This activity poster will certainly add to your knowledge of Black History in North America.

Who comes to mind when you picture explorers, voyageurs, settlers and groundbreaking contributions to the character of Canada? You probably don’t imagine them as Afro-Canadian. School textbooks, documentaries, narratives, movies, museums and heritage parks ignore, under report, overlook, and neglect the founding roles of people of African descent to the country that is now Canada. But the light is here to shed light on the rich diversity of cultures from the first settlements to modern times which have remained the strength of Canada. As Paula Simons noted “they were multicultural, multilingual places, where English, French, Michif, Gaelic, Orcadian, German, Norwegian and other tongues mixed and mingled, spoken alongside many Indigenous languages from Cree to Blackfoot to Iroquois.”

Travel through the centuries from the 1600s to the 2000s using your stickers package to plot the history. Stickers are sold separately. The activity sheet pictures Canada as a tree with a root system. The roots that hold Canada together is made up of the tap root representing the natives and secondary roots representing other people groups who moved into Canada, as shoots from the tap root. Using the information stickers, plot the story of people of African descent in Canada from the 1600s, by arranging the information stickers with dates in chronological order along each century root line. Some centuries have more than one root line. A maximum of six stickers that correspond to a particular century can be stuck chronologically from left to right along its century root line.

This fun and engaging activity sheet will engage teachers and school children, families and friends to uncover the rich history and contributions of people of African descent from the very first settlement in Canada to the present.

Information stickers are sold separately. Stickers for this activity sheet are called Stickers for HOW BLACKS CONTRIBUTED IN LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF CANADA ACTIVITY SHEET. Also, families can research and create their own stickers with historical information chronologically to use on the activity sheet.

• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil

• Paper weight: 189 g/m²

• Opacity: 94%

• ISO brightness: 104%

• Paper is sourced from Japan

This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!