Handout
Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta's Francophone Heritage Edukit: Elementary

For Students 3rd - 8th
Through information, photographs, texts, a quiz and audio, learners are able to expand their knowledge of the Alberta Francophone community.
Handout
Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta's Francophone Heritage Edukit: Secondary

For Students 9th - 10th
Through information, photographs, texts, a quiz and audio, learners are able to expand their knowledge of the Alberta Francophone community.
Lesson Plan
Volunteer Voices

Volunteer Voices: My Heritage Notebook [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will recognize the importance of the family in community situations through personal interviews, creating a personal history with pictures and text.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Memories of Oyster Pond's Village Store: 1891 1975

For Students 9th - 10th
The Hosking General Store in the community of Oyster Pond, Nova Scotia is profiled. Archival records and documents reveal all aspects of the store's growth and change over time.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Origins of Skiing in Canada's National Capital Region

For Students 9th - 10th
A look into Canada's rich ski heritage through history and photographs in the Ottawa region.
Interactive
Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta's Estonian Heritage

For Students 9th - 10th
Over the years, many immigrants came to Alberta from Estonia. This site profiles the rich history, areas of settlement, sense of community as well as the Estonian people and their cultural life.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: A Life of Service: Nurse Bennett Heritage House

For Students 9th - 10th
Nurse Myra Grimsley (Bennett) was a nurse in Britain throughout World War I. She came to Newfoundland in 1921 as a volunteer and worked there for over 50 years. She was the only source of medical aid to people living along a...
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Tuhaalruuqtut Ancestral Sounds

For Students 9th - 10th
With the use of Inuit Art, photograph, and audio accounts (in the languages of the Inuit Peoples), the suffering, culture, and perseverance of Aboriginal settlements in the Canadian North is explored in an in-depth manner.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Another Point of View: Northern Bc's Story Through Photos

For Students 9th - 10th
An amazing array of historical photographs of British Columbia's industrial past can be found in this informative site.
Handout
Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Land of Opportunity: Heritage Trails

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of audio and text files that describes Alberta's early history as the west is opened for settlement. Included are the stories about the great migration of immigrants from all over Europe, Asia and North America who...
Handout
Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Heritage Edukit: The Middle East (Teacher)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
From the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the Oslo Records, in-depth background information for teachers, including 10 instructional plans, have been included on this website.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Wood Mountain Sports and Stampede

For Students 9th - 10th
First introduced by the North West police to celebrate Dominion Day, the history of the stampede and the many rural sport events are profiled in this exhibit. Archival photographs and stories of the time are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Through the Eyes of Everett Baker

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographer Everett Baker captured the people, places, and events of Saskatchewan in this exhibit. Archival photographs and film are included as a means of preserving the past.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Hubbard Expeditions

For Students 9th - 10th
It was the goal of reporter L. Hubbard to complete an expedition into the interior of Labrador where no white man had previously gone. The exhibit profiles his ill-fated journey as well as the later successful one of his wife, Mina....
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The Great Fire of 1922: The Haileybury Fire

For Students 9th - 10th
The events leading to the great fire of Haileybury in northern Ontario is profiled. Archival photographs and stories of that disastrous fire are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The History of Shipbuilding in Marystown, Nl

For Students 9th - 10th
The history of shipbuilding in Marystown, Newfoundland,from the earliest beginnings to present day,is profiled. Archival photographs and documents as well as audio stories are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: The French Block

For Students 9th - 10th
The 'French' block was an apartment building which was the home to several families. Through photos and audio, this exhibit shows how strangers turned into a close knit extended family.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Some Boats and Boatbuilders From Central Bonavista Bay

For Students 9th - 10th
The long, proud history of boatbuilding in Newfoundland is profiled. The exhibit showcases the earliest craft made by the Aboriginal peoples to the many other kinds of boats that came to be constructed. Archival photographs are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Scrapbook History: Volunteer Women's Groups of Torbay

For Students 9th - 10th
The contributions made by voluntary woman's groups in Torbay, Newfoundland are profiled in this exhibit.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Prairie Fire

For Students 9th - 10th
The growth of a prairie evangelical school located in Eston, Saskatchewan is profiled. Student life and interactions with townfolk as well as archival materials are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: On the Trail of Silver

For Students 9th - 10th
The discovery of silver, and the growth of the town of Cobalt is profiled. An outdoor museum keeps alive this era by recreating early mining life and showcasing machinery of the time as well as the changes which occurred over...
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Norris Arm: Those Pine Clad Hills

For Students 9th - 10th
The history of Norris Arm, Newfoundland is profiled. Over the years, many different industries thrived..from salmon fishing and lumbering to the railway and the military. Archival photographs of the people and businesses are included.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Memories of Red Lake: Why We Came, Why We Stayed

For Students 9th - 10th
The mining town of Red Lake, Ontario is profiled. The different factors that attracted people to this wilderness area are examined. Archival photographs, native art, and early legends are included in the exhibit.
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Other

Canadian Tibetan Association of Ontario

For Students 9th - 10th
The Canadian Tibetan Association of Ontario strives to unite Tibetans living in Canada and to preserve Tibetan culture and heritage, long threatened by China's rule. At this site you can learn more about Tibetan culture in Ontario,...