Canadian History since World War I

The tools you will use in every other unit: the four concepts of historical thinking, how to find, judge and cite primary and secondary sources (including oral histories), and how to run a historical inquiry from a good question to a well-argued, well-documented conclusion.

Why Canada went to war in 1914, what Canadians and Newfoundlanders faced on the Western Front and at home, the upheaval that followed the peace, the boom and culture of the 1920s, women's rights and immigration policy, First Nations, Métis and Inuit experiences, and the steps that took Canada from colony toward independence.

The Great Depression and how Canadians responded, the extreme ideologies of the 1930s and the Holodomor, antisemitism and the Holocaust, the road to the Second World War, Canada's war overseas and at home, and how First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities lived through these years.

The postwar boom and the baby boom, Canada's place in the Cold War, the building of the social safety net, Quebec's Quiet Revolution and the October Crisis, First Nations, Métis and Inuit struggles for rights, the women's movement and Black Canadians' fight against anti-Black racism, immigration and multiculturalism, and the road to a new flag, a new national identity and the Charter in 1982.