THE DISPERSION OF THE INSURGENTS

Topic: Canadian History, The Rebellions of 1837-1838

Historical Thinking Skills: Sourcing

Time Period: Pre-Confederation

Attending to the metadata of a source is a critical aspect of sourcing a document in order to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a source in serving as evidence for a particular historical inquiry.

“The Dispersion of the Insurgents”asks students to identify aspects of a source that make it useful and those that make it less useful.