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Chronicles of Canada
Chronicles of Canada: Volume 01, Chronicles of Canada: Volume 02, Chronicles of Canada: Volume 03, Chronicles of Canada: Volume 04, Chronicles of Canada: Volume 05, Chronicles of Canada: Volume 06, Chronicles of Canada: Volume 07, Chronicles of Canada: Volume 10
Communications
Canadian Railway Telegraph History, Gordon Sinclair (1900-1984), History of Canadian Broadcasting, Lorne Greene, Memory Lane, Transatlantic Cable Communications, Winged Messenger: Airmail in the Heroic Era
Culture
Becoming Canadian: Pioneer Sikhs in their own Word, Canada Ulster Heritage, Canada's Flag: a Search for a Country, Canadian History: a Distinct Viewpoint, CBC: Canada, A People's History, Culture and Foreign Policy, Expo 67 : A Virtual Experience, First Peoples of Canada, Heroes of Lore and Yore: Canadian Heroes in Fact a, Historians Recount
Government
Prime Ministers, Canadian Confederation, Constitutional Evolution, History of the Vote in Canada, The History of Canada's Public Pensions
Guides and Directories
History Net Links: Canada Online, Well Known People Who Happen to be Canadian
Labour
Canadian Labour History: 1850-1999, Labour History on the Web Index, Lost and Found Sound: The On to Ottawa Trek, On to Ottawa Historical Society, World History Archives: The working-class history
Personages and Biography
Bouchard, Lucien, Douglas, Tommy, L+®vesque, Ren+®, M. J. Coldwell, Manning, Preston, Parizeau, Jacques, Woodsworth, James S., Canada Heirloom Series, Canadians of Christian faith, Charles Templeton (1915-2001), David Thompson Things, Etienne Brule, James Shaver Woodsworth - Canadian Heritage Galler, Joseph Whiteside Boyle, Louis Riel, Memorable Canadians, Northern Stars - Norman McLaren
Police and Military
86th Machine Gun Battalion, Books of Remembrance, Brief History of Militia of Upper Canada, Canada and Submarine Warfare, 1909-1950, Canada and the First World War, Canada and the Great War 1914 to 1918, Canada at War, Canada in Khaki, Canada's Military Heritage, Canadian Military History Gateway
Political
75th Anniversary of the Communist Party in Canada, Charles Templeton - An Anecdotal Memoir, Historic Moments in Canadian Politics / A Photo Ga, Socialist History Project
Resources
19th Century Lower St. Lawrence Maritime History, Another Brick in the Wall, ArchiviaNet, Art 2 life: the Canadian Century, Canada History, Canada in the Making, Canada's National History Society, Canada, Confederation to Present, Canadian Archival Information Network: Virtual Exh, Canadian Heritage Information Network
Science
Banting Digital Library, Canada's History in Space, Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame, Great Canadian Scientists, People and Discoveries: Banting and Best Isolate I, Roberta Bondar, Astronaut, Terry's Journey: Marathon of Hope
This Day in History
CNEWS: Today In History, This Week in History - Parks Canada, Today in Canadian History, Today in History, Today's Canadian Headline
Winnipeg General Strike
Civilization.ca - Winnipeg general strike, NA Living Memory - Winnipeg General Strike, On Strike: The Winnipeg General Strike, 1919, Winnipeg fights the One Big Union, Winnipeg General Strike, Winnipeg General Strike, Winnipeg General Strike - Canadian Heritage Galler, Winnipeg General Strike 1919, Winnipeg General Strike 1919, Winnipeg General Strike.
Canada - A Collector's Passion: The Peter Win
An exhibition of the Peter Winkworth Collection, a nationally significant, rare, and valuable art collection that documents more than four centuries of Canadian history.
Canadian Confederation
Tells how Canada came to be, from the original four provinces in 1867 to the present. Historical essays showcase documents, articles and photographs.
Canadian Geographical Names.
Interactive and authoritative source of data with over 350,000 official and formerly official geographical names available in both English and French.
Canadian Heritage Gallery
Collection of photographs, documents, illustrations, and maps highlighting Canadian history.
Canadian History Portal
A guide to materials on Canadian history in digital format. Content is supervised by an expert editorial board.
