1. Gastown

Gassy Jack bulit a bar and let everyone drink for free who helped him build it.

2. W Cordova Street

At this place the CPR ends.

3. Fort Langley

Fort Langley was the first european development and settlement in this area and beside the Fraser River which made it a main trading post.

4. North Road

Originally a trail connecting New Westminster and Port Moody, now the main border between Burnaby and Coquitlam.

5. Hasting Mill (Alma Street)

Hasting Mill was one of the first businesses developed in the area. All the workers from the mill helped Gassy Jack build his bar.

6.  Hamilton Street

At this corner of Hamilton Street Hamilton began to survey the land for building the city of Vancouver.

7. Stanley Park Seawall

Stanley Park was originally military owned reserve.

Description:

In the picture there is a train with 3 carts atttached. The first one, the engine, carries a British Flag and over it a Canadian Flag. The cart behind it has a man on it who says: „ The CPR is finished, we are heading west now.“ The second cart has to people on it, one with a HBC on his shirt and the other one with NWC on his shirt. They are doing a handshake and both say: „ We financed this whole project!“ The third cart has a man with NWMP on his shirt, he is shouting: „ No Americans!“ Next to the train there is a man running who carries an american flag. Behind the train there is a cage being dragged that has no wheels. Inside it there is a person on field falling over with a pickaxe in his hand. Behinf him there is a person with a bottle in his hand, who is also stumbling. On top of that cage there is another box with a sign that says: „Residential School.“ Inside that box there is a person sitting on a chair in front of a desk and another person bending over. Behind the person bending over there is someone standing up with a stick in his hand.

Documenting:

The train represents the CPR and also the government of Canada at that time, wiht John A. Macdonald, who had the idea to build the CPR, the HBC and the NWC who paid most of the CPR and behind them there is a police man, from the NWMP to be exact. The cage includes Metis and Aboriginals who were dragged behind, regardless of their rights or opinion. The Metis was just farming, but John A. Macdonald and his train (the government) ran by and dragged the Metis with them. The drunk person is an Aboriginal. Aboriginals were a part of the development of Western Canada because their alcohol addiction caused some new laws to be enforced. They are both in a cage because they had to go with the government and did not have a choice. The person running next to the train is an american who sis trying to get on the train and trade whiskey, but the Police Man keeps him from jumping onto the train. In the residential school, the box on top, the person sitting at the desk and the person bending over are Aboriginal children and the perosn standing up is a teacher and supervisor. He is using the stick in his hand to beat or maybe even abuse the child bending over, that is what happened in the Residential Schools. The engine cart, with the Canadian flag above the British flag, shows the very beginning incident, where Canada purchased Rupert´s land from Britain.

Interpretation

John A. Macdonald and the government dragged the Metis and Aboriginals with them, but they didn´t hurt them. That makes the picture almost neutral, but it still pictures the conditions that the Metis and Aboriginal were in as really bad. The only time the government acted unfair was when they started Resdential Schools, because there human rights were not maintained. The other parts of Canada´s development were fair, because the Metis could have also tried to take control over at least parts of the country, but they didn´t, so the government took over their rights, but they still got land to use, even though they didn´t own it. All in all this cartoon shows how Metis and Aboriginals were forced to go with the government and didn´t have a chance to choose what they wanted, but also that the Canadian government, lead by John A. Macdonald was making ist way west and was succesful doing that.

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• Why did First Nations women marry French- Canadian fur traders?

Marriage created a partnership between French-Canadian and First Nations, who could both profit from each others knowledge and technology.

• Which company (HBC or NWC) would be more likely to be working with the Metis and why?

NWC, because they explored the Northwest and built trading forts, so for the Metis it was more profitable to work with the NWC than the HBC.

• What is the difference between „Metis“ and „Country Born“?

Metis: French and Aboriginal

Country Born: English and Aboriginal

• In what ways did the Metis adopt French Culture?

– They spoke french

-each farmer got strips of lands all connected to a river

-catholic

-big farming industries

• What role did Metis play in the fur trade?

Make Pemmican and sell Buffalo ropes to feed and supply the fur traders. All in all they were responsible for hunting Buffalo.

• Explain how the Buffalo hunt required skill?

They had to hold their guns, load the gun with gunpowder, aim, shoot and ride the horse at the same time.

Ideas:

Opening scene: The location is on a farm with a lot of slaves. Some of them get rescued by people from the undergrund railroad but halway through executing their plan they get caught, so the ones who already left the farm have to run away and in that moment the character sees that his family hasn´t made it and he has to leave them on the farm. When they go over a hill and he looks back a last time he sees how the slaves who could not get rescued get beaten and whipped and so does his family.

