Diversity & Inclusivity

Resources: Diversity & Inclusivity Themes

Each link connects to its respective article, video, lesson plan, activity, or other resource on Valour Canada’s website. Note that some content may appear in multiple categories on this page (e.g., The Oka Crisis will appear in both the “First Nations” and the “Political” sections).

LP/A = a lesson plan or activity is paired with this resource            Video = a short documentary or vignette resource

Note that this is a living document and is subject to change. To provide feedback, please email us.

Asian Canadians

Louie Brothers (LP/A)               Peggy Lee (LP/A)               Masumi Mitsui               Iwakichi Kojima
Japanese Canadian War Memorial (student video)               The Canadian Korean War Memorial Garden
Japanese Canadian Internment                Chinese Labour Corps, FWW (video – LP/A)
William Lore             Frank Wong              Force 136              Douglas Jung

 

Black Canadians

Welsford Daniels              Richard Pierpoint              William Hall              No. 2 Construction Battalion
Honour Before Glory (video – LP/A)              James Franklin              Lancelot Bertrand              Hugh Gaskin
William White             Samuel Watts             Alvie Burden             Jeremiah Jones             Robert “Bud” Jones

 

First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Canadians

Albert Mountain Horse (LP/A); 2 (video)             Anderson on D-Day (LP/A)             Joseph Keeper (LP/A)
Tommy Prince (LP/A)              Mike Foxhead              Louis Riel                    Battle of Duck Lake
Battle of Cut Knife Hill (1885)                       Battle of Batoche                         Mike Mountain Horse
John Shiwak 1, 2 (video A – LP/A), 3 (video B – LP/A)       Tecumseh 1, 2 (student video)         Henry Norwest 1, 2
The Oka Crisis              Longest Confirmed Snipe              Timberwolf Battalion                Tom Settee
National Aboriginal Veterans Monument (student video)           Joe Poucette              Alex Decoteau
Road to Vimy: First Nations section              Road to Vimy: Andy section

 

Internment

Internment of German Canadians (WW1)        Internment Camps in Canada (WW1) (video) (LP/A)
Banff Internment Camp VIRTUAL TOUR        Japanese Canadian Internment (article)
Japanese Canadian Internment, SWW (video) (LP/A)

 

LGBTQ2S+

Michelle Douglas              Todd Ross

 

Political Events

McGee Assassination              Cuban Missile Crisis (LP/A)              FLQ Crisis (LP/A)              The Oka Crisis

 

Women

Adelaide Sinclair (LP/A)        Isabel McDonald (LP/A)         Matron Fraser (LP/A), 2 (video – LP/A)
Nichola Goddard 1, 2 (video A – LP/A), 3 (video B – LP/A)              Women of the Bombes (LP/A)
Rosella Henry            Bluebirds            Winnie Roach-Leuszler            Isabel McDonald            Sandra Perron
Karen Hermiston           Black Christmas and Kay Christie             Cynthia Oakley             Nursing Sister Lowe
1989: CAF Integrates Women         Peggy Lee (LP/A)         HMHS Llandovery Castle & Nursing Sister Dussault
Girl Guides’ Canadian Women of Valour Program (LP/A)           C.W.A.A.F.           Nursing Sisters in Sicily (1943)
Laura Secord              Michelle Douglas              C.W.A.C., Calgary (video – LP/A)        Molly Bobak (LP/A)
Road to Vimy: Canadian Women in War section                  Eva May Roy                  Elsie MacGill

 

Other

Canadians in the Spanish Civil War         Mennonite Conscientious Objectors, SWW (video – LP/A)
Training Polish Soldiers in Canada, FWW (video – LP/A)                Fenian Raids (LP/A)
Remembering the Holocaust – Jewish Cemetery, Victoria, BC (video – LP/A)

Masumi Mitsui
William White
Edith Anderson (Andy)
Michelle Douglas
FLQ Crisis
Rosella Henry
Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

The design of Valour Canada’s educational content is guided primarily by two learning theories:

Six Historical Thinking Concepts (Seixas and Colyer) and Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised in 2001: Anderson and Krathwol)

Credit: University of Waterloo (Bloom’s Taxonomy), the Historical Thinking Project.