast monumental sculpture during the first three decades of the 20th century."

University of Toronto Libraries Digital Collections

  • The Barren Lands
    J.B. Tyrrell's Expeditions for the Geological Survey of Canada, 1892-1894
    "This site documents two exploratory surveys of the Barren Lands region west of Hudson Bay, in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the area now known as Nunavut. Drawing on materials from the J.B. Tyrrell, James Tyrrell and related collections at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, it includes over 5,000 images from original field notebooks, correspondence, photographs, maps and published reports."

Vancouver Museum

Victoria, British Columbia, 1889
Online Exhibit from the BC Archives

Victory Bonding- Wartime Messages from Canada's Government, 1939-1945
Online exhibit from the National Archives of Canada

Victoria College Student life, 1903-1963
University of Victoria

Wave Eaters
Native Watercraft in Canada
Online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Where Sea and Land Meet
Historical Northwest Coast Native settings in the art of Gordon Miller and Bill Holm
Online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization





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