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Canada's Digital Collections - pictures, photos & documents

• BBC Modern World History
• Hyper History Online - history of everything
• Cultures - history of cultures and world tour
• Emancipation of Women
• International organizations
• Stalin
• Great Britain National Curriculum in History
• Heritage Map Museum
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook
• History Central
• The History Place
• The Avalon Project - primary historical documents

Ancient History

• Maps
• Ancient Worlds Civilization 
• Arch[eology] Net
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Egypt from UK
• Architecture through the Ages
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• Children and Television Violence
• The Impact of Violence on Television
• Study shows preponderance of violence on television
• Impact of Television on Society in "Does TV Kill?" 
• Television, Violence, and Children
• Media Awareness http://www.media-awareness.ca/
• And particularly  and especially resources to other sites
• An American pro-choice site
• From Child Health Monthly 
• Child, Youth and Family Clearinghouse list of resources 
• Young Media Organisation 
• People Against Violence in Media
• The other point of view 
• Media Aware from British Columbia
• What Makes Kids Kill 
• Electronic Frontiers Canada
• Youth violence in general 

• Is the violent athlete a myth or reality?
• Sports Parents: Dealing with Anger 
• Sports and Violence 
• Violence in Sports 
• When will it be Enough 
• Prevention of Violence in Youth Sports
• Sports violence inappropriate
• Hockey Violence:
  • Safe Hockey
  • CBC News
  • NHL

• U.S. Coverage 
• Strategies to Reduce School Violence
• Checklist of Characteristics
• School Violence
• A closer Look at School Violence
• Stopping School Violence
• Keep Schools Safe
• Preventing Violence in Schools

• Islam & Islamic History
• Be convinced.com
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encarta Encyclopedia
• Architecture of Islam
• Islam 
• Genghis Khan
• The Land of Genghis Khan from National Geographic
• Byzantine Empire
• Persia art & history
• Persian art

Islam - en francais

• Webencyclopedia
• Islam - Allahou Akbar
• Islam
• Islam France
• Le page de l'Islam

• Geocities page 
• JFK page 
• From the Whitehouse 
• mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
• History Channel
• Grolier Online 

• MLK at web66
• Stanford University 
• Nobel Site 
• www.parascope.com/mx/luther1.htm
• A personal remembrance

• Holocaust Museum
• Cybrary of the Holocaust
• Anne Frank
• Holocaust
• The Nizkor Project
• California State University
• Voices of the Holocaust - actual audio recordings of survivors' stories

• DND - everything you could ever want to know about military history in either language
• World War I
• Art of WW1
• Poetry of the First WW
• The Great War
• The Canadian Great War Homepage
• Artillery:  IOL.net and Cedarville.edu
• World War II Propaganda posters
• Teacher's guide to the Holocaust
• H2gm 
• La Grande Guerre - WW1 
• chronique de la guerre et de la vie des         Français sous l'Occupation 
• Anciens Combattants Canada 
• Patrimoine militaire du Canada 
• Histoire - 1ere Guerre Mondiale
• Patrimoine militaire du Canada 
• WW1 from Britain's Schoolnet - huge site

World War II

• Timeline of WWII
• The World at War from Europe
• Primary Documents of WWII
• WWII Posters
• WWII from study Web
• Veterans' Affairs  - go to history/histoire
• Collections Canada 
• Lest We Forget - Air Aces 
• Canadian Military Heritage 
• Canadian Prime Ministers
• Canadian War Artists from National Archives
• Artistes de guerre 
• Queen's Own Rifles
• European Theatre
• America and the War
• Battle of Britain
• Histoire de la 2e Guerre Mondiale 
• Histoire - 2eme Guerre Mondiale 
• Interactive guide to WWII from Think Quest students
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• A Bomb site
• Atomic Bomb Decision Documents
• The Enola Gay home page - from the man who dropped the bomb
• Hiroshima Gallery
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• Korean War in Canadian History
• Guerre de Corée

• Canadiana - mega links to Cdn info
• Curricular Resources in Canadian History
• Researching Canadian History
• Canadian History on the Web - an amazing list
• Canada's History
• Primary Documents in Canadian History
• The Prime Ministers - lessons, worksheets, etc
• Governors General - National Library of Canada
• Parliament of Canada
• Government at a Glance - summaries of government; biographies
• How Canadians Govern Themselves - the book; includes information about the role of the Monarch
• The Monarchist League of Canada - pro Monarchy
• The Official Royal Family Site
• Canada in the World - a great site from Foreign Affairs; includes Canada and the UN, Cdn sports, etc.
• Canadian Military History Themes
• Famous Canadians
• Canadian First Nations History
• Canadian Immigration
• The Hierloom Series
• Early Canadiana online
• A course on Cdn history
• Historical Atlas of Canada
• Canadian Documents & Images from Nelson Canada
• 100 Years of Cdn History timeline
• Evolution of Canadian Territories
• The Great Canadian History Page [Bob Vavra]
• Labour History in Canada
• Labour History from the Museum of Civilization
• Museum of Civilization site map - incredible!

