Educate 150

This lesson examines the various viewpoints and perspectives of the participants in the Confederation debates, including the voices of women, Indigenous peoples and other groups left out of the process.

This lesson introduces students to the principles of responsible government for which LaFontaine and Baldwin fought. 

Use this activity and the 2017 Summer issue of Kayak ​to engage your students with the concept of Confederation by asking them to think about it happening today! 

Use the Summer 2017 issue of Kayak to help your students match famous Canadian food companies to their founders.

Use the Summer 2017 issue of Kayak to help your students match these Indigenous place names with their meanings!

Use the Summer 2017 issue of Kayak to help your students match these laws to the places that have/made them!

In this lesson, students will have an opportunity to analyze political cartoons from the late 1800s and early 1900s, read and research a specific immigrant group who came to Canada, and create their own political cartoon about this group.

This Unit Plan encourages teachers to reconsider their twentieth century Canadian History program, using Expo 67 as a “lens” from which to examine Canada both at “100” and “150” years.