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The Historical Atlas of Canada was a three-volume collaborative research and
publishing project, finished in 1993, which used maps text and other graphics to
explore themes in the history of Canada. The Historical Atlas of Canada was
published in English and French versions, the last volume in 1993. In 1998, the
Concise Historical Atlas of Canada was published, a selection of plates from the
original volumes, with new essays connecting them. The Atlas uses thematic
mapping to describe events, issues or patterns in Canada's development.

The Historical Atlas of Canada Online Learning Project is intended to make
the maps and data generated for the Atlas available to a wider audience by
re-designing them for the Internet. This is being accomplished by creating a web
site which includes conventional text and image pages, but where the main focus
is on interactive maps. By enabling users to zoom in and out on map displays,
turn map layers on or off, and access the tables of data behind the maps, the
map-viewing experience becomes active exploration of the data and themes
presented.

With Google Custom Search Engine, you can:



• Create a CSE at any time and Google will give you a landing page with a
  unique URL. You also have the option of applying your own site's look and feel.
  
• Invite friends and colleagues to collaborate and
  contribute to your search engine, enhancing its usefulness to your
  community.
  
• Provide your own search refinements
  within results pages so it's easier for your users to find the information
  they're looking for.
  
• Easily add more sites to
  your search engine's index as you surf the web.
  
• New! You can create a CSE on the fly
  simply by cutting and pasting a few lines of code into your website's HTML. Your
  new automatically generated CSE will let people search the websites you've
  linked to, as well as the sites they link to. For instance, if you've created a
  directory, a blog roll, or a list of online resources, your CSE will enable your
  users to search across these sites and the sites they
  reference.
  
What will your CSE look like? If you choose to have
Google host it, it will look something like Lucy Gray's Research
Sites for Kids.

Search			Communicate, show & share
	Book Search			Blogger
	Earth			Calendar
	Maps			Docs
	News			Groups
	iGoogle			Page Creator (Labs)
	Web Search			Picasa
				SketchUp
Newly featured products				Google Apps Education Edition
	Custom Search Engine
	Google Notebook

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February is Black History Month, a time to recognize and honour the legacy of
Black Canadians. To commemorate this occasion, Library and Archives Canada is
offering a Web portal of the online resources available on its website relating
to Black History in Canada.

Visit the virtual exhibition Under a Northern
Star
www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/northern-star/index-e.html