How Historians Think
Significance, evidence, cause, change, perspective and ethics
GRADE 8 HISTORY · COURSE READER
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Evidence from Canada’s Past
Read the evidence. Question the story. Build the argument. A source-driven history of Canada, 1850–1914.
Begin Chapter One →Not a pile of dates.
This is the story of how a country was argued into existence, whose voices shaped it, whose voices were excluded, and how we know any of it happened.
THE COURSE
Eight chapters
Each chapter follows the classroom sequence exactly.AVAILABLE→
British North America
The land, peoples and political world of the 1850s
The Road to Confederation
Problems, pressure, political enemies and a negotiated country
Expanding Canada
Rupert’s Land, Red River, new provinces, railway promises and political consequences
Building the West
The impossible railway, treaties, the Indian Act and assimilation policy
1885
Métis and First Nations grievances, the campaign, trial and national consequences
Canada: A Changing Society
Industry, cities, migration, exclusion, reform and the Canada of 1914
1914: The Year the World Broke
Armed camps, Sarajevo, the July Crisis, Canada’s mobilization and the road to now