Grade 8 Overall Expectations:
Assess the impact of some key social, economic, and political factors, including social, economic, and/or political inequalities, on various groups and communities, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities, and on the creation and expansion of the Dominion of Canada, between 1850 and 1890
- Dominion of Canada (article, Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Indigenous Peoples Timeline from 1850 (timeline, Canadian Encyclopedia)
- North West Mounted Police (article, Canadian Encyclopedia)
- History of the RCMP (article, Government of Canada)
- The Words That Shaped Canada. The British North America Act (video, YouTube)
- Confederation An Introduction (article, Canadian History Project)
- Treaties with Indigenous Peoples 1871 to 1897 (article, Canada History Project)
- Black History in Canada (article, Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Mary Ann Shadd (article, Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Emily Stowe (article, Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Sir George-Étienne Cartier (timeline, Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Joseph Howe (article, Canadian Encyclopedia)
Use the historical inquiry process to investigate perspectives of different groups and communities, including First Nations, Métis, and/or Inuit communities, on some significant events, developments, and/or issues that affected Canada and/or people in Canada between 1850 and 1890
- Canadian Pacific Railway (article, Canadian Encyclopedia)
- The North West Rebellion (article, WPL Databases)
- Red River Resistance (article, Indigenous Peoples’ Atlas of Canada)
- Ribbon of Steel (article, WPL Databases)
- Chinese Head Tax and the Chinese Exclusion Act in Canada (article, ThoughtCo)
Describe various significant people, events, and developments in Canada between 1850 and 1890, including the Indian Act, treaties between Indigenous nations and the Crown, and the residential school system, and explain their impact
- Robinson Treaties and Douglas Treaties (article, Government of Canada Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada)
- Indian Act (article, Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Residential Schools In Canada (article, Canadian Encyclopedia)
- The Numbered Treaties 1871 to 1921 (article, Government of Canada Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada)
- Historic Treaties and Treaty First Nations in Canada Infographic (Infographic, Government of Canada Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada)
- Catharine Sutton (Nahneebahwequa) (article, Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear) (article, Dictionary of Canadian Biography)
- Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Canada (article, Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Repeal of the Corn Act (article, Canada History Project)