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Parks Canada Web Features Include:
This Week in History
This popular Parks Canada web feature provides a weekly one page illustrated story on nationally significant sites, persons and events. Previous week’s stories are archived and can be searched.
Commemorating Canada’s History
This web feature highlights numerous sites, persons and events and provides the reader with the reason for designation, plaque text and in some cases a photograph. This site can be searched.
Our Roots, Our Future: Experiencing Canada’s National Historic Sites in The Classroom
A teachers’ guide to Canada’s national historic sites. The Chapter “Holding Up Half the Sky” is devoted to women’s history.
News Releases
Here you will find new releases and backgrounders on recent designations. These are based on research reports written for the HSMBC’s consideration and provide more comprehensive information than is available elsewhere.
Websites Related to Women’s History: Bilingual
Celebrating Women’s Achievements
This National Library site contains vignettes on a number of women who have achieved prominence in various fields from science to sport.
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWAS - ACAFS)
Page devoted to the history of women in sport from the 16th century to the 1990s.
Early Canadiana Online: Canadian Women’s History
Over 700 documents written by or about women, covering a broad range of subjects from daily living to the struggle to obtain legal and political rights.
Operation Dialogue
Includes biographical information, virtual exhibits and analytical articles on the history of women in Canada.
Women of Aspenland: Images of Central Alberta
Virtual exhibits which present the lives of more than 170 Alberta women, some famous, some not so famous.
Websites Relating to Women’s History: English Language
CoolWomen
A fun and informative website devoted to telling the story of our foremothers. Funded through Nancy’s Very Own Foundation.
Herstory
This website contains stories on notable women in Canadian history, taken from the women’s history calendar which the Herstory collective has published since 1976.
Places Where Women Made History
This extensive website explores the many women’s history sites in the United States, run by the US Parks Service.
Canadian War Brides
Window into the history of the thousands of European women who came to Canada as brides of soldiers who were stationed there during the Second World War.
Women’s History Walking Tour of St. John’s
Visual tour of sites associated with the history of women in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Women in History
Biographies of forty or more Canadian women prominent in numerous fields of activity, also published in the Herstory book series, by Vanwell Publishing Limited, St. Catharines, Ontario.
Heroines.ca: A Guide to Women in Canadian History
This website, assembled by historian Merna Forster, is meant to help popularize Canadian women's history and celebrate women's accomplishments in the past. It accompanies her upcoming book, 100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces, (Toronto, Dundurn, October 2004).
Websites Relating to Women’s History: French Language
L’Encyclopédie de l’Agora
This site offers several excellent articles on the history of women in Quebec, including “Québecoises d’hier et d’aujourd’hui” by Hélène Pelletier-Baillargeon. Search in index under “Femme”.
Musée de la civilisation
This website contains a page entitled "Les Québécoises ont aussi fait l’histoire" and introduces the visitor to important figures and artifacts in the history of Quebec women, as highlighted through five themes.