history
Assignments & Supporting Material:
Map Blanks (To use with assignments):
Wikipedia's Blank Maps Page. Scroll down to find what you need.
Online Map Generator from Planiglobe.
National Geographic's Xpeditions Atlas
World Atlas.com. A selection of decent maps.
Maps from NATO - Good European and Atlantic Blanks.
Online Historical Atlasses:
Historical Atlas of the 20th Century
Pre-World War I:
Family History Assignment Also see geneology resources below.
Pedigree Sheet for Family History Assignment
Canada & Immigration; A Short History of Immigration 1869-1994
Questions for the filmstrip The Opening of the Canadian West - filmstrip #2
The Peopling of Canada; From the University of Calgary
The Last Best West - Advertising for Immigrants from the Museum of Civilization
A Tale of Perseverance: Chinese Immigration to Canada. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Imperialism & Nationalism Lecture Notes
British Empire in 1900 Map Assignment
Photographs in History Notes and Assignment
Questions for the filmstrip Dekasegi
Questions for the filmstrip A New Beginning
Questions for the filmstrip The New Homeland
Questions for the filmstrip The Shaws of Midnapore
Questions for the filmstrip Toronto the Good
Questions for the Immigration filmstrips
Boer War Maps (from the Canadian War Museum)
World War I:
The First World War; Canada Remembers. Sound & Video Clips from the CBC Archives
Outstanding Resources at First World War.com --Includes Print & multimedia
The Canadian War Museum; Canada and the First World War
Silent films from World War I, From the National Film Board of Canada.
Advice for Borden in 1918 - Group Work
Article: "Les Purs Canayens; French Canada & Recruitment During the First World War"
Unattributed Article on the Conscription Crisis in Canada
Post World War I Map Assignment
Just One Big Mess; The Halifax Explosion of 1917. National Film Board Documentary
Between the Wars:
The 1920s Back to Peace Lecture
Questions for video: The Winnipeg General Strike
The Famous Five - Website on five Alberta women who did more than just fight for and win recognition of women as persons in Canadian law.
Causes of the Great Depression and Political Responses in Canada - Lecture
Dealing With The Great Depression --- Group Work
The Sound Room - Music of the Jazz Age
The Roaring 20s - Game from the McCord Museum in Montreal
Questions for the filmstrip The Ecstatic 1920s
Video: On Strike; The Winnipeg General Strike. National Film Board Documentary.
Video: They Didn't Starve Us Out. National Film Board Documentary on Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s.
Background Notes on the Great Depression in Canada
Song Lyrics to Brother Can You Spare a Dime . MP3 of the Bing Crosby version of the song.
Song Lyrics to Happy Days Are Here Again . MP3 of the Max Bygraves version of the song.
Economic Statistics for Canada in the Great Depression
Article on The Hungry 1930's from the Communist Party of Canada
Interpreting political cartoons from the 1930s assignment
Graphic of the concept of Keynsian economics
Questions for the video King & Country
World War II:
Notes on the Background to World War II
Read a Good Short History of WWII at Canada & the Second World War; Valour Remembered
Questions for video: Turning the Tide
Questions for video: The Liberators; D-Day to the Rhine
Questions for the movie: The War Between Ourselves
Questions and Assignment for the video: The Valour & the Horrof; Savage Christmas; Hong Kong 1941
Sound & Video Files: Dieppe (From the CBC Archives)
Love & War - Canadian War Brides; Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Home Front. National Film Board Documentary about Women in World War II Canada.
Heroes of the Atlantic. National Film Board Documentary of the Battle of the Atlantic in 1941.
Proudly She Marches. National Film Board Documentary of Women in the Armed Forces.
The Italian Campaign. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Breakthrough. National Film Board Documentary of Canadian actions in 1944.
Traitor or Patriot. Another Conscription Crisis - From the National Film Board of Canada.
Life After Auschwitz. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Memory of the Camps. Video from PBS, Frontline series.
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
Relocation to Redress: The Internment of Japanese Canadians. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
World War II Research Assignments
Newsreal Video of japanese Surrender Ceremony Aboard USS Missouri.
Post-War Canada:
Questions for the filmstrip: A Middle Power
Welcome Home Soldier! Life in Postwar Canada. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Newfoundland Joins Confederation. National Film Board Documentary.
The Newcomers; 1953. National Film Board Documentary on Immigration from Britain and Europe.
The Gouzenko Affair. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
One For All; The North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Forgotten Heroes: Canada and the Korean War. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Cold War Culture: The Nuclear Fear of the 1950's and 1960's. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Duck and Cover - American film telling what to do in case of nuclear attack.
The Big Snit. A wonderful National Film Board animation satirizing the Cold War.
So Long Cities: Hello Suburbs. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives.
Tommy Douglas & the NDP. Sound & Video Files from the CBC Archives.
The Birth of Medicare. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Pierre Elliot Trudeau: Swinger, Philosopher, Prime Minister. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
The Auto Pact; En Route to Free Trade. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
The Canada-US Free Trade Agreement. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Peacekeepers and Peacemakers: Canada's Diplomatic Contribution. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
The 1991 Gulf War. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Canada in the Post War World Notes
The Avro Arrow - From the Canadian Aviation Museum.
