Gallery 5 - Teacher's Corner

Multiculturalism

This gallery exhibits photographs and artwork in the BC Archives collection focusing on work by immigrants "seeing with new eyes". The text includes information on immigration and settlement in British Columbia.

Classroom Activities

• In a series of diagrams, show how the First Nations people made a bow and arrow.

Focus on Skills:

- Organizing Information
- Understanding Time and Chronology


• Read the story of first contact between Chief Maquinna and Captain Cook, as told by Mrs. Winnifred David. Write Captain Cook's diary, describing the first contact from his point of view.

Focus on Skills:

- Acquiring Information
- Evaluating Information
- Communicating Orally and in Writing


• Choose one of the groups of immigrants discussed in the Gallery and perform a skit explaining:

  a)  Why you are leaving your home company
  b)  Why you chose Canada to move to
  c)  How you feel about moving to Canada

Focus on Skills:

- Acquiring Information
- Communicating Orally and in Writing

Additional Material at the British Columbia Archives

Use the BC Archives Website Search Gateway to discover other material and records related to concepts and content presented in this gallery.

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Applicability to the Educational Curriculum

Learning Outcomes - Society and Culture

• Canadian communities past and present consist of people from diverse cultural backgrounds.

• Explain ways people preserve and transmit culture.

• Demonstrate an understanding of why immigrants come to Canada, the challenges they face, and their contributions to Canada.

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