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.
To enquire about the annual cost of licencing Canada Channel, please fill out the attached form.
| Canada on the Web |
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| The History of Canada Online | The History of Canada Online (Junior) | Today in Canadian History | Today's Canadian Birthdays |
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| CanQuotes: Canadian Quotation Collection | CanText: Canadian eLibrary | CanQuiz: Canadian Quizzes | CanPix: Canadian Image Base |
| Indigenous Studies |
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| Canada's First People | Canada's First People (Junior) |
| Civics and Politics |
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| Civics Canada Online | Democracy in Canada | Canadian Politics Online |
| Canada In Depth |
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| 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 |
| Web Portal | Status | Description | Audience |
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| 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 | |
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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 |
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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 |
| Web Portal | Status | Description | Audience |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Web Portal | Status | Description | Audience |
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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 |
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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 |
| Web Portal | Status | Description | Audience |
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| 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 | |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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