September 5, 2016
General Resources for Social Studies
Facing History
– ” Our mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry”
Historical Thinking Project directed byPeter Seixas
Stanford History Education Group
Population Pyramid
Web Sites about, by and for Aboriginal Peoples – links compiled by SD71
Aboriginal Resources compiled by SD34 – created by FNESC and FNSA
Voices in Action – “offers primary and secondary resources, short original video documentaries (first person accounts of historical events) and thought provoking lessons on topics such as residential schools, The Komagata Maru, Japanese internment camps, Rwanda, The Holocaust and much much more.”
Social Studies 9
BC First Nations History
First Nations Education Steering Committee
Indigenous Education K-12: Curriculum Resources – UBC Library
BC First Nations Historical Timeline – Aboriginal Connection
BC History
British Columbia – Canadian Encyclopedia
City of Vancouver Archives
Bamboo Shoots: Chinese Canadian Leagues in BC
– educational resource for teachers of Grades 5 and 10
– this resource offers a rich gallery of historical photographs, and a wealth of archival documents and personal stories that accompany five lessons at each grade level
Early History of BC – Canada: A Country by Consent
Encyclopedia BC
Memory BC
Royal BC Museum
viHistory – census, population, maps and links to other related topics
The Fur Trade and the North-West
Effects of the Fur Trade
Fur Trade – Canada’s First Peoples
Fur Trade – Canadian Encyclopedia
The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company – McGill Library
North West Company – Canadian Encyclopedia
From BNA to Canada, Colony to Country
Constitution Act, 1867 – Canadian Encyclopedia
BNA Act 1867 – A Country by Consent
Canada’s Government System
Confederation and Nation-Building
Canadian Geography
Immigration and Settlement During the 1800s
Napoleon and Napoleonic Europe
New France and the French-British Conflict in N.A.
Political Revolutions: America, France, and Russia
The Fur Trade and the North-West
Agricultural Revolutions
The Industrial Revolution
World War I – free sourcedocs from TC2 (internment camps)
The Canadian Letters & Image Project
– online archive of the Canadian war experience, from any war, as told through the letters and images of Canadians themselves