The latest addi­tions to The Great Unsolved Mys­ter­ies in Cana­dian His­tory Pro­ject were pub­lished today. gumch.jpg When I took a look at the three new mys­ter­ies I was reminded what a power­ful addi­tion to the teach­ing of Cana­dian his­tory that this col­lec­tion is. The new mys­ter­ies: “The Red­path Man­sion Mys­tery”, “Death on Painted Lake: The Tom Thom­son Tragedy,” and “Death of a Dip­lo­mat: Her­bert Nor­man and the Cold War” keep rais­ing the bar of how to effect­ively present mater­ial using the web. The pro­ject is a col­la­bour­at­ive effort amongst Cana­dian his­tor­i­ans to provide enga­ging and fun teach­ing tools dir­ec­ted towards high school and uni­ver­sity level stu­dents. The mys­ter­ies are presen­ted as self-contained web­sites, each one with its own theme and approach. Typ­ic­ally they provide com­pel­ling nar­rat­ive and also offer a wealth of primary doc­u­ments and other source mater­ial to aid in learn­ing about Cana­dian His­tory and his­tor­ical meth­ods. With the addi­tion of these new mod­ules, the breadth of the site is reach­ing a point of crit­ical mass and offer a nicely diverse col­lec­tion from through­out time and geo­graphic area.