BC Digital Classroom Resources
https://focusedresources.ca/en/bc-digital-classroom-access
Many of the resources below are available through this landing page.
Username: pcslibrary
Password: the usual one
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=CIC&u=pcslibrary
Canada In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a broad range of Canadian topics, people, places, and events. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content, written from a Canadian perspective, with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Username: pcslibrary
Password: the usual one - ask your Librarian
Proquest Historial Newspapers in BC
This is a part of the Focussed Ed Resources.
Username: pcslibrary
Password: the usual one
Other Online Resources
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Pages/home.aspx
Search the Collection of Databases
The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
http://www.bclaws.ca/index.html
https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Atlases
http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/index.html
Explore these topics: Energy, Forestry, Geology, Mining & Minerals, Population, The North, Water, and various topographic maps.
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/atlas/intro.aspx?lang=En
Explore by Themes: the Regions, Energy Systems, the People, Natural Resources, Building a Nation, Gazetteer, etc.
The Canadian Atlas Online/L'Atlas Canadien Enligne
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/atlas/
This site provides an "interactive atlas [that] allows you to explore Canada" and "brings cartography to life with exciting graphics and animation." The site features regional and thematic maps, lesson plans, materials for children, and quizzes and games. Also includes links to related sites. Searchable. In English and French. From the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Interactive site features maps of Canada from 1700 - 1999, showing boundary changes and a brief history; good for an introductory or review lesson. From Canadian Geographic.
Historical Atlas of Canada Online
The Historical Atlas of Canada was a three-volume collaborative publishing project, finished in 1993, which used maps text and other graphics to explore themes in the history of Canada. The Online Learning Project proposes to make many of the maps and research data created for the Atlas available over the Internet. At present the Online Learning Project is under development and seeking funding; only 15% of the proposed Table of Contents is actively online.
Canadiana Online
http://online.canadiana.ca.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/
Full-text online collection of books, periodicals, government publications, newspapers, annual reports, and pamphlets documenting written Canadian history for the past three and a half centuries. Particularly strong in literature, women's history, Indigenous studies, travel and exploration, and French Canada.
https://www.canadiana.ca/search?q0.0=su%3A%22Gold+mines+and+mining+--+British+Columbia.%22
Historic Newspapers
https://www.quesnelmuseum.ca/research/search-newspapers
https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers
The Canadian Letters and Images Project
https://www.canadianletters.ca/
BC Archives Collection Search
https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/
How to Use the BC Archives Online Collection
Canada's Memory Project
First-person accounts of military history
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/collection/the-memory-project-archive-collection
A guide to Primary Sources using the Memory Project
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/studyguide/using-the-memory-project-and-primary-sources
Canada's History Places Register
https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/pages/about-apropos.aspx
Hudson's Bay Company
https://www.hbcheritage.ca/history
National Archives Canada
https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Canada
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/modsbook30.asp
Canadiana
60 million pages of digitized heritage content.
Veterans Memorial
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance