VICTORIAN+ERA+&+EARLY+CANADIAN+COLONIES+ASSIGNMENT

**SOCIALS 10:**
 * VICTORIAN ERA & EARLY CANADIAN COLONIES GROUP ASSIGNMENT - MR. REID**

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In a group of 2 or 3 (max) you will be teaching the class about a topic from the Victorian era by creating an original, 3-dimensional, and interactive display. This is essential as you will be creating a display for the rest of the class, with text and artifacts. Make your display creative and interesting for those visiting it. You must choose one of the topics below to research on using the [|library books] and the Internet. Each group will sign up for topics. You will get max. of 3 library classes for research, & 1 class for putting together your poster/video/Power Point. Use your time wisely. We are looking at the early Canadian Colonies of Upper and Lower Canada. This research assignment will have us researching what society was like during the rein of Queen Victoria (1837- 1901). Takes place in the 19th century. Here are topics that you need to sign up for project:

** 1.[|Women’s rights] [|and] [|roles:] ** [|Straightlaced: Restrictions on Women] [|BBC History Trails: Victorian Britain] [|BBC History: Ideals of Womanhood in Victorian England] [|Women's Life: The Life of the Victorian Woman] [|Home Sweet Log Cabin: Domestic Life in Victorian Canada] [|The Ladies of the Backwoods: The Canadian Farm Wife] [|Fashion Era: A Woman's Place in 19th Century Victorian History] [|Women's Roles and Rights in Victorian England] [|Women's Issues in the Victorian Period] [|Women's Suffrage in Canada] [|Women's Voting Rights Movement: History of Women's Suffrage in Canada: The Right to Vote] [|Women Winning the Vote in Canada] [|The Nellie McClung Foundation: Women's Suffrage] [|Right to Vote of Quebec Women] [|Women's Rights - McCord Museum] [|Are Women Persons? The Person's Case] [|Encyclopedia of the Great Plains: Suffrage Movement]

** 2[|.Science] [|and] [|inventions] ** [|BBC History: Victorian Technology] [|BBC: Significant Inventions from the Victorian Era] [|Eras of Elegance: The Victorian Era (1937-1901): Science and Technology] [|What was invented during the Victorian Times] [|Inventions of the Victorian Era] [|Victorian Inventors] [|Victorian Inventions] [|Victorian Discoveries and Inventions] [|Victorian Era Science]

** 3.[|Victorian Era] – [|values, moral, stereotype] [|s], [|characteristics of] **

[|The Rise of the Victorian Middle Class] [|Victorian Poor and Middle Class] [|"Please Sir, I Want Some More!" The Horror of Victorian Era Workhouses] [|The Victorian Workhouses and the Victorian Asylum] [|Victorian Concepts of Childhood] [|Orphans in 19th Century Victorian England] [|The Institution of Marriage and How to Avoid Becoming Institutionalized] [|Babies, Bairns and Little Strangers: Being Born and Growing Up in Victorian Canada] [|Children in the Victorian Era] [|Victorian Station] [|Victorian Social Morals] [|The Victorian Age]

** 4.[|Travel and Transportation]; [|domestic] [|and international] ** [|The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System] [|The Railway: A Symbol of Victorian Progress] [|Victorian Transport] [|Transport and Carriages in the Victorian Era (1837-1901)] [|Horses and History Throughout the Ages] [|The Power of Steam at Sea] [|Early Transportation on the Skeena River] [|Steam and Speed: Other Forms of Victorian Transport & Communication] [|Victorian Railways] [|Carriage in Victorian Era] [|Victorian Era Cars]

** 5.[|Sports] ([|have some] [|Canadian focus]) ** [|BBC: Victorian Sport: Playing by the Rules] [|Victorian Station: Croquet and Lawn Tennis] [|Victorian Days: Victorian Indoor and Outdoor Pastimes] [|Victorian Sports, Hobbies and Pastimes] [|Victorian Sports] [|The Manly Art of Quarter-Staff: Origins of a Victorian Combat Sport] [|Sports for the Wealthy in the Victorian Era] [|Victorian Entertainment: Pastimes, Sports and Fitness] [|Victorian Era Leisure Activities]

** 6.[|Fashion] - [|European style], [|rich and poor in Canada] **

[|Custom Made to Ready-Made: Women's Clothing in the Eaton's Catalogue, 1884-1930] [|Victorian Era Fashion History] [|Victorian Station] [|Eras of Elegance: The Victorian Era (1837-1901)] [|Crinolines and Bustles] [|Women and Fashions of the Victorian Era: From Hoop Skirts to Bustles - 1837-1900] [|Dressing the Part: A Victorian Gentleman's Personal Guide]

** 7.[|Leisure]; parlour games, music, [|theatre, novels] ** [|BBC History: Victorian Seaside] [|BBC Activities: How to Play Parlour Games] [|Victorian Parlour (or Palor) Games and Card Games] [|Who's Who of Victorian Cinema][|Social Institutions] [|Chldren in Victorian Britain] [|Toys From the Early 1900's] [|To Bee or Not to Bee: A Question of Co-operation] [|Victorian Recreation Fashion History] [|Victorian Station: Victorian Era] [|Eras of Elegance: The Victorian Era (1837-1901): Sports, Games and Leisure] [|Victorian Station: Leisure Activities] [|Victorian Days: Victorian Indoor and Outdoor Pastimes] [|Victorian Theatre] [|Music and the Victorians] [|Victorian Entertainment: Pastimes, Sports and Fitness] [|Victorian Era Leisure Activities] [|Victorian Entertainment] [|The Victorian Age]

