Assess the significance of people, places, events, or developments, and compare varying perspectives on their historical significance at particular times and places, and from group to group (significance). Sample activity: Compare and contrast the events considered by English-Canadian, French-Canadian, and First Peoples scholars to be the most significant during this period.
Assess the justification for competing historical accounts after investigating points of contention, reliability of sources, and adequacy of evidence (evidence). Sample activities:
Key question: What evidence is there that imperialism and colonialism still influence present-day relationships between countries and groups?
Discriminatory policies and injustices in Canada and the world, such as the Head Tax, the Komagata Maru incident, residential schools, and World War I internment. Sample topics:
Key question: How might specific examples of past incidents of inequality (e.g., Head Tax on Chinese immigrants, internment of Japanese Canadians, residential schools, suffrage, discriminatory federal government labour practices related to gender and sexual orientation) be handled today under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
Assess the significance of people, places, events, or developments, and compare varying perspectives on their historical significance at particular times and places, and from group to group (significance). Sample activity: Compare and contrast the events considered by English-Canadian, French-Canadian, and First Peoples scholars to be the most significant during this period.
Recognize implicit and explicit ethical judgments in a variety of sources (ethical judgment). Key question: Was the Indian Act an unfortunate but well-meaning mistake or was it a shameful abuse of power? What lessons can we learn from the effects of this legislation?
Imperialism and colonialism, and their continuing effects on indigenous peoples in Canada and around the world. Sample topics:
Key question: What role does imperialism and colonialism from this period (1750–1919) have on events in present-day Canada and around the world?
Discriminatory policies and injustices in Canada and the world, such as the Head Tax, the Komagata Maru incident, residential schools, and World War I internment. Sample topics:
Key question: How might specific examples of past incidents of inequality (e.g., Head Tax on Chinese immigrants, internment of Japanese Canadians, residential schools, suffrage, discriminatory federal government labour practices related to gender and sexual orientation) be handled today under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
Imperialism and colonialism, and their continuing effects on indigenous peoples in Canada and around the world. Sample topics:
Key question: What role does imperialism and colonialism from this period (1750–1919) have on events in present-day Canada and around the world?