Character 1:

There is a free black man who got saved by the underground railroad an is in one of the free states. But his family did not get saved, so he realizes it is not worth being free without his family being there. So he makes a decision: He will go back south on the underground railroad. He starts his way on the railroad in Windsor, Canada where he reached free dom and was accepted by society. so now he has to go all the way back. He talks to people who are headed north and asks for directions or locations of safehouses. He causes confusion between those people who are wondering why he would want to go back south after he has been rescued, some people even say: „This is so dangerous, what if you get caught and have to be a slave again?“ Now he ralizes how bad all those people want to get out of their situation and it is not only about his family, it is about hundreds, if not thousands of families.

Character 2:

A landlord in England was rich and had lots of slaves but he lost everything when the fields and the land he owned burned down in a revolt started by people from that town. He used to let them live on his land, but then he wanted to make more and more money for himself and started taking it away from them again. Now they start a revolt and burn down all the plants that his farm has grown and the forest he owns and his house. From now on all he does is try to get rich again by trying to rebuild his farm and begging for money from his friends to start up a new farm. At the same time he sees how it is to have nothing and having to find a way to get enough food to eat.

Character 3:

An Irish man is controlled by absentee lanldords from England, who only give him the bad land where he cannot grow anything. He decides to go to Canada after the landlord takes away his last piece of land. He takes the next Coffin Ship to Canada, but that is going to be a very hard journey because the hygiene on that ship is really really bad. He manages to not get sick, but he sees people get sick and die and the crew on the ship makes him throw over the barrels that they put the bodys in. The Irish man still does not get sick, but he learns a lecture: He does not want anybody else to live in conditions like he did most of his life. Especially when he gets to Windsor, Canada and is accepted for the first time in his life he wants to help other people get frredom too.

Story:

It is an adventure movie mixed with a drama

The basic idea is that a man who had to leave his family behind does the journey on the underground railroad again to save them

The main conflict is that there is too many people that have to be saved

He goes from the free states back to the slave states on the underground railroad

Clearing Land:

They need to clear land to create farmland

It is so important that they get other people to help and give them some of the cleared land

Barter:

They don´t have a currency

They trade their work and help on the boat for the Metis to take them on the journey

Absente Landlord

The farm that the free black man escaped from was owned by an absentee landlord

Later the slaves are absentee landlords, when they go back to the slave states and let the former British landlord work on their farm

Metis/ Voyageurs

Both the British landlord and the group of the free black man, the Irish man and the slaves go with a group of Metis because they know the region

The Irish man falls in love with a Metis woman, so her family helps them bring more people to Rural Canada

Voyageurs go on journeys to Rural Canada with Metis

Portages:

The slaves have no problem carrying the boat over Portages because they worked hard all their live

The former landlord struggles at the portages because he has never done hard work and now he has to carry the heavy boat through the mud

Pemmican

The Metis women prepare Pemmican that they give to to group of Voyageurs when they come to the camps

The landlord is also struggling here because he is used to eating only the best food and not the same food everyday

For the slaves this food is very good because they never got that much food at a time

The food does not turn bad quickly and it is nutritious so it is really good for the journey

Catholic/ Protestant

The absentee landlord is British, so he is protestant and he is rich in the beginning

The Irish man is Catholic, so he was controlled by the British landlords

Acceptance of Irish and Black people

In the United States black people are slaves unless they get to the free states

Irish people are not slaves, but they still cannot get good jobs and are descriminated

In Canada they all are accepted

Coffin Ship experience

The Irish man arrives with a Coffin Ship

He manages not to get sick, but he is exhausted from the jourey

The free black man has to help him recover

He did not enjoy the journey on the coffin ship

Slavery:

The slaves in the opening scene who got caught got beat up

Some of them get sold at an auction because the landlord does not want them anymore

The slaves who get caught shipping themselves get whipped and brought back to the farm where they came from

Underground Railroad

The uderground railraod is the free black man´s way back to the farm to safe his family

They spend their nights at safehouses along the underground railroad

People on the way can tell them the way south

People who are headed North are confused because they do not know why somebody would go back south

They build up their own network on the underground railroad to be able to get more people North and not always have to all the way back by themselves

Womens´Role

In the Metis community the women make snowshoes, warm clothes, navigate and are the factor of surviving

In urban Canada, where they arrive, women are doing domestic chores and carinf for the children

There are not many women outside because most of their jobs are done inside the house

Visualization: