Tuesday, April 8, 2008

The Last Best West


The Last Best West would be useful to all high school grades and the middle years to grade 8. It is interactive, easy to navigate and covers from the 1870's to the end of the roaring '20's.

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It easily fits into any area that discusses the history of the Prairies in Securing the Canadian West: New Canadians and Their Well-being which is found in the History 30 curriculum.

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Because a lot of it deals with Saskatchewan it would be useful as a suplimental website for gathering research on a project. For example, students might be ding a project on the Laurier federal government, of the early 1900s, which adhered to the policy of populating the Prairies with Euro-Canadians and European immigrants.