Hey everyone! Today I’m gonna be talking about the most recent project that we did that’s called building a nation. We started this project by doing a little confederation simulation, which helped us understand all about the importance of nationalism. After that we moved onto to making games!
In the confederation simulation, we had to choose a colony out of the ones provided. Canada East, Canada West, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, PEI, and Nova Scotia. Here is a paragraph on how the simulation went for our colony, Canada East.
Our Colony, Canada East, decided to join confederation. Canada East is now modern day Québec spanning up to about the Saint-Lawrence river. The Saint-Lawrence has most of Canada East’s main ports, although they all freeze over during the Winter. Having ice-free ports was one of the main demands we had when considering joining confederation. Our other demands were building a trans-colonial railway, which spans all of the colony’s, having access to storage places, and to be able to keep French culture alive. We wanted Canada to become bilingual, as some of the founding fathers were French. If we had not received all of these things, we certainly wouldn’t have joined confederation, as we believed that we, Canada East could survive on our own. We definitely benefitted from joining confederation, as we got everything we wanted. One of the big benefits from joining confederation was having our most populated city become the capitol of all the colony’s. Canada East is a very good example of the good side of confederation, although some colony’s weren’t as lucky as us. The colony’s that benefited the least from confederation were P.E.I. and Newfoundland. They did not join confederation immediately, as all of their demands weren’t executed. They most certainly benefited the least from confederation. We made efforts to make Montreal Capitol of the colony’s, as it was the most populous city at the time, and it was right in the middle of most of the colony’s. We also got all of our demands, because they were both easy to meet, as well as fair to all of the colony’s. I found it interesting that they did not join confederation although if I were a person from our time frame, and I observed the coming together of confederation, I’d think that it was impressive that they had come together so quickly. As well as that they agreed on so many things. It was useless for P.E.I. and Newfoundland to not join refuse to join confederation until later, as I believe that the same things would have happened wether they were included or not. In conclusion, we got everything we wanted, and more, taking into account Montreal for Capitol. We benefited very greatly from confederation, as most colony’s did.
We were also provided with these documents with information on our colony’s.
After we were done the simulation, we moved on to creating our games. We started by creating game rules, which you can see here:
When coming up with an idea for our game, we wanted to give different facts on the different colony’s, and make it a trivia. So we came up with the idea to code it on scratch, and then create a trivia after. This is what we came up with.
And here is the trivia if you want to do that!
What raids attacked Western Canada?
What was the capital of Canada West?
What was the main food source of most Eastern Canadians?
Who was Newfoundland closest to politically and culturally?
Which colony has the smallest population?
How did PEI make most of its economy?
Which maritime colony was the largest?
Which colony in particular was known for its fishing?
What is Nova Scotia Latin for?
What is the capital of New Brunswick?
What is the biggest river in eastern Canada?
What was the pop. In Montreal in 1866?
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