This Library and Archives Canada website describes Robert Baldwin's political career and the reforms he introduced in partnership with Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine. Click the link marked "responsible government". (
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/023001-2304-e.html
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Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine's political biography describes the reformer's work towards the recognition of French as an official language and the establishment of responsible government in Canada. (
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/023001-2353-e.html
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This page from Canada, A People's History is the first of a series of articles on the struggle for responsible government in Canada. It features the alliance between Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine. (
http://history.cbc.ca/history/?MIval=EpisContent&series_id=1&episode_id=7&chapter_id=5&pa...
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This University of Calgary presentation looks at the influx of migrants to western Canada after 1896. (
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/canada1891/4frame.html
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The Multicultural Canada website contains eleven chapters that outline the history of Canada's immigration policy. (
http://www.multiculturalcanada.ca/Encyclopedia/A-Z/i2
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A comprehensive multimedia resource, this Asia/Canada presentation explains Canadian policy towards Asian immigrants, and describes the experience of Chinese emigrants. Start with "Meeting of Cultures." (
http://www.histori.ca/asia-canada/page.do?pageID=423
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This page describes the plight of Chinese labourers who were used to build the Canadian Pacific Railway but were treated with discrimination in Canadian law. (
http://www.canadianhistory.ca/iv/perspective/perspective4_1.html
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In 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized for past discriminatory immigration policies in Canada. He also introduced government plans to offer financial compensation to the families of Chinese immigrants who were victimized by these policies. (
http://pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=1219
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This NFB website contains over thirty-three short documentaries that attempt to present the Aboriginal perspective on life in Canada. Click "Dancing Around The Table" to view different visions of aboriginal entitlement at the Constitution Conference of 1983. (
http://www.nfb.ca/enclasse/doclens/visau/index.php?mode=theme&language=english&theme=3066...
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