Canada Channel presents a ground breaking series of Canadian educational portals created by well-known authors in the field of education and Canadian history. In these tough times when at-home learning is crucial, Canada Channel delivers your best solution for social studies.

A sample portal, Today in Canadian History, is open for evaluation. Full access to the portals below requires an annual license from The Canada Channel. Licencing to provinces and territories is based on number of students served, and comes at a very reasonable cost.

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Canada on the Web
The History of Canada Online The History of Canada Online (Junior) Today in Canadian History Today's Canadian Birthdays

Canada Channel Features
CanQuotes: Canadian Quotation Collection CanText: Canadian eLibrary CanQuiz: Canadian Quizzes CanPix: Canadian Image Base

Indigenous Studies
Canada's First People Canada's First People (Junior)

Civics and Politics
Civics Canada Online Democracy in Canada Canadian Politics Online

Canada In Depth
Samuel de Champlain War of 1812 John A. Macdonald George Etienne Cartier
The Confederation Years 1864-1874 Canadians in the First World War
1914-1918
Language and Literacy Slavery in Canada

Canada on the Web

Web Portal Status Description Audience
Licensed A senior digital text and resources for Canadian Studies Programs, HCO is designed to help students better understand the roots of Canada's past and present, and to provide resources for the teaching of history in Canada. HCO features a full online textbook, indexed and searchable, as well as a slate of supporting textual, image and other learning resources. Intermediate, Senior, College, History, Social Sciences
Licensed HCO Junior – The Founders of Canada – is a K-8 digital text and resource platform for Canadian Studies. It has been designed by experiences textbook writers to help young Canadians better understand the roots of Canada's past and present. It features a full online textbook, indexed and searchable, as well as a slate of learning resources such as timelines, images, bases, student projects and quizzes and drills. Junior, Intermediate

Today in Canadian History
Open Over 75,000 searchable entries and hundred of images; linked to Canadian Birthdays and History of Canada Online Intermediate, Senior, College, Reference, History, Social Science

Today's Canadian Birthdays
Licensed Over 7,500 Canadian entries; a curriculum-aligned resource that offers media-rich content and links to History of Canada Online. Categorized, Intermediate, Senior, College, Reference, Biography

Canada Channel Features

Web Portal Status Description Audience

Canada Channel Quotation Collection
Licensed Facts and General Reference, with over 10,000 entries linked to Canadian Birthdays. Thematic topics include Canada, Business, Literary, Military, Political, Prime Ministers, Sport and Women. General

CanText: Canadian eLibrary
Licensed Canada's largest repository for original texts, documents, and literary works relating to Canadian studies. Over 2,000 indexed and searchable texts in ASCII; non-fiction and fiction; linked to HC and HCO Junior. General

CanQuiz: Canadian Quizzes
Licensed Canada's largest source, with over 10,000 indexed and searchable entries in total. Multiple choice, photo and many other Canadian quizzes and drills, divided by topics; self scoring. Contains HCO and HCO Junior Chapter Drills. Intermediate, Senior, College

CanPix: Canadian Image Base
Licensed Over a thousand high quality images for student use; linked to History of Canada Online Junior and other Canada Channel portals. Junior, General, Reference

Indigenous Studies

Web Portal Status Description Audience

Canada's First People
Licensed Canada's first indigenous studies textbook and learning platform, designed to help non-aboriginal Canadians better understand the roots of Canada's First Nations, Metis and Inuit people, and to provide resources for the teaching of aboriginal history by First Nations in Canada. Intermediate, Senior, College, History, Social Science, Aboriginal, Indigenous, Native, Indian

Canada's First People (Junior)
Licensed A K-8 digital text and resources designed to help non-aboriginal Canadians better understand the roots of Canada's First Nations, Metis and Inuit people, and provide resources for the teaching of aboriginal history by provinces, districts, and first nations. Junior, Intermediate, History, Social Science, Aboriginal, Indigenous, Native, Indian

Civics and Politics

Web Portal Status Description Audience
Licensed A full online Civics textbook, with quotations, Web links, quizzes, a citizenship text library, learning activities, an online glossary and image base. Intermediate, Senior, College, Civics, Citizenship, Politics

Democracy in Canada
Licensed Democracy in Canada digital textbook, with full-text and AV resources to boost student understanding of the history and development of representative government in Canada. Intermediate, Senior, College, Civics, Citizenship, Politics
Licensed CPO contains a fully indexed and searchable digital textbook with a slate of supporting textual, image and AV resources and a comprehensive glossary. Intermediate, Senior, College, Civics, Citizenship, Politics

Canada In Depth

Web Portal Status Description Audience

Samuel de Champlain
Licensed A portal dedicated to the life and career of one of the great founders and mappers of modern Canada and the US, Samuel de Champlain; gives users a narrative of Champlain's life, as well as a slate of supporting textual and image resources that can be used for student projects and book reports. Intermediate, Senior, College, History, Social Science, Biography

War of 1812 Online
Licensed The War of 1812 Online is a comprehensive resource for people interested in learning more about a conflict that profoundly shaped the two great nations of North America. Features include detailed timelines, image galleries, maps, a text library, web links and a knowledge base of battles and skirmishes. Intermediate, Senior, History, Social Science, Biography

John A. Macdonald
Licensed A portal dedicated to the life and career of Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John Alexander Macdonald; comes with a slate of supporting textual and image resources that can be used for student projects and book reports; twinned with a portal on the life and career of Macdonald's great colleague, George-Étienne Cartier. Intermediate, Senior, College, History, Social Science, Biography

George Etienne Cartier
Licensed A portal dedicated to the life and career of one of Canada's major founding fathers, SIr George-Etienne Cartier; comes with a slate of supporting textual and image resources that can be used for student projects and book reports; twinned with a portal on the life and career of Cartier's great colleague, John A. Macdonald. Intermediate, Senior, College, History, Social Science, Biography

1864-1874
Licensed A portal dedicated to the study of those critical years, between 1863 and 1873, when the provinces and territories of what is now Canada came together as a new nationality; contains a narrative history, a detailed timeline, plus documents, including Confederation debates, galleries and other resources. Intermediate, Senior, College, History, Social Sciences

Canadians in the First World War
Licensed A full digital textbook of the Great War, with image galleries by chapter and theme, with portraits, battles and maps, detailed timelines, a knowledge base of major battles; a comprehensive text library, with many personal wartime accounts; with Web links, by country, regiment, and a cast of wartime characters Intermediate, Senior, College, History, Social Sciences
Licensed A portal designed to support the senior curriculum in Language, Literature, Literacy, Media Studies and ESL. Intermediate, Senior, College, Language
Licensed A resource portal and digital textbook, with a full collection of resources for the study of slavery in Canadian history. Intermediate, Senior, College, History, Social Science