Students are expected to know the following:
political, social, economic, and technological revolutions
- Sample topics:
- American Revolution
- French Revolution
- Industrial Revolution
- Haitian Revolution
- Red River Resistance, Northwest Resistance
- advances in science and technology
- industrialization
- new methods of transportation, including the railway, steamships, cars, and aircraft
the continuing effects of imperialism and colonialism on indigenous peoples in Canada and around the world
- Sample topics:
- impact of treaties on First Peoples (e.g., numbered treaties, Vancouver Island treaties)
- impact of the Indian Act, including reservations and the residential school system
- interactions between Europeans and First Peoples
- the Scramble for Africa
- Manifest Destiny in the United States
- Key questions:
- What were the motivations for imperialism and colonialism during this period?
- What role does imperialism and colonialism from this period have on events in present-day Canada and around the world?
global demographic shifts, including patterns of migration and population growth
- Sample topics:
- slavery
- disease, poverty, famine, and the search for land
- why immigrants (including East and South Asian immigrants) came to BC and Canada, the
- individual challenges they faced, and their contributions to BC and Canada
- influences of immigration on Canada’s identity
- historical reasons for the immigration of specific cultural groups to Canada (e.g., Irish potato famine, Chinese railway workforce, World War II refugees, underground railroad, Acadians, western settlement campaign, gold rushes)
- Key questions:
- Did immigrants benefit from emigrating to Canada?
- How did the arrival of new groups of immigrants affect Canadian identity?
physiographic features of Canada and geological processes
- Sample topic:
- connections between Canada’s natural resources and major economic activities
- Sample activities:
- Compare and contrast physical features and natural resources in different regions of Canada
- Role-play negotiations between a wide range of stakeholders involved in the decision to build a new mine or oil pipeline
- Key questions:
- What effect has the physical geography of Canada had on Canadian and regional identity?
- What perspectives do different groups (e.g., environmental groups, people employed in the forest industry, First Peoples, urban and rural populations) have on the use of natural resources?