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Wilson Institute for Canadian History
Debating History, Citizenship, and Politics in Ontario’s Classrooms, s to the Present
Brent Brenyo
*Think-Piece Prepared for the Wilson Institute Workshop, “Doing History in Precarious Times,” July *
The Ontario Canadian and World Studies Curriculumstates that Grade 10 History is designed to allow students to appreciate Canadian heritage and identity in all its diversity and complexity. The objective is to prepare them to fulfill their role as informed, responsible, and active citizens.[1]Yet, the reality is that the Grade 10 history program has failed to do so. Nowhere is this more evident than in its inability to prepare students to understand and participate in today’s political debates concerning historical commemoration and remembrance. Such acrimonious and often evidence-free debates reveal that there are multiple, and even competing, interpretations of Canada’s history and identity. Yet in the classroom, the subje
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In John A. Macdonald invited a number of prominent chiefs who remained loyal during the Northwest Rebellion of to travel to Central Canada. The prime minister wanted these important leaders of the 15, or so Prairie First Nations to visit southern Ontario and Quebec (which then had a combined population of over three million1), in order to impress them with the Dominion’s numerical and technological strength.
Thomas Green, a Mohawk surveyor who had graduated from McGill University and at the time worked in the North-West Territories, had encouraged the prime minister. From Regina in March Green wrote: “Show them, or at least, allow them to be shown the principal sights & cities of Ontario & Quebec, and above all, have them visit the most prosperous Indian reserves of these provinces…. Let them see how their Indian brethren are prospering in those provinces; let them understand that the Indian can subsist like the white man where there is no game; and let them understand th