Websites to Support the New Curriculum
Grade 6: Cluster 3
Shaping Contemporary Canada
Learning Experience
6.3.1
Overview of Contemporary Canada
6.3.1 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
6.3.1 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Historica, The Prime Ministers of Canada:
http://www.primeministers.ca/index.php
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/index-e.html
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers for Kids:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/kids/index-e.html
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers for Kids, Facts:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/kids/h9-3000-e.html
Canadiana Website, Prime Ministers of Canada:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/canpms.htm
Historica, The Prime Ministers of Canada:
http://www.primeministers.ca/index.php
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/index-e.html
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers for Kids:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/kids/index-e.html
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers for Kids, Facts:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/kids/h9-3000-e.html
Canadiana Website, Prime Ministers of Canada:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/canpms.htm
Townships Heritage Web Magazine, Louis St. Laurent
http://www.townshipsheritage.com/Eng/Hist/FamousPol/st-laurent.html
Pearson College, Lester B. Pearson:
http://www.uwc.ca/pearson/library/lester/lester.htm
Canadiana Website, Prime Ministers of Canada, John Diefenbaker: http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/diefenbaker.htm
Canada’s Digital Collections, Text of Eulogy delivered by Charles Joseph Clark about John Diefenbaker at his funeral:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/discourspm/anglais/cjc/2208979e.html
Biography of John Joseph Diefenbaker
http://canadaonline.about.com/cs/primeminister/p/pmdiefenbaker.htm
Globe and Mail, Pierre Elliott Trudeau
http://www.globeandmail.com/series/trudeau/
Canada’s Digital Collections, Pierre Elliott Trudeau :
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/canspeak/english/pet/
Library and Archives Canada, Kim Campbell
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/primeministers/h4-3475-e.html
Prime Ministers of Canada, Brian Mulroney
http://www.primeministers.ca/mulroney/intro.php
Canadiana Website, Prime Ministers Canada, Brian Mulroney:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/mulroney.htm
Canadiana Website, Prime Ministers of Canada, Charles Joseph Clark
http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/clark.htm
Canadiana Website, Prime Ministers of Canada, John Turner:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/turner.htm
Canada’s Digital Collections, Biography of Jean Chrétien:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/discourspm/anglais/jc/bio.html
Canadiana Website, Prime Ministers of Canada, Jean Chrétien:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/chretien.htm
Canadiana Website, Prime Ministers of Canada, Kim Campbell:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/chretien.htm
Prime Ministers of Canada, Paul Martin
http://www.primeministers.ca/martin/intro.php
6.3.1 APPLYING STRATEGIES
Statistics Canada, Learning Resources, Kids’ Zone, Maps: http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/zone/maps/maps.htm
Canadian Geographic, Mapping Canada, Games:
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/mapping/gameroom/main.asp
Learning Experience
6.3.2
A Changing and Diverse Population
6.3.2 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
6.3.2 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Kid’s Stop, History:
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ks/4000_e.html
Museum of Civilization, History of the Vote in Canada, 1960: http://www.civilization.ca/hist/elections/el_008_e.html
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Nunavut:
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ks/pdf/nunavu_e.pdf
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Learning Circle, Guide, Unit 8, Self-government:
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ks/pdf/e_guide3.pdf
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Aboriginal Peoples’ Profiles, Elijah Harper:
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ks/3111_e.html
Canadian Encyclopedia, Elijah Harper:
http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm
?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=J0010844&mState=1
Canadian Encyclopedia, Junior Version, Aboriginal Self-Government:
http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm
?PgNm=TCE&TCE_Version=A&ArticleId=A0009236&mState=1
Canadian Encyclopedia, Junior Version, Nisga’a:
http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm
?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=J0005762&mState=1
CBC Archives, Status Indians compensated for benefits denied, June21, 2002:
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-71-1039-5838
CBC Archives, No Deal! March 27, 1987:
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-73-516-2436
CBC Archives, Voters Choose NWT Split, April 15, 1982:
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-73-108-659
CBC Archives, The Oka Crisis:
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?IDCat=71&IDDos=99&IDLan=1&IDMenu=71
CBC Archives, Oka crisis ends, September 26, 1990:
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-71-99-582
CBC Archives, Happy Nunavut Day, April 1, 1999:
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-73-108-663
CBC Archives: A Lost Heritage: Canada’s Residential Schools:
