Righting Canada’s Wrongs 2023 set
8 volume set + free resource guide
by Pamela Hickman, Arlene Chan, Rona Arato, Gloria Ann Wesley, Jean Smith Cavalluzzo, Melanie Florence, and Ken Setterington
illustrated by Masako Fukawa
contributions by Lindsay Gibson, Ilan Danjoux, and Roland Case
For educators seeking to build anti-racism learning into Canadian history classes, this 8-book set of classroom materials is an invaluable resource. Each book addresses a major instance of official racism and discrimination spanning more than 150 years. Also included is a free teachers guide to help integrate these titles into class curriculums.
For educators seeking to build anti-racism learning into Canadian history classes, this 8-book set of classroom materials is an invaluable resource. Each book addresses a major instance of official racism and discrimination spanning more than 150 years.
Included with this set is a free teachers guide to help better integrate these books into your class curriculum.
Together this set adds a vital dimension which has often been missing from the history students learn. These books enable students to see that racism and discrimination have been embedded in Canadian life for generations. Many groups have been targeted. These resources highlight the resilience and resistance of those impacted including Indigenous peoples, Japanese Canadians, LGBT adults, and African Canadians.
The authors document how the political action of those impacted and their descendants led later governments to acknowledge and apologize for these measures and policies. Each book records the official apologies and the follow-up actions by governments to recognize and make some restitution to those harmed and their descendants.
Each book features:
• Highly visual treatment, using photos, art, and illustrations
• Short, readable texts
• First-person accounts
• Full texts of government apologies
• Links to relevant video resources
Titles included:
- Righting Canada's Wrongs: The Komagata Maru
- Righting Canada's Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax
- Righting Canada's Wrongs: Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis
- Righting Canada's Wrongs: The LGBT Purge
- Righting Canada's Wrongs: Africville
- Righting Canada's Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment
- Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools
- Righting Canada's Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment
- Righting Canada's Wrongs: Resource Guide
This set is also available as a streaming online resource at www.canadiancloudlibrary.ca.