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(page 1 of 2)
For each subheading in the chapter, write some 5W + H questions before and during
reading to guide your understanding. Record your questions and the answers in the row
with the appropriate question word. List sources besides the textbook where you might find
answers. At the end of the chapter, you will use this information to consider the question:
Is Canada still a divided and hesitant nation?
CHAPTER SUBHEADINGS
Who First Lived in the
The Métis
Prairie Region?
5W+H
Questions
Who?
What did they eat?
What?
When?
Where did they live?
Where?
Why?
Why did they live in the
Prairies?
How?
Possible Sources
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encyclopedia
interview a historian
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CHAPTER SUBHEADINGS
Why Was the Red River
Three New Provinces and a
Resistance Significant?
Territory
5W+H
Questions
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
How?
•
Possible Sources
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Date of
joining
Problems that
existed prior to
joining
How joining
could help
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Summary of the Entry of Three New Provinces, 1870–1873
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Prince
Edward
Island
British
Columbia
Manitoba
Province
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Chapter 4 Word Search Puzzle
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Early Years of Independence, 1867–1885
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Who?
One 5W + H
+ might
+ can
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Add On
Who will sign the treaties?
Question
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Thinking
Possibility
Probability
Prediction (before
reading)
Purpose
Answer/Notes
Asking questions helps you understand the text. In the chart below, write 5W + H questions before and during reading. Predict
the answer and write it in the “Answers/Notes” column. As you read further, check each prediction. Put a check mark beside
correct ones. If your prediction was incorrect, draw a line through it and write the correct answer on the back.
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Summary of Views About Treaty 6
In your own words, summarize the views of the key people associated with the treaty.
Person
Views
My reaction to these views
Alexander Morris
Chief Poundmaker
Chief Star Blanket
Chief Big Bear
1. Overall, how willing did the Cree seem to sign the treaty? Give evidence for your
answer.
2. What reasons can you think of why the Cree agreed to accept Treaty 6?
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Summary of the Indian Act’s Terms
Match the item in the first column with the most correct term in the second column.
Effect on First Nations
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What the Indian Act dealt with
a) lost all benefits under the Indian Act
1. “full blooded” First Nations
b) reversed their loss of First Nations
status because of marriage
2. First Nations people living on
reserves
c) Supreme Court ruled they are
entitled to benefits under the Indian
Act
3. First Nations people living off
reserves
d) tried in the courts of Canada;
traditional right of Elders to deal with
law breakers taken away
4. First Nations women who married
non-First Nations men
e) only they could live on reserves
5. timber stands on reserves
f) federal government could license
companies but did not have to
compensate reserves
6. First Nations people who committed
crimes
g) became wards of the state
7. court decision in 1985
h) lost their First Nations status
8. The Métis and the Indian Act
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Population Growth in Manitoba, NWT,
and British Columbia
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“Canadian Railroad Trilogy”
by Gordon Lightfoot
(page 1 of 2)
There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
Long before the white man and long before the wheel
When the green dark forest was too silent to be real
But time has no beginnings and history has no bounds
As to this verdant country they came from all around
They sailed upon her waterways and they walked the forests tall
Built the mines, the mills, and the factories for the good of us all
And when the young man’s fancy was turnin’ to the spring
The railroad men grew restless for to hear the hammers ring
Their minds were overflowing with the visions of their day
And many a fortune won and lost and many a debt to pay
For they looked to the future and what did they see
They saw an iron road runnin’ from sea to the sea
Bringin’ the goods to a young growin’ land
All up through the seaports and into their hands
Look away said they across this mighty land
From the eastern shore to the western strand
Bring in the workers and bring up the rails
We gotta lay down the tracks and tear up the trails
Open her heart let the life blood flow
Gotta get on our way cause were movin’ too slow
Bring in the workers and bring up the rails
We gotta lay down the tracks and tear up the trails
Open her heart let the life blood flow
Gotta get on our way cause were movin’ too slow
Get on our way cause were movin’ too slow
Behind the blue Rockies the sun is declinin’
The stars, they come stealin’ at the close of the day
Across the wide prairie our loved ones lie sleeping
Beyond the dark oceans in a place far away
