Section 1: What Was Happening in the West?

Lesson B: The Red River Valley: Its History in Art

MLIC World of Work Exhibit: Red River Cart

Battle of Seven Oaks

Section 2: The National Dream

Lesson B: It Can't Be Done!

The Canadian Encyclopedia: Railway History

Lesson C: The "Knights of Steel" and the Navvies

Library and Archives Canada: Donald Smith

Section 3: Resistance or Rebellion

Lesson B: Knife of Steel

Seven Treaties Signed 1871–1877

Numbered Treaties

Assign 3.2: Knife of Steel

Canada Heirloom Series: Canada's Native Peoples

First Nations - Famous Moments - The Kids' Site of Canadian Trains

Lesson C: North West Rebellion

The North West Rebellion

Virtual Saskatchewan - Batoche

Lesson D: The Trial of Louis Riel

Historica Canada: Louis Riel

Metis Nation of Ontario - Culture - Riel

The Northwest Resistance

Section 4: Build Your Nest in the West

Lesson A: Gold Fever

Steele of the Mounties

Lesson B: Settling the Prairies

Civilization.ca - Immigration to Western Canada

Civilization.ca - The Last Best West

The Peopling of Canada (1891 - 1921)

Parks Canada - Laurier House National Historic Site of Canada - Immigration from 1896 (Laurier) to 1947 (King)

The Canadian West

Home Children (1869–1930) Library and Archives Canada

Historica Canada: Orphans

Historica Canada: Soddie