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Notable Contributions

Prepare a multi-pronged advertising campaign that celebrates the most notable contributions of Canada's founding nations and selected immigrant groups to the development of western Canada.


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References

Title: The Hungarian Trunk
Host: Pier 21 Society
Description: This website contains an interactive tour about Hungarian immigrants who came to Canada.
Navigation Tips: Click on the left hand menu to access categories.
URL: http://www.pier21.ca/culture-trunks/hungary/tom-weisz

 

Title: The Canadian West: Anticipation—Contact—Accommodation
Host: Library and Archives Canada
Description: This website is an exhibition that explores several aspects of European arrival and settlement in the Canadian West, and provides a glimpse of those people who helped forge the new society and bring the West into Confederation.
Navigation Tips: Click on a topic to access information and images.
URL:

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canadian-west/052901_e.html

 

Title: Alberta’s Francophone Heritage: Early Settlement
Host: Heritage Community Foundation
Description: This website contains information about the French-Canadian settlement of Western Canada.Scroll down to read the text.
Navigation Tips: Click on topics in the left-hand-side menu or under Quicklinks to access additional information.
Note: Scroll down and click on Feature Audio to listen to a clip entitled Tall orders: Government requirements of homesteaders in the early West; or click on Read to access the text.
URL: http://www.abheritage.ca/francophone/en/background/early_settlement.html

 

Title:

A Tale of Perseverance: Chinese Immigration to Canada

Host:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Description:

This website contains information about the history of Chinese immigrants to Canada.

Navigation Tips:

Scroll down and click on a topic to access textual information and to view related clips.

URL:

http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/society/immigration/chinese-immigration-to-canada-a-tale-of-perseverance/topic---chinese-immigration-to-canada-a-tale-of-perseverance.html

 

Title:

Passages to Canada Digital Archive

Host:

The Dominion Institute

Description:

This website contains online collections detailing the immigrant and refugee journey to Canada through oral history and memorabilia.

Navigation Tips:

Click either on Enter Flash or on Enter HTML to enter the site. Then, click on a topic—Life Before Canada, The Journey, Adjusting To Canada, What Canada Means To You—to access information.
Note: Click on a name to read that person’s story. To listen to the story, click on Original or English beside the megaphone icon.

URL:

http://passagestocanada.com/story-archive/

 

Title:

Historica Dominion Institute

Host:

Historica Dominion Institute

Description:

This website contains Heritage Minutes; one minute movies that portray important
historical stories from Canada’s past.

Navigation Tips:

Click on view all. Then choose type of heritage minute and then search by theme (i.e. Settling Canada) or keyword and then click on Apply.

URL:

https://www.historicacanada.ca/

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