DAWN ON THE HOLLAND RIVER

Topic: Canadian History, Fur Trade,

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.

“Dawn on the Holland River” asks students to identify aspects of a source that make it useful/less useful as evidence.