Assignement # 9

here is the link for the full sized picture
This is a map of where the British colonists lived and where all the loyalists went to. I am living in Pennsylvania it is highlighted in pink.(but it isn't the only area highlighted in pink)

March 5 2009
Dear Diary,
It is so annoying having all these loyalists here. Why did they have to come here to north America? They are taking up a lot of space roughly 100,000 of them came here, and the only reason that they came here is because most educated Americans, whether Loyalist or Revolutionary, accepted John Locke's theory of natural rights and limited government. Locke thought that human nature is defined by reason and tolerance. Locke thought that human nature allowed men to be selfish. This is obvious with the introduction of money and salaries. In a natural state all people were equal and independent, and everyone had a natural right to defend his or her “life, health, liberty, or possessions.” Locke thought that the only right to defend in the original state was not enough, so people started a civil society to resolve problems in a civil way with help from government in a state of society. Locke also helped governmental separation of powers and thought that revolution is not only a right but an obligation in some circumstances. These ideas would come to have great impact on the Constitution of the United States and its Declaration of Independence.

Some of the people who came here aren't even that important, most of them are small farmers, artisans and shopkeepers. But all the wealthy ones and Anglican ministers came as well. I heard that in some parts of north America like New York and the Carolinas, the taking from Loyalists resulted in sort of a social revolution as large mansions were rented out to yeoman farmers.

I hope this is over soon and everybody leaves but even if it ends, I think that some of the loyalists are already settled and will never leave.

signed,

A frustrated British Colonist

Assignement # 8

George: And after the break, i will be talking with the ghost of Louis Riel Canadian politician and also the founder of Manitoba, some call him a traitor others call him the father of confederation, which does he think he is, we will find out after the break.







George:So Louis there has been a lot of controversy about your legacy, do you think that what you did was right?

Riel: of course i thought it was right i am proud of what i did and I have no regrets, even though others have called me a insane traitor the only regret that i have is that i wish that i had been more loyal to the people that helped me.

George:If you could be alive right now what would you change about the world?

Riel:I would definitely remove all the violence, a lot of that happened when i was alive and i definitely realise how wrong it was now. Also I would open more schools after education helped me so much, I realise how important it is.

George:Which one of your achievements are you most proud of?

Riel: I would have to say founding Manitoba.

George:Can you tell us about it?

Riel:Sure, this is how it happened, the three delegates representing the provisional government departed for Ottawa on March 24. Even though they first met with legal difficulties arising from the execution of Scott, they were soon able to enter into direct talks with MacDonald and George-Étienne Cartier. An agreement remembering the demands in the list of rights was quickly reached, and this formed the basis for the Manitoba Act of 12 May 1870, which formally admitted Manitoba into the Canadian confederation. However, the negotiators were unable to secure a general amnesty for the provisional government. As a means of exercising Canadian authority in the settlement and depressing American expansionists, a Canadian military expedition under Colonel Garnet Wolseley was dispatched to the Red River Although the government described it as an "errand of peace", I learned that Canadian militia elements in the expedition meant to attach me, and I fled as the expedition approached the Red River. The arrival of the expedition on august 20 marked the end of the Red River Rebellion.

Assignement #7

a.) Which category of Canadian Personalities interested you the most? Did you like the "we inspired", "we founded", "we fought", "we built" or "we governed" section the best? Why?

The section that interested me the most was " we governed ." It interested me because the people in that group were some of the first leaders of Canada and were some of the people that made big impacts on Canada( not that the others didn't).

B)b.) Which personality interested you the most? Why? Find an image of him or her to embed (add to the body of your post) and write, in your own words, a short description of what he or she did and why he or she is your favourite.

The personality that interested me the most was Pierre Trudeau. He interested me because I had heard his name before and about how charismatic he was but i have never really learnt that much about him. Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was born October 18,in Montreal, Quebec 1919 was the 15Th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984. Trudeau was the first Canadian Prime Minister born in the 20Th century.Trudeau earned a law degree at the Université de Montréal in 1943; during his studies he was conscripted into the Army, like thousands of other Canadian men, as part of the National Resources Mobilization Act. He joined the Canadian Officers Training Corps and served with other conscripts in Canada, as they were not able for overseas military service until after the Conscription Crisis of 1944. From the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, dominated the Canadian political scene and aroused passionate reactions. "Reason before passion" was his personal motto, Admirers praise the force of Trudeau's intellect They salute his political brilliance in preserving national unity and establishing the Charter of Rights. Trudeau led Canada through some of its most tumultuous times and was often the centre of controversy.

