Website Resources - Grade 8 (1850-1914)
Resource Kits
Resource Kits provide handouts, worksheets, and activity ideas to use as inspiration in the classroom. Less prescriptive than Lesson Plans, Resource Kits provide flexible suggestions and primary source material that can be customized for your students.
Online Exhibits
Online exhibits provide primary sources and secondary information on a wide range of topics. Not sure where to send your students for inquiry projects? Interested in learning history outside the textbook? Our online exhibits are a great place to start!
Images
The Archives of Ontario has over 3 million photographs in our collections, many of which are available online. See below for ones you can use in your class or visit our Visual Database to discover more.
Chinese family, Date: 1911
Location: Sarnia, Ont.
Creator: John Boyd
Reference Code: C 7-3-2822
Archives of Ontario, I0003443
Land grant offered to Charles Bonnycastle, a volunteer in the Canadian militia during the Fenian Raids Date: 1905
Archives of Ontario Poster Collection
Reference Code: C 233-1-3-2159
Archives of Ontario
Page from Marty Hastie’s diary, Date: 1884
Creator: William Mack family fonds
Reference Code: F 40 Series C, MU 3300
Archives of Ontario
Sir Wilfrid Laurier by a railway track Date: 1910
Creator: M.O. Hammond
Reference Code: F 1075-15-0-0-174
Archives of Ontario, I0016657
Mr. Good's Locomotive Engine, Toronto Date: 1840 – 1860 (?)
Creator: George A. Stewart, del. Hugh Scobie Lithography, Toronto
Reference Code: C 281-0-0-0-9
Archives of Ontario, I0003083