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
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A collection of websites:
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Art Canada: Listed by Nation: http://www.kstrom.net/isk/art/art_can.html
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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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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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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"
Museums
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State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia www.hermitage.ru
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Museum of Modern Art, New York www.moma.org
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Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam www.vangoghmuseum.nl
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Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, Bilbao, Spain www.guggenheim-bilbao.es
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Tate Modern, London, England www.tate.org.uk
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The National Gallery, London http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
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National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario www.national.gallery.ca
Ancient Civilizations
First Nations Architecture
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:
Spy School