The
Canadian Encyclopedia site offers a wealth of information about Canada,
as well as a historical timeline of events and an “On this day in
Canadian history” feature.
Canada in the
Making Project integrates narrative text with links to primary source
texts, images, and maps to teach the reader about Canada’s constitutional
history, from the time before European contact to the present.
Heirloom
Series. This ambitious five-volume work traces parts of the history
of Canada by focusing on its people.
The
History of Canada. This overview of Canadian history provides brief
summaries of the major historical periods and events.
Canadian
History Timeline, by Christine Hastie, offers a chronology of important
events in Canadian history, with external links about each topic.
Historical
Statistics of Canada. This site features over a thousand statistical
tables and summaries on the social, economic, and institutional conditions
of Canada from 1867 to the mid-1970s. Among the topics covered are population,
health, labour, transportation, trade, education, politics, and justice.
Key
Economic Events is a timeline of the major economic events in Canada’s
history.
Canadian
Confederation. This site, maintained by the National Library, offers
in-depth information about the makings of the Canadian Confederation,
including descriptions of events, biographies, maps, images, and documents.
The Prime Ministers
of Canada. This site contains quick facts about, biographies and portraits
of, and anecdotes related to all of Canada’s prime ministers.
First
Nations Compact Histories. This superb site offers detailed histories
of almost 50 First Nations.
Women in
Canadian History. This page offers brief biographies of over 40 important
Canadian women.
Provinces
and Territories: The Origins of Their Names, from Natural Resources
Canada, provides a brief look at the origins of the name of each province
and territory, as well as Canada itself.
Canada’s
Geographical Names. This website contains all you have ever wanted
to know about geographical names in Canada, and it can be searched by
name or by geographical coordinates.
Great Canadian
Rivers is a site dedicated to educating users about the history, ecosystems,
culture, recreation, and economy of Canadian waterways. Select a river
and click on “History” to explore a given river’s past.
National Film Board of Canada
site includes an annotated catalogue of films available through NFB.
Explore North.
Go to the History section for a listing of websites dealing with the history
of the North.
Quebec
History site offers documents, statistics, maps, biographies, and
summaries of events in Quebec history.
Canadian
Genealogy and History page is an extensive list (organized by province)
of resources aimed to help in genealogy research.
The
Canadian Historical Review, published quarterly by the University
of Toronto Press.
Journal
of the Canadian Historical Association. The site includes abstracts
of articles published in past issues.
Labour/Le Travail,
a journal devoted to Canadian labour studies.
Canadian Ethnic
Studies Journal, from the University of Calgary.
Canadian
Journal of Native Studies, published by the Canadian Indian/Native
Association.
International
Journal of Maritime History, published semi-annually.
Saskatchewan
History Magazine, from Saskatchewan Archives Board.
Manitoba
History Journal, published by the Manitoba Historical Society.
Canadian Journal
of History. This journal publishes “articles, historiographical
articles, review articles, and reviews concerning all countries and periods
of history—excepting the history of Canada, which we leave to other
Canadian journals.”
