Social Studies

Canadian Encyclopedia, Demography:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/
index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&TCE_Version=
J&ArticleId=J0002219&MenuClosed=0

Statistics Canada, Highlights from the 2001 Population:
http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Highlights/
Page1/Page1_e.cfm

Canadian Encyclopedia Online, 100 Greatest Events:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm
?PgNm=100Events&Params=A3

Population, Growth Rates and Trends:
http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Highlights/
Page2/Page2_e.cfm

A Profile of the Canadian Population:
http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Highlights/Index_e.cfm

Age Pyramid of the Population of Canada, 1971 to 2006:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/kits-trousses/animat/edu06a_0000-eng.htm

Censuses:
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/demo03.htm

Statistics Canada, Population:
http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/ind01/l3_3867_3433-eng.htm?hili_demo05
(Select desired table from this page for various thematic tables 1999 – 2001)

Atlas Canada, Significant Canadian Facts:
http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/learningresources/facts/supergeneral.html

No website recommended

Historica Minutes home page:
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/default.do

Sue Rodriguez and the Right-to-die Debate:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-74-1135/people/sue_rodriguez/

Medicare and Social Welfare: Tommy Douglas and the NDP:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-74-851/people/tommy_douglas/

Rick Hansen, Man in Motion:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-74-698/people/rick_hansen/

Human Rights Commission, Human Rights in Canada: A Historical Perspective:
http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/en/index.asp
(excellent site, timeline of human rights, summary of milestone events)

United Nations Association of Canada, Human Rights:
http://www.unac.org/rights/index.html

Universal Rights Network:
http://www.universalrights.net/

History of Universal Human Rights:
http://www.universalrights.net/main/histof.htm

Amnesty International:
http://www.amnesty.org/

Human Rights Commission, Human Rights in Canada: A Historical Perspective:
http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/en/index.asp
(timeline of human rights, summary of milestone events)

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Bill C-31, The Indian Register:
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/pr/info/tir_e.html

Celebrating Women’s Achievements:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/women/index-e.html

Timeline of Canadian Women’s History:
http://www.stfx.ca/people/nforeste/
308website/women%27shistorytimeline.html

Manitoba Women’s Directorate, Celebrating Women’s History:
http://www.gov.mb.ca/wd/publications/whm/cwh_time.html

CBC Archives, Canadian Drafts Human Rights Legislation:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-659-3737/conflict_war/diplomacy/clip1

CBC Archives, Days to Remember:
http://archives.cbc.ca/days_to_remember
(Selected events in Canada’s history from 1930s to 1990s; includes radio clips, photos, some video clips from CBC archives)

Women Become Persons (1929):
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-69-337-1801-10/life_society/women_persons_case/

The Road to Bilingualism: Manitoba’s French Minority (1964):
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-73-655-3627/politics_economy/bilingualism/clip4

Equality First: The Royal Commission on the Status of Women:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-68-1150/arts_entertainment/canadian_content/

Dictionary of Canadian Biography online: up to death in 1920:
http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7577&interval=25&&PHPSESSID=t72nodvjbrk8j5iudioea1o3r7

Index of Famous Canadians:
http://www.canadians.ca/

Canada Heirloom Series:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/
(Select Volume: Pathfinders, Visionaries, Wayfarers, then select People for biographical information on famous Canadians)

Canada’s Digital Collections, Canadian Portraits:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/portraits/
(Photographs and background information from the National Archives of selected individuals and groups in Canadian history, organized by theme)

Library of Parliament, Prime Ministers of Canada:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/ people/key/PrimeMinister.asp?Language=E

Canada’s Digital Collections, Women Artists in Canada:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/waic/collection.htm

Prime Minister of Canada website:
http://pm.gc.ca/eng/default.asp

Canada’s Digital Collections, Heroes of Lore and Yore: Canadian Heroes in Fact and Fiction:
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/nlc-bnc/heroes_lore_yore_can_hero-ef/1998/econtent.htm

CBC Archives, Peacekeepers and Peacemakers: Canada’s Diplomatic Contribution:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-659/conflict_war/diplomacy/

CBC Archives, Canadian Drafts Human Rights Legislation:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-659-3737/conflict_war/diplomacy/clip1

CBC Archives, Canada and the International Criminal Court:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-659-3736/conflict_war/diplomacy/clip8
(interview with Lloyd Axworthy)

CBC Archives, A Lesson in Landmines:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-659-3736/conflict_war/diplomacy/clip8

