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PoSt-War World


This guide provides helpful resources to support Mr. Weiss' Post-War Canada and Global Changes Group Assignment. If you have any questions, suggestions to improve this page, or encounter issues with the links, please email [email protected].  
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This page was last updated 12/09/2025

topics 

  • ​Japanese Internment
  • ​Atomic Bomb​
  • Economics, Politics & Cold War 
  • Founding of the United Nations 
  • Founding of NATO
  • Post-War Immigration to Canada
  • Canada and the Korean War 
  • ​Baby Boom 

Primary source materials 

Picture
ProQuest
This database contains historical BC Newspapers. Includes full-text coverage of The Province (1894-2010) Times Colonist (1884-2010) and Vancouver Sun (1912-2010).  It is subscription based, so see Mrs. Binning for how to log- in from home.  

​The following  resources are Open Access and are free of charge:  

SFU Library Databases: Editorial Cartoons Collection
Contains editorial cartoon drawings published in Canada between 1952 and the present. 

Peel's Prairie Provinces : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
Developed by the University of Alberta, this digital collection contains historical records, books, pamphlets, postcards, and other materials representing the diverse cultures and peoples that live in the Canadian Prairies.

BC Historical Newspapers - UBC Library Open Collections
Features digitized versions of historical papers from around the province. The titles, which range from the Abbotsford Post to the Ymir Mirror, date from 1859 to 1995.

Canadiana
Contains over 69 million pages of digitized heritage content. 
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      • Industrial Revolution
      • Injustice Rant
      • Weiss - Post War
      • Law Essay Contest
      • Clayton - World War II
      • Enlightenment Thinkers
      • Social Justice Read Aloud
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      • Picture Book Production
      • Big Bang Theory
      • Profound Question
    • Provincial Assessments
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