{"id":13,"date":"2023-02-16T15:16:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T15:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightingcanadaswrongs.ca\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2023-03-27T12:47:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T12:47:34","slug":"reviews-and-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rightingcanadaswrongs.ca\/index.php\/reviews-and-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards and Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>OLA Best Bets \u2013 Young Adult Non-Fiction \u2013 Winner \u2013 Righting Canada\u2019s Wrongs: Residential Schools <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Heritage Toronto Book Awards \u2013 Shortlisted \u2013 Righting Canada\u2019s Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Forest of Reading Red Cedar Award \u2013 Shortlisted \u2013 Righting Canada\u2019s Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax  <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;A most useful work, both as a source of information on the history of Indian immigration to Canada and of systemic discrimination, enacted by the government of Canada, based purely on ethnic intolerance. <strong>Highly Recommended.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<cite>\u2014 Joanne Peters, CM Review of Materials<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;This story and the others in the \u201cRighting Canada\u2019s Wrongs\u201d series should be<strong> essential teaching<\/strong> in Canadian classrooms at all grades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<cite>&#8211;CM: Canadian Review of Materials <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;As one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission&#8217;s calls to action states, &#8216;Make age-appropriate curriculum on residential schools, Treaties, and Aboriginal peoples&#8217; historical and contemporary contributions to Canada a mandatory education requirement for kindergarten to Grade Twelve students.&#8217; (p. 7) this book certainly contributes to this action and <strong>should be added to every junior and senior high school and public library in Canada.<\/strong> Highly Recommended. <strong>Rated E &#8211; Excellent, enduring, everyone should see it!<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<cite>&#8212; Resource Links<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Perhaps the strongest work to date in the Righting Canada&#8217;s Wrongs series, <em>Residential Schools <\/em>underscores the importance of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission&#8217;s work&#8230; <strong>Highly Recommended<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<cite>\u2014CM: Canadian Review of Materials <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Arresting images dominate the pages<\/strong>, mixing family photographs, posters, museum artifacts, and news archives to create a vivid scrapbook, which also contains the recollections of five internment survivors. Their accounts, peppered generously throughout the book, bring to life the imagery and facts that might otherwise seem impersonal\u2026 The book proves an <strong>essential history lesson<\/strong> for a generation that may be unaware of this deplorable part of our nation&#8217;s past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<cite>&#8212; Cynthia O&#8217;Brien, Quill &amp; Quire<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A most useful work, both as a source of information on the history of Indian immigration to Canada and of systemic discrimination, enacted by the government of Canada, based purely on ethnic intolerance. Highly Recommended.&#8220; &#8220;This story and the others in the \u201cRighting Canada\u2019s Wrongs\u201d series should be essential teaching in Canadian classrooms at all grades.&#8221; &#8220;As one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission&#8217;s calls to action states, &#8216;Make age-appropriate curriculum on residential schools, Treaties, and Aboriginal peoples&#8217; historical and contemporary contributions to Canada a mandatory education requirement for kindergarten to Grade Twelve students.&#8217; (p. 7) this book certainly contributes to this action and should be added to every junior and senior high school and public library in Canada. Highly Recommended. Rated E &#8211; Excellent, enduring, everyone should see it!&#8220; &#8220;Perhaps the strongest work to date in the Righting Canada&#8217;s Wrongs series, Residential Schools underscores the importance of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission&#8217;s work&#8230; Highly Recommended.&#8221; &#8220;Arresting images dominate the pages, mixing family photographs, posters, museum artifacts, and news archives to create a vivid scrapbook, which also contains the recollections of five internment survivors. Their accounts, peppered generously throughout the book, bring to life the imagery and facts that might otherwise seem impersonal\u2026 The book proves an essential history lesson for a generation that may be unaware of this deplorable part of our nation&#8217;s past.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightingcanadaswrongs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightingcanadaswrongs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightingcanadaswrongs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightingcanadaswrongs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightingcanadaswrongs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/rightingcanadaswrongs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/rightingcanadaswrongs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightingcanadaswrongs.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}