The Digital Classroom Resource
Enable students and teachers to search for, access and share electronically the often-ignored history of diverse cultural communities from across Canada.
Teachers can easily assign readings through email or digital classroom postings, enrich their teachings with short stand-alone sections relevant to the curriculum strand being taught.
Digital Collection features
- Concise stand alone-sections.
- Content links to articles easily shared via Google classrooms, email, or other digital platforms.
- Searchable by subject tags, covering the full range of history and experiences.
- Filters & drop-down options allow for easy focused browsing.
- Highly visual, using photos, art, live video links & illustrations.
- First-hand accounts, and reproductions of historical documents.
- Plus digital editions of all 10 books always available for in-depth reading.
- Digital access to 2 teacher resource guides.
The digital platform is available as parallel English
and French language sites.
Curriculum Connections
Righting Canada’s Wrongs Course Use Examples
Residential Schools
Strand B expectation: B2.5 “Describe how the residential school system and other government policies and legislation, as well as the attitudes that underpinned them, affected First Nations, Métis, and Inuit individuals and communities during this period.”
Step 1: Type “Residential School” into the search field. Press “Search”, or choose one of the pop-up search suggestions.
Step 2: Review your results & select your resources. Fourteen sections, each providing relevant content. Each section focuses on a different facet of the history of residential schools in Canada, including documenting their origin, the impacts on survivors, families and communities, and the impacts acknowledged in government and church apologies.
Antisemitism
Strand C3.2 Sample question: “Why did the Canadian government refuse to allow the MS St. Louis entry into Canada? How did Canadians view this decision at the time? Why? How do Canadians view it now?”
Step 1: Type “louis” into the search field. Press “Search”, or choose one of the pop-up search suggestions.
Step 2: Review your results & select your resources. Four sections, detailing the origins of the MS St Louis, the Canadian public reaction and the role of antisemitism in public life, the government’s decision, and the eventual apologies and current historic view of the event.
Civic Action and Activism
Curriculum Topic: B1.4 “Explain why it is important for people to engage in civic action, and identify various reasons why individuals and groups have engaged, and continue to engage, in such action, using both historical and current examples.”
Step 1: Select drop down menu item “Resistance and Resilience” then select drop down options, “Demanding Rights and Compensation”, and “Activists and organizations” .
Step 2: Review your results & select your resources. Twenty articles featuring individuals and groups who engaged in civic action as the result of a wrongful government action.
Immigration and Internment
Strand Expectation E2.1 Sample question: “What is the significance of government apologies for the Chinese Head Tax or the internment of ‘enemy aliens’?”
Step 1: Select drop down menu item “Righting Historic Wrongs” then select drop down option, “Government Apologies” and select the apologies of interest.
Step 2: Review your results & select your resources. One section on the government apology for the Chinese Head tax, and three more sections for the internment of Japanese, Italian, and Jewish Canadians during World War II. Each section explicitly deals with the government apologies for their internment of these groups, with many additional resources portraying the events that led to the apologies.
| Available Formats Righting Canada’s Wrongs English Print Edition – 10 volume set + free resource guide ISBN 978-1-4594-1-7137 | $349.95 Redresser les torts du Canada French Print Edition – 10 volume set ISBN 978-1-4594-2-0496 | $450.00 Digital Learning Resource – English Digital Learning Resource – Immersion French To Buy Digital sales contact: davidglover@lorimer.ca |