Questions for Post 1945 Canada PowerPoint
Questions for The Quiet and Not So Quiet Revolution PowerPoint
Questions for Canada; A People's History; Comfort & Fear; From Sea to Sea; Refus Global; Boom; Seeing Red; Afluence for Almost All; On Guard for Thee; First Tremors; A Prairie Storm; The Crossroad; Shifting Symbols; Time for Change; The Fight for Medicare; The Shadow of Nuclear War; Years of Hope & Anger; Maitre Chez Nous; The Planners of Happiness; A Question of Equality; Under a New Flag; Going Down the Road; Vive le Quebec Libre; Do Your Own Thing; Taking Back the Past; Language Wars; In an Uncertain World; The Choice; Hard Times; Solidarity; The Night of the Long Knives; The World was Mine; A Changing Face; The Computer Moves In; From the Ground Up; Land & Nation; Honour & Enthusiasm; Winners & Losers.
Questions for: Canada; A People's History; Seeing Red; On Guard for Thee; The Shadow of Nuclear War
Questions for: Canada; A People's History; Comfort & Fear; From Sea to Sea; Boom
Questions for: Canada, A People's History;First Tremors; Prairie Storm; Fight for Medicare
Questions for: Canada; A People's History; Time for Change; Maitre Chez Nous; Vive le Quebec Libre; Language Wars; The Choice; The Night of the Long Knives
Questions for the filmstrip; The Diefenbaker & Pearson Years
Questions for: Canada; A People' History; In an Uncertain World.
Canada Enters the Cold War Notes
Peacekeeper to the World: Sound & Video Files from the CBC Archives
French & English:
Maurice Duplessis. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
The Road to Bilingualism. Sound& Video Files From the CBC Archives
Rene Levesque's Separatist Fight. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
The October Crisis: Civil Liberties Suspended. Sound and Video Files From the CBC Archives
A la Prochaine Fois:The 1980 Quebec Referendum. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Separation Anxiety: Gearing Up for the 1995 Referendum. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Referendum - Take 2/Prise Deux. National Film Board Documentary on the 1995 Referendum.
Questions for The Quiet and Not So Quiet Revolution PowerPoint
Questions for: Canada; A People's History; Time for Change; Maitre Chez Nous; Vive le Quebec Libre; Language Wars; The Choice; The Night of the Long Knives
Aboriginal Issues:
Links to Aboriginal issue filmclips at the CBC Archives
The Battle for Aboriginal Treaty Rights. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
The Oka Crisis. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
The James Bay Project & the Cree. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives.
George Erasmus; Native Rights Crusader. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Phil Fontaine: Native Diplomat & Dealmaker. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Dancing Around the Table; Part 1. National Film Board Documentary on Aboriginal Land Claims.
Questions for the PowerPoint presentation on Aboriginal Rights & Land Claims
Mother of Many Children. National Film Board Documentary on Aboriginal Women.
Social Change in Canada:
Nobody Likes an Alarm Clock; Canadian Women 1910-1930
A Tale of Perseverance: Chinese Immigration to Canada. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
A Woman's Place: Programming for the Modern Homemaker. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Voting in Canada: How a Privilege Became a Right. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Sewing Seeds: Clothing Workers Fight For Better Conditions. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Africville; Expropriating Nova Scotia's Blacks. Sound & Video Files From the CBC
The Birth Control Pill. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Hippie Society: The Youth Rebellion. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Splitting Up: Canadians Get Divorced. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Butting Out: The Slow Death of Smoking in Canada. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Pot & Politics: Canada & the Marijuana Debate. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
Gay & Lesbian Emergence: Out in Canada. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives
The Spirit of Hockey. Sound & Video Files From the CBC Archives.
More globally, Paul Halsall's Internet Women's History Sourecebook
Geneology Resources: For those who want to pursue things well beyond the classroom assignment.
The Mormon Church Family Search site (one of the best free services available)
BC Archives Vital Event Index - Genealogy Related Information
Lookup UK Genealogy Page - Primarilly British and Irish
Roots Web.com - A Names Search Database
PowerPoint Presentations (K. Benoy & R. White):
PowerPoint by other writers
(Christina Hartigan's are sometimes partly based on the ones above.)
Pre WWI:
Into the 20th Century Powerpoint (March 27) by Hartigan
Immigration at the turn of the Century Powerpoint (March 30) by Hartigan
Canada in the Empire Powerpoint (April 2) by Hartigan
Causes of World War I Powerpoint (April 10) by Hartigan
World War I:
Canada's Contributions to the War Powerpoint (April 16) by Hartigan
Canada's Big Battles of WWI (Ypres, Somme, Vimy) Powerpoint (April 17) by Hartigan
Canada's Final Battles and The End of World War I by Hartigan
Between the World Wars:
Images of the Depression by Norm Nichols.
World War II:
Canada & the Post-War World:
The Early Cold War - by Susan Pojer (An American perspective)
Historical Music
Pre-World War I:
World War I:
The Tanks That Broke the Ranks
The 20's:
My Mammy
The 30's:
World War II:
Soviet:
Soviet National Anthem (1943 version) Sung by Paul Robeson, in English
UK & USA:
Boogie Woogie Bugleboy (Andrews Sisters)
There Will Always be an England
German:
Post-World War II:
War (video of concert)