Where we live - Who we are (Grades 7-10)

Selected Resources

Parks Canada Web site

www.pc.gc.ca/resource6
 

National Historic Sites

• administered by Parks Canada:
  • Batoche National Historic Site
  • Kejimkujik National Historic Site of Canada
  • Kitwanga Fort National Historic Site of Canada
  • Port au Choix National Historic Site of Canada
  • Red Bay National Historic Site of Canada
  • Riel House National Historic Site
  • Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site
  • Southwold Earthworks National Historic Site of Canada
• links to sites administered by partners of Parks Canada:
  • Christ Church Royal Chapel National Historic Site of Canada
  • Manitou Mounds National Historic Site of Canada
• National Historic Sites of Canada System Plan
   

Library

• Policies:
  • Parks Canada Guiding Principles and Operational Policies
    • Policy Context: Aboriginal Interest

National Parks

• Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site
• Kejimkujik National Park
• Pukaskwa National Park
• Wapusk National Park
   

Teacher's Corner

• Commemorating Canada's History:
  • People, Places, and Events:
    • Search the theme "Aboriginal Peoples

This Week in History Archives

• Search the keyword "Beothuk"
• Relevant Results: "Death of Shanawdithit and the Beothuk", "In Search of Family"
  

What's New

• News Releases:
  • Beothuk Site
  • Huron-Wendat
  • Shanawdithit

Check the bottom of the news releases for associated backgrounders.

World Heritage

• Canadian World Heritage Sites:
  • Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National/Provincial Historic Site of Canada
     

Videos

• Places in Time (video) - segments on Igloolik Island and Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Sites of Canada
• Historylands (video) - Episode 18 - "A Gathering Place," "Wanuskewin Heritage Park"; Episode 25 - "Death of a Nation," "Village of Nan Sdins"; Episode 39 - "Deline"
   

Other Resources

• Archaeological Survey of Canada: Virtual Exhibits
  www.civilization.ca/cmc/archeo/virtual.htm
• The Five Ancient Cultures of the Northern Peninsula
  http://collections.ic.gc.ca/ancient/
• Indian and Northern Affairs
  www.ainc-inac.gc.ca
• New Brunswick’s Oxbow Site and Augustine Mound
  http://collections.ic.gc.ca/oxbow/home.html
• Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage: Aboriginal Peoples
  www.heritage.nf.ca/aboriginal
• The Nunavut Handbook: Igloolik
  www.arctic-travel.com/chapters/igloolikpage.html
• The Plains Cree: Part One: A Historical and Ethnographic Study
  www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/plains_cree/part6-e.html
• Windspeaker: Classroom Edition
  www.ammsa.com/classroom/index.htm