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?id=1-70-692
CBC Archives, “We Are Deeply Sorry”, January 7, 1998:
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-70-692-4011
Canadian Geographic, Canada’s francophone population, July 1994:
http://www.canadiangeographic.com/Magazine/Ja94/geomap.htm
Immigration Canada, A Newcomer’s Introduction to Canada, Francophone Population:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/newcomer/guide/section-07.html#5
Atlas de la francophonie, Provinces and Territories:
http://franco.ca/atlas/francophonie/english/index.cfm
(summary of francophone demographics for each province and territory)
Canada’s Population by Language:
http://www.canadainfolink.ca/chartsix.htm
Censuses of Canada, the 1800s:
http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/98-187-XIE/1800s.htm
(estimates of population in the 1800s)
6.3.2 APPLYING STRATEGIES
Operation Dialogue, Baldwin-Lafontaine Lecture, Georges Erasmus, 2002:
http://www.operation-dialogue.com/lafontaine-baldwin/e/2002_speech_2.html
CBC Archives, “The Future Begins Now”, March 8, 2002:
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-73-516-2444
Indian and Northern Affairs, Kids’ Stop, Aboriginal Peoples Profiles, Georges Erasmus:
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ks/3108_e.html
Indian and Northern Affairs, Kids’ Stop, Aboriginal Peoples Profiles, Phil Fontaine:
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ks/3109_e.html
Canadian Heritage, Multiculturalism, Canadian Diversity, Respecting Our Differences:
http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/multi/respect_e.cfm
Canadian Heritage, Selected Ethnic Profiles of Canada’s Young Age Cohorts, November 16, 1999:
http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/multi/assets/pdfs/youth-pub1_e.pdf
Statistics Canada, 2001 Census, English-French Bilingualism:
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/
Products/Analytic/companion/lang/bilingual.cfm
CBC Archives, The Road to Bilingualism:
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?id=1-73-655
Learning Experience
6.3.3
A Modern Industrialized Nation
6.3.3 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
6.3.3 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Heritage Minutes, Marconi:
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10189
Heritage Minutes, Avro Arrow:
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10220
Heritage Minutes, Marshall McLuhan:
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10226
Heritage Minutes, Sir Sandford Fleming:
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10182
Heritage Minutes, Joseph-Armand Bombardier:
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10204
Heritage Minutes, Basketball (James Naismith):
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10186
Heritage Newfoundland, Guglielmo Marconi:
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/society/marconi.html#gmarconi
Canadian Profiles, Guglielmo Marconi:
http://www.canadians.ca/more/profiles/m/m_guglielmo_marconi.htm
Canadian Heirloom Series, Charles E. Saunders:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume4/242-245.htm
Canadian Heirloom Series, Reginald Fessenden:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume4/42-45.htm
Geocities, The McIntosh Apple:
http://www.geocities.com/perfectapple/mac.html
Canadian Heirloom Series, William Stephenson, A Man Called Intrepid:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume6/132-133.htm
Parks Canada, Backgrounder, Joseph-Armand Bombardier:
http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/NewsReleases/release_e.asp?
bgid=512&andor=bg
Science.ca, Harriet Brooks:
http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=131
A brief biography of Dr. F. G. Banting
http://www.discoveryofinsulin.com/Banting.htm
Nobel E-Museum, Frederick G. Banting:
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1923/banting-bio.html
Inventors: Sanford Fleming
http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventors/a/SandfordFleming.htm
Musée Armand-Frappier, Dr. Armand Frappier:
http://www.musee-afrappier.qc.ca/1120_e.html
Canadian Heirloom Series, Electron Microscope:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume4/258-261.htm
Canadian Heirloom Series, Insulin:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume4/10-13.htm
Canadian Heirloom Series, The Massey Legacy, Farming the World:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume4/84-85.htm
Canada’s Digital Collections, Canadian Aviation Timeline:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/highlights/guide/maine.htm
Statistics Canada, Urban and rural population counts:
http://www.statcan.ca/english/census96/table15.htm
Growth concentrated in four large urban regions:
http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Highlights/Page9/Page9_e.cfm
CBC Archives, The Birth of Medicare:
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?IDCat=
73&IDDos=90&IDLan=1&IDMenu=73
CBC Archives, Medicare and Social Welfare: Tommy Douglas and the NDP:
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?id=1-74-851
Canadian Heirloom Series, Emmet Matthew Hall, Father of Medicare:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume6/176-177.htm
Canadian Encyclopedia,Junior Version, Health Care:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm
?PgNm=TCE&TCE_Version=A&ArticleId=J0020159&MenuClosed=0
Virtual Museum, Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, Thomas Douglas:
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Medicentre/en/
6.3.3 APPLYING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
Learning Experience
6.3.4
