An English Canadian Challenge

Colourful and user-friendly, The Canadian Challenge investigates the key issues presented by economic, social, and technological changes after 1914, as well as the contributions of individuals and groups to Canadian culture and society during this period. This student resource incorporatesthe five strands outlined in the CHC2D curriculum including local, national, and global communities, change and continuity, citizenship and heritage, social, economic, and political structures, and methods of historical inquiry and communication.

Colourful and user-friendly, The Canadian Challenge investigates the key issues presented by economic, social, and technological changes after 1914, as well as the contributions of individuals and groups to Canadian culture and society during this period. This student resource incorporatesthe five strands outlined in the CHC2D curriculum including local, national, and global communities, change and continuity, citizenship and heritage, social, economic, and political structures, and methods of historical inquiry and communication.

Pioneering participatory, social change-oriented media, the program had a national and international impact on documentary film-making, yet this is the first comprehensive history and analysis of its work. The volume's contributors study dozens of films produced by the program, their themes, aesthetics, and politics, and evaluate their legacy and the program's place in Canadian, Québécois, and world cinema. An informative and nuanced look at a cinematic movement, Challenge for Change reemphasizes not just the importance of the NFB and its programs but also the role documentaries can play in improving the world.

An account of the emergence of the Canadian nation's efforts to build a community in the North American continent, separate from the United States.

This text looks at the dual relationship of the Canadian north as both resource frontier and homeland of many Aboriginal groups. Since the last edition of this text, many changes have occurred, raising the possibility that both the frontier and homeland concepts can become a northern reality. These concepts are coherently presented throughout the book and brought to the fore in the concluding chapter.