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Grade 8 History Lessons Online
1. History: Grade 8: Stepping Stones to Confederation
On July 1, 1867, the Dominion of Canada came into being. In this history unit, students examine the stepping stones to Confederation.
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2. History: Grade 8: Forces Leading to Confederation
In the early 1860s, British North America was a group of separate and distinct colonies. Each colony had its own political structure, economic system and social fabric. At the same time the colonies found their financial and military support from Great Britain dwindling, they also faced the threat of American expansionism. This unit examines the forces that led to confederation.
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3. History: Grade 8: Settling the Canadian West
In 1869, Canada paid the Hudson's Bay Company 1.5 million dollars in cash and granted it considerable land within its former territories. In return, the Deed of Surrender granted Canada the rights to Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories. This unit focuses on the character of the Canadian West before 1869.
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4. History: Grade 8: Western Rebellions
On December 2, 1869, the Métis seized Fort Garry (today known as Winnipeg) and formed a provisional government with Louis Riel as president. After Riel's execution in 1885, ethnic differences in Canada as a whole were aggravated. This unit highlights western rebellions, the struggle for Métis land claims, French-English tensions, and the execution of Riel.
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5. History: Grade 8: North West Mounted Police
Not only was the land that Canada purchased from the Hudson's Bay Company a wilderness, it was also lawless. This unit looks at the establishment of the North West Mounted Police.
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6. History: Grade 8: Railway to the Pacific
The first transcontinental railway in Canada, linking the east and west coasts, was built to connect British Columbia with the eastern Canadian provinces. It was started in 1881 and took five years to build. It was a major fiscal, political and engineering challenge. It is estimated that for every kilometre of track, three Chinese labourers died while building it. This history unit presents the hindrance, obstacles, and politics behind the building of the transcontinental railway
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7. History: Grade 8: Western Canada's Immigration Boom
The completion of the railway and the opening of the Canadian West to mass settlement coincided with a surge in world demand for grain and other Canadian export staples. A recently elected and development-minded Liberal government, under Wilfrid Laurier, seized the moment and initiated an energetic program of immigrant recruitment that was primarily designed to fill the agricultural expanse of the Canadian prairies and create a pool of cheap labour for burgeoning Canadian mining and lumbering industries. Canada's massive immigration boom, beginning in the 1890s and lasting until the First World War, brought hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the United States, Britain, and Europe to the Canadian West. This unit examines Western Canada's immigration boom.
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8. History: Grade 8: Industrial Growth
Industrialization and urbanization changed the lifestyles of many Canadians, notably in the early 1900s. Canadians from rural areas migrated into the towns and cities in search of work. Farming became more of a business enterprise, depending on more efficient but costly machinery. This unit examines the dynamics of Canada's Industrial Revolution.
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9. History: Grade 8: Social Forces
The federal government used the Indian Act of 1876, as amended in 1880, to oversee Indian affairs. The act legally viewed Aboriginal Peoples as minors, without the privileges of citizenship. In 1907, the Asiatic Exclusion League of Vancouver led a march of 10,000 people through its Chinatown, damaging buildings, and assaulting residents with sticks, stones, bricks, and bottles. Most English-speaking Canadians saw the different customs of many ethnic groups as appalling and a threat to the Canadian identity. This unit examines many forms of Canadian social injustice and inequality, including child labour and women's right to vote.
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10. History: Grade 8: Canada and World War 1
An assassination in Sarajevo in June 1914 went almost unnoticed in Canada. Few Canadians expected that it would lead to war; fewer still anticipated the sacrifices Canada would be called to make. This unit examines the Canadian response to WWI. It highlights various battles, including the Battle of Ypres.
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