Subject
Grade
Concept/Content
local, regional, and national co-operation and conflicts between different groups, including First Peoples
Elaboration
- Sample topics:
- influence of First Peoples on migratory movements by French Canadians
- alliance with the Algonquian peoples
- deportation of the Acadians (1755)
- origins of the Metis Nation
- Patriots’ War (1837-38) (Lower Canada Rebellion)
- Red River Rebellion (1869-70) (Louis Riel and the founding of Manitoba)
- Battle of Batoche (1885) (Gabriel Dumont and Louis Riel)
- creation of the Crédit foncier franco-canadien in Vancouver (1913)
- establishment of Fédération des caisses populaires in the west
- conscription crises in the two World Wars
- founding of the Royal 22e Régiment
- Francophone alliances outside the province of Québec (e.g., Fédération des francophones de la Colombie-Britannique, Conseil jeunesse francophone de la Colombie-Britannique)
- Coopérative d’aménagements régionaux et de développements agricole in Alberta (1950-82)
- Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-68)
- October Crisis (1970)
- creation of the Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada (1975)
- Québec independence referendums (1980 and 1995)
- Trans Québec federal pipeline projects (e.g., Energy East)
- national cultural exchange programs (e.g., Explore, Odyssey, Destination Clic, Encounters with Canada, THEN/HiER, Katimavik)
- Oka crisis (1990)
- influence of Aboriginal cultures on the development of French-Canadian culture (e.g., maple syrup production, snowshoeing, canoeing)
keywords
local, regional, and national co-operation and conflicts between different groups, including First Peoples