Book Review: Cecil Foster shows how black train porters played a key role in demanding fair treatment, helping to make Canada the uniquely multicultural country it is today.
Book Review: In Strangers in the House, Candace Savage writes of her search for her family history and the bigotry that her family experienced in Saskatoon in the early twentieth century.
Canada did not enjoy full legal autonomy until the Statute of Westminster was passed on December 11, 1931. The signing of the statute was Canada’s own declaration of independence.
Over the first twenty years, the song swept through Quebec, sung in churches and on all formal occasions, but having no English words, people across Canada composed their own lyrics, and by the 1920s, English Canadians sang two hundred versions.
In this lesson, students will learn about life as a voyageur’s family during the Fur Trade and then will play the Fur Trade Game where they collect “furs” to trade for items from a “trading post.”