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“Canadian Railroad Trilogy”
by Gordon Lightfoot
(page 2 of 2)
We are the navvies who work upon the railway
Swingin’ our hammers in the bright blazin’ sun
Livin’ on stew and drinkin’ bad whiskey
Bendin’ our old backs ’til the long days are done
We are the navvies who work upon the railway
Swingin’ our hammers in the bright blazin’ sun
Layin’ down track and buildin’ the bridges
Bendin’ our old backs ’til the railroad is done
So over the mountains and over the plains
Into the muskeg and into the rain
Up the St. Lawrence all the way to Gaspé
Swingin’ our hammers and drawin’ our pay
Drivin’ ’em in and tyin’ ’em down
Away to the bunkhouse and into the town
A dollar a day and a place for my head
A drink to the livin’ and a toast to the dead
Oh the song of the future has been sung
All the battles have been won
O’er the mountaintops we stand
All the world at our command
We have opened up the soil
With our teardrops and our toil
For there was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
Long before the white man and long before the wheel
When the green dark forest was too silent to be real
When the green dark forest was too silent to be real
And many are the dead men too silent to be real
© Gordon Lightfoot, United Artists, 1967
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Play: Win the Contract to Build the CPR
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The Northwest Rebellion:
Events and Perspectives
Complete the organizer below after reading the section about the Northwest Rebellion
(pages H 103–105)
The individuals
or groups
involved
What was their perspective on
the Rebellion and the Trial of
Louis Riel?
What are the common living
conditions, experiences, or
historical circumstances that
might explain why they hold
that perspective?
Métis
First Nations
Macdonald and
the federal
government
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Chapter 5 Word Search Puzzle
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The Expansion of Settlement
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Event or
person
Is it/he/she
symbolic of some
important period
or movement in
history?
Does knowing
about it/him/her
help explain
anything about
the present?
LM 30 Determining Historical Significance (for use with Chapter 6)
Has it/he/she been
memorialized in
books, museums,
monuments,
holidays, etc.?
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What were the
consequences?
How far-reaching?
How long-lasting?
Determining Historical Significance
Was it/he/she
important at the
time? Did people
notice?
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“The Cremation of Sam McGee”
by Robert Service (Abridged Version)
This poem tells the story of a man from Tennessee. Sam has frozen to death
while out on a dog sled. The narrator has promised to cremate Sam’s body. He
finds a derelict boat at a lakeside.
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Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay;
It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the “Alice May.”
And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum;
Then “Here,” said I with a sudden cry, “is my cre-ma-tor-eum.”
Some planks I tore from the cabin floor, and I lit the boiler fire;
Some coal I found that was lying around, and I heaped the fuel higher;
The flames just soared, and the furnace roared—such a blaze you seldom see;
And I burrowed a hole in the glowing coal, and I stuffed in Sam McGee.
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And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar;
And he wore a smile you could see a mile, and he said: “Please close that door.
It’s fine in here, but I greatly fear you'll let in the cold and storm—
Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it’s the first time I've been warm.”
(Source: The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, [Also published in Britain under the title Songs of a
Sourdough.] by Robert W. Service. Publishers: Barse & Co. New York, N.Y., Newark, N.J.. Copyright,
1916 by Barse &&038; Co. [expired in the USA]
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“The Cremation of Sam McGee”
by Robert Service (Complete Version)
(page 1 of 2)
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows.
Why he left his home in the South to roam ‘round the Pole, God only knows.
He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell;
Though he’d often say in his homely way that “he’d sooner live in hell.”
On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail.
Talk of your cold! Through the parka’s fold it stabbed like a driven nail.
If our eyes we’d close, then the lashes froze till sometimes we couldn’t see;
It wasn’t much fun, but the only one to whimper was Sam McGee.
And that very night, as we lay packed tight in our robes beneath the snow,
And the dogs were fed, and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel and toe,
He turned to me, and “Cap,” says he, “I’ll cash in this trip, I guess;
And if I do, I’m asking that you won’t refuse my last request.”
Well, he seemed so low that I couldn’t say no; then he says with a sort of moan;
“It’s the cursed cold, and it’s got right hold till I’m chilled clean through to the bone.
Yet ‘taint being dead—it’s my awful dread of the icy grave that pains;
So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you’ll cremate my last remains.”
