Need a history project topic linking to Canada
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Topic: Need a history project topic linking to Canada
Posted By: Joke Magician
Subject: Need a history project topic linking to Canada
Date Posted: 28-Jan-2006 at 13:38
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I'm doing the Historica fair (histori.ca) and i need a topic for the project. it has to deal with canada or canadian history. should be interesting! Thx alot, cheers add me on msn (poop_smither@hotmail.com)  |
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Posted By: Maju
Date Posted: 28-Jan-2006 at 14:12
I would deal with French colonization. See Wikipedia articles:
Finally you can deal with topics as the Viking exploration, the Hudson Bay Co., and many others regarding Native American history and/or the British colonial period. ------------- 
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Posted By: DukeC
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2006 at 12:58
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The Hudson Bay Company was most of Canada for a couple of centuries, there's a lot of interesting history about it. ------------- |
Posted By: Maharbbal
Date Posted: 09-Mar-2006 at 21:06
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Hi,
I definitly agree on the Hudson Bay Co. great topic and great books as on many chartred companies. Bye. ------------- I am a free donkey! |
Posted By: rider
Date Posted: 10-Mar-2006 at 12:27
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Yes, even I agre on Hudson Bay Company. It sold the land back to the government in 1860, wasn't it so? And it was founded in 1660? ------------- |
Posted By: Perseas
Date Posted: 10-Mar-2006 at 18:08
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You might want to try about FLQ (Front de Liberation de Quebec) and October Crisis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLQ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_crisis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_crisis
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Posted By: Cunctator
Date Posted: 11-Mar-2006 at 17:26
| The idea of a paper on the Basque "presence" in the 15th century, or earlier, might be very interesting. The story of the woman who spent years hunting down the records of the Basque whaling and fishing off of Newfoundland, and eventually found them, might really grab you. I have always thought she is the model of an explorer, but of the past. I do not know the whole story, but I believe her work forced the government -- which had originally rejected her ideas -- to acknowledge the Basque history here. |
Posted By: edgewaters
Date Posted: 13-Mar-2006 at 15:59
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Ah, there are so many things. You could do the War of 1812, you could do the colonization by the French, you could do the Vikings at L'Anse aux Meadows, you could do Dieppe or Vimy, or Jonh Cabot's explorations, or even the war between the Hurons and Iroquois. So many things, at the macro level, and even plenty of opportunity at the micro level - things like, say, the history of Fort Louisburg, or the Rideau Canal.
I'm not sure about the context of your presentation - if it's academic I might go for something done less often (eg perhaps something to do with the natives, or something at a micro level like the history of a particular site or area, or something like the history of the United Empire Loyalists - when they came over, where they settled, how they lived, why they left, why they were loyalists, etc). If it's for the general public I'd go with something familiar or exciting, perhaps something like Vimy or Laura Secord. |
Posted By: dirtnap
Date Posted: 13-Mar-2006 at 17:55
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Hockey baby...
Hockey is Canada... 
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Posted By: Maju
Date Posted: 13-Mar-2006 at 20:27
Do you have links? I am interested. -------------
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Posted By: Cunctator
Date Posted: 13-Mar-2006 at 21:06
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Maju, No web links. On Canadian TV, there are often short pieces about Canadian history. I remember watching one about this woman several years ago. She worked on her own in the archives at Segovia, found records of a particular year in which the Basques lost a ship supposedly in Newfoundland waters, and convinced the federal government to conduct an underwater archeological expedition in a bay somewhere in Newfoundland. To her delight, they discovered the wreck -- confirming her thesis that the Basques had been in the Americas before Columbus -- and then went on to excavate a small settlement along the shore of the bay. If I come across her name, I will forward it to you. |