Social Studies

GENERAL

QUEENSBOROUGH

Google Maps (enter in an address and get a satellite view – try to zoom in)

City of New Westminster:

 Photo Gallery (click on Queensborough)

Archives (search for Queensborough)

Ryall Park History (PDF)

New Parks of Queensborough

The Dykes of Queensborough (PDF)

New Westminster's Neighbourhoods Historical Context Statements:  Queensborough (PDF)

Queensborough Residential Inventory (PDF)

Ecological Inventory of Queensborough (PDF)

New Westminster: Parks & Recreation: Queensborough Community Center

New Westminster Architecture: Queensborough

 

 

 

 

FIRST NATIONS

Coastal First Nations

SFU Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology

Journey Into Time Immemorial:  based on the story of the Xá:ytem Longhouse in Mission, BC

Northwest Coast Art, A Visual Introduction

Northwest Coast Art

Rock Art (Nanaimo, Petroglyph Park and Galiano Island)

Totem Pole Virtual Gallery

Northwest Coast Totem Poles

Wood, Bone, & Stone Tool Galleries

 

Haida

Library and Archives of Canada:  The Kids' Site of Canadian Settlement

SFU Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology:  Huron, Haida and Inuit Houses:  Haida 

Canadian Museum of Civilization:  The Haida:  Children of Eagle and Raven

Potlatch

BC Archives Time Machine:  First Nations:  Potlatch

Peabody Museum:  Gifting and Feasting in the Northwest Coast Potlatch

Canadian Museum of Civilization Tsimshian Prehistory:  Society and Culture:  Wealth and Rank:  Feasts and Potlatches

School District 52:  Connecting Traditions:  Explore Tsimshian Pre-Contact Life.  First, click on Village Life then the Longhouse then Society the House Groups, Trade and Warfare, Crests and the Chief’s House, and then Feasts.

 

Various Groups

SFU Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology: Huron, Haida and Inuit Houses

Carnegie Museum of Natural History:  American Indians of the Natural World contains information on the Tlingit, Iroquois, Hopi, and Lakota (Western Sioux).