I got most of my information from a book that my father had on Pierre Trudeau

and the rest i got from this site

Some other personalities that i would sugest are John A. McDonald, Samuel de Champlain and Peter Pitseolak.I was matched up with James Naismith, it only took me one clue to find out who it was it was the nickname clue. James Naitsmith and I both spoke english, we both played a lots of sports but the only sportswe have in common are football, swimming and skating, we both belonged to many sports teams however he played other sports than the ones that i play, he earned degrees, he lived in many places and served in the war and he has had honours, streets and a hall of fame named after him, but i have not. 8. Think long and hard about this part and then post an answer to this question on your blog:
e.) One hundred years from now, (in 2109!) imagine that students are learning about Canadian History Makers and they discover you. What will you be remembered for? How were you a Canadian History Maker? You are using your imagination, so think about some things that you would like to accomplish in your life and imagine that you have all the accomplishments of your life to look back on. Write a short profile of yourself, imagining the contributions you have made to the future of Canada.

If i were to write a description of myself in 2109 it would go like this, Russell Joseph Gerard Stuart was born March 18, 1996 to Anita Fauteux and Bruce Stuart an executive assistant to the vice president at Canadian Commercial Cooperation and a director of ministerial and sectoral communications division at National Resources Canada. As a young boy in Ottawa Russell played hockey and baseball and attended Fielding Drive public school before going to brookfield high school and getting a baseball scholarship to university of Ottawa graduating and getting drafted in the 1st round to the Boston Red Sox and becoming the first person to record 800 career home runs without the use of performance enhancing drugs. After retiring in 2045 Russell was inducted into the base ball hall of fame and became the general manager of the Boston Red Sox. Then in 2112 with his two sons at his side Russell died of natural causes he will always be remembered as a honest and genuine person.

Stanley G. Grizzle, judge and labour union activist

There are so many African-Canadians that have changed the world not only for African-Canadians, but for everyone, and that is why i have chosen to write about Stanley G. Grizzle. Stanley G. Grizzle was born 1918 in Toronto, Ontario to his parents who were Jamaican immigrants, he was the oldest of seven children. While working as a porter, Grizzle became active in the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP)a trade union whose leader was the charismatic African American A. Philip Randolph. Upon his return to Canada after serving in Europe during World War II, Grizzle became more active in the union. He was elected president of his union local, and pushed the CPR to open the management ranks to African-Canadians. He also got involved in other causes .causes and was a leader in Canada's nascent civil rights era of the 1950s, working with the Joint Labour Committee to Combat Racial Intolerance.In 1959, Grizzle and Jack White were the first Black Canadian candidates to run for election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (the predecessor to the New Democratic Party). In 1960, Grizzle went to work for the Ontario Labour Relations Board, and in 1978 he was appointed a by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Grizzle received the Order of Ontario in 1990 from Lieutenant-Governor Lincoln Alexander because of his work with the (BSCP) and for his civil rights work and Grizzle recently received the Stanley Ferguson Lifetime Accomplishment award and received a grant of 25 shares of Coca-Cola stock. The way that this man changed Canada was that he decided that he wanted black people to have rights to and he got them those rights and now African-Canadians are treated like equals not only because of him but because of all the black rights activists to ever stand up.

the second site i visited that i didn't link to in the report is this

Assignement #5

During the course of my researching I discovered how early Canadians survived the long bitter winter. First they built their houses out of logs, fieldstone, spruce poles or prairie sod because they had to withstand the winter and quote "on the farm the Acadians drained the marshes along bays and rivers by building dykes and a drainage system that only let water out not back in called aboiteaux , to keep sea water out. Then they would wait two years for the sea salt to be wasted out by the weather, After this, they could use this area to plant crops." Some of the challenges Canadians faced were that first of all it was cold, they couldn't get food as easily, quote "they struggled to stay warm every day and night" and their water source might freeze. To stay warm they would put thin cotton fabric or oiled paper instead of buying glass windowplanes, they would block the cracks in the walls the same way or with clay, for water they would melt snow, they would make fires and they would save food from the summer. After looking at my family history I discovered that my family immigrated to Canada from a place called Londonderry (ya i know weird name) because after the war of 1812 the British gouvernement was concerned about the security of their Canadian border and was strongly promoting the immigration of loyal subjects from the British Isles at that time to strengthen their position there. They survived just like any other family at their time they saved food from the summer, they made fires and sealed all the cracks for insulation.
These are the sites i visited
#1
and #2

ass. #4

The first blog that i checked out was dillon's blog. I thought that dillon's entry for assignment 3 was awesome and very well written and a well thought out entry. I thought that james's blog incorporated a lot of topics that we need to start thinking about if we want our world to last and be preserved for generations and generations. The final blog that i checked out was morgan's blog another thing that she mentioned was the environement. What if the world is gone because of all the gases and litering and what if the air is all gone because we finally cut down the last tree. As everyone stated " nobody will know what it will be like in 2109" but we can always try and anticipate it.

ass. 3

I believe that in 2109 the world will be a more efficient place. Technology will be what we rely for our everday lifes, the recession will be long gone thanks to the work of president Obama. I also think that all the wars will be over and that the poverty in other countries will end and the biggest thing is that everone will get health benefits so that the world will be more healthy. That is what i think 2109 will be like but nobody knows for sure.

hi,
my name is russell a grade 7 student from ottawa and this term we are moving the textbooks aside and creating canadian history blogs. feel free to post.
my teacher has a history blog too check it out