If finished your Manitoba Note Frame and the Halloween questions

Remembrance Day is coming up, and a hundred years ago Canada was a leading participant in what is called The 100 Days Offensive.   Try your hand at this activity from Canada's War Museum. and

Some questions from the above adventure, the answers can be found in the links given in the game.
What is a Platoon?
What is a Duck Board used for?
Where is No Man's Land?
What was a Trench?
Do you have Webbing like a soldier in the First World War?
What does it mean to Stand Down?

Halloween

Halloween is coming up. Here is some of the history of Halloween in Canada and below you will find some video clips about Halloween.  Blog your answers where it says comments below

1. Many countries don't have trick or treating. They do things like wash tombstones. What connection does Halloween have with the Christian Church?
2.Blog an interesting fact that you found
3.Blog another interesting fact
4.Blog something about how Halloween was celebrated in the past.
5. Trick or Treating was something that became widespread in Canada starting in the 1950s, which isn't that long ago. How do you think Halloween will be celebrated 50 years from now in Canada? Give a reason for your prediction.

Manitoba Enters Confederation, or does it?

Manitoba

Entered Confederation: 1870

Before 1870, the Hudson's Bay Company owned a huge area in the western part of what is now Canada. This area contained Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory. The people of the Red River Colony in the southern part of Rupert's Land were Métis. They wanted their own government for one main reason: To protect their righrts.

• When the Canadian government bought Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory, see map from earlier post, people were already living on the land. Some had been on the land for generations and thousands of years. 
• The Canadian government was interested in changing how the land was used and changing the people who lived on the land

Winnipeg in 1871

To protect their rights, the Metis chose a man named Louis  Riel to lead them. He set up a government in the Red River Settlement and from there prevented the Government of Canada from taking control of the new Territories that they had just bought. Riel wanted to make sure that the Métis would be consulted. Riel sent people to Ottawa to make an agreement with the Canadian government. They decided to make Manitoba a province.

"We are rebelling against the Company which wants to sell us, and Canada which wants to buy us. We are not rebelling against the British government."

Below are the people that were counted that lived in what is now Winnipeg and the surrounding area (Red River Settlement) 

sources-https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/kids/023002-2050-e.html

The Election is tomorrow

You are only a couple of elections away from being able to vote. Voting is an important civic duty, and one that in some countries, like Australia, people are fined for not voting.

If you could, who would you vote for tomorrow. Take a few minutes and browse about the candidates.

Start browsing here for Mayor
Here is information about the people running for Mayor


Here is information about the people running for City Councillor in our riding of St. James.


Here is information about the people running for school trustee in our area of Silver Heights-Booth.