c/c_Social Studies_Grade 9_Les politiques discriminatoires et les injustices au Canada et dans le monde, telles que la taxe d’entrée imposée aux immigrants chinois, l’incident du Komagata Maru, les pensionnats et l'internement pendant la Première G

Subject
Social Studies
Grade
Grade 9
Concept/Content

discriminatory policies and injustices in Canada and the world, such as the Head Tax, the Komagata Maru incident, residential schools, and World War I internment

Elaboration
  • Sample topics:
    • Head Tax and other discriminatory immigration policies against people of East and South Asian descent
    • Komagata Maru
    • societal attitudes toward ethnic minorities in Canada (e.g., Chinese railway workers, Sikh loggers, Eastern European farmers, Irish famine refugees, African-American slavery refugees)
    • discriminatory policies toward First Peoples, such as the Indian Act, potlatch ban, residential schools
    • internments
    • social history
    • gender issues
    • suffrage
    • labour history, workers’ rights
    • responses to discrimination in Canada
    • Asiatic Exclusion League in BC
    • discrimination against German-Canadians during World War I
  • Key question:
    • How might specific examples of past incidents of inequality (e.g., Head Tax on Chinese immigrants, internment of Japanese-Canadians, residential schools, suffrage, discriminatory federal government labour practices related to gender and sexual orientation) be handled today under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
keywords
discriminatory policies and injustices in Canada and the world, such as the Head Tax, the Komagata Maru incident, residential schools, and World War I internment