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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. 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. 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. Important Moments In Canadian History From prehistory to present. Brief descriptions of the important events in Canadian history. 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. Roughing It In The Bush Book and poems of pioneer life by Susanna Moodie. Quebecers, Catholic Clergy, Manitoba School Question, 1890-1916 Extensive documentation of Manitoba school legislation of 1890, which was regarded as anti-Catholic, and involvement of Quebecers in the controversy. Bilingual site. Exploration, the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company 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. Historic Hudson's Bay Company Presents stories, information and photographs about the Hudson's Bay Company and Canada's early history. 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. |
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