Social Studies

Kindergarten to Grade 12

Contents
Learning Experience 9.1.1
9.1.1 Activating Strategies
9.1.1 Acquiring Strategies
9.1.1 Applying Strategies
Learning Experience 9.1.2
9.1.2 Activating Strategies
9.1.2 Acquiring Strategies
9.1.2 Applying Strategies
Learning Experience 9.1.3
9.1.3 Activating Strategies
9.1.3 Acquiring Strategies
9.1.3 Applying Strategies
Learning Experience 9.1.4
9.1.4 Activating Strategies
9.1.4 Acquiring Strategies
9.1.4 Applying Strategies
Learning Experience 9.1.5
9.1.5 Activating Strategies
9.1.5 Acquiring Strategies
9.1.5 Applying Strategies

Websites to Support the New Curriculum

Grade 9: Cluster 1
Diversity and Pluralism in Canada

Learning Experience
9.1.1 A Profile of Canada

9.1.1 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES

Canadian Encyclopedia, Demography:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm
?PgNm=TCE&TCE_Version=J&ArticleId=J0002219&MenuClosed=0

Statistics Canada, Highlights from the 2001 Population:
http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Highlights/Page1/Page1_e.cfm

Canadian Encyclopedia Online, 100 Greatest Events:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm
?PgNm=100Events&Params=A3

9.1.1 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES

Population, Growth Rates and Trends:
http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Highlights/Page2/Page2_e.cfm

A Profile of the Canadian Population:
http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Highlights/Index_e.cfm

Age Pyramid of the Population of Canada, 1971 to 2006:
http://www.statcan.ca/english/kits/animat/pyca.htm

Censuses:
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/demo03.htm

Statistics Canada, Population:
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/popula.htm#pop
(Select desired table from this page for various thematic tables 1999 – 2001)

Atlas Canada, Significant Canadian Facts:
http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/learningresources/facts/supergeneral.html

9.1.1 APPLYING STRATEGIES

No website recommended

Learning Experience
9.1.2 Human Rights

9.1.2 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES

Historica Minutes home page:
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/default.do

Sue Rodriguez and the Right-to-die Debate:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-74-1135/people/sue_rodriguez/

Medicare and Social Welfare: Tommy Douglas and the NDP:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-74-851/people/tommy_douglas/

Rick Hansen, Man in Motion:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-74-698/people/rick_hansen/

Human Rights Commission, Human Rights in Canada: A Historical Perspective:
http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/en/index.asp
(excellent site, timeline of human rights, summary of milestone events)

9.1.2 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES

United Nations Association of Canada, Human Rights:
http://www.unac.org/rights/index.html

Universal Rights Network:
http://www.universalrights.net/

History of Universal Human Rights:
http://www.universalrights.net/main/histof.htm

Amnesty International:
http://www.amnesty.org/

Human Rights Commission, Human Rights in Canada: A Historical Perspective:
http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/en/index.asp
(timeline of human rights, summary of milestone events)

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Bill C-31, The Indian Register:
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/pr/info/tir_e.html

Celebrating Women’s Achievements:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/women/index-e.html

The Famous Five and the Persons Case:
http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/dates/persons/case_e.html

Timeline of Canadian Women’s History:
http://www.stfx.ca/people/nforeste/ 308website/women%27shistorytimeline.html

Manitoba Women’s Directorate, Celebrating Women’s History:
http://www.gov.mb.ca/wd/publications/whm/cwh_time.html

CBC Archives, Canadian Drafts Human Rights Legislation:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-659-3737/conflict_war/diplomacy/clip1

CBC Archives, Days to Remember:
http://archives.cbc.ca/days_to_remember
(Selected events in Canada’s history from 1930s to 1990s; includes radio clips, photos, some video clips from CBC archives)

Women Become Persons (1929):
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-69-337-1801-10/life_society/women_persons_case/

The Road to Bilingualism: Manitoba’s French Minority (1964):
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-73-655-3627/politics_economy/bilingualism/clip4

Equality First: The Royal Commission on the Status of Women:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-68-1150/arts_entertainment/canadian_content/

Dictionary of Canadian Biography online: up to death in 1920:
http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7577&interval=25&&PHPSESSID=t72nodvjbrk8j5iudioea1o3r7

Index of Famous Canadians:
http://www.canadians.ca/index.htm

Canada Heirloom Series:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/
(Select Volume: Pathfinders, Visionaries, Wayfarers, then select People for biographical information on famous Canadians)

The Canadian Literature Archive, Author List:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/canlit/authorlist/index.shtml

Canada’s Digital Collections, Canadian Portraits:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/portraits/
(Photographs and background information from the National Archives of selected individuals and groups in Canadian history, organized by theme)

Library of Parliament, Prime Ministers of Canada:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/
people/key/PrimeMinister.asp?Language=E

Canada’s Digital Collections, Women Artists in Canada:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/waic/collection.htm

Prime Minister of Canada website:
http://pm.gc.ca/eng/default.asp

Canada’s Digital Collections, Heroes of Lore and Yore: Canadian Heroes in Fact and Fiction:
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/nlc-bnc/heroes_lore_yore_can_hero-ef/1998/econtent.htm

CBC Archives, Peacekeepers and Peacemakers: Canada’s Diplomatic Contribution:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-659/conflict_war/diplomacy/

CBC Archives, Canadian Drafts Human Rights Legislation:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-659-3737/conflict_war/diplomacy/clip1

CBC Archives, Canada and the International Criminal Court:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-659-3736/conflict_war/diplomacy/clip8
(interview with Lloyd Axworthy)

CBC Archives, A Lesson in Landmines:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-659-3736/conflict_war/diplomacy/clip8

