Theses on Being Canadian
Using the links found here, work through the following activities.
- Draw a simple picture (in five minutes or less) that visually shows what you think it means to be Canadian.
- In a couple of sentences each, describe the different theses of how Canada developed. These theses are:
- Laurentian/Metropolitan Thesis
- Staples Thesis
- Frontier Thesis
- In each case, whose point of view is the thesis described from?
- If you describe it from this point of view, who do you forget to include? (It's not necessarily the same person/people in each case.)
- Do the way these theses describe Canada match the way your described Canada in your picture?
- Write a brief explanation (thesis) of how Canada developed - much like the Frontier, Staples, or Laurentian Thesis - that works well with the picture you drew.
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