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Pathfinder:
The Roaring Twenties / Dirty Thirties
Reminders…
 Use the public library as well as your school library.
 Use a variety of sources.
 Evaluate each source carefully.
 Select the best sources you can find.
 Record EVERY source you use.
 Take good notes.
 Be careful to avoid plagiarism.
 Ask for help if you need it.
 Using images? Remember to respect copyright law.
Images
 The Evidence Web, from Library and Archives Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/education/sources/index-e.html
 Images Canada: Picturing Canadian Culture
http://www.imagescanada.ca/index-e.html
 Microsoft Office Online: Clip Art and Media Homepage
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx
Clipart, photos, and animations.
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1920s? Start Here!
 “Ordeal by Fire: 1915-1929”, Episode 12 of Canada: A People’s History, CBC
http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISHOMEEP12LE.html
Mackenzie King
 “King, William Lyon Mackenzie”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/william-lyon-mackenzie-king
 “Profiles: The Right Honourable Mackenzie King”, from First Among Equals: The
Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics, from Library and Archives Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/2/4/h4-3250-e.html
 “Canada’s Prime Ministers: William Lyon Mackenzie King”, from the Prime Minister of
Canada’s official website
http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/bio_former.asp?id=74
 “The Right Honourable William Lyon Mackenzie King: Fact Sheet”, from Former Prime
Ministers and Their Grave Sites, from Parks Canada
http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/clmhc-hsmbc/Sepulture-gravesiteindx/listesepulturelistgravesite/king.aspx
 “Mackenzie King’s Legacy”, from the CBC Digital Archives
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/prime-ministers/mackenzie-king-publiclife-private-man/mackenzie-kings-legacy.html
 “Is Mackenzie King the Best PM in history?” From the CBC Digital Archives
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/prime-ministers/mackenzie-king-publiclife-private-man/best-pm-in-history.html
 A Real Companion and Friend: The diary of William Lyon Mackenzie King, from Library
and Archives Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/king/index-e.html
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King-Byng Affair
 “King-Byng Affair”, from The Encyclopedia of Canada
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/kingbyng-affair
 “Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/julian-byng-1st-viscount-byng-of-vimy
 For King, see websites in Mackenzie King section.
Model-T Fords
 “Automobile”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/automobile
 “Automotive Industry”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/automotive-industry
 Ford of Canada: A Heritage as Rich as the Land Itself
http://www.ford.ca/app/fo/en/our_company/heritage.do
Jazz Age and Charleston
 “Jazz”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/jazz
 “Jazz”, from the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/emc/jazz
 The Canadian Jazz Archives Online
http://www.canadianjazzarchive.org/
 The Virtual Gramaphone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings, from Library and
Archives Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone/index-e.html
Movies and Films
 “Theatre Design to 1950”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/theatre-design-to-1950
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Group of Seven
 “Group of Seven”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/group-of-seven
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See also TCE articles on individual group members.
 Tom Thomson Art Gallery
http://www.tomthomson.org/
 McMichael Canadian Art Collection
http://www.mcmichael.com/index.cfm
 Check out “The Collection” and “Exhibitions”.
 Art Gallery of Ontario
http://www.ago.net/home
 See especially “Collections>Canadian”
Slang
Bush Pilots
 “Bush Flying”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/bush-flying
 The Stuart Graham Papers: The Beginning of Bush Flying in Canada, from Library and
Archives Canada
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/ic/can_digital_collections/sgraham/home.htm
 Western Canada Aviation Museum
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/ic/can_digital_collections/bush_flying/index.html
 Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre
http://www.bushplane.com/
 Vintage Wings of Canada
http://www.vintagewings.ca/
Flappers
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Canadian Sports
 “Sports History”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/sports-history
Booming Wheat Industry
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1930s? Start Here!
