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Canada Year Book
Canada Year Book is Statistics Canada's premier reference on our country's society and economy.
Current editions
Canada Year Book Historical Collection (1867 to 1967)
Teachers' tool box: These lesson plans for history and social studies help students critically explore the collection's original source documents.
- Changing families and households Intermediate Secondary
- Lives of men and women Intermediate Secondary
- Occupations Intermediate Secondary
- Economic gains Intermediate Secondary
- The Great Depression Intermediate Secondary
- Communications Intermediate Secondary
- Ethnocultural diversity Intermediate Secondary
- Provinces and manufacturing Intermediate Secondary
- Immigration and emigration Intermediate Secondary
- Canada at war Intermediate Secondary
Lessons: Canada Year Book 2007
These activities integrate information from the Canada Year Book 2007 and other web sources. They challenge teachers and students to make the best of the web resources at their disposal.
- Counting Canadians
What is life like for us? What was it like for those who came before us? Explore how people in the past kept records of what was important to them and how statistics can tell stories about our lives today. This activity can be adapted to history, literature and statistics classes for grades 3 through 12. - Provincial Showdown
Simulating a team of marketing specialists, students research and develop a presentation on a particular province or territory, to convince companies that it provides the best possible investment environment. This activity is suitable for geography, business studies and consumer education classes at the intermediate and secondary levels.
Archived
lessons: Canada Year Book 1999
These archived lessons are based on information that is out-of-date. The lessons use the Canada Year Book 1999 and CD-ROM in curriculum-based classroom applications. Many of the lessons link to online versions of the related articles.
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