Canadian Studies > First Nations > Online Exhibits

Canadian Museum of Civilization
Includes a well designed Virtual Museum section with a number of fine online exhibits

Hudson's Bay Company Digital Collection
Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature

The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic
From Ancient Times to 1902
Online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization

The Masks of Ned Bear
(Plains Cree/Maliseet) native artist of Eastern Canada

National Library of Canada

  • Native Residential Schools in Canada: A Selective Bibliography
    "This bibliography accompanies the exhibition Where are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools produced by the National Archives of Canada, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation and the Aboriginal Healing Charitable Association in collaboration with the National Library of Canada, numerous church and other archives presented at the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa from June 18, 2002 to February 3, 2003...The type of materials listed in this bibliography include books, scholarly articles, school histories, personal accounts, theses, videos, and Internet resources."
    Compiled by Amy Fisher and Deborah Lee, April 2002.

North: Landscape of the Imagination
Exhibit from the National Library of Canada
"Visitors to the exhibition are able to view the art from more than two thousand years of Canada's northern history."

Pride and Dignity- Aboriginal Portraits (Excerpts from the Exhibition)
Online exhibit from the National Archives of Canada

Stones Unturned
"This exhibition presents a small selection of artifacts, representative of three subject areas: clothing; musical instruments; toys and games."
Online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Threads of the Land
Clothing Traditions from Three Indigenous Cultures
"This exhibition examines the ways in which the clothing of three Canadian Native peoples (Dene, Copper and Caribou Inuit, and Nlaka'pamux) identifies individuals and their cultures."
Online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization

To the Totem Forests: Emily Carr and Contemporaries Interpret Coastal Villages
"...is the first exhibit in which the voice of First Nations people is used to describe drawings, paintings and prints which were created by Emily Carr, Walter Phillips, A.Y. Jackson, George Pepper, Langdon Kihn and F.M. Bell-Smith. This voice, through first-person testimony and anthropological records provides context for the artworks and corrects some misinterpretations unwittingly introduced by the artists...Further, the exhibit incorporates historical photographs, taken before and during the years these artists painted, which provide new insights into the depiction of Northwest Coast monumental sculpture during the first three decades of the 20th century."

Totem Poles - (dead link)
Brief online exhibit from the Royal British Columbia Museum

Wave Eaters
Native Watercraft in Canada
Online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Where Sea and Land Meet
Historical Northwest Coast Native settings in the art of Gordon Miller and Bill Holm
Online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization







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