Canada Year Book

Canada Year Book is Statistics Canada’s premier reference on our country’s society and economy. Lesson plans are available for:

• Canada Year Book Historical Collection (1867 to 1967)
• Canada Year Book 2001
• Archives: Canada Year Book 1999

Canada Year Book Historical Collection (1867 to 1967)

The Canada Year Book Historical Collection presents digitized historical versions of the Canada Year Book from 1867 to 1967.

The Teachers’ tool box offers theme-based lesson plans that support curriculum in history and social studies. Students will develop critical thinking skills as they explore the collection’s original source documents in the following lessons:

• 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

Canada Year Book 2001

This kit offers challenging learning activities that integrate information from the Canada Year Book 2001 and other web sources. The kit's integrated activities encourage 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.

Archives: Canada Year Book 1999

This kit provides educators with a variety of activities designed to support the integration and use of the Canada Year Book 1999 and CD-ROM in curriculum-based classroom applications. The articles are available free online for many of the lessons.

The Environment The People The Economy The Nation

Teacher's Guide Canada Year Book Quiz (Requires book or CD) Research Activities