Lesson 10: History Through Art
This lesson explores the trading ship, The Boston, in Nootka Sound and how Chief Maquinna murdered the whole crew except for John Thompson and John Levitt. Maquinna is honoured in Canadian history, while our founding father, Sir John A MacDonald, is cancelled. How is this right when Sir John A MacDonald did so much for the Indigenous, including vaccination against smallpox?
Art Featured: The ship “Boston taken by the savages at Nootka Sound, March 22nd, 1803. Taken from “A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt; only survivor of the crew of the Ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the savages of Nootka Sound. (PD)
