Working in groups, students will create a collage of photographs, symbols, paintings, songs and/or poetry to visually tell the story of a group of Canadians during the past century.
Book Review: Cobalt, Ontario, is the “cradle of Canadian mining,” suggests New Democrat Member of Parliament Charlie Angus as he describes in his book how the town’s silver rush in the early twentieth century gave rise to the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Book Review: John Sandlos and Arn Keeling include Cobalt in their more academic study Mining Country, but they also explore mining on a larger canvas while recounting the legacies of “a mining nation.”
The fever of the Klondike gold rush has long passed. But the legacy of those wild-eyed fortune seekers still lives large in the land of the midnight sun.