CBC Archives
Hundreds of radio and television clips from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
CultureCanada.gc.ca - Historic Sites
Government of Canada's bilingual directory of links on historic sites in Canada.
Emigration and Bush Life
The conditions and challenges of emigrants' lives in 19th-century Canada as reflected in the lives and writings of Catharine Parr Traill(1802-99) and Susanna Moodie (1803-85).
Exploration, the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay C
All about the fur trade in Canada, and how it led to the exploration of Canada, as well as the formation of the oldest and largest company in Canadian history: Hudson's Bay Company.
Fenians and Canada in 1860s
Describes Fenian plans in the 1860s to attain control of what is now Canada and hold it in ransom for the freedom of Ireland.
Ghost Towns
Provides a collection of photographs, stories and maps documenting ghost towns in a number of provinces.
Historic Hudson's Bay Company
Presents stories, information and photographs about the Hudson's Bay Company and Canada's early history.
Historical Atlas of Canada Online Learning Project
Maps, graphs and text based on print volumes and redesigned for online, interactive viewing. Includes downloadable data in tabular form as well as printable map images.
History of Royal Bank of Canada
Follow the story of how Royal Bank grew from a small Halifax bank into a national financial institution, from 1864 to the present.
History of the British American Oil Company.
Traces history and development of this firm from creation in Toronto up to its takeover by Gulf Canada in 1969.
History of the Northwest Coast
Significant events and history of the people of the northwest Canada from 1774 to present day. Includes journal entries from Captain Cook, fur traders, Indian prophets, and ethnographers.
Important Moments In Canadian History
From prehistory to present. Brief descriptions of the important events in Canadian history.
In Pursuit of Adventure: Fur Trade in Canada and
A scholarly site illustrates and documents heroic age of fur trade. Examines exploits of the North West Company and other Montreal-based fur trading companies. Includes full texts of manuscripts known as the Masson Papers from 1790 -1820.
Memories of Ladder Valley
Story of the pioneer homesteaders of Ladder Valley in Saskatchewan, Canada. Contains autobiographies, photos and links for further reading.
National Historic Sites of Canada
An alphabetical list of national historic sites in Canada. Offers links to these sites as well.
New France New Horizons
Marking the 400th anniversary of the French presence in North America in 2004, France and Canada have created this portal to a virtual exhibition and a database containing more than one million images.
Origins of the name, Canada
A passage from the Canadian Encyclopedia describes the origins of the name, "Canada".
Our Roots: Canadian Digital Local Histories
An online library, archive, museum and school all in one providing Canadian local histories and educational resources.
Pathfinders and Passageways
Details about the discovery and exploration of Canada with emphasis on explorers and mapmakers.
Quebecers, Catholic Clergy, Manitoba School Questi
Extensive documentation of Manitoba school legislation of 1890, which was regarded as anti-Catholic, and involvement of Quebecers in the controversy. Bilingual site.
Roughing It In The Bush
Book and poems of pioneer life by Susanna Moodie.
Territorial Evolution of Canada
Provides maps that depict the evolution of the nation's international, provincial and territorial boundaries from 1783 through 1905.
The 1837 Rebellions
Information about the 1837 Mackenzie-Papineau rebellions that rocked Upper and Lower Canada. Site includes chronology, biographies of the leaders, background, reactions, aftermath and other information.
The Anti-Slavery Movement in Canada
Online exhibit from the National Archives of Canada.
The Barren Lands Digital Collection
Photographs, maps, and documents from two exploratory surveys conducted by J.B. Tyrrell of the region west of Hudson Bay.
The Canadian West
The National Archives of Canada presents this virtual exhibition. A gateway to the large-scale digitization of selected holdings. Topics include the fur trade, scientific expeditions, aboriginal claims and urbanization.
The Famous Five
Online National Archives exhibit on the 1927-1929 "Persons Case" in which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council declared women to be "persons".
The Nunavut voyages of Martin Frobisher
Frobisher's expeditions to Nunavut in Arctic Canada are described as well as the search for a Northwest Passage to Asia, the first mining venture in Canada, and the earliest attempt by the English to establish a colony in the New World.
This Week in History
Weekly presentation on aspects of Canadian history related to commemorations by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada and National Parks.