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My mother, Kirsten Torgersrud, a Norwegian immigrant and permanent resident of Canada, has lived in this country for the past 30 years. She grew up in a neighborhood just south of Oslo speaking Norwegian as her primary language. She learned English in school, but in the 8th grade she chose to take French instead, and then in 11th grade she changed again to German. As a result of these switches, she never developed a secondary language in which she could hold an extended conversation. So, when…

who puts themself in a dangerous position for the sake of the people who they lead, mostly against an oppressing casualty amongst a wide range of people. Louis Riel, was an ambitious leader that came from a respected family, Louis Riel had gone to Montreal for a classical education, he had found no vocation for the Church or the law and had drifted home qualified for no career but politics. A nation council of the Metis became the real authority in Red River. Louis Riel’s ambitions were not…

Foundation of Personal Communication Defensive Climate is a situation where one perceives or anticipates some form of threat and feels like they need to defend themselves from the unknown and become cautious with their surrounding and people around them. For example, your supervisor makes statements that imply that you are always late, and you know you have only been late once: you tend to be defensive. On the other hand, Supportive Climate is a state of a stress-free and healthy environment,…

would make up for it. The Ojibwa tribe played a game by a British fort to distract their soldiers and then surprised attacked and killed them. In 1834 was when Canada’s steady interest in lacrosse began as the Caughnawaga Natives displayed a game in Montreal. They even named lacrosse as it’s national sport in 1860s. A Canadian dentist was actually the one in 1866 to draw up the rules to the game and redesigned the ball and stick. A year later from that there were exhibition games being played in…

Canadian Wonderland If I were to choose a country in the whole world to live in, I would choose Canada. There is many reasons for this but the major reason would be the beautiful sight there. Canada has everything, from glaciers and mountains to live theater shows. This country is very diverse, there is many different types of people as well as different languages being spoken. Their most spoken language is French (one of the languages I’ve been dying to learn), their national tree is the…

ancestry. (Wikipedia) He was born in 1970 in British Columbia just north of Fort St. John on a family farm. In 1988, Jungen moved to Vancouver where he earned a Diploma of Visual Art from the Emily Carr Institute of Art. After moving around New York and Montreal, Jungen returned to Vancouver to refocus on his…

n 1534, Francis I of France sent Jacques Cartier on the first voyage to explore the coast of Newfoundland and the St. Lawrence River. He found New France by putting a cross on a shore. The French tried to establish several colonies throughout North America that failed, due to weather, disease, or conflict with other European powers. Cartier attempted to create the first European settlement in North America at Cap-Rouge in 1541 with 400 settlers but the settlement was abandoned the next year…

minorities and majorities in Canada. The United Party of Canada was established in November 2009 by founder, Brian Jedan. The current leader of the United Party is Robert (Bob) Kesic, Bob took over the party in June, 2011. Kesic was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec and is fluent in both English…

French – English Relations in Canada RenéLévesque was quite fond of using analogies and metaphors to describe political issues. One such example was when he compared the Canadian French-English relations to an unhappy marriage. Honestly, there was no better way of describing the issues between the two and the stages that they went through. Suppose that English Canada was the husband and French Canada was the wife. There were several situations in which the wife was degraded, the husband was…

On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery Alabama. Everyone has heard of this story, but what most people don’t know is that Lieutenant Jack “Jackie” Robinson also made the same action, 11 years earlier. On July 6th, 1944, Robinson was riding a military bus at Camp Hood in Waco, Texas during World War 2. Robinson was asked to move to the back of the bus by white men. He argued and fought until he arrived at his stop, in which they continued to argue…