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Media
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Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation
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Radio, television, online news. Live web-radio from across the
country. On-demand newscasts,
national and local.
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National Film Board
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Since 1939, producing and distributing films of and
about Canada.
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Canoe
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Internet news source, with lots of features, such as
movie guides.
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Globe and Mail
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Regarded as the national newspaper.
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Maclean’s
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National weekly news magazine.
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Seeing the
Country
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Trans-Canada
Highway
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Guide to the main east-west route across the country.
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Confederation
Bridge
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The amazing span that joins Prince
Edward Island to New
Brunswick.
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Large
Canadian Roadside Attractions
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Roadside monstrosities across the country.
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First Nations
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Assembly of First Nations
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National lobbying organization.
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Canada’s
First Nations
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Nifty tutorial from the University of Calgary.
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Government of Nunavut
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Government and administration of the territory.
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Nunavut Planning
Commission
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Governance board for environmental and resource issues.
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Métis
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Métis Nation of Ontario
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Lobbying and news.
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Historical
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Library and Archives
Canada
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Parliament merged the National Archives and the National
Library in 2003.
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Canadian Museum of
Civilization
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The nation’s museum of history and culture, located in Hull, Quebec, across
the river from Ottawa.
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Glenbow
Museum
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Museum (natural history, history, art) and archives in Calgary, Alberta.
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Canadian
Heritage Gallery
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Good source of historical images.
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Canada: A People’s
History
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Website for the CBC television series.
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Reaction
to Canada: A People’s History
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Carleton
University’s pages
treating the national discussion about the TV series.
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Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
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By Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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The Valour and the Horror
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Website based on a NFB documentary about Canadian
soldiers in WW II.
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Government &
Politics
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Government of
Canada
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Entre to all government
entities; links to provincial governments.
Includes a nifty section “About Canada.”
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Canadian
Embassy
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Embassy of Canada
in Washington DC.
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Parliament
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House of Commons and the Senate.
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Liberal Party
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The governing party of Canada, led by Prime Minister
Paul Martin.
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Conservative
Party
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Official opposition party, formed by union of
Progressive Conservative Party and Reform Party in 2003.
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New Democratic Party
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The social-democratic party of Canada.
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Bloc Quebecois
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The federal party of Quebec sovereignty.
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Parti Quebecois
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The provincial party of Quebec sovereignty.
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Diefenbaker
Canada Centre
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Archives and museum devoted to Dief
the Chief, Conservative P.M. from Saskatchewan.
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Sport &
Recreation
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Canadian Football League
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Official website of the league.
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Canadian Curling
Association
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Favorite mass-participation sport in Canada, and now an Olympic
sport.
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Hockey
Canada
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Governing body for amateur hockey in Canada.
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Arts &
Literature
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McNally
Robinson
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Major bookseller, the Barnes & Noble of Canada.
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MapleMusic
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Retailer and promoter of Canadian popular music.
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CanEHdian
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Devoted to appreciation of Canadian popular music.
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Pop Culture
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Juno Awards
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Canada’s
national music awards.
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National Gallery
of Canada
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The nation’s museum of visual arts.
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Neil Young
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Funky site, devoted mainly to his latest project, Greendale.
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Oh Susanna
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Popular recording artist, from Vancouver.
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Alanis Morissette
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Maybe more than you want to know about this pop star.
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Avril Lavigne
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For all you skater types.
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Derek Miller
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2003 Juno winner for aboriginal music.
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Red Green
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TV comic with popular CBC show, also seen in U.S.
on PBS.
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Royal Canadian Air
Farce
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Popular news-satire television show on the CBC.
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Da Vinci’s Inquest
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CBC-TV crime-investigation show set in Vancouver.
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This Hour
Has 22 Minutes
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Popular news-satire television show on the CBC.
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The Border
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Central North
American Trade Corridor Association
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Devoted to trans-border trade in the plains region.
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Northern Great Plains
Inc.
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Organization devoted to regional renewal.
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Prof. Isern’s Pages
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Lending Media
Library
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CDs and DVDs in Prof. Isern’s
collection – for loan to students in HIST 382.
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Bibliography
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Prepared for HIST 382.
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Le
Bloc Québécois
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Quotations from Lucien Bouchard explore the ideas and
emotions of the sovereignty movement.
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Harold Innis and Staples Theory
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Background on and quotations from Innis,
founder of staples theory, and a scholar of immense importance in
explaining Canadian national development.
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Quotations from
Marshall McLuhan
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Selections from Understanding Media, the master
work of Canada’s
great communications theorist.
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Bob
Rae and the NDP
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Bob Rae of Ontario
was the great hope of the New Democratic Party in the early 1990s.
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Preston Manning
and the Reform Party
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Reform was the assertive party of the right in the
1990s, and Manning was its prophet.
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Griffith Taylor
and Environmental Determinism
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Geographer Taylor
explained Canadian development in terms of environment.
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Curling in Canada
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Notes from Russell’s Open House, links to
Canadian curling sites.
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