GENERAL LINKS
- Canadian Citizenship Practice Test
- Video series Canada: A People’s History
- Video series Canada: The Story of Us
- Video series A World Without Canada
- The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Canada History
- Early Canadiana Online
- Historica – Dominion
- Veterans Affair — Remembrance…History
- J.J.’s Complete Guide to Canada
- Canada: A Country by Consent
- Canada Alive
- Canada Hall – Canadian History
- History on the Net
- Canadian History Ehx
Study Links
- Social Studies 11 Flash Cards
- BC Socials 11 Provincial Study Guide
- Review Sheet
- Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship
- What is an infographic?
- Government vocab list
- Geography Vocab list
HISTORY
- War
- Resources — Canada at War
- Working People: A History of Labour in BC
- Confederation
- Active History: Canada’s First World War
- Prime Ministers of Canada
- Prime Ministers of Canada
- Explore the history of Canada
- Veterans Affairs Canada – Canada Remembers
MISC.
- The Last Best West – Advertising for Immigrants
- History of Canadian Mail-Order Catalogues
- 21 Things you may not know about the Indian Act
- Indian Status: 5 things you need to know
- British Columbia – An Untold History Timeline
Groups:
- Bamboo Shoots: Chinese Canadian Legacies in BC
- Jewish Museum & Archives of BC
- South Asian Stories
- Nikkei Stories
- Black Strathcona
- Canada forced these Japanese Canadians into internment camps. Now they’re at the same long-term care home
World War I:
- 10 Facts About the Build up to World War One
- The First World War – Veterans Affairs Canada
- First World War.com – A multimedia history of World War One
- Canadian Soldier Sikhs: A Little Story in a Big War
- WW1 Colour Project – Vimy Foundation
- The Battle at Vimy Ridge – Vimy Foundation
- Canada’s FWW Battles
- Research Links – Vimy Foundation
- Vimy Ridge
- Halifax Explosion
- World War One – Causes
- How the Treaty of Versailles ended WWI and started WWII
- Chemical Weapons: A Deadly History
- Chemical Warfare World War 1
- Battle of the Somme
- World War 1 Encyclopedia: Dunne, Michael Joseph
- Over the Top (choose your own adventure)
- Canada’s Great War Album
- The Great War — Battle of Ypres
- The Great War — Battle of The Somme
- The Great War—Battle of Vimy Ridge
- The Great War — Battle of Passchendaele
- The Great War — Hundred Days Campaign
Post World War I — Great Depression:
- King, William Lyon Mackenzie – Canadian Encyclopedia
- Winnipeg General Strike – Canadian Encyclopedia
- Bennett-Biography-First Among Equals
- The Dionne Quintuplets: 5 Canadian girls raised in a “baby zoo”
Interwar years:
World War II:
- World War II Timeline – Canadian Encyclopedia
- Second World War collection – Canadian Encyclopedia
- The Second World War – Veterans Affairs Canada
- Second World War | War & Conflict | CBC Archives
- Canadians in Hong Kong
- Veterans Affairs: Canadians in Hong Kong
- JapaneseCanadianHistory.net Historical Overview
- Veteran Stories: Ernest Peter Bone
- Canada’s Effort in WW2–notes
- Defining Moments Canada: WWII Digital Resources
- Heritage Minutes: Marion Orr
- The female Guns World War II Inside RAFs woman ferry squadron
- Canadian Women in World War II
- Spitfires in the rhododendrons: Canadian women war pilots
- Secret Alberta: POWs on the Prairies
- First-hand knowledge disappearing as ranks of WW2 vets fade into history
- Meet some of Canada’s oldest war veterans
- How Ottawa seized a golden opportunity to help defeat the Nazis in the Second World War
- Daughter of Italian-Canadian Interned during WW2 says Trudeau’s apology bring closure
- Raid on Dieppe masked secret mission to steal Nazis’ Enigma machine
Hong Kong:
- Canadian Hong Kong Veterans
- Hong Kong Veterans Association
- “A cauldron of hell”: The story of Canada’s Hong Kong veterans
- Second World War veteran recounts horrors of Battle of Hong Kong
- Canadians in Hong Kong
- Hong Kong vets get compensation
- Canada accepts Japan’s apology for Hong Kong PoWs
Japanese-Canadian Internment:
Post War Era:
- The Home Front-notes
- The Korean War – Veterans Affairs Canada
- Lester Bowles Pearson – Biography
- Vietnam War – Canadian Enclyclopedia
- Lost to history: the Canadians who fought in Vietnam
Quebec:
- Lesage, Jean – Canadian Encyclopedia
- Quiet Revolution – Canadian Encyclopedia
- Front de libération du Québec – Canadian Encyclopedia
- FLQ and the October Crisis – Canadian Encyclopedia
- Lévesque, René
GOVERNMENT
- What are Canada’s three branches of government?
