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Socials 9

Industrial Revolution

General links for Inventors:
   
http://inventors.about.com (then type in search name)

Joseph Maire Jacquard:
   
http://www.bookrags.com/Joseph_Marie_Jacquard
    http://www.bookrags.com/

Alexander Graham Bell:
   
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelephone2.htm
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/peopleevents/mabell.html
    http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/top_ten/nominee/bell-alexander-graham.html#top

Gotlieb Daimler:
   
http://www.autonews.com/files/euroauto/inductees/daimler.htm
    http://discoverychannel.co.uk/cars/pioneers/index.shtml

Rudolf Diesel:
   
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/42.html
     http://library.thinkquest.org/C006011/english/sites/diesel.php3?v=2

Henry Ford:
   
http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/hf/default.asp
    http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ford.htm    
    http://library.thinkquest.org/J002039F/assembly_line.htm

James Watt:
   
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/watt_james.shtml
    http://www.egr.msu.edu/~lira/supp/steam/wattbio.html
    http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/imago/watt.html
    http://www.nndb.com/people/531/000050381

Henry Cort:
   
http://www.tilthammer.com/bio/cort.html
    http://www.henrycort.net/01life.htm

Michael Faraday:
   
http://www.rigb.org/rimain/heritage/faradaypage.jsp
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/faraday_michael.shtml     

George Stephenson:
   
http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/stephensono.htm
    http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAstephensonG.htm

Samuel Morse:
   
http://home.clara.net/rod.beavon/samuel.htm
    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/atthtml/morse1.html
    http://www.telegraph-history.org/samuel-morse/signature.html

William F. Talbot:
  http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tlbt/hd_tlbt.htm
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Talbot.html

Thomas Newcomen:
   
http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/newcomeno.htm
    http://technology.niagarac.on.ca/staff/mcsele/newcomen.htm
    http://www.newcomen.com/thomas.htm

Samuel Crompton:
   
http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/cromptono.htm

Henry Cavendish:
   
http://mattson.creighton.edu/History_Gas_Chemistry/Cavendish.html
    http://www.nndb.com/people/030/000083778/

Guglielmo Marconi:
    http://www.marconicalling.com/introsting.htm

Louis Daguerre:
   
http://www.daguerre.org/resource/texts.html
    http://www.fi.edu/pieces/myers/

John Kay:
  
  http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/johnkayo.htm

Thomas Edison:
   
http://www.thomasedison.com/
    http://www.nps.gov/archive/edis/home.htm

 Jethro Tull
    http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/jtull.html
    http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/inventor/ag3.htm

Henry Bessemer
   
http://www.invent.org/Hall_Of_Fame/183.html
    http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9357155/Sir-Henry-Bessemer

Thomas Savery
   http://library.thinkquest.org/C006011/english/jsites/steam_thomas_savery.php3?v=2

Robert Fulton
    http://www.robertfulton.org/
    

Eli Whitney
   
http://www.eliwhitney.org/inventor.htm

Ed Cartwright
  http://www.madehow.com/inventorbios/72/Edmund-Cartwright.html

Richard Arkwright
   
http://www.lancashirepioneers.com/arkwright/default.asp
    http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/people/BG.0008/

James Hargreaves
   
http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9366612/James-Hargreaves

William Perkin
  http://inventors.suite101.com/article.cfm/william_perkin_father_of_the_chemical_industry

Elizabeth Fry
   
http://www.elizabethfry.ab.ca/
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/standard/fry/index.shtml

 

Greatest Canadian

 

Napoleon

 

Mathieu da Costa

Brochure

Canada's Beginnings

Canada's Geographical Regions

Also try the Canadian Encyclopedia.  Go to the LRC homepage and select Encyclopedias.

First Nations

First Nations Art

  • A collection of websites: 

  • Art Canada:  Listed by Nation:  http://www.kstrom.net/isk/art/art_can.html

  • To search for art by different nations or groups, type in the name of the group and add +art.  This will search for images that are only concerned with the group and art.  

In Search of...

 

Surveying the Web

What's Happening (Current Events)

What's the Difference?

Where in the World?

 
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Socials 10

Into the Fire

  WW II

   Other World Conflicts

Who's Who in Confederation

BC Industries:  Group Investigation

Treaties

 

Community Competition

Cross Country Checkup

BC First Nations

Search by First Nation (Do some preliminary research: You will need to know which First Nations are part of each larger grouping you are studying. (e.g., Cheam is part of the Sto-lo Nation which is mainland Coast Salish.)

Gold Rush in B.C.

The Pacific Rim: A Gourmet of Opportunities

Tourism 

Water, Water...

Rebellion and Change in Upper and Lower Canada

Great Canadians

Confederation, Here We Come

 

 

 

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Socials 11

Free trial - Global Issues

http://find.galegroup.com/gic/

password: vict16206

 

Comprehensive Sites Related to SS11

Residential Schools

  • This webography was created by students at Claremont Secondary School.  Click here for a vast array of websites related to Residential Schools.

It's a Small World

Multiculturalism

World War 1 Weapons and Technologies

"World War 1: A Project of Remembrance"

World War 1 Art

World War 1 Poetry

World War 1 Battles

 

"Hell on earth and Heroism: Canada in World War II"
OR
"World War 11 Oral Reports"

General WW II Sites:

  Canadian Military History

"What makes us Canadian?"

Canadian Biography

 

"Capitalism"

Exercise 2:   Bank of Canada Inflation calculator           http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/inflation_calc.htm

Exercise 7:   Bank of Montreal Matchmaker  http://www.bmo.com/mutualfunds/ps/matchmaker_test.html

Exercise 8:   dot.com millionaires

    Catherine Warren, Internet entrpreneur  www.bluezone.net

    Sky Dayton, founder of EarthLink communications  www.earthlink.net/

    Keith Kochco, of Extend Media    www.extend.com

 

 

"Your Investment Portfolio"

    Stock Exchanges

    Stock Indexes

    Stock Information Services

 

"Big City Blues"

"Canadian Choices", "Stand by Me" and "Its Election Day!"

"Political Leaders"

"Lighting the Fuse"

Civilization 12/AP World History

Museums

 

Ancient Civilizations 

First Nations Architecture

  • Thunderbird Park and Mungo Martin longhouse

http://www.britishcolumbia.com/attractions/

Domestic Architecture

Secular Public Architecture

    Religious Architecture

A Broader View

Burial Traditions in Egypt and China

"Pyramids: Egyptian and MesoAmerican"

Egypt: 

        Mesoamerica:

 

History 12

Spy School

 

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