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Applying your knowledge: Distinguishing between Primary and Secondary Sources
Click on the button to indicate if the item is a primary source and/or a secondary source.
Item
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Photograph of Wilfrid Laurier
Diary of Nellie McClung
Television documentary on the development of Marquis wheat
Letter from Prime Minister Chretien to President Bush
Photocopy of the front page of a Toronto newspaper dated 22 September 1911
Canadian historian's account of the 1968 federal election written in 1999
Statistics on the number of immigrants who came to the Canada each year from 1900 to 1913
Map of the Alaska boundary dispute of 1899 taken from an Internet site
Answers
Primary
Secondary
Primary Secondary
(Based on: J. Bradley Cruxton and W. Douglas Wilson, Spotlight Canada, 4th ed. [Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada, 2000]: 56.)
Go to Using Primary Sources: The Historian's Tools.
