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• - A scholarly site illustrates and documents heroic age of fur trade. Examines exploits of the North West Company and other Montreal-based fur trading companies. Includes full texts of manuscripts known as the Masson Papers from 1790 -1820.
  
• - Maps, graphs and text based on print volumes and redesigned for online, interactive viewing. Includes downloadable data in tabular form as well as printable map images.
  
• - A passage from the Canadian Encyclopedia describes the origins of the name, "Canada".
  
• - Marking the 400th anniversary of the French presence in North America in 2004, France and Canada have created this portal to a virtual exhibition and a database containing more than one million images.
  
• - Interactive and authoritative source of data with over 350,000 official and formerly official geographical names available in both English and French.
  
• - Information about the 1837 Mackenzie-Papineau rebellions that rocked Upper and Lower Canada. Site includes chronology, biographies of the leaders, background, reactions, aftermath and other information.
  
• - Story of the pioneer homesteaders of Ladder Valley in Saskatchewan, Canada. Contains autobiographies, photos and links for further reading.
  
• - Follow the story of how Royal Bank grew from a small Halifax bank into a national financial institution, from 1864 to the present.
  
• - An exhibition of the Peter Winkworth Collection, a nationally significant, rare, and valuable art collection that documents more than four centuries of Canadian history.
  
• - An online library, archive, museum and school all in one providing Canadian local histories and educational resources.
  
• - Describes Fenian plans in the 1860s to attain control of what is now Canada and hold it in ransom for the freedom of Ireland.
  
• - From prehistory to present. Brief descriptions of the important events in Canadian history.
  
• - A guide to materials on Canadian history in digital format. Content is supervised by an expert editorial board.
  
• - Government of Canada's bilingual directory of links on historic sites in Canada.
  
• - Provides a collection of photographs, stories and maps documenting ghost towns in a number of provinces.
  
• - Online exhibit from the National Archives of Canada.
  
• - An alphabetical list of national historic sites in Canada. Offers links to these sites as well.
  
• - Provides maps that depict the evolution of the nation's international, provincial and territorial boundaries from 1783 through 1905.
  
• - The National Archives of Canada presents this virtual exhibition. A gateway to the large-scale digitization of selected holdings. Topics include the fur trade, scientific expeditions, aboriginal claims and urbanization.
  
• - Photographs, maps, and documents from two exploratory surveys conducted by J.B. Tyrrell of the region west of Hudson Bay.
  
• - Book and poems of pioneer life by Susanna Moodie.
  
• - Significant events and history of the people of the northwest Canada from 1774 to present day. Includes journal entries from Captain Cook, fur traders, Indian prophets, and ethnographers.
  
• - The conditions and challenges of emigrants' lives in 19th-century Canada as reflected in the lives and writings of Catharine Parr Traill(1802-99) and Susanna Moodie (1803-85).
  
• - All about the fur trade in Canada, and how it led to the exploration of Canada, as well as the formation of the oldest and largest company in Canadian history: Hudson's Bay Company.
  
• - Presents stories, information and photographs about the Hudson's Bay Company and Canada's early history.
  
• - Details about the discovery and exploration of Canada with emphasis on explorers and mapmakers.
  
• - Hundreds of radio and television clips from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
  
• - Frobisher's expeditions to Nunavut in Arctic Canada are described as well as the search for a Northwest Passage to Asia, the first mining venture in Canada, and the earliest attempt by the English to establish a colony in the New World.
  
• - Weekly presentation on aspects of Canadian history related to commemorations by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada and National Parks.
  
• - Traces history and development of this firm from creation in Toronto up to its takeover by Gulf Canada in 1969.
  
• - Tells how Canada came to be, from the original four provinces in 1867 to the present. Historical essays showcase documents, articles and photographs.
  
• - Extensive documentation of Manitoba school legislation of 1890, which was regarded as anti-Catholic, and involvement of Quebecers in the controversy. Bilingual site.
  
• - Collection of photographs, documents, illustrations, and maps highlighting Canadian history.
  
• - Online National Archives exhibit on the 1927-1929 "Persons Case" in which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council declared women to be "persons".