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In this podcast, we spoke with teachers whose students are exploring histories in their own communities and regions and using creative ways to share their learning.

This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast features three educators who are using partnerships and community-based learning to further their students learning. 

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Fiction Feature: When a B.C. lighthouse keeper falls ill, his daughter, Mary Croft, takes over, becoming probably the first woman in Canada to do so. Her daughters help, too!

As an ocean-going vessel took shape on a Saskatchewan farm during the Great Depression, it was clear that its builder was either a genius or a madman.

Author disentangles the interplay of economics and emotions, objectives and needs, the differing and sometimes clashing notions of personal duty, morality, and rights underlying the “conversation” that is taxation.

Miserable. Gloomy. Freezing cold. In Canada, winter can be all these things. But in 1816, that’s how the summer unfolded — and it would take nearly seventy years before we would understand why.

Challenges and change have always been part of Hudson’s Bay Company’s three-and-a-half-century history.

In this lesson, students are introduced to the historical thinking concept of primary source evidence through the events of the Oka Crisis of 1990.