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CONTENTS

1. Canadiana and British Columbiana: General
2. Education
3. Geography
4. Government: General: All Jurisdictions
5. Social Sciences

Some of these information resources do not contain historical information, but may be of use to researchers.

Canadiana and British Columbiana: General

• Academic Info: Canadian History is an independent site maintained by Mike Madin, University of Washington, Gallagher Law Library
• Britannica.com is the complete Encyclopedia Britannica and the Web all rolled into one search engine.
• "California As I Saw It": First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 (American Memory, Library of Congress) contains keyword searchable full-text versions in HTML and SGML of 190 pioneer accounts, including many that describe parts of British Columbia.
• Canada: A People's History (CBC) contains episode descriptions of this two-year TV broadcast series, educational resources for students and teachers, and games and puzzles.
• Canada Heirloom Series, Heirloom Publishing Inc. and Canada's Digital Collections includes British Columbians
• The Canadian Encyclopedia Online (Published by McClelland & Stewart; online edition sponsored by Histor!ca); this is the full-text of the hardcopy/CD-ROM versions available and updated since 1985 when it was first published by Hurtig Publishers.
• Canadian History Portal (Canadian Historical Association)
• Canadian Information by Subject: Geography, History is organized by the National Library of Canada using the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
• Canadiana: The Canadian Resource Page (Stewart M. Clamen, Carnegie-Mellon University, PA) includes these sections on "Politics and History" and "Heritage, Culture and Entertainment".
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• CultureCanada.gc.ca (Government of Canada) is a gateway to culture, heritage and recreation resources within and outside the Federal government. The site can be browsed by toptic category or searched. A link request service is also available. Date added: 2002.05.10.
• CultureNet at the University of Calgary contains many links to Internet resources of Canadian culture.
• Early Canadiana Online, a digital facsimile (Adobe PDF pages) library of books and government publications, is a joint project of the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (CIHM), the National Library of Canada, the Universite Laval Library, and the University of Toronto Library. Full-text searching is available along with browsing. Additional content in the form of interpretive, educational resources is also available. Some content may only be  accessed through an annual subscription. Date updated: 2002.05.10.

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• FactMonster: On-Line Dictionary, Encylopedia, and Homework Help (InformationPlease.com) is intended for the K-12 education sector.
• Ghosts of the Northwest Coast (Songs and music by Bruce Couglan; performed by Tiller's Folly; BC Heritage Websites Program). Based on a touring school show featuring Bruce Couglan's songs based on British Columbia historical events and personalities, site includes curriculum support material. The songs are playable within a browser or downloadable as MP3 files.
• H-NET: Humanities On-Line operates from Michigan State University and is intended to "assist scholars to go on-line."
• History House: Books, Stories and Historical Trivia (History House, Inc.) is the brainchild of graduate historians applying their skills to popularizing and marketing history.
• The HistoryNet: Where History Lives on the Net (Cowles History Group, Inc.) is an advertising vehicle for a number of magazines devoted to American, British and world military history; includes an article index (list of article titles).
• HistoryNorth (Sponsored by alaskayukon.com) is a set of links to historical resources about Alaska and the Yukon Territory.
• Humanities Canada, the Electronic Information Service of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, contains a variety of Internet resources related to the humanities. Jump to the History Directory.
• Inventory of Canadian Digital Initiatives (National Library of Canada)
• KnowBC: Official Web Site of the Encyclopedia of British Columbia (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 1 August 2000)
• Links of Historical Interest is maintained by the Dept. of History, University of Manitoba.
• Lives: Special Collections: Canadians (compiled by klanxner@home.com) is a guide to sites containing biographical information on Canadians
• The Memory Project (The Dominion Institute). Founded in 1997, the Dominion Institute works to promote an appreciate and understanding of Canadian history. The Memory Project is a print and Internet program which encourages individuals to contribute recollections around three themes: Passages to Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), Heroes and Heroism, and Peace and War. Free teaching resources are also available for download or ordering. Date added: 2002-04-30.
• Our Future, Our Past: The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project (Alberta Heritage Digitization Project and Canada's Digital Collections). Many of the digital facsimiles of local histories include British Columbia content.
• Our Millennium Gift Registry: Heritage describes Canadian Millennium projects with a historical theme
• R.E. Gosnell's Digital Year Book of British Columbia and Manual of Provincial Information (1901-1995-2003). Victoria, BC: BC Community Networks Association, 2002. Hypertext edition, created with funding from Canada's Digital Collections, of the 1901 edition of R.E. Gosnell's Year Book of British Columbia. Alternate URL: http://hp.bccna.bc.ca/Library/Yearbook Date added: 2002.09.12. Date updated: 2002.10.01.
• The Swiftsure Project (Victoria) is a growing electronic community of cultural organizations, businesses and individual artists and writers. An online index is available for site searches.
• Virtual Heritage Fair (Sponsored by Historica). Date added: 1995-2003.08.23.
• WestWeb: Western History Resource (Catherine Lavender) is a comprehensive, evolving subject guide for the study of the American West via Web links.
• The World History Archives, maintained by Haines Brown, contains links to documents and online resources pertaining to the "struggle for social progress." Jump to the "History of Canada" section.