A pal’s last need is a thing to heed, so I swore I would not fail;
And we started on at the streak of dawn; but God! He looked ghastly pale.
He crouched on the sleigh, and he raved all day of his home in Tennessee;
And before nightfall a corpse was all that was left of Sam McGee.
There wasn’t a breath in that land of death, and I hurried, horror-driven,
With a corpse half hid that I couldn’t get rid, because of a promise given;
It was lashed to the sleigh, and it seemed to say: “You may tax your brawn and brains,
But you promised true, and it’s up to you to cremate these last remains.”
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“The Cremation of Sam McGee”
by Robert Service (Complete Version)
(page 2 of 2)
Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load.
In the long, long night, by the lone firelight, while the huskies, round in a ring,
Howled out their woes to the homeless snows—O God! How I loathed the thing.
And every day that quiet clay seemed to heavy and heavier grow;
And on I went, though the dogs were spent and the grub was getting low;
The trail was bad, and I felt half mad, but I swore I would not give in;
And I’d often sing to the hateful thing, and it hearkened with a grin.
Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay;
It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the “Alice May.”
And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum;
Then “Here,” said I with a sudden cry, “is my cre-ma-tor-eum.”
Some planks I tore from the cabin floor, and I lit the boiler fire;
Some coal I found that was lying around, and I heaped the fuel higher;
The flames just soared, and the furnace roared—such a blaze you seldom see;
And I burrowed a hole in the glowing coal, and I stuffed in Sam McGee.
Then I made a hike, for I didn’t like to hear him sizzle so;
And the heavens scowled, and the huskies howled, and the wind began to blow.
It was icy cold, but the hot sweat rolled down my cheeks, and I don’t know why;
And the greasy smoke in an inky cloak went streaking down the sky.
I do not know how long in the snow I wrestled with grisly fear;
But the stars came out and they danced about ere again I ventured near:
I was sick with dread, but I bravely said: “I’ll just take a peep inside.
I guess he’s cooked, and it’s time I looked”... then the door I opened wide.
And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar;
And he wore a smile you could see a mile, and he said: “Please close that door.
It’s fine in here, but I greatly fear you’ll let in the cold and storm—
Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it’s the first time I've been warm.”
[Repeat the first verse] There are strange things done in the midnight sun...
(Source: The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, [Also published in Britain under the title Songs of a Sourdough.] by Robert W.
Service. Publishers: Barse & Co. New York, N.Y., Newark, N.J.. Copyright, 1916 by Barse &&038; Co. [expired in the USA]
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“The Shooting of Dan McGrew” by
Robert Service (Abridged Version)
Service describes the characters found in a bar, and the terrible events that
happened one night.
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A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon;
The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a rag-time tune;
Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew,
And watching his luck was his light-o’-love, the lady that’s known as Lou.
When out of the night, which was fifty below, and into the din and glare,
There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog-dirty, and loaded for bear.
He looked like a man with a foot in the grave and scarcely the strength of a louse,
Yet he tilted a poke of dust on the bar, and he called for drinks for the house.
There was none could place the stranger’s face, though we searched ourselves for a
clue;
But we drank his health, and the last to drink was Dangerous Dan McGrew.
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Then on a sudden the music changed, so soft that you scarce could hear;
But you felt that your life had been looted clean of all that it once held dear;
That someone had stolen the woman you loved; that her love was a devil’s lie;
That your guts were gone, and the best for you was to crawl away and die.
‘Twas the crowning cry of a heart’s despair, and it thrilled you through and through—
“I guess I’ll make it a spread misere,” said Dangerous Dan McGrew.
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Then I ducked my head and the lights went out, and two guns blazed in the dark;
And a woman screamed, and the lights went up, and two men lay stiff and stark.
Pitched on his head, and pumped full of lead, was Dangerous Dan McGrew,
While the man from the creeks lay clutched to the breast of the lady that’s known as
Lou.
These are the simple facts of the case, and I guess I ought to know.
They say that the stranger was crazed with “hooch,” and I’m not denying it’s so.
I’m not so wise as the lawyer guys, but strictly between us two—
The woman that kissed him—and pinched his poke—was the lady known as Lou.
Source: The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, [Also published in Britain under the title Songs of a Sourdough.] by Robert W.
