British Columbia History Portal

Historical Disciplines and Subjects -- Politics and Government

(6 resources)

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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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Elections BC

From its front page: "A non-partisan, independent Office of the Legislature, Elections BC is responsible for administering the electoral process in B.C. This includes provincial general elections and...

http://www.elections.bc.ca/

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Explosion on the Kettle Valley Line: The Death of Peter Verigin

This Web site explores the mystery of an explosion on a Canadian Pacific Railway train on October 29, 1924 that killed the Doukhobor leader Peter Verigin in British Columbia.

http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/verigin/indexen.html

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Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History

Project summary: "The overall goal of this project is to create 13 websites, each an archives of primary historical documents about a different unsolved mystery in Canadian history. Each will be an a...

http://www.canadianmysteries.ca

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Socialist History Project

From the About page: "The purpose of the Socialist History Project is to make available key documents, manifestos, reminiscences and essays, by and about the revolutionary socialist movement in Canada...

http://www.socialisthistory.ca

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Who Killed William Robinson?: Race, Justice, and Settling the Land: A Historic Whodunnit

Created by history professors Ruth Sandwell and John Lutz, this Web site recreates the events surrounding the 1868 murder of William Robinson, a Black settler on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. ...

http://web.uvic.ca/history-robinson/

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