Tobacco in Alberta? The nomadic Blackfoot people cultivated it in this unlikely place long before European contact. Curiously, the beaver played a role.
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.
For many, Labour Day signals the end of summer. But what evolved into just another long weekend began as a massive working class demonstration in the streets of Toronto.
Book Review: The nineteenth century saw a fundamental change from sail to steam powered ships. The Royal William was one of these new steam powered ships and proved to be a reliable vessel, but it encountered a few problems during its Canadian tenure.