** 8.[|Health and Medicine]; [|diseases, sanitation],[| mortality stats, treatments] ** [|Killing the Sick and Healing the Dead: a Guide to Home Remedies] [|BBC History: Victorian Medicine - From Fluke to Theory] [|Health and Medicine in the 19th Century] [|Medical Madness: Practices of the Victorian Era] [|Medicine in the Victorian Era] [|Medical Doctors in the Victorian Era] [|Victorian Medical Practices] [|Victorian Medicine and Miasmas] [|Affect of the Industrial Revolution and Urbanization] [|Housing and Health] [|Victorian Britain: A Healthy Nation?] [|Rural Robustness - Health and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Countryside] [|A Look Back At Old-Time Medicines] [|And If That Didn't Kill Them: A Guide to Patent Medicines]

** 9.[|Work; types of jobs], [|hours working conditions,] [|worker safety issues] ** [|Factories] [|The History of the Workhouse] [|Poverty and Families in the Victorian Era] [|Children In Victorian Britain] [|"Please Sir, I Want Some More!" The Horror of Victorian Era Workhouses] Victorian Occupations: Life and Labour in the Victorian Period [|Home Sweet Log Cabin: Domestic Life in Victorian Canada] [|Victorian Society: Working Conditions]

** 10.[|Homes; rich and poor, styles, décor], [|urban and rural] ,[| Eastern and Western Canada] **   [|Victorian Station]    [|Poverty and Families in the Victorian Era] [|Victorian Life in Aspen (1890)] [|Victorian Home Life Changes] [|Victorian Home Facts] [|Top 10 Victorian House Styles] [|Victorian Station: Architecture] [|Victorian Architecture (1837-1901) 19th Century] [|The Victorian Home] [|Brickfield's Victorian Homes]

** 11[|.Food] [|and] [|nutrition] ** [|Victorian Station: Victorian Era] [|Eras of Elegance: The Victorian Era (1837-1901): Food and Cooking] [|History Cookbook: Victorians] [|1890's Victorian Kitchen] [|Eras of Elegance: A Victorian Menu] [|Victoriana Magazine: Victorian Living - Cake Recipes] [|Pioneer Home] [|Food in Victorian Times]

12.[|Religion & the Church] -[| Clergy & the role of Religion] [|in peoples lives (Church,]  Clergy, Missionaries, Religious Groups)  [|Eras of Elegance: The Victorian Era (1837-1901): Religion and Spirituality] [|Overview of Religion During the Victorian Era] [|Role of Religion in Victorian Life] [|Anglican Missionary Endeavour in Tierra de Fuego (1832-1916)] [|Religion and Spirituality in the Victorian Era] [|The Victorian Faithful] [|Women's Christian Temperance Union] [|Encyclopedia of Chicago: Women's Christian Temperance Union] [|Canadian Women's Christian Temperance Union]

** 13.[|Farmers] ([|Agriculture][| focus]) ** [|The Ladies of the Backwoods: The Canadian Farm Wife] [|To Bee or Not to Bee: A Question of Co-operation] [|Farming and Rural Life in Canada] [|Pioneer Life in Upper Canada] [|Pioneer Farming in the Middle to Late 1800's A Typical Pioneer] [|Life For Early Canadian Pioneers]

14.[|New Immigrants] [|who recently settled].(I[|rish, English, Hutterites, Doukhobors,]  Quakers, Mennonites, [|Doukhobors][|Immigrants)]  [|Canada in the Making: Pioneers and Immigrants] [|Canadian Immigration History: The Arrival of the Irish]  [|Irish Immigration] [|The Irish in Canada]  [|Immigration History of Canada] <span class="wiki_link_ext"> [|A History Of English Immigration to Canada] [|The Place of Immigration] [|The Scots in Canada] [|The Immigration Boom 1895-1914] [|The Peopling of Canada: (1891-1921)] <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|The Hutterites in Canada: Communit] [|arians are We] [|Calgary and Southern Alberta: Doukhobors, Hutterites and Mennonites] [|Traditional Doukhobor Fashions] [|Hutterites: An Historic Overview] [|The Hutterite Way of Life] [|History: Immigration - Doukhobors] [|The Antifaeff Family - Immigration to Canada] [|Doukhobors: Immigrant History] [|Pious Rebels] [|For the Love of God: The Mennonites and Benjamin Eby] [|A History of Russian Mennonite Immigration to Canada] [|Arrival and Settlement: Multicultural Canada](Mennonites) [|Manitoba and It's Mennonites] [|A History of Quaker Immigration to Canada] [|Quakers: Religious Society of Friends]

Everyone should consider the following for their poster: What life was like, Family life, roles & responsibilities in the family. Use charts/diagrams to compare how some things were different: then and now. Bake something to share with the class for your presentation. Part of the marks are based on peer evaluation of your station. The rest of the marks are based on neatness, [|research], accuracy & information. [|Make sure that you avoid plagiarism]. You must include a [|work cited sheet] of your sources. Have fun & be creative!