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“The Unredeemed Captive” by John Demos is a book of not only about history, but of family and faith. In this book, Demos tells of a colony in early Massachusetts, a little town of Deerfield, where the family of Pastor John Williams and others are subject to a massacre from the French and Mohawk Indians. Williams, his wife, and three of his children are then taken hostage to Canada. As the book goes on, Williams and two of his children are released; however, his daughter Eunice is kept in…

The concept of Canadian identity is difficult to define, as there are many unique interpretations of what it means to be Canadian. Throughout the development of Canada’s political and cultural landscape, a divide between the historically English and French speaking regions of Canada formed and, even today, this divide continues to exist. The government in the predominantly English-speaking regions of Canada created a single concept of what being Canadian meant, at the expense of other distinct…

In Alomar and Bell’s case there is a definite infringement on section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and therefore, the photographs of Ms. Alomar holding a handgun should be inadmissible to the trial. Including this evidence would be injustice when coming to a final verdict due to the fact that it violates section 8 of the Charter which states that “everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure” The search of the photos was not authorized by the…

English Language Arts A30 and The Canadian Way of Life The Ministry of Education established a policy requiring every high school student in Canada to take English Language Arts A30 (ELA A30) and demonstrate knowledge of specific topics. Specifically, through ELA A30, students are expected to develop broad inquiry and research skills in order to fully understand what it means to be Canadian and the stereotypes, multi-culturalism, and social injustices that exist in Canada. By studying texts,…

information is used to help find what we can do about it. The book also features full texts of apologies and statements made by parties such as Stephen Harper’s. Jacobs, Beverley. 2008. "Response to Canada 's Apology to Residential School Survivors." Canadian Woman Studies 26, no. 3 (Winter, 2008): 223-225,14.…

of the Canadian residential school system. These schools operated in the early 1900s until the late 1990s, and Aboriginal children across Canada were forcibly removed from their homes to attend. The traumas that students at residential schools suffered ranged from being apart from their families to being physically or sexually abused. Brasfield’s diagnosis of Residential School Syndrome can be seen as both empowering and damaging for survivors of residential schools, and the entire Canadian…

CONNECTION TO MINISTRY CURRICULUM This resource is very much relevant to the Ministry Curriculum / B.C.’s New Curriculum as well as the First Peoples Principles of Learning as previously described. The lessons and activities I have extracted from this resource will cater to grade 5 because it is a sensitive topic that suits a more mature grade level that can handle the details of the content and activities. I will outline a few curricular competencies and content objectives that link to the…

the help from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, their living conditions get better and their voices can be heard. The society needs the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as it educates Canadians about the history of residential schools, it preserves the history of the Canadian residential schools…

While it is evident that the Indian Residential school crisis was dealt with accordingly, it took the Canadian government 162 years to close the last Residential school and no apologies or retributions were made until 2007. Between those years, thousands of survivors struggled to fit back into society and had no support system to help them cope. Victims were tired of being ignored and years of legal campaigns to force the government and churches to recognize the injustices of the system led to a…

General life at the Kamloops Residential School was tough and grim. On the first day of school, students were given no time to learn the system or any of the English language; they were thrust into the daily routine, and European culture, very quickly. They were given identification numbers which was written on the few belongings they did have. One interviewee recalls being “denied . . . . any personal identity. “I was called, ‘Hey, 39. Where’s 39? Yes, 39, come over here. Sit over here, 39.’…