British Columbia History Portal

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Albert Tissandier, Drawings of Nature and Industry in the U.S., 1885

A virtual exhibit and digitized set of drawings produced by French illustrator Albert Tissandier on four journeys to North America in 1885, 1886, 1890 and 1893. The collection includes scenes from Van...

http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/tissandier/index.html

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Art2Life, the Canadian Century

This site is offline pending renewal of a license. "Art2Life: The Canadian Century brings to the world an educational tool for students, educators, and life long learners interested in Canadian cul...

http://www.art2life.ca/

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British Columbia Archives

The British Columbia Archives is the provincial government's central archives, as well as an archives for private records of provincial significance. Check here for access to the visual records databa...

http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca

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Canada by Train

Summary (quoted from the Introduction): "Canada, by Train has three main sections. Ties That Bind provides a short history of railways in Canada and how they marketed their passenger services. It crea...

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/trains/index-e.html

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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 Heritage Gallery

The Canadian Heritage Gallery (Mississauga, Ontario) publishes historic images and associated descriptive information; reproductions can also be ordered online. The site is endorsed by the Governor Ge...

http://www.canadianheritage.org/

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Canadian Pacific Railway Archives

The Canadian Pacific Railway Archives in Montreal, Quebec, includes a gallery of historical photographs, artwork, a history of the CPR, and a CPR timeline.

http://www.cprheritage.com

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Captain James Cook

A virtual and physical exhibit presented by Hanover College's Duggan Library between September 3 and December 14, 2007 on the voyages of Captain James Cook. The main purpose of the exhibit is to celeb...

http://library.hanover.edu/cook

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Early Images of Canada: Illustrations from Rare Books

"This website hosts 550 searchable images (mostly engravings) from the Library and Archives Canada's Rare Book Collection. All of the images are taken from books, often exploration or missionary narra...

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/earlyimages/

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Emily Carr

Created by the Vancouver Art Gallery for the Virtual Museum of Canada, this Web site may be the largest and most comprehensive on the artist Emily Carr (1871-1945). You will find a searchable database...

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/EmilyCarr/

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