Hello once again,

As you can tell from the title, this is the last project and blog post about my schoolwork in grade 9! I know, it’s crazy. The third term of this year flew by for me, probably because of all the work I had to do. So, this time I’ll be talking about the final project of our History Of Canada unit we have been studying for the past month and a bit. This project is meant to get us to reflect on all we learned, and then choose the event in Canada’s history that we think is the most important. And for me, I chose the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railroad.

This was just one of the many events we studied that took place in our great country’s history. But I chose it because I think that the railway sort of “sewing Canada together” in a way. The eastern provinces, British Colombia and Manitoba wouldn’t have joined Canada’s confederation if it wasn’t for the governments promise to build a transcontinental railway that spans Canada. It was the link between the east and the west. But anyways, I’ll show you the project part of the assignment:This is a keynote presentation I made to give some history about this event and then explain to the viewer why I think that the CPR is the most important event. The process of creation was pretty short compared to other projects I’ve done, mostly just research and finding the right pictures.

This project was good because it got all of us PLP students to look back at what we learned and really break down that information so that a viewer without knowledge of what we learned could understand. Overall, this project was fun and a good last assignment.

Now I will be showing you some other work we did in our Canadian history unit:

This was a poster we did a few weeks ago, and the main idea was to create a poster targeting a certain audience that encourages them to come work on the CPR. As you probably can guess, we did this in the railway part of the unit. Anyways, here it is:

Another mini-project we did was to make a character card of a typical miner from the Cariboo Gold Rush era. We did this assignment while studying the gold rush, and it was pretty fun to make up a person:

Another piece of work we did was to write a short speech about whether BC should join Canada’s confederation, not join it, or join  America. We were split into three different groups, and each group got one of the three options above. My speech had to encourage British Colombians to not join Canada’s confederation. So without further ado, here it is:

And that’s all for our Canada’s history unit, it was an interesting unit overall.

See you,