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Sources

Holly Jr., Donald H. 2000. “THE BEOTHUK ON THE EVE OF THEIR EXTINCTION.” Arctic Anthropology 37, no. 1: 79. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed September 26, 2016). Leduc, Adrienne. 2001. “A Fille du Roi’s Passage.” Beaver 81, no. 1: 20…. Continue Reading →

The Filles Du Rois

Over the years Historians have been slowly getting better at looking into the past and finding the most accurate depiction of the events. For the longest time, historians only looked into the lives of the white men in the time… Continue Reading →

The Humans of the Past

Looking at important figures from the past, we tend to assign either a god-like or devil-like complex. This a serious issue because there is no way to learn from the past. When we either believe these people could do no… Continue Reading →

Interpretations

Something I learned in the History 1120 course is that when looking at a source, it is important to discuss it with different people. In the seminars in this class I discovered by talking to my different group members, that… Continue Reading →

More Than One Account

As addressed in the Learning Canadian History section, the idea of looking at the accounts of only one group of people can be quite misleading because we tend to miss out on very important points of the story. I found… Continue Reading →

Both Sides of the Story

If we truly want to understand the whole picture of the biggest historical events, we need to be able to look at more than one point of view. If we were to look at the Holocaust only through the eyes… Continue Reading →

The Fight for a Man’s Honour

The question of a man’s masculinity has always been a spot of much conflict. Today the man who is most masculine is the one who has the best abs and can lift the most weight. In the past, a man… Continue Reading →

Who’s Right? Both of Course.

For a long time, the Jesuit missionaries were viewed as “humble servants, saving souls from savagery and damnation, all for the greater glory of God,” However, in recent history, scholars have begun to look into how the mission was “a… Continue Reading →

What Influences Our Historical View

History is a forever changing view on the events of the past, that is influenced by a variety of different factors. In the first chapter of Canadian History: Pre Confederation, there are four main sections. In each section, the author… Continue Reading →

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