Introduction to the Canadian History Time Line

Canada's history is as complex as any other, and those who study it need lots of resources. This time line links major historical events to Web pages that provide detailed information. This page lists resources that have a wide scope.

MAPS

• Historical Atlas of Canada

• Mapping Canada Canadian Geographic Magazine

General links

The Government of Canada has a superb site (in French and English) with a list of Departments and Agencies that have many resources for public use.
• General information about Canada
• Canadian Heritage
• Indian and Northern Affairs
• Statistics Canada
• Canadian Space Agency
• Canadian War Museum
• Department of National Defence
• Facts about Canada in maps

Hudson's Bay Company historical site has online aids for researching historical books, documents and pamphlets.

Aboriginal studies

Aboriginal Canada portal

Aboriginal Youth Network has a great links page

Innu nation homepage

Metis Culture and Heritage

Native American Indian Resources, out of date a little, but still outstanding; 300 pages including maps showing history and populations. What a great source of information from the late Paula Giese!

Lee Sultzman's site covers much of North American Native History. An incredible resource.

WWW Virtual Library with native peoples' oral and written history

A Native American Time Line with links and topical essays. Site based in the United States.

Canadian History

The Virtual Museum of New France (French)
is rich with
• maps
• resource
• exploration
• colonization
• photographic exploration.

The history of black people in Canada is an interesting and often neglected aspect of our culture. Let's listen, and always ensure that history is inclusive!

The Canadian Museum of Civilization and their resources list for Canadian history

Canadian history web resources by Dr. Susan Neylan at UBC

Comprehensive links and a search engine for politics

Canadian history time line from Answers.com

Academic resource links

Canadian History and Genealogy

Canadian Journal of Archaeology

A guide to Canadian History at About.com.

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Why I created this site

I was inspired by an interview with Jack Granatstein, author of Who Killed Canadian History? He emphasizes the importance of studying Canadian history in Canadian schools.

As a student, many years ago, I felt that our teacher narrowly limited our understanding of the events of our history and mentioned this in class. Louis Riel was treated badly in history books at that time (the 60s) and Riel became for me an icon of oppressed individualism. The teacher asked me to leave the room.

Riel is now an icon for the problems not only of oppressed individualism but of oppressed cultures in general and his death is one of the central issues in understanding Canada and the problems it faces in the future.

It's my hope that teachers no longer ask students to leave the class if they disagree with the established views, and that they know the truth is not necessarily printed in a text book.

Christine Hastie (Kindly write this address into a blank e-mail. This helps me win the battle against spam!)

To illustrate the main entry for a given date and help young readers, I created these little icons. A legend is on each time line page.