Miserable. Gloomy. Freezing cold. In Canada, winter can be all these things. But in 1816, that’s how the summer unfolded — and it would take nearly seventy years before we would understand why.
In this lesson, students are introduced to the historical thinking concepts of Primary Source Evidence and the Ethical Dimensions through the events of the Oka Crisis of 1990.
This lesson examines the life and art of Max Stern, touching upon the themes of the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and the resettlement of Jewish immigrants in Canada following the Second World War.
Author disentangles the interplay of economics and emotions, objectives and needs, the differing and sometimes clashing notions of personal duty, morality, and rights underlying the “conversation” that is taxation.