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Unit 3

UNIT 3: A Changing Society

New Technology

• BBC World Service: My Century
  This interactive and informative site offers a history of various inventions, scientific breakthroughs, and health advances made in the twentieth century.
  
  
• PBS Kids – Technology in 1900
  Look through this interactive site profiling the inventions that were all the rage in 1900 – like the automobile and the movies.
  
  
• Time Magazine: The Astonishing 20th Century
  This article discusses the many advancements in science and technology over the course of the twentieth century.
  
  

Working in the Factory

• Virtual Museum Canada: Canadian Labour History
  This interactive site takes you through information on working communities and real life experiences of workers in Canada during the Industrial Revolution. Relevant sections include “Beginnings,” “Workers Unite,” and “Labour’s Revolt.”
  
  
• BBC – Legacies (UK History Local to You): Factory work in Victorian Lancashire
  This article discusses factory life and working conditions in the early twentieth century, using Lancashire as an example. Please note that even though the author is listed at the bottom of every page, this article is several pages long.
  
  

Street Railway

• University of Manitoba: Canadian Street Railways
  Here you can view pictures of all the early street railways in most cities throughout Canada. You can also learn if it was steam, electric, or animal powered and when it operated.”
  
  
• City of Toronto: TTC History
  See pictures and read about the history of the Toronto Transit Commission – one of the first public transportation systems in the country.
  
  

Documenting and Citing Sources

• The University of British Columbia: Getting Started with APA Style
  This site explains how to use APA format and gives examples as well.
  
  
• APA Formatting and Style Guide
  This is another site with simple explanations of using APA style.
  
  

Aboriginal Baby Boom

• Aboriginal Canada Portal – Youth
  Look here for news, events and information for and about Aboriginal youth.
  
  
• SAY Magazine
  Aboriginal people are the fastest growing group in Canada. This baby boom is creating huge potential for bringing more Aboriginal workers into the workforce. Read here to learn more.
  
  

Child Labour

• CBC: Child Labour in Canada
  Child labour laws are very strict today compared to what they were in the past. Read about the impact of work on today’s Canadian children.
  
  
• Virtual Museum: Working Children
  Read this interview with a child-worker at the turn of the twentieth Century in Canada.
  
  
• Victorian Web: Child Labour
  Read here to learn why children were used to work in factories during the Victorian era’s Industrial Revolution.
  
  

Free the Children

• Free the Children
  This is the main site for Free the Children, the anti-child labour organization created by Canadian Craig Kielburger when he was in the seventh grade.
  
  
• Oprah.com: Free the Children
  Read about what inspired Craig Kielburger to begin this organization. You can also read excerpts from his two books.
  
  

Immigrant Workers

• Canadian Council for Refugees: 100 Years of Immigration to Canada
  View a timeline with short annotations about the various groups who immigrated to Canada from 1900.
  
  
• The Ship’s List
  This is an easy-to-read chart that documents the numbers of immigrants of various ethnic groups that arrived in Canada in the early 1900s.
  
  

Women and Work

• Some Facts and Dates in Canadian Women’s History of the 20th Century
  A list of landmarks in the rights of Canadian women over the last 100 years. Includes advances in the rights of women in the workplace.
  
  
• Cornell University: The Triangle Factory Fire
  Many women worked in factories in horrible conditions. Look through the stories, photos and history of a terrible fire that occurred in New York City in 1911 – an event that forced changes to be made in the workplace.
  
  

Women in the Arts

• Virtual Museum: Vancouver Art Gallery – Emily Carr
  Learn about the life of Emily Carr and view much of her artwork.
  
  
• Library and Archives Canada: Canadian Poetry Archive
  Here you can read about the life of poet Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), and also read some of her poetry.
  
  

Women and Social Reform

• Women of Aspenland
  Learn about early women’s groups in early twentieth century Alberta.
  
  
• McGill Archives: Little Burgundy
  Read a short history of Montreal’s Little Burgundy, a working-class, mostly African-Canadian, neighbourhood that grew because of nearby Industrialization.
  
  

Waves of Feminism

• Manitoba University: Famous Canadian Women
  Read biographies of famous Canadian women involved in both first- and second-wave feminism.
  
  

Fighters for the Vote

• CBC Archives: Nellie McClung’s Mock Parliament
  Watch this CBC video clip about Nellie McClung’s mock parliament speech where she turned the gender-tables on parliament to make a point for treating women equally.
  
  
• TimeLinks: The Women’s Parliament
  Read and learn more about The Women’s Parliament of 1914.
  
  
• The Famous Five – Heroes for Today
  Read about five Canadian women who fought for the right for women to be considered people in Canada.
  
  

Canada and the War in South Africa

• War Museum: Canada and the South African War
  Learn about Canada’s involvement in the Boer War in South Africa including the battles, uniforms, equipment, awards and personalities involved.
  
  
• The Loyal Edmonton Regiment Museum: The Boer War
  A short outline about the Boer War can be found here. You can also see a movie clip of soldier’s marching to war and a primary document describing a volunteer’s experience in the trenches.
  
  

Laurier Defeated

• Sir Wilfrid Laurier
• Sir Robert Borden
  Library and Archives Canada: First among Equals
  Everything you ever wanted to know about the lives of these Prime Ministers’ lives – from political to private – can be found on these sites chock-full of information and pictures.
  
  

Using Information Communication Technology to Show Your Learning

• Historica: History by the Minute
  Historica Heritage Minutes: you sometimes see them on TV during commercials. Here’s the source for all the video clips showing various aspects of Canada’s history.
  
  

Canada at War

• The Memory Project Digital Archive: World War I
  Sift through photos, artifacts, diary entries, and sound clips that cover experiences people had enlisting and fighting in World War I both abroad and at home.
  
  
• Veterans Affairs Canada: Canada and the First World War – Valour Remembered
  Explore the various fronts fought in the war. Also learn about the war in the air and at sea on this site honouring the men and women who fought in the war.
  
  

Canada and the Commonwealth

• Commonwealth Secretariat
  This is the official website for the commonwealth counties. You can explore such issues as democracy, education, law, human rights, and economics.
  
  
• Young Commonwealth
  This is the site for information, games, quizzes and history about the commonwealth countries – but it’s presented in a fun, interactive way. Check it out!