Category: History

  • What Makes Something Historically Significant to You?

    my historical ‘artifact’ is a CD passed down from my mom which is Michael Jackson’s “Bad” album. The reason why this CD is historical in a way, is that my mom had gotten it when she was a young girl, for her love of Michael Jackson. So when I was a young girl, on my own I…

  • Canadian Identity

    For my Canadian identity collage I drew the four flags of my heritage (and Canada’s) those flags are Irish, Serbian, Italian, and Scottish. On the top left corner I have put the Irish flag. Under the Irish flag I had put a potato, a pot o’ gold, and a can of Guinness. I had put…

  • Canadian Support for the War

    Most Canadians responded to the outbreak of war with excitement. Others didn’t want to enlist because they had families, good jobs and they didn’t/couldn’t leave their farms. Some people enlisted because everyone else was doing it. Some Canadian men might have enlisted because they wanted to prove their loyalty to Great Britain or because they…

  • Collage Identity

    My flags are the Poland flag, the Canadian flag and the Scottish flag. I have a sausage under the polish flag because meat is really big there and my grandma is polish and she always makes great sausage by hand or with spices. For Canada I put a hockey stick and the name Sidney Crosby…

  • Trench Letters

    For my trench letters, the first one I wrote about was to my mom about how difficult living in the trenches were, with poor hygiene, little to no food, and bad weather. I wrote about how much I missed home and how fortunate my brother and I were to be alive today. I also stated…

  • Vimy Ridge’s significance to the development Canada’s identity

    Vimy Ridge’s significance to the development Canada’s identity

    The battle of Vimy Ridge was held on April 9th 1917, the battle was between  four divisions for the Canadian Corps, against three divisions for the German sixth army.  The battle of Vimy Ridge, I feel shaped Canada in a way especially because with Vimy Ridge being Canada’s first actual war to fight in, we…

  • Trench Letter Reflection

    For my letter home from the trench, I wrote in the perspective of a soldier during the battle of the Somme and how I was one of the few soldiers who were fortunate enough to get let off without getting killed. I wrote about how much I missed home and how much I wanted to…

  • What Canada feels like to me

    What makes me feel like a part of Canada is how we feel like a family even tho we’re not we still do there a lot of people that are not born here and we get a lot of imagrants into this country like my parents they were born in Haiti but my mom has…

  • Canadian Identity – Collage Reflection

    I separated my collage into three sections; my mother’s background, my father’s background, and symbols that represent Canada. My mother’s side of the family’s is Scottish so to represent that i drew a Scottish flag, a long with stereotypical images such as a pair of bagpipes, four Scottish people wearing kilts, and two glasses of…

  • Canada 150

    I think that vinyl ridge has been one of the most significant type of event that happened in Canada. Vimy ridge was one of Canada great battles that’s happened in Canada Britain and France tried to concher vimy ridge and they got absolutely slaughter and they had a significant amount of men to try concher…

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