Exploring Identity, Inclusion and Citizenship: The 1907 Vancouver Riots
Pivotal Voices offers a new approach to teaching history. It recognizes there is no one story for most historical events, but rather differing accounts depending upon whose story is being told.
Although it focuses on the lead up, details and aftermath of riots in Vancouver at the turn of the twentieth century, these materials explore one of the most important questions in Canadian social, political and economic history from the perspectives of five key groups: Aboriginal, Chinese, European, Japanese, and South Asian people.
The six challenges can be taught as a complete unit or as "stand alone" lessons that focus on particular themes:
cultural and race relations in nineteenth century Canada
the identity and historical experiences of five groups in Canada during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
the particulars of the 1907 Vancouver riots
government treatment of marginalized groups in the early twentieth century
Canada's progress towards a more inclusive society in the past 100 years
Suitable for Grades 7 - 12
This resource includes a teachers' guide and a double set of supplementary documents.
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