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Immigration And Settlement: grade 6

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Purpose

• Students will examine the impact of immigration and the hardship faced by new settlers to Manitoba.
• Students will explore the evolving relationships that developed as a result of cultural diversity, and government influence.
• Students will explore the technology, occupations, and change in transportation as settlement grew in Manitoba.

Curriculum Outcomes: Cluster 1: Building a Nation (1867 to 1914)

6-KI-007 Give reasons for the establishment of treaties and reserves and describe their impact on individuals, families, and communities.

6-KI-008 Identify various groups that immigrated to Canada in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and give reasons for their emigration.

6-KI-009 Describe ways in which immigration was encouraged by and important to the Canadian government from 1867 to 1914.

6-KI-011 Describe daily life on a prairie homestead between 1800 and 1914.

6-KH-031 Identify events and issues related to the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway

6-KH-034 Explain the importance of agriculture in the development of Canada from 1867 to 1914.

Materials: (Activating student interest and Acquiring information)

• Timeline of new settlement important events and immigration to Manitoba
• Historical maps of Canada, provinces, etc.
• Student atlas
• Documents:
Newspapers
• Manitoba Gazette. Newspaper published from October 12, 1878 – March 1879.
• Morning Telegram. Published from June 9, 1898 - August 21, 1907.
• Portage la Prairie Weekly – both Review or Tribune

Photos and maps
• Maps
• Photos

Records
• John Evans Adamson (Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12, Ref13, Ref14)
• Mary Louise Pickering Thomson

Vocabulary : to promote use of language in oral discussion, reading and written work

settlement	prairie	colony	immigrants
resources	agricultural	grains	railway
forks	industry	population	density
boundaries	plains	existence	economy
homesteader	isolation	national	policy
tariff	taxes	emigration	industrialization
treaties	discrimination	farms	tragedy
cultural	assertion	foreign	monopoly

Suggestions for Instruction: (Applying)

Have students work with the information presented as they learn about the history of settlement and immigration. Students should be introduced to many different interpretations of this period in Canadian history.

As students study Manitoba, they may complete one or more of the following:

• A poster advertising the benefits of living on the prairies – link with immigration pamphlets
• A project, or presentation on a specific topic – for example: taking on the role of an early Manitoba settler and writing a diary on everyday life and different events that were bringing new change to the community
• The role of agriculture in Manitoba
• Reasons for the establishment of treaties, aboriginal perspectives, etc.
• The first and second wave of immigration to Manitoba
• Transportation in Manitoba
• New farming practices, comparing the past to the present
• Immigrant labour, population density,etc.
• Create a Manitoba timeline
• Compare pioneer life in Manitoba to their present day lifestyle

Suggestions for Assessment

Create a chart listing the criteria for assessment to allow students to self assess their products. Conference with the students and provide descriptive feedback

Extension Activities

• Field trip possibilities: Lower Fort Garry, The Forks, Winnipeg Wheat Board, Grain Exchange, Railway station, Citizenship and Immigration, Agriculture Museum, etc.
• Historical re-enactment, settlers' festival, heritage fair