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=**Sample Big Questions to Organize the Year**= The order of the questions starts with the present, progresses to the past, and finishes with the present. The questions could be re-ordered to start with the past and progress to the present.

How did Prince Albert become a city? Which cultural groups live in Prince Albert? Why did the first settlers chose to live by the South Saskatchewan River? What resources are found near Prince Albert?
 * //Why do we live in Prince Albert Saskatchewan (DR5.1. RW.1,RW.3 )//**

Where are most communities situated in Canada? What resources are found near those communities? Which cultural groups live in those communities? How did those cultural groups come to live in those communities? How did the provincial or territorial capital become a capital?
 * //Why do people live where they live in Canada?// //(DR5.1, RW.1, RW.2)//**

//Why was the railway built across Canada?// //How were people encouraged to move to the western provinces?//
 * //Why did people come to Canada when it became an official country?// //(DR5.3) (RW5.1)//**

//**Why did people come to live in "Canada" before it became a country following the explorers such as Jacques Cartier's**// //**first visits to Canada? (DR5.2)**// //How were the First Nations Peoples` needs met by the land?// //How was the land shared between the first European immigrants and the First Nations people who were already living in "Canada"?//
 * //Which peoples did the explorers meet when they arrived "in Canada"?//** **//(DR5.1, IN5.1)//**

//**Why is the Queen on the back of our money? Why do we have the two official languages of English and French? (DR5.3)**//
 * //How does Canada organize/govern itself? How do First Nations and Metis organizations govern themselves?//** **//(PA5.2)//**


 * //What does it mean to be Canadian? What does the statement "We are all treaty people" mean?//** **//(IN5.2, PA5.3)//**

=Overall information= [|http://www.craigmarlatt.com/canada/index.html#home]

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 * Heritage Minutes**

can 'flip' through online issue
 * [|Canada's History - Kayak Magazine: Citizenship and Immigration Issue]**

[] The War of 1812. This talks about some of the people and their part in helping save Canada. Worth checking out.


 * Collections of Historical Photographs (Copyright Expired but must still credit source)**
 * **[|ArchiviaNet: Library and Archives Canada] (Don't forget to check the box "Descriptions with digitized image"**
 * **[|Images Canada: Picturing Canadian Culture]**