McCord Museum

This Canadian museum website has a vast online collection of historic artifacts, documents, letters, and images. There are thematic tours with brief summaries, and hundreds of thousands of images. The primary materials are searchable and users can limit by geographic regions as well as historical and present-day boundaries. Suitable for grades 9-12, the site could be used to research the history of early Canada, to supplement research questions, to search through history by looking at letters, documents, and photographs, or to support a structured inquiry unit.