 “Hard Times: 1929-1940”, Episode 13 of Canada: A People’s History, from the CBC
http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISHOMEEP13LE.html
 “Great Depression”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/great-depression
R. B. Bennett
 “Bennett, Richard Bedford, Viscount”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/richard-bedford-viscount-bennett
 “Profiles: The Right Honourable Richard Bedford Bennett”, from First Among Equals:
The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics, from Library and Archives Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/2/4/h4-3275-e.html
 “Canada’s Prime Ministers: Richard Bedford Bennett”, from the Prime Minister of
Canada’s official website
http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/bio_former.asp?id=49
Bennett Buggies
Soup Kitchens
CBC and the Radio
 “Canadian Broadcasting Corporation”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/canadian-broadcasting-corporation
 “Radio Programming”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/radio-programming
 “Radio and Television Broadcasting”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/radio-and-television-broadcasting
 History of CBC / Radio-Canada and Canadian Public Broadcasting
http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/history/
 CBC Museum
http://www.cbc.ca/museum/exhibit.html
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Immigration
 “Immigration”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/immigration
 Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
http://www.pier21.ca/home
 CN Images of Canada Gallery: People on the Move, from Canada Science and
Technology Museum
http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/people/index_in.cfm?id=30&index=1
 Encyclopedia of Canada’s Peoples
http://www.multiculturalcanada.ca/mcc/ecp
 Moving Here, Staying Here: The Canadian Immigrant Experience, from Library and
Archives Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/immigrants/index-e.html
Riding the Rails
 “On to Ottawa Trek”, from The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/on-to-ottawa-trek
 On to Ottawa Trek
http://www.ontoottawa.ca/trek/trek.html
Swing Dancing
Daily Life (e.g. Soup Kitchens)
Dust Bowl
 “In Depth: Agriculture – 1930s Drought”, from the CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/agriculture/drought1930s.html
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Decades Sites and Subject Directories
 Canada: A People’s History
http://history.cbc.ca
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Check out episodes 12 and 13.
 Canada in World Affairs, 1920-1939, from the Canadian War Museum
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/chrono/1914affairs_e.shtml
 American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century, from the Kingwood College Library
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decades.html
 People’s Century: 1900 – 1999, from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/
 EdSelect
http://www.edselect.com/through_the_decades.htm
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This link will take you directly to the decades page.
 Canadian Information by Subject, from the National Library and Archives Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/caninfo/ecaninfo.htm
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Follow this path: Subject Order>9 History, Geography, and Auxiliary
Disciplines>971 Canada>971.06 1911-1999.
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Or use the Search feature.
 20th and 21st Century America
http://www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htm
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Lots of links!
 Decades from the Pleasant Valley High School Library
http://pvhs.chicousd.org/Library/History-and-Social-Science/History/Decades/index.html
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Books
 School Library
 Browse 971 (Canadian History).
 Search catalogue for other titles,
o Go to Pocock School Library page, http://www.dpcdsb.org/POCOK/Library/
 The little stack of books in the upper left corner (just below the school banner) is
the link to the new catalogue (home access now available).
 Results include items from both the Pocock collection and the Media and
Professional Library.
 Students can borrow items from the M&PL – just ask Miss Dillon or Mrs.
Solayman.
o You can access the catalogue on any school computer, if you are on a computer.
 If you don’t want to sign out a computer, then ask whether the catalogue is set
up on computer 25 in the School Library (unless it’s very busy, we try to set up
25 as a catalogue station).
 Or ask Miss Dillon or Mrs. Solayman for help.
 Mississauga Public Library
http://www3.mississauga.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=dial#focus
 Search the online catalogue and request the items you want.
 The library staff will collect them, send them to the branch you’ve chosen, and notify
you when they arrive.
Databases
Databases are a good source of articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, as well
as other types of items such as images. Limit your search to Full Text.
 The Historica Dominion Institute
www.histori.ca
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A starting point for Canadian Studies. Use the search function. Remember,
student projects are included – they are not good sources for your research.
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Newspaper, Magazine, and Journal Articles, and Online News Sources
Databases are a good source of articles from newspapers, magazines and journals.
Limit your search to Full Text.
Besides current events, many of the online news sites have in-depth reports, archives,
and so on.
 CBC Archives
http://archives.cbc.ca/
Subject Directories, General Purpose
 Virtual Reference Library
http://www.virtualreferencelibrary.ca/
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Follow this path: VRL home>Subject Directory>History>Canadian History.
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Or use the Search feature.
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