LibGuides UFV: EDUC 421, Designs for Learning Elementary Social Studies: First Nations, Metis and Inuit

Suggested websites

Canadiana Online This link opens in a new window
Canada’s most popular archival collections encompassing roughly 40 million pages of primary-source documents.
Associated with other databases, Heritage and Early Canadiana Online
Permitted Uses for this Database
Canadian Residential Schools and Colonial Institutions Database (CRSCID) This link opens in a new window
Includes a list of residential schools, maps and images.
Permitted Uses for this Database

The Children Remembered
School photographs
The Story of A National Crime
In 1922 Dr. P. H. Bryce published a book about the horrors of Indian Residential Schools.
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (University of Manitoba)
An archive of statements, documents, photographs, footage, school records, maps, plans, TRC reports, and much more.
Speaking My Truth
Download the e-book of residential School Survivors
Letter book series: Shingwauk Indian Residential School fonds
Downloadable letters from residential school children from Shingwauk Indian Residential School, Ontario. From 1876 to 1904.

Canadiana Online This link opens in a new window
Canada’s most popular archival collections encompassing roughly 40 million pages of primary-source documents.
Associated with other databases, Heritage and Early Canadiana Online
Permitted Uses for this Database

Indigenous Peoples: Government of Canada
Aboriginal Documentary Heritage
From Library and Archives Canada
The Champlain Society's Digital Collection
It includes first-hand accounts of European encounters with First Nations people.

Peel's Prairie Free Newspapers This link opens in a new window
For primary documents and images about Louis Riel and Prairie Nations.

Indigenous newspapers digitization pilot project
Includes the Turtle Island News, Windspeaker, and Ha-Shilth-Sa newspapers.