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The Last Battle of Seven Oaks Puppet Play

In this lesson, students will create and perform a puppet play about the Battle of Seven Oaks.


Rewarding Risk

Take the risk. Take the first step, and you will never look back.


Canada's Odyssey

Book Review: Few scholars possess as broad a range as Russell, who combines a deep interest and knowledge of Canadian history with a sense of humility about how much more there is to know. 


Arming and Disarming

Book Review: In Arming and Disarming, Blake Brown undertakes a thorough review of the history of gun control in Canada and explodes the myth that we have never been as gunloving as our American neighbours.


The Promise of Canada

Book Review: At the heart of this book are nine personalities who, in Gray’s opinion, had an outsized impact on Canadian values and consciousness, though not all are at the top of our history who’s who.


Legacy

Book Review: This book invites dissent. Why were these thirteen individuals, and not others, chosen for a book of profiles of French Canadians who had “shaped North America”?


We Need To Widen Our Views

Understanding Canadian History requires both context and a sense of proportion. 


Untold Stories

Their contributions were often overlooked in official histories, but Indigenous men and women played crucial roles in the success of the fur trade.


Free the Island

With its long history of separatist movements, Vancouver Island could well have become Canada's eleventh province.


History Spotlight: Sir Wilfrid Laurier

Who was the man who became Canada’s seventh prime minister?