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Education

• Academic Info: Canadian Studies is an independent site maintained by Mike Madin, University of Washington, Gallagher Law Library
• Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS, Washington, DC)
• Canada in the Making (Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and Canada's Digital Collections). Date added: 1995-2003.10.01.
• Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources by John D. Blackwell, Brandeis University Libraries, and Laurie C.C. Stanley-Blackwell, Dept. of History, St. Francis Xavier University. Bibliographic essay first published as "Canadian Studies: A Core Collection," CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 35 (September 1997) and revised for this Web edition.
• CanLinks: Directory of Web resources relevant to Canadian Studies (Maintained by David Lucking)
• The Folksong Tycoon (British Columbia Folklore Society and Canada's Digital Collections). Online game for K-12 students based on folk songs compiled by Phil Thomas to learn about BC's social history. Date added: 1995-2003.07.20.
• History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers is a collaborative effort managed by Dennis Boals. Jump to the American/Canadian History links.
• Lesson Bytes: Teaching with a Focus on BC's Heritage (BC Heritage Trust and Canada's Digital Collections). Date added: 1995-2003.11.19.
• Make History on.the.web (Patrick A. Dunae, Malaspina University-College) is a how-to guide for constructing school histories for Web publication. Date added: 1995-2003.11.02.
• Multimedia History Tutorials (Applied History Research Group, Department of History, University of Calgary). Date updated: 1995-2003.09.25.
• Okanagan History: A Teacher's Guide (School District 53 and Okanagan Museums, and Canada's Digital Collections). Date added: 1995-2003.11.19.
• Our Canadian Girl: Historical Fiction for Girls (Penguin Books Canada). This series of novels for girls age 8 to 11 includes background material for teachers and librarians who wish to use the books for teaching Canadian history. Two of the novels published in 1995-2003 and 2002, Emily Across the James Bay Bridge by Julie Lawson and Hobo Jungle by Dorothy Joan Harris , are set in British Columbia. Date added: 2002.05.14.
• Science and Technology in Canadian History: A Bibliographic Database (Dalhousie University)
• Teaching Pacific Northwest History at the College and University Level: Course Outlines and Teaching Aids (Page Prepared by Chris Friday, Director, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University, Bellingham)
• Teaching Politics: Techniques and Technologies by Dr. William J. Ball (Department of Political Science, The College of New Jersey). This site contains a library of digital images pertaining to North American political history.

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Geography

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• BC Geographical Names Information System (Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks)

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• GeoConnections Canada is a gateway to Canadian geographic information on the Internet and administers the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) between governments at all levels and the private sector
• GeoNames Canada (Geomatics Canada, Natural Resources Canada) is the official Canadian geographical place names database; it includes current, historical and undersea names.
• The National Atlas of Canada Online (6th edition, Geomatics Canada, Natural Resources Canada)
• Royal Canadian Geographical Society publishes Canadian Geographic

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Government: General: All Jurisdictions

• British Columbia Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act Directory of Records
• British Columbia Government WWW Home Page
• Government of Canada Primary Internet Site contains links to federal as well as provincial government Internet resources. This site replaces the Open Government Pilot Project.
• The Government of Canada also offers an Intergovernmental On-Line Information Kiosk containing links to all jurisdictions.

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Social Sciences

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Compiled by David Mattison, Victoria Telecommunity Network, BC. Copyright © 1995-2003 by David Mattison. This site may be freely linked to but not duplicated in any fashion without my consent.