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This lesson introduces students to the principles of responsible government for which LaFontaine and Baldwin fought. 

In this lesson, students will analyze artifacts to learn about the experiences of Black sleeping car porters on the job. 

In the early days of moviemaking, two companies competed to tell the story of the North. Nanook of the North soared to enduring fame; no one remembers the other film.

Nancy Payne, editor of Kayak, speaks with Joseph Trivers, Music Acquisitions Librarian, about a song that at one time served as Canada’s unofficial national anthem, and a song from a Norwegian play sung by a celebrated Canadian soprano.

This lesson will ask students to use creative, academic, and observational skills to define terms which are important to understanding Afro Indigenous ancestry and to reflect on how media has been used over time to express important ideas about justice and ethnicity.

Young storytellers honoured at special awards ceremony.

This lesson examines the viewpoints on the abolition of slavery in Upper Canada — immediate abolition, gradual abolition, or no abolition. 

Students will work in groups to explore the historical experiences of Thérèse Casgrain and the women activists who created political, cultural, and social change in Quebec and Canada.

In this lesson, students will be asked to collect data about the role, impact and experiences of the women known as the ‘Bomb Girls’.

This lesson examines the perspective of an evacuee child during the Second World War.