Service. Publishers: Barse & Co. New York, N.Y., Newark, N.J.. Copyright, 1916 by Barse &&038; Co. [expired in the USA]
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/service_r_w/dan_mcgrew.html, July 12, 2007)
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“The Shooting of Dan McGrew” by
Robert Service (Complete Version)
(page 1 of 2)
Service describes the characters found in a bar, and the terrible events that
happened one night.
A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon;
The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a rag-time tune;
Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew,
And watching his luck was his light-o’-love, the lady that’s known as Lou.
When out of the night, which was fifty below, and into the din and glare,
There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog-dirty, and loaded for bear.
He looked like a man with a foot in the grave and scarcely the strength of a louse,
Yet he tilted a poke of dust on the bar, and he called for drinks for the house.
There was none could place the stranger’s face, though we searched ourselves for a
clue;
But we drank his health, and the last to drink was Dangerous Dan McGrew.
There’s men that somehow just grip your eyes, and hold them hard like a spell;
And such was he, and he looked to me like a man who had lived in hell;
With a face most hair, and the dreary stare of a dog whose day is done,
As he watered the green stuff in his glass, and the drops fell one by one.
Then I got to figgering who he was, and wondering what he’d do,
And I turned my head—and there watching him was the lady that’s known as Lou.
His eyes went rubbering round the room, and he seemed in a kind of daze,
Till at last that old piano fell in the way of his wandering gaze.
The rag-time kid was having a drink; there was no one else on the stool,
So the stranger stumbles across the room, and flops down there like a fool.
In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt he sat, and I saw him sway,
Then he clutched the keys with his talon hands—my God! but that man could play.
Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear,
And the icy mountains hemmed you in with a silence you most could hear;
With only the howl of a timber wolf, and you camped there in the cold,
A helf-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;
While high overhead, green, yellow, and red, the North Lights swept in bars?—
Then you’ve a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and might and the stars.
And hunger not of the belly kind, that’s banished with bacon and beans,
But the gnawing hunger of lonely men for a home and all that it means;
For a fireside far from the cares that are, four walls and a roof above;
But oh! so cramful of cosy joy, and crowded with a woman’s love—
A woman dearer than all the world, and true as Heaven is true—
(God! how ghastly she looks through her rouge—the lady that’s known as Lou.)
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“The Shooting of Dan McGrew” by
Robert Service (Complete Version)
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Then on a sudden the music changed, so soft that you scarce could hear;
But you felt that your life had been looted clean of all that it once held dear;
That someone had stolen the woman you loved; that her love was a devil’s lie;
That your guts were gone, and the best for you was to crawl away and die.
‘Twas the crowning cry of a heart’s despair, and it thrilled you through and through—
“I guess I’ll make it a spread misere,” said Dangerous Dan McGrew.
The music almost dies away . . . then it burst like a pent-up flood;
And it seemed to say, “Repay, repay,” and my eyes were blind with blood.
The thought came back of an ancient wrong, and it stung like a frozen lash,
And the lust awoke to kill, to kill . . . then the music stopped with a crash,
And the stranger turned, and his eyes they burned in a most peculiar way;
In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt he sat, and I saw him sway;
Then his lips went in in a kind of grin, and he spoke, and his voice was calm,
And “Boys,” says he, “you don't know me, and none of you care a damn;
But I want to state, and my words are straight, and I’ll bet my poke they’re true,
That one of you is a hound of hell . . . and that one is Dan McGrew.”
Then I ducked my head and the lights went out, and two guns blazed in the dark;
And a woman screamed, and the lights went up, and two men lay stiff and stark.
Pitched on his head, and pumped full of lead, was Dangerous Dan McGrew,
While the man from the creeks lay clutched to the breast of the lady that’s known as Lou.
These are the simple facts of the case, and I guess I ought to know.
They say that the stranger was crazed with “hooch,” and I’m not denying it’s so.
I’m not so wise as the lawyer guys, but strictly between us two—
The woman that kissed him—and pinched his poke—was the lady known as Lou.
(Source: The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, [Also published in Britain under the title Songs of a
Sourdough.] by Robert W. Service. Publishers: Barse & Co. New York, N.Y., Newark, N.J.. Copyright,
1916 by Barse &&038; Co. [expired in the USA]
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/service_r_w/dan_mcgrew.html, July 12, 2007)
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