Famous 5 Website:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/famous5/

Amnesty International:
http://www.amnesty.org/

No website recommended

Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Citizenship:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.asp

Applying for Citizenship:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship/index.asp

Information about Canadian Citizenship:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/index.asp

Historica Minutes, Baldwin and Lafontaine:
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10140&sl=e

CBC Archives, Lester Pearson’s Suez Solution:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-1290-7514/conflict_war/blue_berets/clip1

CBC Archives, the Oka Crisis:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-99/conflict_war/oka/

CBC Archives, Peacekeepers and Peacemakers: Canada’s Contribution:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-659/conflict_war/diplomacy/

CBC Archives, Canada and the Fight against Apartheid:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-703/conflict_war/apartheid/

NFB, Living History, Québec Referendum:
http://mediasphere.nfb.ca/E/history/content/quebec_referendum.epl

CBC Archives, The Canadian Compromise on Iraq:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-659-3739/conflict_war/diplomacy/clip9

Justice Canada, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
http://canada.justice.gc.ca/Loireg/charte/const_en.html
(full text of the Charter)

Canadian Heritage, Your Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
http://www.pch.gc.ca/ddp-hrd/canada/guide/index-eng.cfm

Citizenship and Immigration, Refugees:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/index.asp

No websites recommended

A Class Divided:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/

Human Rights in Canada: A Historical Perspective:
http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/en/index.asp

Internment of Ukrainians in Canada, 1914 – 1920:
http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/

The Peopling of Canada, Post World War Two and Displaced Persons:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/canada1946/chapter1.html

CBC News In Depth, Chinese Immigration:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/china/chinese_immigration.html

Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act:
http://www.ccnc.ca/redress/

Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1996), Residential Schools:
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ch/rcap/sg/sgm10_e.html

A Lost Heritage: Canada’s Residential Schools:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-70-692/disasters_tragedies/residential_schools/

Canada in the Making, Aboriginals: Treaties and Relations: Deculturation 1878 – 1898:
http://www.canadiana.org/citm/themes/aboriginals/aboriginals9_e.html

Canada in the Making, Aboriginal Residential Schools:
http://www.canadiana.org/citm/specifique/abresschools_e.html

Province of Manitoba, French language Services, “Above All, Common Sense”, The Historical Background (Manitoba Schools Question):
http://www.gov.mb.ca/fls-slf/report/histbackgrd.html

The Prime Ministers of Canada, Wilfred Laurier, Manitoba Schools Question:
http://www.primeministers.ca/laurier/bio_3.php

A Lost Heritage: Canada’s Residential Schools:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-70-692/disasters_tragedies/residential_schools/
(includes CBC audio and video clips)

CBC Archives, The Road to Bilingualism:
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?id=1-73-655

Dialogue Canada, Open Book of Citizens:
http://www.uni.ca/livreouvert/textes.html

Aboriginal Peoples’ Television Network:
http://www.aptn.ca/

CBC, National Aboriginal Achievement Awards:
http://www.cbc.ca/aboriginal/

CBC Archives, Healing Through Theatre, “Reclaiming Our Spirits”:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-70-692-4010/disasters_tragedies/residential_schools/clip8

Amnesty International, At Home and Abroad – A Human Rights Agenda for Canada:
http://www.amnesty.ca/library/canada/
(proposes a strategy for Canada, discusses current human rights and social justice issues in which Canada is involved)

Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act, Chinese families seek head tax compensation:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2005/11/17/head-tax051117.html

Residential Schools Museum:
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/news/residentialschools.shtml

United Church, Aboriginal Peoples, Justice, and Right Relationship:
http://www.united-church.ca/sales/publications/1551341247

CBC Archives, Apology and Compensation, The Internment of the Japanese:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-568-2924/conflict_war/internment/clip8

Immigrant Voices, Introduction:
http://www.canadianhistory.ca/iv/1945-1967/

APTN:
http://www.aptn.ca/

Highlights from the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples:
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ch/rcap/rpt/index_e.html

CBC Television:
http://www.cbc.ca/television/

Canadian Heritage, Official Languages:
http://www.pch.gc.ca/eng/1266413216352/1268249248381

Canadian Heritage, Multiculturalism:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/English/multiculturalism/index.asp

Media Awareness.org, Canadian Cultural Policies:
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/cultural_policies/index.cfm

Canada Council for the Arts:
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/