As the introduction to the original project begins:

"Canada is not a country based on ethnic uniformity like most European or Asian countries. It is not a country forged by the fires of civil war or wars of unification. It is a country which has evolved and been held together by the agreement and will of the various groups who have helped build it over the years. It is a country by consent."

It has not always been unanimous consent, however, as the history of our First Nations shows. But the dialogue that is Canada continues to this day and native people are now a more active part of it.

This digital collection was produced with support from Canada's Digital Collections Initiative, Industry Canada.

The Internet conversion team:

Team leader: Emily Dunn

Team Members: Sebastian Dunn

Claire McGee

Laura Meredith

CREDITS for the original project:

Writer: Linda West

Director: Bill Dunn

Producer: Artistic Productions Limited T/A West/Dunn Productions

Software and Technical Director: Bob Monaghan

Programming and Production: Bill Dunn, Linda West

and Bob Monaghan

Graphics: Bill Dunn/Bob Monaghan

Maps: Bob Monaghan

Digital Audio Mixing: Bill Dunn

Copy Editor: Bette Laderoute

Content Specialist: Dr. Peter Baskerville, Chair of History, University of Victoria

Narrator: Linda West

Resources:

National Archives of Canada:

Roanne Mokhtar, Sheila Mendonca, Sylvia Gervais,

Edna Rodriguez, Caroline Forcier

Additional Photography: Bill Dunn

Video production by: Artistic Productions Ltd.

FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF CANADA:

C 251 La Danse Ronde; Circular Dance of the Canadians, George Heriot

C 403 Hunting buffalo

C 747 Indian traders, 1671

C 803 Micmac encampment at Point Levis

C 810 Mi’kmaq Indians, 1839, Millicent Mary Chaplin

C 1041 Indians of Lorette, 1840, John Richard Coke Smyth

C 1875 Chief Big Bear

C 3164 Iroquois warrior, 18th century hand-coloured engraving, J. Grasset St. Sauveur

C 3165 Iroquois scouting, J. Grasset St. Sauveur

C 5530 Portrait of a Stone Indian, Northwest Territory, March 1823

C 16436 Micmac fishing camp, Restigouche

C 20823 The Bowman, Nootka, Edward S. Curtis

C 20830 Two chiefs of the Thompson tribe

C 28542 Naval officers and men conciliating with Beothuk indians

C 28852 Archery of the Mandans, George Catlin

C 29485 Hurons defending vs. Iroquois 1649

C 33536 Horse Racing Indians, 1500, Karl Bodmer

C 33682 Montagnais and Naskapi lodges at Seven Islands by William G.R. Hind

C 36972 Fuel-gatherer of a Copper Inuit family, photo D. Jenness

C 40318 Rapids on the Approach to the Village of the Cedars, Lower Canada

C 41155 Natives in tent

C 41227 Homme et Femme Iroquois, J. Grasset St. Sauveur

C 56923 Summer dwelling of the Carrier tribe, photo Harlan I. Smith

C 70635 Interior of a cabin of Unalaska

C 73662 Indians playing lacrosse

C 74693 Potlatch gathering, interior of a community house, Joanna Simpson Wilson

C 74700 In potlatch regalia with talking stick, Joanna Simpson Wilson

C 74704 Kwakiutl dancers in open air

C 74876 Sketches of Algonquin dress by Samuel de Champlain

C 74878 Huron attacking palisaded Onondaga village, drawing by Samuel de Champlain

C 74879 Blood girl

C 85570 Mi’kmaq woman with hat

C 87698 Demasduit (Mary March) Beothuk woman 1819, Lady Henrietta Martha Hamilton

C 100142 Wigwam of Mi’kmaqs, 1860

C 103059 Champlain trading with Indians, Jeffreys

C 103532 Squaws of the Micmac tribe, Lieut. Robert Petley

C 114481 Micmac Indian encampment by a river c. 1795

C 119987 Wi-Jun-Jon, 1844, George Catlin

C 122860 Halifax, Nova Scotia, ca 1849, H.S. Murrell

C 127132 Indian Boy 1855-1857, William Simpson

C 127959 Eskimaux (Inuit) building a snow hut, 1824, George F. Lyon

CMC 22010 Interior, Salish pit-house

PA 020001 Indian teepees at Gods Lake, Manitoba (Cree Indians), R.D. Davidson

PA 118768 Big Bear trading at Fort Pitt

FROM THE ARCHIVES OF B.C.

B 3592 Old Haida woman

D 4292 Haida chiefs in Skidegate

PSP00656 Indian Reserve, N. Vancouver by Emily Carr