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Historical Disciplines and Subjects -- First Nations and Metis

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A Web of Understanding

Online exhibit based on the exhibit The Back Streets of Kootenay that opened at Fort Steele Heritage Town in the summer of 2001. "The exhibit examined the historic roots of prejudice and intolerance b...

http://www.fortsteele.ca/exhibits/understanding/intro.html

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Beacon Hill Park History

Written by Janis Ringuette, "This website presents a detailed chronological history of the Park from 1842 to 2004."

http://www.islandnet.com/beaconhillpark

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Beyond the Map: The Explorers of the Pacific Northwest

Produced with the Maritime Museum of British Columbia for the Virtual Museum of Canada, this Web site examines the European colonization of the Pacific Northwest, the effects which it had on the First...

http://www.beyondthemap.ca

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Canada in the Making

Educational resource developed by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions as part of its Early Canadiana Online Web site. Canada in the Making uses digital facsimiles of government do...

http://www.canadiana.org/citm

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Canadian Genealogy Centre

"The Canadian Genealogy Centre Web site is an online centre that will provide access to all genealogical resources in Canada. It will offer genealogical content, services, advice, and tools, and provi...

http://www.genealogy.gc.ca

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Canadianfilm.com: Celebrating the Past

Canadianfilm.com explores the history of Canadian film through essays and images. British Columbia content includes stills from the film Nass River Indians (Associated Screen News), and an article, "T...

http://www.canadianfilm.com/index.html

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Edward Curtis' The North American Indian Photographic Images

Digitized from source material at Northwestern University (Chicago, IL) and part of the American Memory site at the Library of Congress, "The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis is one of...

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html

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Journeys and Transformations: British Columbia Landscapes

A Virtual Museum of Canada Web site produced by the Royal British Columbia Museum that portrays five different environments in British Columbia: mountains, forests, grasslands, waters, and cities with...

http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/exhibits/journeys/english/ind...

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Kla-soms Kwuth Tooqen ("Answer with Strength"): A Toolbox for Responding to Crown Land Referrals

Developed by the Sliammon First Nation and Ecotrust Canada, "the purpose of this site is to provide some useful information to First Nations land and resource practitioners in managing and responding ...

http://www.nativemaps.org/referrals/index.html

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Kootenay, An Exploration of Historic Prejudice and Intolerance

An examination of racial prejudice and intolerance in the Kootenay region through the evidence of archival records, supported by contextual resources such as artifacts and digitized photographs. Alter...

http://www.fortsteele.ca/exhibits/kootenay/index.asp

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