A wealth of resources to discover Canada's exciting history!

Find everything you are looking for in The Canadian Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, and then sit back and watch history come to life through Historica Minutes and Footprints.

The Canadian Encyclopedia
 


Canada's most authoritative and comprehensive reference. Home to more than 40,000 articles, 6,000 interactive maps, graphs, photographs and animations, archived Maclean's articles and the Junior edition.


Discover Canada's rich musical heritage through more than 4,000 articles, photographs and audio and video clips.
 
  History by the Minute
 
The acclaimed Historica Minutes, developed for cinema and television, continue to inspire new generations of Canadian storytelling.

Radio Minutes
One hundred of our country's defining moments and personalities are captured in these miniature dramas.

 
Footprints
Canada's athletes and our sporting traditions are celebrated through these one-minute documentary films.
Samuel de Champlain's arrival in Acadia in 1604 changed North America's landscape. Explore his life and times to find out how.
 
Canada's internal struggles with minority rights and sovereignty are examined, along with our history in international conflicts leading to our development as a peacekeeping nation.

 

Hear what John Turner has to say about the Counter Puncher, or Brian Mulroney's take on our first prime minister. Facts and audio segments intermix to provide in-depth portraits of our leaders, past and present.
 
Today's Old Age Security and Canada Pension Plan owe their existence to the dreams and hard work of people such as James Shaver Woodsworth. This interactive Minute will introduce you to the people behind your pension.

 

Today's young people are not voting. Why?
This module examines the history of voting and citizenship in Canada and provides context for the current crisis.
 
A new website that explores the history and issues that define the Asian experience in Canada.

 

A gateway to authoritative online resources about Canada's Black history, thematically organized and annotated.
   

 

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