Lesson 9

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    George Taylor Denison 3rd

  • Potato famine in Ireland

  • The Canadian Families Project utilized the 1901 Census to investigate the demographic trends (characteristics of a population) evident in 1901.

  • The Freedomites were an extreme sect of 6,000 Doukhobours who left Saskatchewan and set up a community in British Columbia

  • 'Youth and History' Displayed results of a survey from 25 European countries.

    Completed by researchers at the Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology, in Sydney.
  • American findings were published as "The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life"

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    The third study was done by researchers at the Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology, in Sydney

  • generous financial backing came from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for the Canadian survey study of public uses of the past given to 2,000 individuals across Canada.

  • The Canadians and their pasts project

  • Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain apologized for the mass exodus of home children to Commonwealth countries between 1869 and 1948. 2010 was the Year of the Home Child in Canada to pay respect to the 100,000 displaced children sent to Canada

    Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain apologized for the mass exodus of home children to Commonwealth countries between 1869 and 1948. 2010 was the Year of the Home Child in Canada to pay respect to the 100,000 displaced children sent to Canada