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Every year I go and watch this event.
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As to what they teach in high school....
Canadian history classes in high school teach a little bit of everything. We usually start with the Viking explorers from 980AD, move on to the French explorers looking for the northwest passage, the arrival of the British, conflicts between the aboriginal tribes and the French and English settlers, the war with the Americans, and so on and so on.
In Ontario, for example, high-school students do not learn about the 50 years following Confederation, skipping everything it seems from John A. Macdonald to the settlement of the West.
Recent history grads may be forgiven for not knowing the significance of the 1st Baron of Dorchester, or that his 1774 Quebec Act was once known as Canada’s Magna Carta. They don’t teach much pre-Confederation history in school. “In high school, you had to take one history course and all learned about was World War One, World War Two—maybe touched on the Depression
The really important things happened after John A. MacDonald, that World War One was Canada’s war of independence, that we didn’t really become a country until we had our own flag and that our rights and freedoms began in 1982 with the Charter.