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Treasures
Gallery: Transportation and distribution
http://www.civilization.ca/tresors/treasure/transpor.html
Transport
Canada: Our Story
http://www.tc.gc.ca/aboutus/pubs/ourstory/menu.htm
A
Millennium of Transportation in Canada
http://www.tc.gc.ca/aboutus/millennium/main.htm
History of Nova Scotia,
with special attention given to Communications and Transportation
http://alts.net/ns1625/nshist01.html
A
History of Transportation in Winnipeg
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/transactions/3/transportation.shtml
Images
Canada: Automobiles
http://www.imagescanada.ca/r1-116-e.php?trail=trail1
History of Automobiles:
The Early Days in Nova Scotia 1899-1949
http://alts.net/ns1625/automobiles.html
Trans-Canada
Highway: Bridging the Distance
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?id=1-73-678
Le Chemin du Roy
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cheminduroy/
Footpaths
to Freeways - The Story of Ontario's Roads
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/about/footpaths/index.html
British
Columbia's Economy and Technology: Transportation and the British Columbia
Economy
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/galler08/frames/index.htm
Early
Transportation on the Skeena River
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/skeena/
When
Horse Was King: 19th Century Horse Drawn Vehicles in Canada
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/history/material_culture/duplessi/index.html
Les
voitures à chevaux
http://www.kam.qc.ca/quoi/musees/mfranpilote/mfp01.html
Bikes:
The Wheel Story
http://www.science-tech.nmstc.ca/english/collection/bikes.cfm
Cycles
http://www.science-tech.nmstc.ca/english/collection/cycles.cfm
All
Time List of Canadian Transit Systems
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/alltime/index.html
Canadian
Inventions: The Invention of the Snowmobile
http://www.capitaleducanada.gc.ca/games/cdninventions/snowmobile/index_e.html
The
Fleetway: An Exhibit of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel
http://www.windsorpubliclibrary.com/digi/fleetway/english/framesindex.htm
Canso
Causeway, Road to the Isles
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cansocauseway/
Water transportation
Images
Canada: Gone Paddling
http://www.imagescanada.ca/r1-116-e.php?trail=trail8
Our Canoeing
Heritage
http://www.canoemuseum.net/heritage/
The
Birchbark Canoe (1603)
http://www.civilization.ca/vmnf/expos/champlain/expl3_en.html
The
Canoe: Portraits of the Great Fur Trade Canoes
http://www.civilization.ca/hist/canoe/can00eng.html
Making a
Birchbark Canoe
http://www.northwestjournal.ca/VIII4.htm
Canoes:
The Shape of Success
http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/collection/canoes.cfm
Recreational
Small Watercraft
http://www.science-tech.nmstc.ca/english/collection/watercraft.cfm
Ship
Information Database
http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/basisbwdocs/sid/title1e.html
Marine
Museum Research Resources
http://www.marmus.ca/marmus/Collections%20Catalogue.htm
Historic Sailing
Page
http://historicsailing.tripod.com/menu.html
Sailing into History:
The Maritime Paintings of Gordon Miller
http://gordonmiller.ca/
Usque ad
Mare: A History of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services
http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/usque-ad-mare/
Destination:
Nova Scotia. Sea Tales
http://www.destination-ns.com/content/stories/sea.asp
Nova
Scotia Motor Fishing Boats
http://www.civilization.ca/hist/lifelines/linsa01e.html
Scotia Ferry:
A Glimpse into the Past
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/scotiaferry/
Royal
William (Canadian trans-Atlantic paddle-steamer)
http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/www/nautica/Ships/Royal_William.html
Bluenose
http://7thfloormedia.com/resources/canadiana/library/bluenose.html
The Marco
Polo Project
http://marcopoloproject.new-brunswick.net/
Paper Passages:
An Introduction to the Sources for the Study of Great Lakes History at the
National Archives of Canada
http://www.marmus.ca/marmus/Salmon.html
Maritime History of
the Great Lakes
http://www.hhpl.on.ca/greatlakes/
A
Brief History of Shipping and Wrecks Around Kingston
http://web.ctsolutions.com/carf/document/marine.html#histo
