World War II Assignment

• Battle of the Atlantic
• Battle of Dieppe
• Canada and the Second World War
• Canada and World War II
• Canadian Military History Gateway
•  D-Day
• Encylopaedia Britannica
• Historica Canada
• The Memory Project
• Juno Beach Centre

WWI letter assignment

The Canadian War MuseumThe collections section includes letters, journals, postcards, photographs, and audio clips.

Veterans Affairs Canada
Choose Youth and Educators and it will take you to links for research.

Library and Archives Canada
Access to the database and military personnel records and some military war diaries/records.

Letters and Images
Online archive of war experiences. The collections section lists soldiers by name, with the number and type of documents they created, and provides brief biographies.

Historica Canada

Access to the Canadian Encyclopedia

21st Battalion (Kingston)
A photo and visual tribute to the men who served.

WWI

The Canadian War MuseumThe collections section includes letters, journals, postcards, photographs, and audio clips.

Veterans Affairs Canada
Choose Youth and Educators and it will take you to links for research.

Library and Archives Canada
Access to the database and military personnel records and some military war diaries/records.

Letters and Images
Online archive of war experiences. The collections section lists soldiers by name, with the number and type of documents they created, and provides brief biographies.

Historica Canada

Access to the Canadian Encyclopedia

21st Battalion (Kingston)
A photo and visual tribute to the men who served.

WWII Museum Project

• Canada and the Second World War

• Canada and World War II

• Encyclopaedia Britannica - WWII

• Hitler Jugend 

• Political Leaders
• Hitler
• Mussolini
• Churchill
• King

•  Air Battles

• Planes

• Weaponry

• Nazi Party

• POW camps 
• Interment Camps

• Battle of Dieppe

• D-Day

•  Historica Canada

20th century Inventions

Snowblower - Arthur Sicard

• http://www.ehow.com/about_5364814_history-snowblowers.html
• http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventors/a/snowblower.htm
• http://www.bukisa.com/articles/26829_historic-canadian-inventors-and-their-inventions
  

Snowmobile - Joseph-Armand Bombardier

• http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/snowmobile.htm                       

• http://snowmobilehistory.com/

Insulin - Sir Fredrick Banting

• http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bldiabetes.htm   

• http://www.mta.ca/about_canada/study_guide/doctors/insulin.html

 

Automobile (Assembly Line) – Henry Ford

• http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventors/a/HenryFord.htm

• http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/modelTford.html

• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexf.shtml#Ford 

Frozen food - Clarence Birdseye

• http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfrfood.htm

• http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/birdseye.html

Photocopier - Chester Carlson's

• http://inventors.about.com/od/xyzstartinventions/a/xerox.htm

• http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/xerography.htm

Airplane – Wright Brothers

• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/page/w/wright.shtml

• http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/wrightBrothers.html

• http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/inventor/wright/index.html

Television – Philo Farnsworth

• http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/television.htm

• http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfarnsworth.htm

Microwave – Percy Spencer

• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/page/m/microwaveoven.shtmlrowave

• http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.gallawa.com/microtech/history.html                                                                   

• http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/microwave.htm

Morse Code – Samuel Morse

• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/morsecode/                            

• http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/morse.html 

• http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventors/ig/Samuel-Morse---Patent/Morse-Code-circa-1837-.htm

X-Ray Machine - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

• http://www.umw.edu/hisa/resources/Student%20Projects/Amy%20Miller%20--%20X-Ray/students.mwc.edu/_amill4gn/XRAY/PAGES/invent.html

• http://www.umw.edu/hisa/resources/Student%20Projects/Amy%20Miller%20--%20X-Ray/students.mwc.edu/_amill4gn/XRAY/PAGES/impact.html

• http://library.thinkquest.org/10170/voca/wilhelm.htm

Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell

• http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/bell.html

• http://www.buzzle.com/articles/when-was-the-telephone-invented.html

• http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xainj6_the-invention-of-the-telephone_creation

Radio - Reginald Fessenden

• http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfessenden.htm

• http://www.hammondmuseumofradio.org/fessenden-bio.html

Famous Canadian Women Videos

• Agnes Macphail
• Emily Murphy
• Jennie Trout
• Laura Secord
• Midwife
• Nellie McClung
• Rural Teacher

Between the Wars

• Canadian Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Government of Canada Library and Archives
• Prime Ministers
• CBC's Top 100 Canadians
• Canadian Heroes