In this lesson students will research immigrant experiences in early Canada and then compare their “Terra” experiences to those of real life immigrants.
While thousands of eastern Europeans poured into Canada to settle the prairie west, a few hundred elected to return to their roots and build an agricultural utopia in the new Soviet Russia. Utopian, it wasn’t.
In this lesson, students are introduced to the historical thinking concept of historical perspectives through an examination of the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War.
Fascinating histories of two very different music recordings: A popular love song from the First World War that centres around a romantic encounter involving doughnuts; and an excerpt from a classic recording of a baroque masterpiece that had originally been released for the phonograph as a monstrous 36-disc set.