CANOE: Computer
Archiving of Northern Oration and Exhibitions
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/canoe/
Transportation
in the Canadian Northwest: York Boats, 19th century
http://victoria.tc.ca/history/etext/york-boat
The
Frontenac: A Reappraisal
http://www.marmus.ca/marmus/Frontenac.html
The People of
the Ship "Hector"
http://www.execpc.com/~haroldr/hector.htm
The
Forgotten Wharves of The United Counties of Prescott - Russell
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/300/ont_archaeol_soc/wharves/jeanfr.htm
Canada Steamship
Lines
http://130.15.161.15/marmus/cslfleet.htm
Lady
Sherbrooke : Une fenêtre sur les débuts de la navigation
à vapeur sur le Saint-Laurent
http://www.diablesdesmers.qc.ca/revue_la_plongee/lady_sherbrooke.htm
Promotion
of Steamboat Travel on the North Saskatchewan River
http://victoria.tc.ca/history/etext/steam.sask.html
History
of S.S. Klondike
http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/yt/ssklondike/natcul/index_e.asp
Canadian
Pacific Railway and Canadian Pacific Navigation
http://mmbc.bc.ca/source/schoolnet/commerce/cpcn.html
In Search
of Shipwrecks: Government Archives Sources Relating to Marine Casualties
in Canada
http://www.marmus.ca/marmus/wrecks.html
Shipwrecks
of Prince Edward Island
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/shipwrecks/
Graveyard of the
Pacific: The Shipwrecks of Vancouver Island
http://www.pacificshipwrecks.ca/
The
Schooner President Coaker
http://www.math.mun.ca/~dapike/family_history/coaker.html
The
Empress of Ireland - a titanic tale of forgotten tragedy
http://www.exn.ca/Templates/Story.cfm?ID=1998021903
L'Empress of
Ireland
http://www.cnipap.qc.ca/musee-mer/empress.htm
The
Halifax Explosion
http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/Community/explode.html
Titanic
and the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/titanic/titanic.htm
Encyclopedia
Titanica
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/
Great
Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System - History
http://www.seaway.ca/en/aboutus/seaway_history.html
A History of
the Great Lakes Seaway System
http://www.dot.gov/slsdc/about/exthist.html
The
St. Lawrence: Maritime Seaway and Economic Centre of Canada
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/stlauren/
Le canal
Lachine : acteur de l'histoire canadienne au 19e siècle
http://www.er.uqam.ca/merlin/ae591841/index.htm
Rideau Canal
Waterway - History of the Canal
http://www.rideau-info.com/canal/history/hist-canal.html
The
Shubenacadie Canal
http://www.ednet.ns.ca/educ/museum/places/shubie/shubie.htm
History of
Saskatchewan Waterways
http://www.lights.com/waterways/history.htm
From the Athabasca
to the Mackenzie Delta: A journey on Canada's Inland Waterways
http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/northern/jones/
RBCM
Notes: Sternwheelers in British Columbia
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Human_History/History.aspx?id=330
Yukon
River Sternwheelers - the Canadian
http://arcticculture.about.com/culture/arcticculture/library/yafeatures/bl-Canadian.htm
The
Versatile Pacific Shipyards: A Part of Our Heritage
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/shipbuilding/wcssp.htm
CG
Icebreaker - The History of Canadian Icebreakers
http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/archives/buldt/icebreakers.htm
Mail,
Rail, and Retail: Connecting Canadians
http://www8.cpr.ca/cms/English/General+Public/Heritage/default.htm
Railways
in Canada: A Brief History
http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/photoessays/railways/railways01.cfm
Significant
Dates in Canadian Railway History
http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm
Canadian
National Railway Historic Photograph Collection
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cnphoto/cnphoto.html
Canada, by
Train
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/trains/index-e.html
CN Images of Canada Gallery: A
Canadian History
http://216.94.16.48/
Images
Canada: Trains
http://www.imagescanada.ca/r1-116-e.php?trail=trail5
CN
History
http://www.cn.ca/about/company_information/history/en_AboutHistory.shtml
Canadian
Pacific Railway: Company History
http://www.cpr.ca/Internet/Content/Corporate/History/history.asp
The Newfoundland
Railway
