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Canada at Play: An Online Exhibition of Toys and Games
Canada at Play: An Online Exhibition of Toys and Games
Explore a vast range of Canadian-made and...
Canadian Dress: The Confederation Era (1840-1890)
Canadian Dress: The Confederation Era (1840-1890)
Look at how various nineteenth-century Canadians...
Making Medicare: The History of Health Care in Canada, 1914-2007
Making Medicare: The History of Health Care in Canada, 1914-2007
Explore the history, people, politics and programs...
Christian Bennedsen - Scrapbook of a Life in Letters
Christian Bennedsen - Scrapbook of a Life in Letters
The exhibit you are about to explore tells the...
Face to Face: The Canadian Personalities Hall
Face to Face: The Canadian Personalities Hall
Some well known, others not, they have all helped...
Remember When...? My encounter with the architecture of old Hull
Remember When...? My encounter with the architecture of old Hull
Shows how the face of the oldest neighbourhood in...
Before E-commerce : A History of Canadian Mail-order Catalogues
Before E-commerce : A History of Canadian Mail-order Catalogues
How mail order shaped our dreams and wishes and how...
Written in the Stone: Architectural Tour of the Canadian Museum of Civilization
Take a virtual tour of the architecture of the Museum.
Rocket Richard: The legend - the Legacy
Rocket Richard: The legend - the Legacy
The life and career of one of Canada's greatest...
Northern People, Northern Knowledge: The Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918
Northern People, Northern Knowledge: The Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918
The first major Canadian scientific expedition to the...
The Origins of Dogsled Mail in the Yukon in the 1890s
Dog-teams played an important part in the...
The History of Canada's Public Pensions
A Web module on the history of public pensions and...
Playing Through: Golf, the Canadian Story
Playing Through: Golf, the Canadian Story
Golf is an ancient game, and has a long history in...
Symbol of a Profession: A Century of Nurses' Caps
he Gloria Kay Nurses' Caps Collection covers the...
A Chronology of Canadian Postal History
A Chronology of Canadian Postal History
A reference tool that stimulates and informs.
Lifelines: Canada's East Coast Fisheries
Lifelines: Canada's East Coast Fisheries
The tale is of an abundant ocean which has sustained...
Winged Messenger (2nd edition)
A wide overview of air mail as an important means of...
Timeless Treasures: The Story of Dolls in Canada
Discover how dolls are made and their diverse...
The Last Best West: Advertising for Immigrants to Western Canada, 1870-1930
The story of the international marketing campaign...
Inuit and Englishmen: The Nunavut voyages of Martin Frobisher
Inuit and Englishmen: The Nunavut voyages of Martin Frobisher
An historic adventure story, complete with intrigue,...
Canadian Labour History, 1850-1999
Canadian Labour History, 1850-1999
Shows how the Labour movement served its members...
A History of the Vote in Canada
A History of the Vote in Canada
It took many years of often laborious progress to...
Social Progress Gallery
Social Progress Gallery
Social progress is the weight of laws designed to...
The Labour Stamp: The Image of the Worker on Canadian Postage Stamps
What can we learn from stamps about the place of...
Dressing Up Canada - Late Victorian Fancy Dress Balls
Dressing Up Canada - Late Victorian Fancy Dress Balls
A glimpse at some glittering and glamorous moments in...
The Canoe: portraits of the great fur trade canoes
The story of a Montreal Canoe, the largest birch-bark...
This Splendid Gift : The 1897 Canadian Historical Dinner Service
Features ceramic treasures painted with Canadian...
Nineteenth-Century Pottery and Porcelain in Canada
Nineteenth-Century Pottery and Porcelain in Canada
Selections from the National Ceramic Collection.
Glass Works: The Story of Glass and Glass-making in Canada
Glass Works: The Story of Glass and Glass-making in Canada
Discover why man-made glass has had so many uses...
Winged Messenger: Airmail in the Heroic Era
A wide overview of air mail as an important means of...
Hold onto Your Hats! History and meaning of headwear in Canada
Hold onto Your Hats! History and meaning of headwear in Canada
Answers the question: why do people wear hats?
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