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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.”

Using this activity, students will rank the importance of different moments in Canada’s story of bilingualism to explore how historical significance is established and how it varies.

In this lesson, students will examine various events in Canadian immigration history.

This issue explores what Canada gained and lost when we built our ribbon of steel. From passenger trains, to subways to the SkyTrain or tourist steam railways, we look at all kinds of trains.

It can be beautiful, surprising, thought-provoking or funny — art is an important way that we think about ourselves and our country. You’ll meet all kind of artists and see their work in this issue of Kayak.

Why does it matter what language we speak? Or whether anyone else speaks our language?

From farms to factories to fighting, the Second World War touched Canadians in many ways.

We’re so used to getting good, fast forecasts that we forget that wasn’t always true. In this issue of Kayak, we explore some of the ways we’ve tried to figure out what weather to expect.

In this lesson, students will play a class game of “I Have... Who Has?” and create a timeline for Canada’s fur trade.

Students will observe the movements of settlers and establish connections between the characteristics of settler houses and the regions they occupy in this lesson.