Discover new aspects of the history of Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries through thematic tours.
Divided into five major themes and five time periods, these thematic tours may be accessed three different ways, by: Web tours (documented images, in HTML), movie clips (QuickTime version) and movie clips (Flash version).
Featured Thematic Tour
A Year to Remember: 1904 New Brunswick
The 20th century begins in an atmosphere of commemoration and celebration in many parts of Canada. Strong ties to Europe and the British Empire produce occasions for revelry and remembrance, such as Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and a Royal Visit in 1901. This festive mood extends to the New Brunswick summer celebrations of the 300th anniversary of the arrival in the New World of Pierre Du Gua de Monts and Samuel de Champlain in 1604. A time of commemoration and transformation, the year 1904 offers a unique glimpse into the intricacies of life in early 20th-century New Brunswick.
Alphabetical Order
A
- A Bourgeois Duty: Philanthropy, 1896-1919
- A Changing World: Education in New Brunswick
- A Consuming Passion
- A Riveted Community: North Vancouver's Wartime Shipbuilding
- A Year to Remember: 1904 New Brunswick
- Across Canada by the CPR
- All in a Day's Work: Lumbering in New Brunswick
B
- Big Cities, New Horizons
- Brand New and Wonderful: The Rise of Technology
- Building a Vancouver Icon: The Lions Gate Bridge
C
- Clothes Make the Man
- Confederation: The Creation of Canada
- Configurations
- Continuing Negotiations: First Nations and the State
- CPR, from Sea to Sea: The Scottish Connection
- Crowding the Parlour
- Cures and Quackery: The Rise of Patent Medicines
D
- Digging for Treasure: Mining in Canada
- Disasters and Calamities, 1840-1867
- Disasters and Calamities, 1867-1896
E
- Evangeline
- Exploration in the Canadian Arctic
- Exploration in the Canadian Arctic [Inuktitut Version]
F
- Fancy Dress Balls: All Dressed Up and Somewhere to Go
- Forging the National Dream
- Form and Fashion
- From Pemmican to Poutine: Eating in Canada
- Funny and Moody: The Best of Aislin's Cartoons
- Funny and Moody: The Best of Chapleau's Cartoons
G
- Getting Down to Business: Canada, 1896-1919
- Go West! Settling Canada's Prairies
- Growing Up Healthy in the 20th Century
H
- Happy Birthday, Miss Fanny! A 19th-Century Toy Story
- Here a scandal, there a scandal: More fodder for cartoonists
I
J
L
- Last Resort: Hospital Care in Canada
- Learning, Limits, and Love: Maritime Girls in the Late 19th-century
- Les photographies composites
- Lethbridge: Coal City in the Wheat Country
- Living Words: Aboriginal Diplomats of the 18th Century
M
- Milk: A Matter of Life and Death
- Montreal 1850-1896: The Industrial City
- Montreal 1896-1914: The Canadian Metropolis
- Moodyville: Legend and Legacy
N
- Nunavik: Building on the Knowledge of Ancestors
- Nunavik: Building on the Knowledge of Ancestors [Inuktitut Version]
O
- Off to the Klondike! The Search for Gold
- Once a Politician, Always a Butt: Introduction to Editorial Cartooning
- Operator. May I help you?: Bell Canada's 125 Years
- Out of Ireland
P
- Pastimes of Yesteryear, 1840-1867
- Pastimes of Yesteryear, 1867-1896
- Pastimes of Yesteryear, 1896-1919
S
- Safe Passage: Aids to Navigation on the St. Lawrence
- Silver and Gold: Bennett and the Great Depression
- Standardbearers of Acadian Identity
- Straitlaced: Restrictions on Women
T
- The Acadian Renaissance
- The Aftermath of the Rebellions
- The Art and Technique of Inuit Clothing
- The Art and Technique of Inuit Clothing [Inuktitut Version]
- The birth and torment of Miss Canada and Johnny Canuck, or the beginnings of the federation
- The Composite Photographs
- The Cult of Domesticity
- The Dirty Thirties
- The Golden Age of Sail
- The Huron-Wendat Craft Industry from the 19th Century to Today
- The Huron-Wendat Craft Industry from the 19th Century to Today [Wendat Version]
- The National Policy and Uncle Sam's Chagrin
- The splendour and misery of urban life
- Tradition, Change and Survival: Mi'kmaq Tourist Art