Strictly Canadian Sites
Take a look at some of these sites if you want to learn more about our wonderful and diverse country!
| Canadian Sites for Teachers | Aboriginal Groups in Canada | On-line Resources and Stores for Canadian Teachers | General Sites |
| Geography and Maps | Tourism in Canada | Canadian Trivia | Canadian Recipes
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This page was updated on April 14, 2009
| Gander Academy | This site has excellent links and information on Canadian place names, geography, people, history, quizzes and more. |
| History of the Hudson Bay Company | Good historical information. Interesting pictures, photographs, stories and facts. |
| Canadiana On-Line | An excellent resource about the fur trade era and the influence of the Hudson's Bay Company. There are time-lines, historical information, teacher resources including lesson plans and worksheets, links and much more. |
| CBC for Kids | The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has this site for kids where they can read the news, enter contests, read stories, find sites and information on science and other subjects, enter polls and much more! |
| Can-Teach - A Canadian Educator's Site | This site has a focus on finding the best Canadian content educational sites. Has a nice section on poems too. |
| The League of Canadian Poets | Check here for information on how to celebrate poetry in the classroom as well as for your own interests. Invite a poet to your school for a workshop and reading. Create a display featuring your favorite poetry. Hold a classroom or school-wide poetry writing contest. |
| The Canadian Encyclopedia | Another great resource for teachers as well as students. Search for specific items or just look through the site. There are facts, interactive maps, quizzes and more. |
| Zoomschool | By enchanted learning, this site is great for students as well as teachers. There are fact pages as well as printables on topics including geography, animals, explorers and crafts. |
| The Canadian West | This site by the National Archives of Canada is filled with historical information. The site is more suitable for teachers looking for background information. There are wonderful pictures as well. |
| Images Canada | A wonderful website to find pictures of Canada both current and from our history. |
| Glossary of Fur Trade Terms | From the site above. A great listing of words typically used during the Fur Trade years. |
| First Among Equals | Information on the life of a Prime Minister. This site looks at what our Prime Minister does as well as the history of those who have been Prime Minister. The site also had a children's section that is geared for grades 4 to 6. |
| Alberta Curriculum Links | This site was set-up to help teachers find sites that are geared toward our Alberta curriculum. The site is broken down into grade levels and then sections for different subjects and topics on each page. |
| New! Famous Canadians Project | An online project for grade 5 students to do research on famous Canadians. |
| Blank Maps of Canada | A great site for maps. There are maps for each province as well as different maps of Canada. |
| Your Child Learns | An interactive map that shows the capital city and province name when you move your cursor over that section of the map. Great for students to use. |
| Graphic Maps | This site has some great maps as well as general information on each province and territory. Some links as well. |
| Civilizations.ca | This page has a lot of information on the history of the native peoples of Canada |
| Indian and Northern Affairs Canada | This is the Canadian Government department. At the web site you can find information on programs, history, culture as well as publications. |
| Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump | Located in Southern Alberta, close to Lethbridge, this interpretive center tells the history of the Blackfoot people. It is renowned world-wide as the world's oldest, largest and best preserved buffalo-jump. The 10 million dollar center is filled with archaeology and history. |
| People of the Northwest Coast | This is a nice site, the information is brief but easy to read for students and the photographs offer another look at our history. |
| Alberta First Nations | This site gives you contact information on many of the first nation groups in Alberta. At the bottom of the page you can link to other provinces as well to find out about the first nations groups in those provinces. |
| Aboriginal Canada Portal | This portal has information on the many aboriginal groups in Canada as well as services and other informational items. |
| First Nations Seeker | This site has links to many of the First Nations groups across Canada as well as the States. |
| Canada's First Nations | This website is part of a project done by the University of Calgary and Red Deer College and has detailed information on Canada's First Nations. |
| History of the Metis | This site gives a brief overview of the Métis people. |
| The Métis Nation of Alberta | This site is dedicated to Métis who live in Alberta. The site has a link to the Métis National song. There are links to history, culture and more! |
| The Kid's Site | This section is about the Métis and is suitable for students grades 4 to 6. |
| The Kid's Site | This section is about the Haida. |
| The Kid's Site | This section is about the Inuit. |
| The Inuit - Labrador | Takes a look at the Inuit from the Labrador and Newfoundland heritage. |
| Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami | This is a National website that has current information on the Inuit people of Canada. |
| New! First Peoples of Canada | A very informative site by the Canadian Museum of Civilization |
On-Line Resources and Stores for Canadian Teachers
(Please note that we do not necessarily endorse these companies, they are simply listed here for you to have easy access to their websites).
| Education Station | This is a new on-line store based in Edmonton, Alberta. They have quite a large selection of items available in an easy to search format. Items are searchable by grade level as well. |
| Spectrum | Canada's leading supplier of Math, Science, Technology and Early Childhood manipulatives. |
| Scholar's Choice | This store has many resources for teachers and parents. Items are searchable by grade level as well. You can send for a free catalogue too. |
| Free stuff for Canadian Teachers | A great site, so many of the "freebie" sites are only for the States. This site features "freebies" available in Canada. There are sections for most provinces as well. |
| Teacher's Book Depository and Distribution Center | The purpose of the Distribution Center is to provide schools with the benefits of large volume purchases. One small elementary school has the buying power of hundreds of schools. The Teachers' Book Depository supplies products to libraries, schools, teachers, and students. Over 30,000 student titles at reading levels K-12 are currently on the shelves. A wide range of unique-need products are also in stock. |
| Teach Canada | An on-line store based out of Manitoba. This site has many resources for K to Grade 8. The site is easy to use and you can sign up for a newsletter as well. |
| Scholastic Canada | This site has on-line catalogues, book clubs as well as general resources. |
| Timesavers for Teachers | This site offers a large number of forms and teaching ideas you can purchase. There are free sample forms as well. |
General Canadian Sites - Information about people, statistics, facts, news and more.
| Provinces and Territories | This Canadian government site takes you to the home pages for the different provinces and territories |
| The R.C.M.P. | This site takes a look at our National police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. |
| Oh Canada | This site aims to be patriotic and proud of it. There are facts, history, links and more. |
| Canada from A to Z | This government site takes a look at Canadian symbols, mottoes, our anthem and the R.C.M.P. |
| The World Knowledge Library | This link takes you to their Canadian page where you can find information on many cities, areas, people, universities and more! |
These sites are geared more towards Alberta and areas surrounding Alberta..
| Canada's North | This site takes a closer look at some of the unique Northern Communities and the tourism they offer. |
| Banff National Park - Alberta | One of the major tourism spots in Canada part of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. |
| Dinosaur Valley and the Royal Tyrrell Museum | Located in Drumheller, Alberta. This is a unique area of Canada where the fossilized remains of Dinosaurs have been discovered and are now on display. |
| West Edmonton Mall | In area, West Edmonton Mall is the largest, indoor shopping and entertainment complex in the world as well as Alberta's #1 tourist attraction. Millions of visitors come from around the world to visit this mall which features over 800 stores and services, over 110 restaurants and kiosks, the world's largest indoor amusement park, the world's largest indoor waterpark, an NHL-size ice arena, the world's largest indoor man-made lake, a miniature golf course, and the Scotia Bank Theatre Complex (formally known as Silver City). |
| Canada - World Web | A general tourism site for all of Canada |
| Edmonton Tourism | Alberta's Capital City. There is so much to do in Edmonton from it's numerous festivals to unique tourist attractions including West Edmonton Mall. |
| Tourism Calgary | Located south of Edmonton, Calgary is famous for its stampede and it's location near the Rocky Mountains. |
| National Parks of Canada | Learn more about the National Parks of Canada. |
Canadian Trivia Sites - Sites with information that is more unique and definitely Canadian! 
| The CFL | Canadian Football at it's best! |
| Canadian Inventions | An alphabetical listing of some of the inventions made here in Canada. Some of the inventions or inventor's have links as well. |
| The Canadian Encyclopedia | This section of the website has fun informational pages and trivia. |
| New! Famous Canadians | A top 20 list, most popular as well as other categories of famous Canadians. |
| New! Canadian Inventors | A nice list of inventors from Canada |
| Canadian Recipes | Go to this site for recipes such as bannock, Baked cod with stuffing, Cape Breton Scones, Maple Syrup Pie, Potage De Ble and many more. |
| French-Canadian Recipes | Try some wonderful recipes including poutine and tourtiere. |
| Canadian Bison | A look at Bison and different recipes featuring Bison. |
| Newfoundland Recipes | Some recipes unique to this area of Canada. |
| Acadian Recipes | A very nice collection of recipes handed down through the generations. |
| Two Bay Tours | A recipe for Cree Bannock. |
| Campfire Bannock | A number of recipes for Bannock plus some interesting historical information. |
| Joyce's Fine Cooking | A great collection of Canadian Recipes! |
| Ontario Maple Syrup Recipes | Wonderful recipes for maple syrup! |