SASKATCHEWAN
- WARS / RESISTANCE
Background
Information
Lesson Plans
Online Activities
Multimedia Items
Related WWW Links
Background
Information
Lesson
Plans
- History
20 Resources - The History 20 online
bundle acts as a resource supporting the Saskatchewan Social
Studies Curriculum. The structure of the online resource project
will be familiar to teachers using the Evergreen Curriculum
site. Each section follows the major units, and sub-units,
found in the History 20 World Issues Curriculum Guild, Saskatchewan
Education, September 1994. For more information about this
bundle, click
here! THIS RESOURCE CONTAINS
SOME ACTIVITIES THAT COULD BE MODIFIED FOR YOUNGER STUDENTS.
Online
Activities
Multimedia
Items (Photo Galleries, Interviews, Movies)
 Remember
Me - A Meewasin Valley Centre Presentation that looks
at memorials around Saskatoon. (11MB-12 min.)
Remembering
Our Heroes: Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans
from
Saskatchewan Stories Web site
Growth
and Change on the Reserve - Howard Anderson: A WWII Veteran:
Howard Anderson served in the Canadian army in World War II.
Today, he is the Grand Chief of the Saskatchewan First Nations
Veteran's Association. This organization recognizes and honours
veterans for their contribution, bravery, loyalty, suffering
and courage during the war. (FRENCH
Version)
 (Content
Warning) Interview clips:
- McInnis
- Listen
to it!
- Discusses
the horrors of war.
- Jackson
Clip 1 (12 min) - Listen
to it! -
- Clip
1 - Farming, the "hungry thirties", RAF,
The Great Escape, being shot down and the Second World
War.
- Jackson
Clip 2 (6 min) - Listen
to it!
- Clip
2- Life in a POW Camp.
Please
check our photo
galleries for images on this
theme.
Related
Links
- Canada
and the First World War - National Archives of Canada
- Saskatchewan
in Two World Wars - This is a virtual exhibit that features
pictures from the archives and information regarding the outbreak
of war, recruitment, enlistment, training, equipment, overseas
images, home front impacts and much more.
- Remembering
Our Heroes: This website is dedicated to all those First
Nation Soldiers who have been witness to many battles fought
for our freedom. The First Nation Veterans in Saskatchewan
have fought not only overseas but here at home as well. The
fight for recognition of equality in terms of benefits and
land policy is a struggle that still exists today. It is hoped
that you will find the treasure of story and remembrance that
you are seeking.
- Saskatoon
Light Infantry - the history and some journals for research.
- Saskatchewan
First Nations
Veterans - This web site is dedicated to all those First
Nation Soldiers who have been witness to many battles fought
for our freedom. The First Nation Veterans here in Saskatchewan
have fought not only overseas but here at home as well.
- Hamilton
Public Library: The
History of Louis Riel (and the resistance of 1885) is
a nice site that contains primary documents related to Riel
such as his trial speech, photographs, and newspaper accounts.
The site is easy to navigate and easy to understand.
- Northwest
Resistance Digitization Project
- A database of materials held by the University of Saskatchewan
Libraries and the University archives contains a database,
and a page on the 1885 resistance with short biographies and
a chronology of events.
- About
the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 - An account of the rebellion
by History Television.
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