Links

Student Web Links will allow students to quickly and easily access the same web resources contained here and from each Project Plan from within the Student Resources page. They are organized by Mavericks theme area and contain the links under the title of each Project Plan.

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A Train Trip Across Early Canada
Creating a Travel Brochure for a Maverick Conducted Tour of the Canadian Pacific Railway

• Mavericks: A History of Alberta - Character Biographies and Online Artifacts
• Canadian Heritage Minute -"They say that there is one dead Chinese man for every mile of that track," the old Chinese man tells his granddaughters. This is a short video, but the site also contains good information for research.
• A Brief History of the CPR
• Railways in Canada - A Photo Essay
• Building the National Railways
• CBC Archives: Chinese Immigration to Canada
• Chinese Workers Building the CPR (Scroll down to find section)
• Chinese Canadian History - Building the CPR
• Canada in the Making - Asian Immigration
• Alberta, Land of Opportunity - The Chinese Settlers
• Images Canada

Letters from the Past...
Writing "Primary Source Letters" to Better Understand the Lives of the Railway Mavericks

• Glenbow - Library and Archives Search Menu
• Primary Source Letter Examples - This Glenbow page consists of original letters written by Father Constantine Scollen, 1861- 1903

"Picturing" the Story of the Railway
Researching Aspects of the Creation of the Railway to Understand How It Linked Canada

• Images Canada
• Canadian Heritage Minute -"They say that there is one dead Chinese man for every mile of that track," the old Chinese man tells his granddaughters. This is a short video, but the site also contains good information for research.
• Railways in Canada - A Photo Essay
• Building the National Railways
• CBC Archives: Chinese Immigration to Canada
• Chinese Workers Building the CPR (Scroll down to find section)
• Chinese Canadian History - Building the CPR
• Canada in the Making - Asian Immigration

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