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Crowd Sourced Primary Source Document Activities

Library of Congress - https://crowd.loc.gov/ 

Smithsonian - https://transcription.si.edu/ 

https://www.docsteach.org/ - Teaching with primary sources

Associated Press Archives YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHTK-2W11Vh1V4uwofOfR4w 

Iconic Moments in History: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh_tr7knrAS3eZ4X5xyayymw9ZJ_D7gE6 

Movietone Videos (their partner): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHq777_waKMJw6SZdABmyaA/playlists

History textbooks

• Classroom resources - Santor, D. Canadiana Scrapbook - Canadians At War 1914-1918.
• Henderson, I. Canadian Challenges - World Affairs Defining Canada’s Role.
• Henderson, I., et al. Global Links Connecting Canada.
• DesRivieres, D., et al. War and Peace: Canada’s Global Role. Prentice-Hall, 1996.

Web Sites

• Finding Dulcinea: http://www.findingdulcinea.com 
• http://madefromhistory.com/ - multimedia resources for WWI, WWII, Civil Rights and a blog on other topics
• The Canadian Great War Home Page  http://www.rootsweb.com/~ww1can/
• Canada in WW1  http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca  
• Canadian History Time Line  http://web.securenet.net/members/chastie/Hisintro.html
• The Dominion Institute http://www.dominion.ca
• Hellfire Corner _ Great War Web Pages, Tom Morgan’s Somme Diary, Canadian Tom Arnott - Soldier 214384, France and Flanders  http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/welcome.htm
• Canada in the war:  photos and documents about the war machine  http://www.warmuseum.ca
         Over the Top: http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/games/overtop/index_e.shtml
• Jack Turner’s War  http://collections.ic.gc.ca/turner/
• National Archives of Canada - Canadian Expeditionary Force of World War I http://www.archives.ca/index.html
• Robert Lindsay Mackay’s First World War Diary  http://www.finsysgp.com/macbob/RLM_Diary.html
• Trenches on the Web  http://www.worldwar1.com/
• Veterans Affairs Canada  http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/
• World War I  http://www.worldwar1.com
• Canadian War Museum  http://www.civilization.ca/cwm
• War Poets   http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Lost Poets
• Canadian Museum of Civilization  http://www.civilization.ca/
• Canadian Parliamentary Channel  http://www.cpac.ca
• History of African Canadians  http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/Multi_history/Blacks/Blacks_TOC.html
• Indigenous Education Network (OISE/UT) – links to other important sites  http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/IEN/ienpage.html         
• National Archives of Canada    http://www.archives
• National Library of Canada  www.nlc-bnc.ca/
• Royal Ontario Museum    http://www.rom.on.ca
• Stats Canada   http://www.statcan.ca
• Women in Canadian History  http://library.usask.ca/herstory/herstory.html
• CBC Archives: http://archives.cbc.ca/
• Canada Online:  http://canadaonline.about.com/
• http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/
• World Digital Library: http://www.wdl.org/en/
• History Engine: http://historyengine.richmond.edu/pages/home
• Historical Thinking Matters: http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/
• Time Machine: http://yttm.tv/ - click on year for original videos etc.
• http://www.gohistorygo.com/ - essential questions, nice conversational style, embedded multimedia

World War 1 in general (all countries)

• The Great War  http://www.infosites.net/general/the-great-war/
• The Great War  http://www.wtj.com/wars/greatwar/
• The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century  http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/maps/
• United Nations Home page  http://www.un.org/
• NATO Home page  http://www.nato.int/
• BBC Interactive Site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww1