This lesson encourages students to reflect on the role of the media and the impact of the “news cycle” on public awareness of current affairs.
Educator Rob Jardine outlines the parallels in teaching about the Holocaust and the history of residential schools in Canada.
Open Book: The book Symbols of Canada presents stories about the pasts and possible futures of symbols.
How the Canadian Rangers came to be the shadow army of the North.
Macdonald’s reputation in French Canada shifted with his political decisions.
Other Canadian history books receive multiple 2020 award nominations.
This lesson examines the various viewpoints and perspectives of the participants in the Confederation debates, including the voices of women, Indigenous peoples and other groups left out of the process.
Aboard the ships Eaglet and Nonsuch, a pair of ambitious French adventurers set sail for Hudson Bay in hopes of striking it rich in the fur trade.
This lesson is an experiential approach to Indigenous people’s history.
