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The Use of Media in Exploring Afro Indigenous Ancestry

This lesson will ask students to use creative, academic, and observational skills to define terms which are important to understanding Afro Indigenous ancestry and to reflect on how media has been used over time to express important ideas about justice and ethnicity.


Canada’s Youth History Award Recipients Share Inspiring Stories

Young storytellers honoured at special awards ceremony.


Slavery and its Gradual Abolition in Upper Canada

This lesson examines the viewpoints on the abolition of slavery in Upper Canada — immediate abolition, gradual abolition, or no abolition. 


Thérèse Casgrain: Canadian Political and Peace Activist

Students will work in groups to explore the historical experiences of Thérèse Casgrain and the women activists who created political, cultural, and social change in Quebec and Canada.


‘Bomb Girls’: Defense Industries Limited and the Home Front

In this lesson, students will be asked to collect data about the role, impact and experiences of the women known as the ‘Bomb Girls’.


A Child Evacuee – From England to Canada

This lesson examines the perspective of an evacuee child during the Second World War.


Flying and Spying: The Life of Kam Len Douglas Sam

Through exploring the life of Kam Len Douglas Sam, students will discover why Sam was the most decorated and highest-ranked Chinese Canadian in history.


Strength, Melanin, and Estrogen

The goal of these activities is to give students an opportunity to explore the role that Black women play in the great Canadian mosaic.


The First World War in Symbols

In this activity, students will analyze a selection of primary documents from the First World War.


The 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act

Canada’s harsh immigration policies of the 19th and 20th centuries discriminated against people based on race, particularly people wishing to emigrate from China.