intermediate/senior mini unit http://hcmc.uvic.ca/confederation/ Ontario Provincial Edition 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................................................................................................................................................1 ABOUT THE CONFEDERATION DEBATES MINI-UNIT ......................................................................................................................3 Curriculum Objectives: ................................................................................................................................................................................4 SECTION 1 | CREATING CANADA: ONTARIO AND QUEBEC ...........................................................................................................5 Prerequisite skillsets: ...................................................................................................................................................................................5 Background knowledge: .............................................................................................................................................................................5 Confederation Debates: Introductory Lesson ..................................................................................................................................6 Confederation Debates: Biographical Research ..............................................................................................................................8 Culminating Activity: The Debate ........................................................................................................................................................ 10 Culminating Activity Script ..................................................................................................................................................................... 12 SECTION 2 | CREATING CANADA: FURTHERING INDIGENOUS-CROWN RELATIONSHIPS ........................................ 14 Prerequisite Skillsets:................................................................................................................................................................................ 14 Background Knowledge ........................................................................................................................................................................... 14 “I Left a Trace:” Lesson 1 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Museum Curation Activity: Lesson 2 ................................................................................................................................................. 17 Museum Curation Exercise:.................................................................................................................................................................... 21 APPENDICES ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 24 SECTION 1: MATERIALS AND HANDOUTS FOR CREATING CANADA: THE DOMINION, ONTARIO AND QUEBEC .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 Handout: Introduction to Parliament ................................................................................................................................................ 26 Biography Activity Handout ................................................................................................................................................................... 27 Exit Card .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 28 John A. Macdonald in Brief...................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Antoine-Aimé Dorion in Brief................................................................................................................................................................ 30 George Brown in Brief............................................................................................................................................................................... 31 Christopher Dunkin in Brief ................................................................................................................................................................... 32 George-Étienne Cartier in Brief ............................................................................................................................................................ 33 John Sewell Sanborn in Brief ................................................................................................................................................................. 34 Ballots ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 35 2 Teacher’s Rubric for Evaluation of Confederation Debates .................................................................................................... 36 Post Debate Self-Evaluation ................................................................................................................................................................... 37 Additional Sources ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 38 Primary Source: Sir. John A. Macdonald’s Views on Confederation ................................................................................... 40 Primary Source: George-Étienne Cartier’s Views on Confederation .................................................................................. 43 Primary Source: Antoine-Aimé Dorion’s Views on Confederation ..................................................................................... 46 Primary Source: George Brown’s Views on Confederation .................................................................................................... 49 Primary Source: Christopher Dunkin’s Views on Confederation ......................................................................................... 52 Primary Source: John S. Sanborn’s Views on Confederation .................................................................................................. 56 72 Resolutions Handout ........................................................................................................................................................................... 59 SECTION 2: MATERIALS AND HANDOUTS FOR CREATING CANADA: FURTHERING INDIGENOUS-CROWN RELATIONSHIPS ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 60 Response Log Handout ............................................................................................................................................................................. 61 Handout: Copy of the Robinson Treaty Made in the Year 1850 with the Ojibewa Indians of Lake Huron Conveying Certain Lands to the Crown ............................................................................................................................................ 62 Handout: William Benjamin Robinson Biography ...................................................................................................................... 66 Handout: Biography of Ojibwa Chief Shingwaukonse (Shinwauk, Little Pine) (1773–1854) ............................... 69 Handout: Biography of Allan Macdonell .......................................................................................................................................... 72 Handout: Shingwaukonse’s Dodem .................................................................................................................................................... 75 Handout: Record of Negotiation/Implementation...................................................................................................................... 77 THE CONFEDERATION DEBATES EDUCATION TEAM ..................................................................................................................... 81 THE CONFEDERATION DEBATES IS SUPPORTED BY: ..................................................................................................................... 82 3 ABOUT THE CONFEDERATION DEBATES MINI- UNIT Before each province and territory became a part of Canada, their local legislatures (and the House of Commons after 1867) debated the extent, purposes, and principles of political union between 1865 and 1949. In addition to creating provinces, the British Crown also negotiated a series of Treaties with Canada’s Indigenous Peoples. These texts, and the records of their negotiation,