Canada on the World Stage
6.3.4 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
Heritage Minute, John Humphrey:
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10219
6.3.4 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Pearson College, Lester B. Pearson:
http://www.uwc.ca/pearson/library/lester/lester.htm
Parks Canada, Grave Sites of Canadian Prime Ministers, Lester Pearson:
http://www.pc.gc.ca/clmhc-hsmbc/pm/Pearson_E.asp
National Library of Canada, Prime Ministers, Lester Pearson:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/primeministers/h4-3356-e.html
Nobel E-Museum, The Nobel Peace Prize 1957, Presentation Speech, Lester B. Pearson:
http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1957/press.html
Archives, Pearson Wins Nobel Peace Prize, Oct.12, 1957:
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-71-340-1849-10
UNA Fact Sheets, Canada’s Role in the UN:
http://www.unac.org/en/link_learn/fact_sheets/role.asp
CBC Archives, First United Nations General Assembly:
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-73-520-2551-11
Canadian Encyclopedia, United Nations:
http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm
?PgNm=TCE&TCE_Version=A&ArticleId=A0008231&MenuClosed=0
Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada and the United Nations:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/canada_un/menu-en.asp
Canada’s Heirloom Series, John Peters Humphrey:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume4/114-117.htm
John Humphrey and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
http://www.markings.bc.ca/mind/peace/humanrights.html
United Nations, Secretary General Appoints Stephen Lewis as Special Envoy:
http://www.un.org/ga/aids/StephenLewisBio.html
Canada and the Cold War:
Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada and the World, The Cold War:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/department/history/canada7-en.asp#cold_war
CBC Archives, Cold War Culture:
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?IDCat=
71&IDDos=274&IDLan=1&IDMenu=71
Cold War Synopsis:
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/coldwar/summary.html
Canada and the Korean War:
Canadian Encyclopedia, Korean War:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm
?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=J0004370
Veterans Affairs Canada, History, Korean War:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/koreawar/valour/introduction
CBC Archives, Canada’s Troops Arrive in Korea, December 1950:
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-71-385-2204-11
CBC Archives, Forgotten Heroes: Canada and the Korean War:
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?IDCat=
71&IDDos=112&IDLan=1&IDMenu=71
Canada and the Gulf War:
CBC Archives, The 1991 Gulf War:
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?id=1-71-593
Canada’s Peacekeeping Missions:
CBC News In Depth: History of Canadian Peacekeeping:
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?id=1-71-593
Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada and Peacekeeping:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/peacekeeping/menu-en.asp
Loyal Edmonton Regiment Museum, Military History, Peacekeeping: Suez Crisis:
http://www.lermuseum.org/ler/mh/1945topresent/suezcrisis.html
Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Rebuilding Afghanistan:
http://www.canada-afghanistan.gc.ca/menu-en.asp
Canada as a Peacemaker:
CBC Archives, Trudeau on Peking Peace Mission, 1983:
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-73-389-2211-10
Government of Canada, Canada’s Guide to the Global Ban on Landmines:
http://www.mines.gc.ca/I/menu-en.asp
Government of Canada, The International Movement to Ban Landmines:
http://www.mines.gc.ca/II/menu-en.asp
Government of Canada, Canada’s Support for Mine Action:
http://www.mines.gc.ca/II/menu-en.asp
Canada and the International Francophonie:
Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada in la Francophonie:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/foreign_policy/
francophonie/cdn_goals-en.asp
Canada and the Organization of American States:
Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Organization of American States:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/latinamerica/oas-history-en.asp
Atlas of Canada, Organization of American States:
http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/legends/oas_legend.html
Canada and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO):
Foreign Affairs and International Trade, North Atlantic Treaty Organization:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/foreign_policy/nato/canada_nato-en.asp
Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada and NATO:
http://www.international.gc.ca/foreign_policy/nato/menu-en.asp
Canada and the Inuit Circumpolar Conference:
Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada and the Circumpolar World:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/circumpolar/menu-en.asp
Inuit Circumpolar Conference:
http://www.inuitcircumpolar.com/index.php?ID=1&Lang=En
Canada and International Trade:
CBC Archives, The Auto Pact: En Route to Free Trade:
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?id=1-73-326
Foreign Affairs and International Trade, NAFTA:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/nafta-alena/menu-en.asp
Canada and Global Environmental Protection:
Climate Change, What is the Kyoto Protocol?
http://www.ec.gc.ca/climate/kyoto-e.html
6.3.4 APPLYING STRATEGIES
CBC News In Depth, The History of Canadian Peacekeeping, October 2003:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/cdnmilitary/peacekeeping.html