intermediate/senior mini unit http://hcmc.uvic.ca/confederation/ Newfoundland PrinceBritishNew EdwardSaskatchewanandNovaÉdition Brunswick ColumbiaManitobaLabradorQuebecOntarioAlberta Scotia Island de ÉditionProvincialÉdition de d’Ontario Québec Edition 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................................................................................................................................................1 ABOUT THE CONFEDERATION DEBATES MINI-UNIT ........................................................................................................................3 Curriculum Objectives .................................................................................................................................................................................4 SECTION 1 | CREATING CANADA: QUEBEC AND ONTARIO ...........................................................................................................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 Activity ...................................................................................................................................................................... 23 APPENDICES ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 SECTION 1: MATERIALS AND HANDOUTS FOR CREATING CANADA: THE DOMINION, QUEBEC AND ONTARIO .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Handout: Introduction to Parliament ................................................................................................................................................ 27 Biography Activity Handout ................................................................................................................................................................... 28 Exit Card .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 29 George Brown in Brief............................................................................................................................................................................... 30 George-Étienne Cartier in Brief ............................................................................................................................................................ 31 Antoine-Aimé Dorion in Brief................................................................................................................................................................ 32 Christopher Dunkin in Brief ................................................................................................................................................................... 33 John A. Macdonald in Brief...................................................................................................................................................................... 34 John Sewell Sanborn in Brief ................................................................................................................................................................. 35 Ballots ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 36 2 Teacher’s Rubric for Evaluation of Confederation Debates .................................................................................................... 37 Post-Debate Self-Evaluation................................................................................................................................................................... 38 Additional Resources................................................................................................................................................................................. 39 Primary Source: George Brown’s Views on Confederation .................................................................................................... 42 Primary Source: George-Étienne Cartier’s Views on Confederation .................................................................................. 45 Primary Source: Antoine-Aimé Dorion’s Views on Confederation ..................................................................................... 48 Primary Source: Christopher Dunkin’s Views on Confederation ......................................................................................... 51 Primary Source: Sir John A. Macdonald’s Views on Confederation .......................................................................................1 Primary Source: John S. Sanborn’s Views on Confederation .....................................................................................................5 72 Resolutions Handout ..............................................................................................................................................................................0 SECTION 2: MATERIALS AND HANDOUTS FOR CREATING CANADA: FURTHERING INDIGENOUS-CROWN RELATIONSHIPS ...................................................................................................................................................................................................1 Response Log Handout ................................................................................................................................................................................2 Handout: The Great Peace of Montreal, 1701...................................................................................................................................3 Handout: Biography: Louis-Hector de Callière ................................................................................................................................5 Handout: Biographies of Jacques Bruyas and Louis-Thomas Chabert De Joncaire ........................................................8 Handout: Biography of Kondiaronk ................................................................................................................................................... 11 Handout: Wampum Belts ........................................................................................................................................................................ 15 Handout: The Covenant Chain .............................................................................................................................................................. 17 THE CONFEDERATION DEBATES EDUCATION TEAM ..................................................................................................................... 20 THE CONFEDERATION DEBATES IS SUPPORTED BY ...................................................................................................................... 21 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