Website Resources - Grade 7 (1713-1850)

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!

Strand A: 1713-1800

• David Thompson, Map Maker, Explorer and Visionary

• Enslaved Africans in Upper Canada

• French Ontario in the 17th and 18th Centuries

• Travels with Elizabeth Simcoe

Strand B: 1800-1850

• Anne Langton, Gentlewoman, Pioneer Settler and Artist

• The Black Canadian Experience in Ontario 1834-1914: Flight Freedom, Foundation

• Eyewitness: Thomas Burrowes on the Rideau Canal

• Images of Black History: Exploring the Alvin McCurdy Collection

• The War of 1812

Workshops

The Archives of Ontario offer FREE hands-on workshops in our specially designed classroom space. Run by experienced educators, all workshops include a behind-the-scenes tour of the Archives of Ontario and provide takeaway resources for your students’ future work.

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.

Catherine Davidoff, Date: between 1817 and 1819
Creator: unknown
Reference Code: F 1077-9-4-1-3
Archives of Ontario, I0008500

Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea),
Chief of the Six Nations, Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Reference Code: S 2076
Archives of Ontario, I0013621

Encampment of the Loyalists in Johnstown, a new settlement on the banks of the
River St. Lawrence in Canada West, Date: June 6, 1784
Creator: James Peachey
Reference Code: RG 2-344-0-0-89
Archives of Ontario, I0003081

Lord Durham
Date: 1800
Creator: unknown. Ontario Legislative Library print collection.
Reference Code: RG 49-33-0-0-18
Archives of Ontario, I0009121

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