Indigenous writing is cultural appropriation! Explore how Reverend Evans created symbols, made books to record the Cree language, and taught the Indigenous how to read and write.
Art Featured: Rev. James Evans Teaching His System of Cree Syllabic Writing by C. W. Jefferys
How are we to think of the strengths and flaws of characters in Canadian history? How do we teach our history to our children?
Narrated by legendary Canadian television host Alex Trebek of Jeopardy, the video explores the disastrous Dieppe Raid of Aug. 19, 1942, which is most commonly remembered by a grim statistic—the greatest one-day losses sustained by the Canadian Army during the Second World War. Related Books
David Thompson has been described as the greatest land geographer who ever lived. His achievements as an explorer and surveyor have earned him the reputation as one of the best pioneering geographers in Canadian history. During his career, he mapped almost half of North America between the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes all the…
Werner Voss (April 13, 1897 – September 23, 1917) Lieutenant Voss was a World War I German flying ace, and friend of the famous Red Baron. He was a brilliant and aggressive flyer, with a gift for mechanical engineering, often tinkering with his plane. On September 23, 1917, he fought an epic, single-handed dogfight against several Allied…
A lot of people think Canadian history isn’t very interesting. The painting in today’s lesson was painted by an eye-witness, so we can consider it fairly accurate. When we examine the artwork carefully, we see how different the culture and life was for people back in time, which makes it exotic and exquisite and interesting…
Four murals which represent courage, enterprise, labour, and justice, painted by George Southwell in 1932, were commissioned and hung in the rotunda of the beautiful B.C. legislature in Victoria, B.C. They depict native men and women, bare-chested and watching or working as clothed colonial men sign documents or supervise. First Nations complained that the murals…
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