Canadian History in the 20th Century

Please note that Library and Archives Canada and Ontario Archives pages migrate to different addresses a lot. If their links below do not work, please put the description in your internet browser and find them as they are invaluable sites.

Sites of General Interest

• County of Oxford Archives 
• Petitions in Oxford County
• Canada: A People's History
• Historical Atlas of Canada - limited now but under construction
• 100 Great Events in Canadian History time line
• DFAIT Canada and the World
• Images Canada
• Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Statistics Canada historical statistics
• Globe, Toronto, 1907
• Catalogues 1930-9
• U.S. History index
• History of agriculture at Archives of Ontario
• Bungalow house style
• Canadian paintings in the 30's at Cyber Muse

Photo Representations

• Sample Visual projects
• Archives Canada searchable photo database
• Archives Canada list of virtual photo exhibits
• Canadian Heritage Gallery
• Picturing the Century - this is an American site with excellent photos 
• Picture History - a great variety of pictures (American with excellent photos)
• America from the Great Depression to World War II - 164 000 photos searchable by key word 
• Chicago Daily News Photos - 1902 - 1933
• Touring Turn of the Century America, Detroit Publishing Company 1880-1920
• WWI Cenotaph project - a good project with a section on poster and photos
• Ontario History Quest digital collections (are 138 scans related to WW1 here; units for Gr.7,8,10,12)
• Canada's Prime Ministers at First Among Equals

World War I

• First World War: Nurses Oral Histories at Library and Archives Canada
• Interviews with veterans and a photo archive
• Rationing in WWI (a British site but interesting archival materials)
• WWI Photo archive of the home front and music and songs
• WWI in England: factory work, schools, Zeppelin raids, influenza
• The Home Front and War Heroes Remembered and other war exhibits Archives Ontario
• University of Manitoba Canadian Wartime Experience original documents project
• Propaganda in posters at Royal Alberta Museum
• WWI love story through documents at Archeion
• War Diaries at Library and Archives Canada
• Memoirs at Courage Remembered
• War Diary of Private Donald Fraser, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1915-16
• Sid Unwin diary
• Letters Home from Canadian Military Heritage
• A Mother's war at Virtual Museum of Canada - diary pages, post cards and images
• Nursing documents from the Virtual Library.
• Nursing Sister Helen Fowlds
• Van Doos from CBC Archives
• The Memory Project
• Inventors and the War
• Vimy Ridge at Canadian War Museum
• Canada and the First World War at Civilization.ca 
• Military History
• Brantford Expositor, 1915, 1916
• The American Field Service
• CBC Welcome Home, Soldier
• WW1 Sketchbook at U of Victoria Special Collections
• 36 page photo album at U of Victoria Special Collections
• Our Ontario supports digital projects online. Find World War 1 photos, clippings, artifacts
• World War I attestation papers - searchable

The Spanish Flu

• At home tragedies Library and Archives Canada
• OTTAWA'S DANCE WITH THE SPANISH LADY by Marc St. Pierre
• 1919 Stanley Cup cancelled
• Photos at about.com (many ads may be a distraction here)
• Legion magazine
• Wikipedia on Spanish flu
• Spanish Flu panics Canada

• Facts on the House of Refuge
• Cemetery list

The Depression

• Images at the Canadian Heritage Gallery
• General facts on the Depression
• Parks Canada The Great Depression
• Saskatchewan Depression
• American Federal Writer's Project: Voices from the 30s and an illustrated introduction to the project entitled the Great Depression and the New Deal 
• The Depression Papers of Herbert Hoover - active links to scans are down the left side organized and the text is to the point
• A site on the stock market crash and Depression , a link from Ms Ramsey!!!
• Dirty Thirties at McCord Museum

Halifax Explosion

• Facts and archival material at Library and Archives Canada 
• Historica Minute
• Info sheet and ships of the explosion at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
• Remembrance Book listing the names of those who died

• Report from the New York Times
• Americans recount their experiences

• Early adventures with the automobile from Eyewitness History (there are ads on this site) and it is American
• First woman to fly the English Channel 1912 from Eyewitness History (American)
• Charles Lindbergh 1927 from Eyewitness History (American)

Labour

• Canadian Labour History - especially interesting are the VOICES links
• Sweat shops in Canada - women recount their experiences
• 'Tough cookies' of the Great Depression
• Children at work 1908-1912 from Eyewitness History (American)
• Child Labor in America 1908-1912 - In 1908 the National Child Labour Committee employed Lewis Hine as their staff investigator and photographer. Hine travelled the country taking pictures of children working in factories. An excellent site.
• Immigration stats

Voting

• The History of the Vote in Canada Canada Civilization Museum
• Women's Suffrage Pictures from the US
• Annie Ada York Secord diary on voting

• The CBC Archives

• The History of Canada's Public Pensions at Canadian Civilization Museum

Royalty

• 1939 tour by train
• Search the diary of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Put "royal train" in the search box to find references in his diary.
• Royal train photos at Our Ontario. Put "royal train" in the search box.

Family Life

• Domestic Technology

Sites For Teachers

• Curriculum Services Canada
• Queen's University World War I unit
• Canada's National History Society
• Teach students how to read pictures
• WWII links at Michigan Historical Museum
• NARA Lessons on teaching with documents
• Education ideas at Archives of Ontario for elementary students and secondary students also using primary documents