c/c_Social Studies_Grade 5_Les politiques et actions discriminatoires prises dans le passé par le gouvernement, par exemple la taxe d’entrée imposée aux immigrants chinois, l’incident du Komagata Maru, les pensionnats et les internements

Subject
Social Studies
Grade
Grade 5
Concept/Content
past discriminatory government policies and actions, such as the Head Tax, the Komagata Maru incident, residential schools, and internments
Elaboration
  • Sample topics:
    • historical wrongs against East and South Asian immigrants
    • Indian Act
    • Head Tax on Chinese immigrants
    • numbered treaties with First Peoples
    • treatment of Doukhabours
    • 1884-85 famine
    • 1907 Anti-Asian Riots
    • Japanese and German internments
    • reduction or relocation of First Nations reserves
    • ethnic minorities denied the vote
  • Key questions:
    • What types of discrimination have immigrants to Canada faced? (e.g., cases of systemic discrimination by local, provincial, and federal levels of government)
    • How might Canadian society be different today if exclusionary policies toward immigrants from East and South Asia had not been developed during certain periods of history?
    • What effects did residential schools have on First Nations families and communities
keywords
past discriminatory government policies and actions, such as the Head Tax, the Komagata Maru incident, residential schools, and internments