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Develop and defend a position regarding gradual versus immediate emancipation  Analyze and learn more about the 1793 Act to Limit Slavery, the law that gradually ended slavery in Upper Canada (now Ontario) Background Information After the British were defeated in the American Revolution, the number of enslaved Africans in British North America increased significantly. To encourage white American settlers to immigrate north, the government passed the Imperial Statute of 1790, which allowed United Empire Loyalists to bring in “ negros [sic], household furniture, utensils of husbandry, or clo...

Student will:  Comment on the political and social context of African Canadians between 1900 and the Second World War  Examine the role and experiences of Black sleeping car porters  Become familiar with working conditions of sleeping car porters before they became unionized  Investigate primary source documents, images, and artifacts to build historical knowledge  Make inferences about the artifacts relating to Black sleeping car porters  Explain how Canada’s identity has been and continues to be shaped by its global participation  Discuss the struggle for equal human rights by Blac...

This lesson examines the life and art of Max Stern, touching upon the themes of the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and the resettlement of Jewish immigrants in Canada following the Second World War.