• Legends Ojibway Dream Catcher 
• Legends Lakota Dream Catcher
• Legend of the Iroquois 
• How Indian Corn Came Into the World 
• How Saynday Got The Sun 
• Blackfeet Tales
• Native American Myths, Legends and Stories 
• Legends and Myths
• The Raccoon and the Blind Men 
• How the Young Hunter Caught the Sun
• Native American Tales

• The 1920's Experience
• The Herbert Hoover Library and Museum: the Roaring Twenties
• Roaring Twenties Fact Sheet [dull, but factual!]
• The 1920's - one of the best sites
• The Jazz Age in Music and Films
• The Twenties Reconstruction Site
• For teachers:  the 1920's An Integrated Lesson
• 20th century decades - amazing
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• Hubert Hoover Library and Museum: the Thirties
• The March to Ottawa
• Internet History of the Depression
• The Great Depression
• The Great Depression in world and Canadian history - made by students and great!
• 20th century decades - amazing

• Fifties web
• Fabulous Fifties 
• American Cultural History - good site, great time line
• Roadside architecture of the 50s
• History of the CBC
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• Economics America
• Global Macroeconomic and Global Policy Site 
  

Economic e-texts

• University of McMaster e-texts
• Internet Public Library e-texts
• Digital Library @ University of Pennsylvania
• Oxford Text Archive
• List of e-text links

• Access to Justice Network  - See especially Legislative Materials - text of Criminal Code, Charter, laws, statutes...
• The Law Connection
  • See especially their Resources
• Canadian Law Resources on the Internet - Legal Links and their home page
• The Law Room at Schoolnet - Canadian
• Supreme Court of Canada
• Department of Justice - Federal
  • Laws including Criminal Code
  • Charter of Rights & Freedoms
  • Site Map
  • Links - excellent!
  • Law Reform Commission [see organized crime]
• Statistics Canada - Crime & Justice statistics
• Correctional Services Canada
• Attorney General - Ontario
• Internet Law Resources  - mainly American
• Charter of Rights & Freedoms in Canada
• Avalon Project at Yale - Documents in Law, History & Diplomacy

• National Library of Canada
• Women in Canada's History
• The Vote in Canada - from the Museum of Civilization

• The Prime Ministers - lessons, worksheets
• Canadian Prime Ministers from Gov't Collections
• Women in Canada's History
• Women in Canadian History U of Sask
• Famous Canadians
• Canadian War Artists from National Archives
• Canadians- links to hundreds of lists - Best list
• Canadian Portraits from Collections Canada
• The Canadian Who's Who - very brief biographies of almost everybody
• Canadian Heroes
• Canadian Heirloom Series
• Canadian Air Aces
• Banting & Best
• Canadian Scientists
• Great Canadian Scientists
• Canadians in the World
• Dionne Quintuplets from the North Bay site
• Famous Canadian People - educator's choice
• Group of Seven
• Governors General - National Library of Canada
• Governors General of Canada Official Site

Canadian Inventors

• Canadian Theme Page on inventors
• Canadian Inventors - Newfoundland page
• from Clever.net
• Canadian Innovation Centre
• Carleton info on inventors
• Canadian inventions
• Inventing in Canada
• Canadians in the World
• Inventions not necessarily Canadian

• Canadian Parliamentary Channel
• Charter of Rights & Freedoms in Canada
• History of African Canadians
• Holocaust Museum
• Indigenous Education Network (OISE/UT) – links to other important sites 
• Links to Canadian Newspapers
• National Archives of Canada
• National Library of Canada
• NATO Home page
• Stats Canada
• United Nations Home page
• Women in Canadian History
• Citizenship in Canada - Issues
• Civilization Canada - links to the War Museum, Museum of Civilization...

• E-conflict
• CIA World Factbook
• Your Nation - online comparisons among countries
• Country Web sites
• Country Watch
• US State Department

• Access to Justice
• Pericles' Funeral Oration
• Magna Carta
• John Locke- "Concerning Civil Government"
• American Constitution, Bill of Rights
• American Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment
• New Zealand Electoral Law of 1893 
• Mahatma Ghandi
• United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Maastricht Treaty
• 5th century Athens
• Iroquois Confederacy
• Libya - the Libyan Constitution
• The American State Department's Report on Libyan Human Rights Practices for 1996
• Switzerland - the homepage of the Swiss Parliament
• Ontario Schools - the School Council Handbook
• Ontario Human Rights' Commission

Democracy in Canada

• Canadian Politics on the Web
• United Nations Association in Canada
• Simon Fraser University, Canadian Government Internet Links
• Canadiana, The Canadian Resource Page
• Online Resource Guide to Political Inquiry at Concordia University
• Politics in Canada
• Canadian Political Science Association; Electronic Resources
• The Civnet site
• Foundation For Education For Democracy
• the Constitution Act, 1867 at the National Library of Canada

• Government of Canada - main site
• Parliament of Canada
• Legislative Assemblies
• A diagram of the Federal Government
• The information needed to create a diagram of the Ontario Provincial Government
• A diagram of the government of the City of Toronto is available at
• CBC News Online site on the Internet offers information (and often photographs) on political figures that have been in the media during the past year.
• The Federal Department of Justice
• overview of the Canadian justice system
• Canada's School Net page entitled "Welcome to the Law Room"

• political party web sites
• Elections Canada - Selected excerpts
• Liberal Party
• Alliance Party
• Progressive Conservative Party
• New Democratic Party
• Bloc Quebecois

• Charlottetown Accord at Intergovernmental Affairs
• Aboriginal Self Government
• Turtle Island on the Net
• The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Issues and Self Government - Selected excerpts
• Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

Human Rights [see Holocaust above]

• Heritage Canada
• Government of New Brunswick
• United Nations
• Ontario Human Rights' Commission
• Supreme Court of Canada Charter decisions
• The Canadian Civil Liberties Association
• Ontario Human Rights' Commission index 
• Charter of Rights and Freedom
• Charter issues at Access Justice
• The Alberta Law Foundation
• Human Rights Watch
• Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
• A plain language version of the Declaration of Human Rights
• Insult and Injury - Hate Crime in Cyberspace 

• The United Way
• List of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including Canadian sites
• UN NGOs

• Colin Bennett at the University of Victoria, BC
• The Media Awareness Network
• Canada's School Net