Important CHI4U1 Handouts
Important Course Sheets:
| Letter to Students (Feb 2025) |
Final Research Paper (Semester Two 2025):
The Final Research Paper is this course's culminating task. Work on this assignment should begin immediately (just like in university). Please find all the relevant documents you will need below.
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Waterdown Ribfest Canada150 Commemoration Committee Culminating Assignment (Semester Two, 2017)
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Identify and State the Significance Activity
Identify and state the significance of THREE of the following locations. Your complete answer should have the following components:
1) Be in complete sentences
2) Identify the location
3) Explain, using as many concrete examples as possible, how this location relates to our study of Canadian history, identity and/or culture.
Please submit your final answers using the HUB (or print off a hardcopy and give it directly to Mr. Tidridge).
1) Be in complete sentences
2) Identify the location
3) Explain, using as many concrete examples as possible, how this location relates to our study of Canadian history, identity and/or culture.
Please submit your final answers using the HUB (or print off a hardcopy and give it directly to Mr. Tidridge).
The Nature of History Assignment
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What is History?
| Historical Perspective.pdf |
| Waterdown's First Election |
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| The Importance of Language |
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Unit One - Indigenous People and their Nations
| Nation vs. State Definitions.pdf |
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| The Wendat/ Wendake Nation (Updated 2018) |
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| Understanding Treaty (updated May 2018) |
| Map Great Lakes 2021 |
Unit Two - First Contacts |
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| World Views Colliding on a Beach.pdf |
| Points of Contact on Turtle Island |
| What does Star Trek tell us about expectations at First Contact?.pdf |
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| Treaty of Tordesillas.pdf |
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| King Henry VIII and the English Reformation (2025) |
| The Catholic Reformation and the Jesuits (2024) |
| Rise of Elizabethan England, Slavery, and the birth of the 1st British Empire |
| A History of Land Taking (2022) |
| Jamestown before and after First Contact.pdf |
| Selected Reading from Thomas King's "The Truth About Stories" - Changing views of First Nations by Puritans.pdf |
| What does Humanism and the Reformation Period have to do with the history of Canada?.pdf |
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Unit Three - New France and the Thirteen Colonies
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| French relationships in the Pays d’en Haut (2025) |
| The Beaver Wars and their Impact (2021) |
| Fortress Louisburg.pdf |
| Emigration to New France.pdf |
| Meanwhile in Ohio (2021) |
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Unit Four - The British Conquest and the Fall of New France
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| The Battle for the Plains of Abraham.pdf |
| The Death of Generals Wolfe & Montcolm.pdf |
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| Pontiac's War |
| Sir William Johnson.pdf |
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| Enlightenment and America.pdf |
Unit Five - The Effects of the American Revolution and the Loyalists
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| American Declaration of Independence.pdf |
| The American Revolution and its Consequences (April 2025) |
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| The Crown in New York State vs. Ontario Road Signs.pdf |
| British (Canadian) vs. American Perceptions of Authority.pdf |
| The New Rome - Where is this?.pdf |
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| Waterdown Land Grant (2019) |
| Ontario's Loyalist Symbols.pdf |
| The Founding of London, Ontario, by Governor Simcoe (Creating Identity).pdf |
| Prince Edward Augustus and Canada.pdf |
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| Information booklet on the Toronto Purchase from the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation.pdf |
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Canada: The Story of Us Seminar
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Unit Six - The War of 1812-14 |
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| War of 1812 - Introduction |
| Laura Secord in her own words.pdf |
| Tell me what you really think.pdf |
| Brock University describes General Brock - local Flamborough Connections as well.pdf |
| Black Settler's and their involvement in the War of 1812 (2025) |
| War of 1812 - Notes to Remember (2019) |
| The Treaty of Ghent |
Unit Seven - Rebellion and the Road to Confederation |
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| The Effects of an Abortive American Invasion (2025) |
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| US Urban and Rural Populations, 1790-2050.pdf |
| Victorian Waterdown Map |
| Don Woods' 1983 Map of Waterdown mill ruins |
| Why a Union?.pdf |
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| symbols_of_rebellion.pdf |
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| Canadian Society as Coffee Drinkers |
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| Durham Road Cemetery.pdf |
Unit Eight - An Industrial Confederation
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| Guanahani Conference (2022) |
| Dominion of Canada.pdf |
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| Confederation Timeline.pdf |
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| Voices Against Confederation (Updated 2018) |
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| The Birth of North American Oil Industry.pdf |
Unit Nine - The Road to Genocide
| Indigenous Peoples Heading into Confederation (2022) |
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| Indigenous reserves near Waterdown (2019) |
| statement_of_apology_2008.pdf |
Unit Ten - Canada and the 20th & 21st Centuries
| The Anglo Boer War (Updated 2018) |
| The Dreadnought and Naval Service Crisis.pdf |
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| Newfoundland Regiment.pdf |
| Looking at the Treaty of Versailles.pdf |
| Bootlegging in Windsor.pdf |
| King-Byng Crisis.pdf |
| Balfour Report and Statute of Westminster.pdf |
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| How Crazy Gets Power.pdf |
| Royal 1939 Tour of King George VI.pdf |
| Dominion of Newfoundland.pdf |
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| The Growth of Universities, Colleges and Trades (Updated 2021) |
| Star Trek, The Cold War, and Beyond (Updated 2021) |
| History of the Internet (June 2021) |
Additional Resources
| Quebec Charter of Values.pdf |