In sharp contrast to the musings of a senior student, the mandatory history texts follow a narrow provincial orientation. The recently introduced Quebec high school history program offers adolescents a slanted narrative devoid of larger interconnected contexts as hailed; for example, by Oakeshott (2004), MacMillan (2009), and/or Canadine (2013).…

We are all our history. Yet in Canadian classrooms, students are often left questioning how they can study a past that does not reflect their present. Despite curricular revisions, the mainstream narrative that shapes the way we teach students about the Canadian nation can be divisive, separating "us" from "them." Responding to…

Scholars disagree about the implications of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action for history educators and curriculum developers. Some scholars contend that responding to these Calls to Action requires rejecting the discipline of history and historical thinking approaches currently being implemented in history and social…

Exposing fables, testing new interpretations, and discovering the true complexity of myths can make history come alive. That a Methodist clergyman was put in charge of recruiting in Quebec, that Canada was unprepared for war in 1917, and that the Canadian government hopelessly mismanaged recruiting are examples of myths examined. (RM)

Students of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities have the opportunity to spend two-and-a-half days at a reconstructed 17th-century historic site located near Midland, Ontario. The Sainte-Marie live-in provides students with an opportunity to live Canadian history. (RM)

The author describes a junior high school interdisciplinary Canadian studies course. Class projects encompassing Indian culture, French-Canadian culture, English-Canadian culture, and regional and ethnic cultures are examined. (DE)

This resource bibliography with over 500 descriptive annotations on Canada, a product of a conference on Canadian Studies held at the University of Maine, Orono, in September, 1969, is designed to make teachers of social studies and other fields at both the elementary and secondary levels more aware of the variety of available teaching materials…

The purpose of this role-playing activity is to acquaint secondary students in a Canadian history class with the problems of politics in New France shortly after it became a Crown colony. The activity is designed for three 70-minute classroom periods. (RM)

Designed to rejuvenate an intermediate level Canadian history course, the primary goal of this practicum was to provide students and teachers with resource materials that would be interesting, informative, and challenging. The second aim was to present teachers with the techniques of resource-based learning so that these resources could be a…

The problems, frustrations, successes, and failures met by the Roseneath Centennial Public School in Roseneath, Canada, while attempting to respond to the unique needs of the community it serves are described in this paper. The school staff planned and implemented a program in cross-cultural studies in order to reduce the friction between the…

A trained eye can make almost any part of the landscape into a vehicle for historical awareness. Discussed is how one farm in Canada is the product of its historic circumstances. (RM)

In this bibliography, elementary and secondary level teachers will find a variety of teaching materials available on Canada. It is a revision and update of a bibliography published in 1971 (ED 062 219). This edition contains materials published primarily in the 1960s through 1974. One section provides over 500 references to history, social…