No Votes For Men!

In this lesson students encounter an important step towards the full enfranchisement of Canadian citizens.

The city of Halifax bulldozes a Black settlement that had stood for 150 years, destroying a community but not its spirit.

Ride the rails across Canada with Black sleeping car porters as they fight for labour rights and civil rights.

Union organizer Madeleine Parent fights for better working conditions in Quebec.

Prairie families in the 1930s watch their farms — and hopes — blow away while they wait for rain.

Meet Tom Longboat, an Onondaga long distance runner who becomes a world-class athlete.

On April 12, 1980, amputee Terry Fox set out on a run across Canada with the goal of raising $1 from every Canadian for cancer research.

The inspiring story of Canadian Kit Coleman, a female reporter who fought for women’s equality and became the first-ever female war correspondent.

A Vietnamese father and daughter make a dangerous escape from their war-torn region — a journey that ultimately takes them to Canada as refugees.

In 1835, the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Land Company brought 35 boys and 1 girl from England to work for its settlers. They were not paid and while some were treated like family, others were not nearly so lucky.