Donna’s curriculum, written from a Christian perspective, endeavors to portray historical figures as accurately as possible, acknowledging both their virtuous attributes and their human flaws, their noble motivations alongside their self-serving ambitions. This approach aims to provide a comprehensive and balanced understanding of the past, avoiding simplistic or idealized characterizations. Learners from a Christian perspective…
Using an etching of Sitting Bull kicking out Uncle Sam, Jim explores what it means to be Indigenous. He questions why those “first” nations, such as the Sioux who came as late as 1876, have full Indigenous status when Europeans were in Canada long before that. Art Featured: UNCLE SAM FORGIVES SITTING BULL FOR CUSTER…
A long time ago, in the 1870s, workers in Canada didn’t always have fair hours or safe jobs. In Toronto, a group of printers who worked for newspapers decided they wanted something better—a workday that was only nine hours long instead of ten to twelve hours per day. When the leaders of this group were…
From west to east, Canada’s six different time zones are: Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern, Atlantic and Newfoundland. Up to the 1880s, cities and towns used their own local solar time which could vary from place to place. That was fine when people didn’t travel far, but once the railways allowed quicker travel over long distances,…
In the painting today, it looks like white European traders are exchanging goods with First Nations, something that obviously was a mutual benefit to both sides. The indigenous people are happy to get metal products, blankets, and beads, and all sorts of things that you probably already know about. And the Europeans were particularly focused…
Talking to kids about residential schools can be challenging but important. This guide offers supportive talking points to help parents start natural and meaningful conversations. We deeply respect that there are diverse perspectives and valid interpretations surrounding this topic, and we firmly believe in your right as a parent to impart knowledge and values in…
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…
As part of the fur trade, there was always the danger of having fractious relations with the people that you’re trading with. So both sides tried to do things to cement the relationship and make the trading successful. Intermarriage brought people together. The trapper was looking for someone to look after domestic affairs such as making…
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…
Governments come and go—sometimes serving as protectors, other times as oppressors. They may uphold justice or fall into corruption. Yet, amid their impermanence and flaws, humanity longs for a kingdom that is eternally just, good, and peaceful. Our true hope is found in Jesus. For to us a child is born, to us a son is…
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