Subject
Grade
Concept/Content
global demographic shifts, including patterns of migration and population growth
Elaboration
- Sample topics:
- slavery
- disease, poverty, famine, and the search for land
- why immigrants (including East and South Asian immigrants) came to BC and Canada, the
- individual challenges they faced, and their contributions to BC and Canada
- influences of immigration on Canada’s identity
- historical reasons for the immigration of specific cultural groups to Canada (e.g., Irish potato famine, Chinese railway workforce, World War II refugees, underground railroad, Acadians, western settlement campaign, gold rushes)
- Key questions:
- Did immigrants benefit from emigrating to Canada?
- How did the arrival of new groups of immigrants affect Canadian identity?
keywords
global demographic shifts, including patterns of migration and population growth