Dreams Become Realities (Grades 8-10)

Selected Resources

Parks Canada Web site

www.pc.gc.ca/resource9
 

National Historic Sites

• administered by Parks Canada:
  • Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site of Canada
  • Bethune Memorial House National Historic Site of Canada
  • Marconi National Historic Site of Canada
  • Signal Hill National Historic Site of Canada
  • Carillon Canal National Historic Site of Canada
  • Chambly Canal National Historic Site of Canada
  • Lachine Canal National Historic Site of Canada
  • Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal National Historic Site of Canada
  • Saint Ours Canal National Historic Site of Canada
  • Rideau Canal National Historic Site of Canada
  • Sault Ste. Marie Canal National Historic Site of Canada
  • Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site of Canada
• National Historic Sites of Canada System Plan

Teacher's Corner

• Canadian Stories: Scientists and Inventors

• Commemorating Canada's History:
  • People, Places, and Events
    • Search the theme "Scientific Achievements", "Engineering Achievements" or the keyword: canal

This Week In History Archives

• Search the keywords "invent", "discovery"
• Relevant Results: "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!", "Slam Dunk" (James Naismith), "Radio Signals Across Atlantic" (Marconi), "Cape Breton Man Flies Through the Air", "Cars That Ride on Snow" (Bombardier), "The First Successful Test of Insulin"
   

What's New

• News Releases:
  • Edward William Archibald
  • Banting House National Historic Site
  • Cobalt Bomb
  • McIntosh Apple
  • Victoria Tubular Bridge

Check the bottom of the news releases for associated backgrounders.
 

Videos

• Historylands (video) - Episode 41 - "Church Hill Research Range - Rockets Across the Tundra"
   

Other Resources

• Black inventors and their inventions
  www.niica.on.ca/csonan/BlackInventors.aspx
• Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
  www.science-tech.nmstc.ca/english/about/hallfame/u_main_e.cfm
• Famous Canadian Patents
  www.strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/learn/sn/sn_pat_e.html
• Heroes of Lore and Yore: Canadian Heroes in Fact and Fiction
  www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/6/h6-209-e.html
• Historica Minutes: Sir Sanford Fleming, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, James Naismith, Marconi, Jacques Plante
  http://www.histori.ca/minutes/default.do
• Wow, Inventions!!!
  www.inventivewomen.com
• Great Canadians: Inventors by Carlotta Hacker. Calgary: Weigl Educational Publications, 2000
• Made in Canada: Stories of Canadian Inventions and Accomplishments. Bedford, Quebec: Laubach Literacy of Canada, 1994