Significant Canadian Events, Inventions and Programs : Canadian History, Identity and Culture with Mr. David Spencer

Canadian History, Identity and Culture
with Mr. Spencer

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If you have any questions about this assignment please send a message via e-mail. Answer all questions in complete sentences and include part of the question in each of your answers. Refer to your textbook Brune, Nick et al "Defining Canada: History, Identify and Culture", McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto, 2003 ISBN:0-07-091383.

Unit # 2

Topic: Significant Canadian Events, Inventions and Programs

Video and Discussion
During class, make jot notes on the video "Talking to Americans". Note perspectives on Canada from those being interviewed. Watch for bias, satire and manipulation by the producers of this program.

Communication __/10 marks

Reading Summaries
1. Read and make jot notes on the handout "We're Almost the Same Country". Refer to these notes and your jot notes from the videos "Canada Eh" and "Talking to Americans" and write paragraphs summarizing American observations about Canada.

Application __/10 marks

Textbook Summaries
Refer to your textbook to make brief jot notes about each of the following. Using these jot notes, write a significance paragraph describing the importance or impact on Canada or Canadians for each topic.

Thinking __/95 marks

2. Confederation of Canada (pages 248, 267, 268, railway page 292).

3. Women in Canada: right to vote, Persons, during War (pages 229, 315, 316, 356, 389, 555)

4. On to Ottawa Trek (pages 415-417)

5. Labour Movement (pages 304-310)

6. Vimy Ridge (pages 363, 364, 366, 367)

7. Internment of Japanese Canadians (pages 332, 461, 462)

8. The Holocaust (pages 437, 461)

9. Korean War (pages 472, 473)

10. Avro Arrow (pages 475, 476, 477)

11. Canadarm (page 628)

12. Canada's Military- Conscription Crisis (pages 360-362)