Welcome to a great site of Canadiana links! This page contains a collection of resources (primarily visual) that are especially useful for Social Studies 10 teachers in the province of Alberta.
Why should I use this site?
This site is different from many other links pages because I have designed the links to take you directly to a specific picture, chart, map, or piece of text. This eliminates hours of surfing through layers of web pages for something you can use in the classroom. If you have an on-line computer in class (or better yet, a computer screen projector), you can use this page as you teach!
Who researched these links?
My name is Lloyd Grosfield. I am a teacher of Social Studies 10 at Concordia High School in Edmonton, Alberta. I have taught Social Studies 10 for more than twelve years and like most teachers I am constantly searching for new teaching approaches along with up-to-date resources. Using the Internet in the class has lots of possibilities, but it is very easy to become swamped with information. I have kept this page very practical and easy to use.
The various links have been arranged by topic and
theme according to the Alberta Social Studies 10 curriculum. Just click on the
highlighted links and you will be taken directly to the desired image, text, or map.
Please feel free to contact me at the e-mail address below if you have
any questions, comments, or suggestions.
Topic A: Canada in the 20th Century
Theme 1 - Sovereignty * Vimy
Ridge Memorial in France - great picture tour
* In Flanders'
Fields
*
In Flanders' Fields - picture of actual handwritten manuscript!
* World War I -
Canada's involvement - great text, images
* Map of the
Western Front - WWI (shows locations of Canadian battles)
* Capture
of Vimy Ridge in 1917
* Vimy Ridge - more
pics and info from Veterans Affairs Canada
* Battle
of Ypres (1915) - picture
* No
man's land in WW1 - picture between the trenches
* Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier (text included)
* Billy
Bishop makes a kill (1917)
* Billy Bishop - picture and short
bio
* Excellent historical archive
of planes of the Canadian Air Force (includes Avro Arrow!)
* Halifax
explosion of 1917 - picture
* Boer
War 1899 - Canadian volunteers leaving to fight for Britain
*
Last Spike ceremony - 1885
* British monarchy homepage
* Map of
Canada at Confederation, 1867
* Border
with USA picture - longest undefended in the world
* World War II
- Canada's role (good textual history with pics and links)
* Churchill,
King, Roosevelt in Washington - 1942
* Churchill,
King, Roosevelt in Quebec - 1943
*
Dieppe
raid - Canadians taken prisoner
* Dieppe
raid - Canadian soldiers killed on the beach
* Normandy
invasion - Juno beach captured by Canadians
* Normandy
invasion - Canadians landing
* Dieppe
tour - good beach pics.
* WWII Canadian propaganda
posters - many to see!
* Korean War -
Canada's role (good text and pics)
* United Nations - special photo
exhibits (landmines, peacekeeping, human rights, etc.)
* United Nations - Outstanding
pictorial tour (over 100 pictures!)
* United
Nations - first meeting in 1945
* NATO - list of member countries
with links to each country
* NATO - history and present
challenges (very informative and up to date)
* NATO - current ambassadors
from member nations
* Lester
Pearson receives Nobel Peace Prize in 1957
* Canadian peacekeeping - medals won
by members of UNEF 1 (history and picture)
* NORAD
- DEW line base in Cape Parry
* Bomarc missile (early
1960's)
* Canada's
Centennial cake
* Foreign
policy - picture of Trudeau in China, 1973
* Foreign policy -
Canadian gov't remarks on foreign aid
* US Polar Sea icebreaker homepage (the one
that traversed the Northwest Passage in 1985)
* US/Canada/Mexico trade - map shows
direction and value of trade
* Trudeau
and Queen Elizabeth sign Constitution Act in April, 1982
Theme 2 - Regionalism
* Text of the
FLQ Manifesto (1970)
* Map of Alberta (by tourist
region)
* Alberta - selected pics gallery (shows
geographic diversity of province)
* Canada: population map
* Francophones in Canada - population
distribution map
* Canada's physical geography - map
* Map of Canada (political)
* Map
of Canadian geographic superlatives (biggest, hottest, etc.)
* Leduc
#1 gusher (1947) - Start of Alberta's oil industry
* Hibernia oil rig - Newfoundland
* St. Lawrence Seaway - pictures
and text
* St. Lawrence Seaway - history
* Metis buffalo hunter
* Hudson Bay Company -
a short history
* Canada's geographic regions -
textual description
* Canadian
weather - map of superlatives
* Vive
le Quebec libre! - deGaulle delivers his famous speech in Montreal (1967)
* James
Cross - photo taken by his FLQ kidnappers
* Levesque
wins 1976 Quebec election
Theme 3 - Identity
* Famous
Canadians - Great links to hundreds of famous Canucks (no, not the Vancouver kind!)
* Symbols of Canada - pictures and
text (very colorful and informative!)
* Sports in Canada - text from
gov't of Canada
* Canadian Football League homepage (How about those
Stampeders!)
* NHL homepage - (The Leafs Rule!)
* Juno Awards for Canadian music
* Map demonstrating gun ownership in Canada
* Immigration to Canada - map shows distribution of
various cultures
* Multiculturalism - a textual
history
* Ben
Johnson wins in Seoul - 1988 (this couldn't be a guy on steroids!)
* Henderson
scores!
* Terry
Fox during his Marathon of Hope
Topic B - Citizenship in Canada Theme 1 - Politics and Government
* Prime Ministers
of Canada - pics, short bios, anecdotes - very good!
* Canadian
government - organizational chart and links
* Chart of current
party standings in House of Commons
* Canadian Parliament trivia
* Chart of Canadian Governors
General
* List of current federal
cabinet ministers
* Canadian Senators and MPs - list and
biographies
* Liberal Party homepage
* Reform Party homepage
* NDP homepage
* Conservative Party homepage
* Bloc Quebecois homepage
* Natural Law homepage (Yogic flying anyone?)
* Green Party homepage
* Communist Party homepage
Theme 2 - Citizen Participation
* Picture
of Winnipeg general strike of 1919
* Council of Canadians homepage
* Canadian Labor Congress
* National Citizens Coalition
* Federal political
representation of women
Theme 3 - Rights and Responsibilities
* Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (text and related links from the UN)
* Canadian Charter of
Rights and Freedoms
* Canada and International
Human Rights
* Amnesty International homepage
* Canadian Red Cross - history
* American Red Cross - brief history
* Japanese
Canadian internees - picture
* Slocan
internment camp for Japanese Canadians in WWII
* Seized
fishing boats of Japanese Canadians
* Women
win recognition as 'persons' - McClung,McPhail, and PM King in 1935
Thanks for visiting. Please inform me if any of the links are not working. I would also appreciate hearing of other sites that you find useful for teaching Canadian studies. I will be adding links to this page as I find them.
If you have comments or suggestions, email me at lwgros@telusplanet.net This page created with Netscape Navigator Gold
