In the Spring of 2020, we got an inquiry from a local teacher seeking online resources to help her teach about modern Canadian history in a suddenly distanced world. Here are the ones we came up with. While the Creston Museum did create some of these resources, many of them are coming from other museums – please let us know if any of these links have since changed and we’ll try to update them!
Canadian History, 1914 to Present
First Nations:
- Residential Schools and Reconciliation
- Resources at Library and Archives Canada
- Repatriation teaching kit from MOA
- Teaching guide
Chinese and Japanese Canadians
- Early Chinese Canadian Experiences in BC
- Acknowledging Past Wrongs
- Internment, World War II information and a video
- Japanese Canadians resources and exhibits
Other Cultures in BC
- Punjabi Experience in BC
- Sikhs in Canada exhibitions
- Doukhobors: http://www.usccdoukhobors.org/about.htm
- A Different Take on Canada Day (blog post)
World War I
- BC in the Great War
- Great War documents and diaries – BC
- Canadian Sikhs in World War I
- Creston Valley at Vimy Ridge
- Creston and Canadian Forestry Corps
Great Depression
- In Creston Valley:
- Great Depression in Canada
- Great depression – general information
- Relief camps
- On To Ottawa Trek (historic photos here)
World War II
- Commonwealth Air Training Program: https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/second-world-war/british-commonwealth-air-training-plan
- Women at War: Https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/historical-sheets/women and as a follow-up: https://crestonmuseum.ca/women-after-war/
- Creston Valley in World War II
International Conflict/Cooperation
- Canadians in Spanish Civil War
- Norman Bethune
- Alaska Highway Construction; also look for sources that discuss the challenge this posed to Canadian sovereignty
- Canadian Arctic Sovereignty (not tied to Alaska Highway)
- Canada in Korean War
- Pearson and Suez Canal crisis
- Cold War/Development of Canada’s North (Contact us for the memoirs of a local man who was in the Yukon at the height of the Cold War)
- Canadian Peacekeeping/Canada in the UN: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/peacekeeping
- List of peacekeeping missions Canada has participated in
Domestic Conflict/Cooperation
- Quiet Revolution in Quebec
- More on Quiet Revolution
- FLQ Crisis
- Another site on FLQ Crisis
- Canadian Flag Debate
- Maple Leaf flag and Creston’s response
Other Good Stuff:
- Oral Histories: to introduce the idea of first person interviews to learn about modern history directly from those who were there