Skill Descriptor: Research Wabanaki independence and contact with Europeans.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM, SGC, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine Wabanaki daily life prior to contact.
• Discuss Wabanaki worldviews and traditions that exist today.
• Analyze the Peace and Friendship Treaties in relation to current rights of Wabanaki Peoples.
• Analyse the impacts of European conflicts on the peoples of North America.
• Illustrate own relationship with the Canadian state, historically and in the present.

Skill Descriptor: Investigate the relationship between federal, provincial, and Indigenous governments.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe government and private interests in Indigenous territories in Canada.
• Examine the economic and social causes and consequences of the fur trade.
• Analyze the Indian Act as a tool of assimilation.
• Explain the division of provincial and federal responsibilities.
• Examine the forces pushing for Confederation.

Skill Descriptor: Examine the impact of Canadian Western expansion policies on Canadians and Indigenous Peoples.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine how federal government policies related to establishing dominion over an expanding Canada.
• Examine the significance of the Canadian railroad system in unifying the provinces and defending Canadian sovereignty.
• Analyze influences on the Immigration Act of 1869.
• Discuss the Red River and North-West Resistances, including their impact on First Nations and Francophone affairs with the Federal government.
• Explain the implementation of the Indian Act and the creation of reservations and the Residential School System.

Skill Descriptor: Analyze the social and economic nature of industrialized Canada.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Assess the effectiveness of the National Policy in supporting nation-building.
• Discuss the impacts of World War I on Canadian identities.
• Examine the impact of war time stresses on Canadian society, including influence on women and the Suffrage movement.
• Explain the effect of the Conscription Crisis with regards to the Quebec and Federal government relationship.
• Discuss the emergence of Canada’s international identity and relationship with the rest of the world.

Skill Descriptor: Assess the impact of technological developments in urban and rural areas

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss the impacts of industrialization on daily life in urban and rural Canada.
• Analyze the economic impact of technology on agriculture in Canada.
• Research the rise of labour movements and unions for the protection and improvement of workers’ rights.
• Examine how the labour movement was impacted by racialized workers.
• Illustrate the influence of increased immigration in Canada on the rise of unionism.

Skill Descriptor: Examine experiences of children, childhood, and schooling in industrialized Canada.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine the structure of schools at the end of 19^th century in the context of the need for factory workers.
• Discuss how the need for factory labour influenced the establishment of Residential Schools.
• Examine the political and economic factors that influenced government regulations for schools.
• Analyze the impact of child labour on the Canadian economy.
• Discuss why child labour laws were established but did not extend to Indigenous children and new Canadians.

Skill Descriptor: Research the causes and consequences of immigration at the turn of the 20^th century in Canada.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Analyze the Canadian government policy of mass immigration and its initiative to populate the western provinces.
• Examine experiences of early settlers in the west.
• Discuss the impact these settlements had on First Nation peoples, their traditional lands and way of life.
• Examine Wabanaki experiences under the Peace and Friendship Treaties and those of western First Nations under numbered treaties.
• Examine how British Columbia’s joining Confederation in 1871 and the lack of recognition of Indigenous sovereignty influences current relations.

Skill Descriptor: Examine discriminatory practices and policies in Canada.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM, SGC, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine how federal policies targeted Chinese railroad workers after the completion of the CPR.
• Discuss how federal and provincial policies were influenced by immigration trends.
• Assess how the dominant culture in Canada influenced immigration laws.
• Examine the treatment of LGBTQ2IS+ government employees.
• Discuss language rights in Canada.

Skill Descriptor: Consider the impact of federal policies and societal attitudes on Indigenous peoples.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM, SGC, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine the impact of colonization on Indigenous identities.
• Analyze the purpose behind the language and content of the Indian Act.
• Discuss the consequences of Indigenous Peoples being considered wards of the Crown from 1867 to 1956.
• Examine the effects of documented histories that exclude Indigenous voices.
• Consider the terminology of genocide when discussing the government decision-making and the experiences of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

Skill Descriptor: Research the inter-war years and Canada’s response to totalitarian regimes.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Analyze the causes and consequences of The Great Depression in Canada.
• Assess the social programs implemented by the Federal government to improve the lives of Canadians.
• Examine Canadian responses to the rise of totalitarian regimes in Europe.
• Discuss the impacts of World War II on Canada and Canadian identities.
• Analyze the impact of two world wars on the British colony of Newfoundland and how it led to them joining Confederation in 1949.

Skill Descriptor: Examine social and political developments in post-war Canada.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM, SGC, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine the impact of wars on Canada’s international reputation as a peace keeping nation.
• Reflect and report on the post war economic boom and the effects it had on Canadians.
• Explain the changes in federal immigration policy that allowed Canada to be more inclusive in a global context.
• Examine cultural sovereignty and 21^st century multiculturalism in Canada.
• Research the Kanehsatake Resistance, Idle No More movement, and Truth and Reconciliation in Canada.

Skill Descriptor: Analyze the impacts of globalization on Canada and its peoples.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM, SGC, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss the Age of Healing and Revival in the Wabanaki model of history.
• Examine Canada’s role in international affairs and global conflicts in the post-war years.
• Discuss the peacekeeping role of Canada and the development of its international reputation.
• Discuss Canada’s political reaction to the recommendations set forth in UNDRIP.
• Examine Canada’s responsibilities as a G7 country in addressing climate change domestically and internationally.