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Maps used in this book highlight Canada’s exploration and settlement history from the migration of the First Peoples to the creation of Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut.
Bundled curriculum, historical fiction, DVDs, and wonderfully illustrated resources make this a full banquet for your curious or reluctant history learners. They will be captivated by the stories and turn into history lovers.
Check out the accompanying online course to make teaching a breeze.
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Get Courage & Conquest: Discovering Canadian History 7th Edition (brand new) along with living books that will make history come alive.
This multimedia course will take students through the 1st half of the book Courage & Conquest: Discovering Canadian History. Each lesson includes a short introductory video by Donna Ward, the lesson in audio, video teaching and explanation about the assignments including the Six Historical Thinking Concepts, a lesson with Christian content, and some high school assignments.
Families will still need to manage a time line and extra reading as listed in the course to enhance learning.
Pre-recorded videos allow students to work at their own pace. There will not be live classes or discussion groups at this time.
The course will expire one year after purchase. It is split into two parts (Series 1 and Series 2) to allow for more flexibility with expiry dates.
The book Courage & Conquest is essential to the course. Siblings of one homeschool family may use the course together.
Series Two – Opening the west to Confederation
This multimedia course will take students through the 2nd part of the book Courage & Conquest: Discovering Canadian History with daily teaching by Donna Ward including extra course content, teaching the Six Historical Thinking Concepts, daily activities, added Christian thoughts to process and more.
Prerecorded videos allow students to work at their own pace. Siblings of one homeschool family may use the course together.
The book Courage & Conquest is essential to the course. If you don’t have a copy, purchase it separately.
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Purchase all eleven books in the Discovering Canada series and save.
Cross-referenced in Courage and Conquest: Discovering Canadian History. Included in the All Inclusive History Bundle.
The story of Canada’s Black heritage is filled with important events and amazing people who helped shape the country’s history and culture – people like Rose Fortune, North America’s first policewoman; Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railway’s legendary ‘conductor’; newspaper editor Mary Ann Shadd; Elijah McCoy, the brilliant inventor who was ‘the real McCoy’; Alberta cowboy John Ware; and Fergie Jenkins, the first Canadian elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Enter the world of First Nations and fur traders – when the quest for beaver pelts was opening up the Canadian frontier. Join Pierre Radisson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and other adventurers as they venture into territory that would become Canada.
The Great War (1914-1918) inspired courageous heroes and established a proud Canadian nationalism, but it was a devastating event that killed or maimed almost half of Canada’s brave soldiers in battles such as Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, and the final 100 days.
Young readers will discover Canada’s part in the first great worldwide conflict. They will learn about life in the trenches, the first tanks, u-boats and convoys, aces and dog fights, machine guns and cavalry charges, gas warfare, as well as the drastic changes in women’s roles.
The American Revolution frequently turned neighbour against neighbour, brother against brother, and father against son. By the end of the conflict, more than seventy thousand former residents of the Thirteen Colonies left or lost their homes. Most headed north to the Canadian wilderness. Although they too, wanted independent and democratic rights, they believed in law, order, and loyalty to Britain.
The Mounties presents the amazing stories of such larger-than-life figures as James Macleod, an officer who befriended the powerful Blackfoot chief, Crowfoot; James Morrow Walsh, who won the trust of Sitting Bull when he arrived in Canada after the massacre at Little Big Horn; Jerry Potts, the famous Métis scout and interpreter; and Sam Steele, the superintendent who kept the peace during the Klondike Gold Rush.
This addition to the exciting, innovative Discovering Canada series brings to life the time before the white European settlers “discovered” Canada, when only the original native peoples lived here.
Who were these peoples? Where did they live? What were their legends and myths, famous heroes?