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Parks Canada Pedagogical Resources

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Parks Canada has a wealth of classroom-ready educational resources that will enhance your students' learning experiences about Canada's National Historic Sites, National Parks and National Marine Conservation Areas. To browse through these great resources, visit the Parks Canada Teacher Resource Centre.

Lesson Plans related to Asian History from the Parks Canada Teachers' Corner

Immigration from 1896 (Laurier) to 1947 (King)

Enhance your students' understanding about immigration in Canada. In this lesson plan you will learn about the policies of Sifton and Laurier in the late 1890s through to the Citizenship Act of 1947 under Mackenzie King.

Parks Canada 3D Tours related to Asian Canadian History

Parks Canada has created over seventy interactive 3D Tours oriented to youth. Many of these educational 3D Tours feature Canada's National Historic Sites. These tours offer online visitors the opportunity to explore sites from many different perspectives. At the same time, visitors will learn about the historical and cultural significance of the sites. There are two 3D Tour related to Asian Canadian History in the Ethnocultural Communities section of the 3D Tours Web site: Chinese Cemetery at Harling Point National Historic Site of Canada and Abbotsford Sikh Temple National Historic Site of Canada.