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Canada's Digital Collections
"...showcases over 400 Web sites celebrating Canada's history, geography, science, technology and culture. These fascinating Web sites range from treasures of federal institutions, such as the National Library, the National Archives and the Museum of Civilization, to the local histories and way of life of Canadian communities. Canada's Digital Collections also features a growing set of on-line educational resources, such as curriculum units, classroom activities, quizzes and games. One of the largest sources of Canadian material on the Internet..."

Canadian Heritage

• Canadian Heritage Information Network
  "...the information gateway to museums, galleries, and heritage in Canada and around the world."
  Includes a nice collection of Virtual Exhibitions
  Department of Canadian Heritage
  • Artefacts Canada
    "...previously known as the National Inventories, provides access to information on millions of museum objects, natural history specimens and archaeological sites. These records, contributed by museums and heritage organizations across Canada, have been assembled into three groups [ Humanities, Natural Sciences, Archeological Sites]."

Images Canada
"...provides central search access to the over 65,000 images held on the websites of participating Canadian cultural institutions. Through Images Canada, you can find images of the Canadian events, people, places and things that collectively are our heritage."

Virtual Museum of Canada

• Panoramas
  The North American Landscape in Art
  "Artists in Mexico, the United States, and Canada have long depicted this powerful attachment to place. The landscape art in this exhibition reflects the natural environment but also our history, our industries, our cultures and our belief systems. Consequently, it suggests the common human condition present in even the most diverse of landscapes."
• Perspectives: Women Artists in North America
  "...celebrates the important contributions of women in the arts from Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America. The Web exhibit features historical, modern, and contemporary art."

Museums in Canada - (dead link)

Canadian Museums Association

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Agriculture Museum - (dead link)

Art Gallery of Ontario

Canadian Archival Resources on the Internet
"The purpose of this site is to provide a comprehensive list of links to Canadian archives and associated resources on the Internet. These include links to individual repositories, multi-repository databases, archival listservs, archival associations, educational opportunities, and other related sites. Links are generally limited to archival repositories, but museums and library special collections departments have been included when they contain reference to non-published materials."
Maintained by Cheryl Avery, University of Saskatchewan Archives and Steve Billinton, Archives of Ontario

Canadian Heritage Information Network
"...the information gateway to museums, galleries, and heritage in Canada and around the world."
Includes a nice collection of Virtual Exhibitions
Department of Canadian Heritage

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

Canadian Museum of Nature

• Natural History Notebooks
  "...you'll find lots of fascinating facts about 246 animal species. You'll also learn about the amazing diversity of life on earth (both past and present), and why it's important to protect that diversity...The text was originally published in our Natural History Notebook series (1977-81)."

Canadian War Museum

Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature

McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

MusÈe d'art contemporain de MontrÈal - (dead link)

Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City

MusÈe HÈritage Museum and Archives - (dead link)

MusÈe McCord Museum
"Collection of Canadian material culture, emphasis on Montreal. Major collections include Costume & Textile, Paintings Prints and Drawings, Ethnology, Archives, Notman Photographic Archives."

National Aviation Museum

National Gallery of Canada / MusÈe des beaux-arts du Canada

National Museum of Science and Technology

The Newfoundland Museum

Royal Ontario Museum

Royal Tyrrell Museum - Alberta, 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

Royal British Columbia Museum

Royal Ontario Museum

SociÈtÈ des musÈes quÈbÈcois

University of British Columbia - Museum of Anthropology

University of British Columbia - Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology - (dead link)

Maintained by Mike Madin.
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