CANADIAN HISTORY RESOURCES

Canada: History, Identity & Culture Course Package - R. Grossi

- Browse:

• 970s North American History
• 971s Canadian History

• The Canadian Encyclopedia Online
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

• use KEYWORD search
• use WCI search as example
• use "SEARCH FILTERS" to delimit location
• sort results if necessary

See: WCI library cell for sample keywords, searches and Dewey areas to browse

GENERAL

Canadian Chronologies Page
CBC News in Review Index
CBC Archives (search by topic)
National Archives of Canada
National Archives of Canada - Subject Search
National Archives of Canada - ArchiviaNet
Histori.ca - Canadian Moments
Civilization.ca - Canadian History
Canadian War Museum
Canadian History Resources
The History of Canada and Canadians
Canadian Chronologies
Canada : A People’s History
100 Great Events in Canadian History
Historical Atlas of Canada
Timeline of Canadian History from Wikipedia
Art2Life - The Canadian Century (Interactive Timeline)

The Canadian West
Exploration, the Fur trade and the Hudson's Bay Company
Virtual Museum of New France
Tracing the History of New France

GENERALLY POST 1867

Riel : Dumont : 1885 Rebellion
Canada in the Making - Biographies & Reference

The Constitutional Debate
Canadian Constitutional History Page

World War Page
History and Heritage of Canada's Air Force
1939-1945 A Soldier's War
Canadian Military Heritage Project
Canadian War Museum

Women in Canada Page

History Resources
1920s - The Roaring Twenties
1930s - The Great Depression

PIONEERS

Canada Society and Culture History (Google directory)
Canadian History - Digital Collections
Civilization.ca - Canadian heritage - Canadian history
Early Rural Life
Early Canadiana
Canadian Genealogy & History
Explore North - Klondike Gold Rush

• most search engines will extrapolate variations of a word if the "main" word is used (eg./ the singular vs. plural form of a word)
• use quote marks " ..." to enclose phrases as necessary
• attach + sign to each string if needed to narrow
• - (minus sign) to say not this term

you may search Google now:

alternately use the Advanced Search option
Google Advanced Search (click on below example for details)
Google will search for various related words based on its singular form (eg./ journal, journals or article, articles)

MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER & JOURNAL DATABASES
***Remember***
History by definition is not current. Therefore, these sources are not necessarily the best for this discipline.

• Select preferred package of databases:
  from YRDSB's Trillium Databases (Home access requires password)

  • including Ebscohost's Canadian Points of View

  or directly from
    - InfoTrac by Thomson / Gale - includes all our Gale ebooks (Home access requires password)
   - or -
              from Vaughan Public Libraries - Online Databases (VPL membership required)

• Select appropriate database(s) within preferred package

• Choose "Advanced Search" tab

• Ensure Fulltext selected

• type keyword(s):

  • combine keywords needed with AND operator

  • search most important keywords in Subject field (or broaden search to default fields if necessary)

  • use truncation as required

  • cluster similar concepts if necessary to optimize on line limitations

  • check assigned subject headings of highly relevant articles for alternate keywords

  • no one perfect strategy -- play around for the one that works best for given search

Infotrac articles may be emailed directly to user

GROUP WORK SUGGESTION
Use a wiki such as Microsoft Office Live for group work from various remote locations

Create and share your work online

Edit anytime, from anywhere

Pick who can access your documents

Share changes in real time

Files are stored securely online

It's MS Office so files can be resaved to open locally
      on MS Office (without going through the Web)

It's FREE!

Technology How To's ...

• Google Advanced Image Search

• YouTube

• Download / Convert Streaming Videos (Save streamed videos from YouTube, etc. for  presenting without access to Internet)

• Screen Capture (capturing an image that cannot otherwise be save to file)

• for more complete Tech Help pls see: Technology How To's ...