Student Resources
Student Study Guide
Revised by Beverly Soloway, Lakehead University
Art History Unit
Revised by Darren Ferry, Nipissing University
Primary Source Library
The online Primary Source Library features canonical and lesser-known primary sources from both Pre- and Post-Confederation; these include poetry, songs, and letters. The sources are accompanied by introductions, written by Janet Miron of Trent University, which offer students a contextual and social perspective.
Pre-Confederation
Artist Interpretation of First Nations
The Jesuit relations and allied documents
First Monastery of the Quebec Ursulines Convent (NEW)
Of the Huron Who Wintered at Quebec and Sillery (NEW)
Journal of a Voyage to North-America Undertaken by Order of the French King
The Royal Proclamation of October 7, 1763
Travels into North America (NEW)
Travels in Western North America
The Documentary History of the Campaign on the Niagara Frontier in 1814, Part 2
A Sketch of the British Fur Trade (NEW)
Terrible Orange and Government Riot at Middlesex
The Burning of the Parliament Building in Montreal
Rules and Regulations to be Observed by the Officers of the Provincial Penitentiary
The Colored People and the Common Schools
Detailed Reports and Observations Relative to the Exploration (NEW)
Memorandum made 4th August, 1865
Scenes in Canada. A Visit to Grosse Isle
Chief Grandes Oreilles' Speech, 1814
Post-Confederation
Montreal's Night-Mayor on his Ghostly Rounds
An Act further to amend The Indian Act, 1880
British Columbia and the Chinese
Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear (NEW)
Diary written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum
Sir Robert Borden's Inspiring War-Message (NEW)
Women to be Warned of Mixed Marriages (NEW)
Report of the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labor and Capital in Canada
Komagata Maru in English Bay (NEW)
The Address of the Gitksan-Wet'suwet'en
Documents on Relations Between Canada and Newfoundland
Documents Pertaining to Africville
Roll Shop - Algoma Steel (NEW)
J.S. Woodsworth's account of his incarceration, 1919
Canada Declares War, 11 September 1939
Japanese-Canadians during WWII
Letter written by F.O. Loft, League of Indians of Canada
Rev H.W. Cunningham's Personal Narrative of the Halifax Explosion
Papers Relating to the Acadian French
Security Cases Involving Homosexuality
The Story of the Great Fire in St. John
Enfranchised Women, Vote Union Save Canada
Bill 101, Charter of the French Language
Request for Assistance from Mrs. Thomas Hodgins to Prime Minister R. B. Bennett
Medicare cartoon, Vancouver Sun
Louis Riel, Flight of Black Geese and Prayer for the Metis Nation
Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, 1970