Famous 5 Website:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/famous5/

9.1.2 APPLYING STRATEGIES

Amnesty International:
http://www.amnesty.org/

Learning Experience
9.1.3 Living Together in Canada

9.1.3 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES

No website recommended

9.1.3 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES

Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Citizenship:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizen/index.html

Applying for Citizenship:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizen/look/look-01e.html

Information about Canadian Citizenship:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizen/menu-info.html

Historica Minutes, Baldwin and Lafontaine:
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?ID=10140&sl=e

CBC Archives, Lester Pearson’s Suez Solution:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-1290-7514/conflict_war/blue_berets/clip1

CBC Archives, the Oka Crisis:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-99/conflict_war/oka/

CBC Archives, Peacekeepers and Peacemakers: Canada’s Contribution:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-659/conflict_war/diplomacy/

CBC Archives, Canada and the Fight against Apartheid:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-703/conflict_war/apartheid/

Canadian Studies, Great Canadian Debates:
http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/ english/about/study_guide/debates/index.html

NFB, Living History, Québec Referendum:
http://mediasphere.nfb.ca/E/history/content/quebec_referendum.epl

CBC Archives, The Canadian Compromise on Iraq:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-659-3739/conflict_war/diplomacy/clip9

Justice Canada, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
http://canada.justice.gc.ca/Loireg/charte/const_en.html
(full text of the Charter)

Posters, publications, class sets of copies of the Charter, and teacher guides may be ordered from Human Rights Program, Publications, Canadian Heritage:
http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/pdp-hrp/docs/publications/index_e.cfm

Justice Canada, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
http://canada.justice.gc.ca/Loireg/charte/const_en.html
(full text of the Charter)

Canadian Heritage, Your Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/pdp-hrp/canada/guide/index_e.cfm

Canadian Heritage, Your Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,
Overview:
http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/pdp-hrp/canada/guide/overview_e.cfm

Canadian Heritage, Your Guide to Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/pdp-hrp/canada/guide/index_e.cfm

Citizenship and Immigration, Refugees:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/index.html

9.1.3 APPLYING STRATEGIES

CBC, The Canadian Experience:
http://www.cbc.ca/canadianexperience/

Learning Experience
9.1.4 Pluralism and Integration

9.1.4 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES

No websites recommended

9.1.4 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES

A Class Divided:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/

Human Rights in Canada: A Historical Perspective:
http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/en/index.asp

Internment of Ukrainians in Canada, 1914 – 1920:
http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/

Canadian Council for Refugees, None Is Too Many Agreement:
http://www.web.net/~ccr/safethirdccr.html

The Peopling of Canada, Post World War Two and Displaced Persons:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/canada1946/chapter1.html

CBC News In Depth, Chinese Immigration:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/china/chinese_immigration.html

Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act:
http://www.ccnc.ca/redress/

Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1996), Residential Schools:
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ch/rcap/sg/sgm10_e.html

A Lost Heritage: Canada’s Residential Schools:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-70-692/disasters_tragedies/residential_schools/

Canada in the Making, Aboriginals: Treaties and Relations: Deculturation 1878 – 1898:
http://www.canadiana.org/citm/themes/aboriginals/aboriginals9_e.html

Canada in the Making, Aboriginal Residential Schools:
http://www.canadiana.org/citm/specifique/abresschools_e.html

Province of Manitoba, French language Services, “Above All, Common Sense”, The Historical Background (Manitoba Schools Question):
http://www.gov.mb.ca/fls-slf/report/histbackgrd.html

The Prime Ministers of Canada, Wilfred Laurier, Manitoba Schools Question:
http://www.primeministers.ca/laurier/bio_3.php

A Lost Heritage: Canada’s Residential Schools:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-70-692/disasters_tragedies/residential_schools/
(includes CBC audio and video clips)

CBC Archives, The Road to Bilingualism:
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?id=1-73-655

Canadian Heritage, New Canadian Perspectives, Trends and Analysis, Michael O’Keefe “Francophone Minorities: Assimilation and Community Vitality” (on-line):
http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/lo-ol/perspectives/english/assimil/trends2.htm#demographic

Dialogue Canada, Open Book of Citizens:
http://www.uni.ca/livreouvert/textes.html

Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Forging our Legacy:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/legacy/
(history of immigration policy in Canada)

Aboriginal Peoples’ Television Network:
http://www.aptn.ca/

CBC, National Aboriginal Achievement Awards:
http://www.cbc.ca/aboriginal/

CBC Archives, Healing Through Theatre, “Reclaiming Our Spirits”:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-70-692-4010/disasters_tragedies/residential_schools/clip8

9.1.4 APPLYING STRATEGIES

Amnesty International, At Home and Abroad – A Human Rights Agenda for Canada:
http://www.amnesty.ca/library/canada/
(proposes a strategy for Canada, discusses current human rights and social justice issues in which Canada is involved)

Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act, Chinese families seek head tax compensation:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2005/11/17/head-tax051117.html

Residential Schools Museum:
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/news/residentialschools.shtml

United Church, Aboriginal Peoples, Justice, and Right Relationship:
http://www.united-church.ca/sales/publications/1551341247

CBC Archives, Apology and Compensation, The Internment of the Japanese:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-568-2924/conflict_war/internment/clip8

Immigrant Voices, Introduction:
http://www.canadianhistory.ca/iv/1945-1967/

Heritage Canada, What is Multiculturalism:
http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/multi/what-multi_e.cfm

Canadian Council for Refugees:
http://www.web.net/~ccr/arpolicy.htm

APTN:
http://www.aptn.ca/

Globe and Mail, John Stackhouse, Canada’s Apartheid, First Step: End the Segregation:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/series/apartheid/stories/20011215-5.html
(re: Aboriginal segregation)

Highlights from the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples:
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ch/rcap/rpt/index_e.html