Big Ideas of this unit:

• The different communities in early-nineteenth century Canada influence the way we live today
• Social and environmental challenges were a major part of life in all communities in early-nineteenth century Canada.
• Canada was already a multicultural society in 1800

Questions we will be investigating this unit:

• How do the lives of people back then compare to ours?
• Who lived in Early Canada? How did these groups differ from each other?
• What challenges did the different groups of Early Canadians face? How did they respond to these challenges?
• What were the interactions between the different groups of people?
• How did people in the past relate to the environment? To each other?