a Great Canadian modernist artist, author, influential female, member of the Group of Seven, and lover of nature and the rich culture and traditions of the Aboriginal people of Canada. Her paintings captured the spiritual forests of Canada’s west coast, and her noncompliance to the norms expected of women at the time has made her an important figure in feminist art history; she is well-recognized as the most famous female artist in Canada. Her work has inspired and will continue to inspire generations
The Negative Effects of Residential Schools on Canada’s First Nations: A Psychosocial Perspective Residential schools in Canada were educational institutions established by the Federal Government to keep First Nations children from continuing in their native traditions and assimilate them into “civilized” European-Canadian culture (Elias et al., 2012, p. 1561). Children began to attend residential schools in the early 19th century, after which several other schools opened across Canada with the last
from different cultures and different countries can get along well with each others in Canada. The cause is Canada’s multiculturalism policy. The idea of multiculturalism policy is that, people from different cultures can keep their tradition and culture in Canada, which also means cultural diversity. In today’s Canada, Chinese Canadians plays an important role in Canada because today’s Chinese Canadian has a large population and every Canadian city have Chinese communities. The history of Chinese immigration
times higher than the incarceration rate of non-Aboriginal adults. The over-representation of Aboriginal people in Canada’s correctional system continued to grow in the last decade. Since 2000-01, the federal Aboriginal inmate population has increased by 56.2%. Their overall representation rate in the inmate population has increased from 17.0% in 2000-01 to 23.2% today, in 2010-11, Canada’s overall incarceration rate was 140 per 100,000 adults.” (Statistics Canada, 2013) in the years since 2013 the
Ottawa is a great example of a vibrant city and close to the nature. The capital of Canada could not be different, as it should be, the most important city in a politic aspect in Canada, mix old architecture of the parliament and traditional buildings, for instance the Canadian war museum or the national gallery of Canada, with the nature of the Ottawa River or the South March Highlands Conservation Forest, twenty-five minutes by car from Ottawa’s downtown, where people can hike, mountain bike, bird
Canada. The first Residential schools were created in 1870 three years after Canada’s confederation. The Canadian government has only recently acknowledged the atrocities and hardships that occurred in these government supported schools for Aboriginals. Does the term genocide accurately define the treatment of Aboriginal people that were apart of the Residential school system in Canada? One must look into Canada’s past and examine the events that have effected generations of people. However
Canada is strong promoter of human rights however its reputation on indigenous rights is not as good. When the Indian Act came into effect, it took away traditional governance systems, and forced various rules upon each aboriginal. Aboriginal people have been fighting for their right of self governance according to their own traditions for many years. This paper will demonstrate how self governance is a better approach for aboriginals in the near by future. Aboriginals were known as self governing
Today, Canada is recognized as one of the most diverse and multicultural societies in the world that embraces liberal immigration. However, unbeknownst to many, Canadian immigration has a dark history of racism and discrimination. Canada practiced racist laws and restricted the immigration of minority groups. During the early twentieth century, Asiatic minorities were subject to severe racial discrimination in the Canadian society, notably the Chinese, the Japanese and the Indians. Between the years
Chapter One introduced the research problem relating to the utilisation of ICTs in Ekurhuleni public libraries. This chapter reviews literature relevant to the study. It sought to give a deeper understanding of what ICTs facilities are used in public libraries, by whom are such facilities used as well as the reasons for the usage of such facilities. In this chapter, various literature related to the study is reviewed in order to put the study in its proper context, by identifying and analysing various