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Type: Document
Description: Synopsis on television episode focusing on Elsie MacGill, one of Canada's top aeronautical engineers during the Second World War, who was in charge of designing machines that would produce Hawker Hurricane airplanes. This episode is part of the "Canada: A People's History" series. Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Document
Description: Canada experiences tensions and tragedy on the home front during the First World War. Shoddy war supplies scandals, enemy immigrant detainment camps, and a huge conscription crisis would turn Canada into a battleground of social and political turmoil.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: This report examines the cost of the Gulf War, which is adding up to a billion dollars a day for the allied coalition forces. Although the United States is paying the bulk of the bill, Canadians are investing approximately $350 million into the Gulf War effort and coalition forces have pledged a total of 42 billion dollars to assist the U.S.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Image
Description: An electronic reproduction of the watercolour on paper artwork, Untitled (Women's Royal Canadian Naval Switchboard Operator), created by Margaret Kathleen MacLoed.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
 
Type: Document
Description: From 1873 to 1885, Ottawa formed the North-West Mounted Police to keep order and the Canadian Pacific Railway to expand the country's frontier to the west coast, fundamentally changing the lives of many Canadians.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
 
Type: Image
Description: An electronic reproduction of the gouache on paper artwork, Halifax Landing on Runway 22, created by Aba Bayefsky in 1945.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
 
Type: Image
Description: An electronic reproduction of the oil on canvas artwork, "German Concrete Shelter, Liévin," created by A.Y. Jackson in 1918.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
 
Type: Document
Description: In September 1944, First Canadian Army fought to liberate the heavily-fortified ports of Boulogne and Calais from Germans in order to allow Britain's desperately-needed supply ships access to dock in Antwerp, Belgium.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
 
Type: Image
Description: An electronic reproduction of the oil on canvas artwork, "Gun-pits, Liévin," created by A.Y. Jackson in 1918.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
 
Type: Image
Description: An electronic reproduction of the watercolour on paper artwork, RCAF Dakotas Being Refuelled, created by Aba Bayefsky in 1946.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
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