http://home.thezone.net/~sharvey/nfrail.htm
Newfoundland
Rail Scenes
http://www3.nf.sympatico.ca/gazebo.hill/nrs.html/
History of Railway
Companies in Nova Scotia
http://alts.net/ns1625/railways.html
Henry
George Clopper Ketchum: The Railway to Glory or Despair
http://www.lib.unb.ca/archives/ketchum/virtual_exhibit.html
Along
The Line: Photographs of the P.E.I. Railway
http://www.edu.pe.ca/paro/exhibits/display.asp?railway.1.1
Railway
History in Kensington
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/chip/english/railway.htm
Ontario
Railway History
http://home.primus.ca/~robkath/
Electric Lines
in Southern Ontario
http://www.trainweb.org/elso/
All
Aboard Toronto! Railways and the Growth of a City
http://indexes.tpl.toronto.on.ca/vexhibit/allaboard_main.html
Canada's
First Subway
http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/archives/canada_first_subway/index_subway.htm
The
Railways of Ottawa
http://www.railways.incanada.net/circle/findings.htm
Significant
Dates in Ottawa Railway History
http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/ottawa.htm
Port Arthur, Duluth and
Western Railway
http://www.railroad.net/padw/
Thurso
and Nation Valley Railway
http://www.railways.incanada.net/thurso/tnvrmenu.htm
Transportation
in the Canadian West, 19th Century: The Canadian Pacific Railway and
Western Canadian Settlement
http://victoria.tc.ca/history/etext/cpr-south
Transportation
in the Canadian West, 19th Century: Impact of Railways on Winnipeg
http://victoria.tc.ca/history/etext/winnipeg-railways
Hanna
Online History: Goose Lake Line
http://www.town.hanna.ab.ca/history/histry4.htm
Fort Steele:
Railroading
http://www.fortsteele.bc.ca/history/railroad/index.asp
A Brief
History of the Kettle Valley Railway
http://www.kettlevalleyrail.org/history.htm
The Crowsnest Pass Railway
Route
http://www.crowsnest.bc.ca/
Rails
to Riches
http://arcticculture.about.com/culture/arcticculture/library/yafeatures/bl-rails.htm
The
White Pass Railway
http://www.yukonweb.com/tourism/goldfields/whitepass.html
Le tramway
à Montréal, de 1861 à 1959
http://www.stm.info/en-bref/tramways/index.htm
Histoire de
la mise en place du métro de Montréal 1910-1966
http://www.stcum.qc.ca/en-bref/mepmetro.htm
Canada's
Aviation Hall of Fame
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/ic/can_digital_collections/aviation/cahf.htm
Flight:
the Story of Canadian Aviation
http://7thfloormedia.com/resources/canadiana/library/flight.html
Highlights
in the History of Canadian Aviation
http://www.nmstc.ca/nam/educ/history/he1.htm
Images
Canada: Planes
http://www.imagescanada.ca/r1-116-e.php?trail=trail9
High
Flyers: Canadian Women in Aviation
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/high_flyers/
Lindbergh
of Canada: The Erroll Body Story
http://www.thehistorynet.com/AviationHistory/articles/2000/1100_1text.htm
Roméo Vachon:
Canadian Commercial Aviation Pioneer
http://members.rogers.com/p.vachon/jprv.html
The Stuart
Graham Papers: The Beginning of Bush Flying in Canada
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/sgraham/
The
deHavilland Fox Moth
http://www.pwnhc.ca/exhibits/nv/foxmoth.htm
First
in the Air in British Columbia
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Human_History/History.aspx?id=298
Jumping
off a Cliff
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Human_History/History.aspx?id=307
Flying Boat Era,
1937-1945
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/earlyaviation/
Winnipeg
Airports Authority - History
http://www.waa.ca/?pid=185
Canada
in Space
http://www.canadainspace.ca/index.php?sectionID=&newLang;=en
The Canadian
Astronaut Program
http://www.vir.com/mmm/agence/eng/menu1e.htm
Nortel
Connexions: An Exhibit on Communications
http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/collection/connexions.cfm
Impressions:
250 Years of Printing in the Lives of Canadians
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/10/index-e.html
The History of the
Book in Canada project
http://www.hbic.library.utoronto.ca/
History of Nova Scotia,
with particular attention given to Communications and Transportation
http://alts.net/ns1625/nshist01.html
Nova
Scotia Pony Express 1849
http://www.newscotland1398.net/ponyexpress/ponyexdx.html
Information
found in contemporary New Brunswick records about transportation and communications
