Website researching please help?

[Maya Spadezz]

Ok well I'm trying to find "Scholarly" websites to use to do research for my history day project. Like i cant use sites like Wikipedia, chacha, wiki. answers, or any of that for my annotated bibliography. Because that would look really bad and i would lose points. My teacher wants us to use reliable resources. My topic is the Erie Canal and its turning point in history. So what are some RELIABLE websites that I can use to find secondary and primary sources about the Erie Canal. I can find some secondary sources but not a lot. But for the primary its very difficult to find some about the Erie Canal. So yeah can you please list some sites where I can find secondary sources about the Erie Canal? And the primary sources as well? I have to type a rough draft about 6 pages about the Erie Canal. So I need really good websites to get information from and are reliable. Please and thank you!

[Katniss]

Google Scholar:
http://scholar.google.ca/

[Butch]

can't get more reliable than the encylopedia britannica

http://www.britannica.com/