- How does a bill become Law?
- PARLINFO
- The Political Compass
- Conservative Party of Canada | Conservative Party of Canada
- Canada’s NDP / NPD du Canada
- Liberal Party of Canada
- Canadian Encyclopedia: Bloc Quebecois
- Bloc Quebecois/
- History of the vote in Canada
- How federal elections work in Canada
- Making sense of electoral reform
- FAQs on elections
- Constitution – The Canada Guide
- There’s another new faction in the Senate
- How Canada’s Government Works (explainer)
- The Speluncean Explorers
- Regina v. Dudley and Stephens
- Two Conservative Senators have their own Reform Plan — Quit Before Mandatory Retirement at 75
- BC Senator Yonah Martin won’t be leaving office any time soon
Charter and Human Rights:
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms | Our Country, Our Parliament
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms – The Canadian Encyclopedia
- John Peters Humphrey – The Canadian Encyclopedia
- BC Human Rights Clinic
- BC Human Rights Tribunal
- CCPA Policy Brief: Rolling Back Human Rights in BC
- What are the universal human rights?
- Why Does the Right to Protest Matter?
Federal Election
- What British Columbians need to know about the federal election
- How do the main parties compare on these issues?
- 2021 Election Platform Guide
- CBC’s chat bot helps you spot ‘fake news’
- The real ‘fake news’
- So, you think you’ve spotted some ‘fake news’
- Teaching Information Literacy Skills in the Digital Age
- Elections Canada
- Vote Compass – Youth Edition
- Should the voting age be lowered to 16? (US article)
GEOGRAPHY
Demography:
- World Population Clock
- Hans Rosling: global population growth, box by box
- Remarkable decline in fertility rates
- Canada’s Population Clock (real time model)
- The demographic time bomb that could hit America
- How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World
China One Child Policy:
- China One Child Policy – Overview of the One Child Policy in China
- The High Cost of China’s One Child Policy
- China’s Once-Child Policy
- China’s Two-Child Policy
Women and Children:
Issues hindering development:
- Third World Debt Undermines Development — Global Issues
- BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Why world’s taps are running dry
- Children and human rights | Amnesty International
- Women’s Rights — Global Issues
- Ten Countries with the Highest Population in the World
- Half Of World’s Population Could Face Climate-induced Food Crisis By 2100
- Canada’s role in international debt relief initiatives
Resources:
- UN Water scarcity
- The global water crisis
- Japanese scientists create meat from poop
- Meat made from human feces
- From human poo to animal food
- Why we all need to start drinking toilet water
- From toilet to tap
Standard of Living:
- UN HDI
- Free The Children
- Indices & Data | Human Development Index | Human Development Reports (HDR) | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- World Day 2009: Give girls a chance: End child labour – World Day Against Child Labour – 12 June – Campaign and advocacy
- Chocolate Company Scorecard 2009
- Major chocolate companies still using child labour | April 2009 | New Internationalist
- Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes
- The Greenest Cities in the World 2021 – from each continent
- Vancouver ranked #1 greenest city in the world
Economic Development:
Facts about Women
- More than half of all North American university students are women.
- Women make up half the work force but take home 20% less pay.
- Women make up 53% of the world’s population but own only 1% of the world’s wealth.
- In Canada, women hold 11% of the seats on corporate boards and 21% of the seats in Parliament.
- If a stay-at-home mom got paid market value wages they would earn $117,867 a year.
- In Canada, men perform an average of 2.5 hours of unpaid work at home while women do an average of 4.3 hours.
- According to the Gender Gap Report, Canada ranks 20th in how well we divide our resources between men and women. That’s behind Sri Lanka, Latvia and the U.S.
Urbanization:
- Sustainability: City of Vancouver
- ‘There’s no other option’: the radical plan to move Mexico’s government
- The 100 million city: is 21st century urbanisation out of control?
Environment – Water
- 5 Gyres – Understanding Plastic Pollution Through Exploration, Education, and Action
- Cause and effect for global warming | Time for change
- Acid Rain: Causes, History, and Effects
- Can Sun and Wind Make More Saltwater Drinkable?
- National Climate Assessment: Great Plains’ Ogallala Aquifer drying out
Environment – Air
- Adapting to Our Changing Climate
- The Writing of “Silent Spring”
- The Paris Agreement
- The lost history of the electric car
- David Suzuki
Climate Change:
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