links between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in 1849 with special attention given
to the Nova Scotia Pony Express
http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/nb1849.html
Engine of
Immortality - Canadian Newspapers from 1752 until Today
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/halifaxgazette/index-e.html
Paper of Record: collection
of historical newspapers
http://www.paperofrecord.com/
Special Editions of
Canadian Newspapers
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/14/index-e.html
Historical
Directory of Newfoundland and Labrador Newspapers, 1806-1996
http://www.mun.ca/library/cat/newspapers/papers.htm
Atlantic
Canada Newspaper Survey
http://www.civilization.ca/academ/acns/acns01e.html
The Oldest
Newspaper in Canada
http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/news01.html
The
Halifax Gazette - Canada's first newspaper
http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/Gazette/
Yarmouth
Newspapers
http://www.argylecourthouse.com/archives/news/yarnews.htm
Early
Toronto Newspapers, 1793-1867
http://www.edunetconnect.com/cat/oldnewspap/index.html
Globe and Mail- Canada’s Heritage
From 1844
http://terra2.micromedia.ca/circ2/login_ip.jsp?qpid=49
Journalism
in the United States Civil War and Press Reports in the Ottawa
"Citizen"
http://members.rogers.com/onccwrtable/ottpress.htm
Political
Cartoons: Editorial Cartooning from the Pages of Canadian Newspapers
http://7thfloormedia.com/resources/canadiana/library/ottawa.html
Les 75 ans de la presse
écrite francophone en alberta : de La Survivance au Franco
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/ABpresse/
Connexions:
An Exhibit on Communications
http://www.science-tech.nmstc.ca/english/collection/connexions.cfm
A
Social History of Canadian Telecommunications
http://www.cjc-online.ca/viewarticle.php?id=286&layout;=html
Telehistory
http://www.sciencetech.com/ENG/rech/telehis.htm
Canadian Railway
Telegraph History
http://www.trainweb.org/railwayop/
History of Telegraph and
Telephone Companies in Nova Scotia
http://alts.net/ns1625/telephone.html
A Very Fierce War:
The Electric Telegraph Lines Between New York and Halifax, 1850
http://alts.net/ns1625/craig02.html
Historical Notes about
Marconi Wireless Telegraph in Nova Scotia
http://alts.net/ns1625/marconi020.html
Canadian
Telephone Company Histories
http://www.cybercomm.net/%7Echuck/cantelco.html
Dr. Alexander Carruthers
Beatty and The Telephone in Hope Township
http://www.nhb.com/telephon.htm
Canadian
Inventions: Words without Wires
http://www.capitaleducanada.gc.ca/games/cdninventions/words_without/index_e.html
History
of the Edmonton Telephone System
http://www.gov.edmonton.ab.ca/comm_services/city_op_attractions/fort/1905/telhist.html
Marconi's
Three Transatlantic Radio Stations In Cape Breton
http://www.newscotland1398.net/marconi100/marconi1.html
The History
of Canadian Broadcasting
http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/ccf/index2.html
Canadian
Radio History
http://www.odxa.on.ca/archives/timelinehome.html
Les
avatars de la radio publique d'expression française au Canada
1932-1939
http://www.erudit.org/revue/haf/1998/v51/n3/005348ar.html
La
censure en temps de guerre : Radio-Canada et le plébiscite de
1942
http://www.erudit.org/revue/haf/1998/v52/n2/005347ar.html
Watching TV:
Televisions and Memorabilia from the MZTV Museum
http://www.civilization.ca/hist/tv/tv00eng.html
A Short
History of Broadcasting Regulation in Canada and the CRTC
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/ENG/info_sht/g15e.htm
Milestones
of CBC's History
http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/history/index.shtml
Canada
Tunes In: Radio and TV's Early Years
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-75-1631/science_technology/early_radio-tv/
History of CBC Technology
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cbc/
History
of CBC Television, 1952-2002
http://www.cbc.ca/tv50th/timeline_html/index.html
A Brief
History of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland
http://spring.det.mun.ca/great/background.html
Canadian
Satellite Questions and Answers
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/satellites/english/canadian/index.html
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