Canada's History
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In this lesson, students will consider the significance of various power dynamics on women’s roles and rights.

In February 1959, the Avro Arrow project was officially terminated. After the cancellation there were official attempts to wipe the Arrow from public memory. Thanks to a few quick-thinking members of the photo department, we still have films and photos of the remarkable-looking plane, with its delta wings, needle nose, and sleek profile.

In early April 1935, hundreds of dissatisfied, disillusioned men walked out of Department of National Defence relief camps throughout British Columbia and descended on Vancouver in a bold attempt to reverse their dead-end lives and bring about some kind of work for wages program.

Our article about the creation of Nunavut is one of the most popular on the CanadasHistory.ca site per our Google Analytics for the period February 2017 through to February 2021. #Nunavut

This lesson focuses on the people who left Europe to start a new life in Canada between 1613 and 1899.

Piecing together his family history through archival documents, Tyler LeBlanc presents a unique and deeply researched biographical history of the Acadian Expulsion. #BookAdvent #spons

Steven High is the recipient of the 2020 Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media: The Pierre Berton Award for his lifetime contributions to oral and public history.

We hear stories of residential schools with our ears, our minds, and our hearts. This set of lessons will help students contextualize these stories using the Indigenous principles of humility and witnessing. #EveryChildMatters

Canadians today enjoy many rights and freedoms. But it wasn’t always this way. The social progress we take for granted today was achieved by average Canadians who stood up for what they believed in. #HumanRightsDay

Much like with COVID-19 today, back in 1918 people were talking about the influenza outbreak. In this classroom activity, students will research and compare the language used to describe both pandemics.

In 2013 Canada becomes the chair of the Arctic Council, an organization barely noticed at its birth in September 1996, when Canada was its founding chair. Opposed by the United States, underfunded, without a permanent secretariat, and lacking terms of reference and rules of procedure, the Arctic Council limped into existence. Today it is the principal forum in which the eight Arctic states interact and plan the increasingly important future of the Arctic. #HistoryWeek2020

Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin brings forward Indigenous thought, history, and acts of resistance as viewed through survivors of residential school who, through certain aspects of their young lives, were able to persevere with resiliency and share their life experiences, teaching us about them and their understanding of their own resiliency. #BookAdvent #spons

One photographer, J.W. Anderson, is responsible for more than eight thousand photos in the Hudsons’ Bay Company Archives.

Kayak's latest graphic feature makes a splash as it tells the story of how water safety and swimming lessons became popularized in Canada.

Students will use the historical thinking concepts of cause and consequence and historical significance to explore the ways womenlike the Bomb Girlscontributed to the war effort in this lesson.

You're invited to experience this two-part special event! Conversations with leading history scholars will take place on Thursday, November 26 at 5:30 pm ET, the first day of the 2020 Canada’s History Forum.

Dawn Martens led students at Buchanan Park Public School in studying and performing Hans Krása’s opera, Brundibár. Hear about the experience in the Teaching Canada’s History podcast.

With one of the most tumultuous elections in the history of the United States in our rear-view mirror, Allen Priest, Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Western Ontario, walks us through many of the most cooperative, competitive, and controversial moments between Canadian and American leaders.

Election Reflections - With American voters flooding the polls today, it's a good time to listen to Allen Priest's insights into the history of American elections’ impacts on Canada. #Elections2020 #ElectionNight

Canada’s first health insurance plan was championed by Tommy Douglas, which made medical care free for everyone. Thankfully, we no longer have to worry about how much a trip to the emergency room will cost.

Listening to the stories of residential school Survivors invites critical dialogue in this lesson. Students may respond with personal comments or questions as they reflect on Indigenous history. #EveryChildMatters

In advance of Remembrance Day we reflect with a collection of articles, videos, book reviews, and more, commemorating anniversaries and important events.

November 14 is World Diabetes Day. 2021 will mark 100 years since the discovery of insulin. Learn more about this life-saving treatment in a video all about the invention. #WorldDiabetesDay

The invention of the electric oven helped home cooks across the country, but in 1892 it made a big splash with enterprising hotel owners!

To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Dawn Martens led students from grades 4 to 6 at Buchanan Park Public School in studying and performing Hans Krása’s opera, Brundibar.

On December 24, 1814, representatives of Britain and the United States met in Belgium to sign the Treaty of Ghent. The agreement formally concluded the War of 1812. Check out this break down of the war and treaty by the numbers.

The Second World War led to fundamental changes to Canada, ushering in a new country forged by a generation’s service and sacrifice.

For many Métis people, a changing political and economic landscape raised the question: what allegiances might best serve their interests as a distinct people and preserve their way of life? For the Métis of Pembina in the middle of the nineteenth century, that allegiance appeared to lie with the Americans.

Have you ever heard of the ghost ship of the Arctic? The S.S. Baychimo is an abandoned ship that was spotted in various parts of the North. In 2006, the Alaskan government began a search for the ship but the whereabouts are still unknown. #HappyHalloween

Did you know that Goose Bay, Labrador was home to weapons of mass destruction during the Cold War? The number and type of nuclear weapons stored at Goose Air Base over the years is not known; diplomatic protocols for the stationing, storage, and deployment of defensive nuclear weapons were not completed until 1965. Only for a sixteen-month period in 1965 and 1966 did both Canadian and American governments acknowledge that defensive nuclear weapons were stored on the base.

In 1923, President Harding received such an enthusiastic welcome from British Columbians, you would have thought he was their winning candidate. Considering he was the first American president to visit Canada while in office, it was a momentous occasion. And just days later he died.

Since its creation, the Canadarm has been instrumental in space research and has been used in more than 50 missions.