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Social Studies 10 – Essay Topics

• William Lyon Mackenzie and reform in Upper Canada

• Joseph Howe and responsible government

• Hudson's Bay Company in the 1800's

• Sir George Simpson

• David Thompson

• Simon Fraser

• Pioneer life in western Canada

• Women pioneers

• Black pioneers

• Selkirk and the Red River colony

• The Palliser Expedition

• Thomas McMicking and the Overlanders

• History of Ottawa

• Confederation, 1860-1870

• John Molson

• John A. Macdonald's career as Prime Minister

• Prime Minister A. Mackenzie

• Sir William C. Van Horne

• Early Canadian railroads and the opening of the West (Chinese workers on the CPR)

• Manitoba becomes a province

• History of Winnipeg, to 1913

• Early history of Saskatchewan as a province

• Early history of Alberta as a province

• History of Edmonton to 1914

• North-West Mounted Police (RCMP)

• Sam Steele

• Fort Steele

• Metis

• Crowfoot

• Big Bear

• Louis Riel

• Gabriel Dumont

• Red River Rebellion, 1869-1870

• North West Rebellion, 1885

• Colony of Vancouver Island

• Cariboo Gold Rush

• Early history of B.C. as a province

• History of Victoria to 1914

• History of Vancouver to 1914

• Early history of Saanich

• B.C. pioneer "boom towns to ghost towns”

• Amor de Cosmos

• James Douglas

• Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie

• Robert Dunsmuir

• Suffrage movement (Murphy, MacPhail)

• Emily Howard Jennings Stowe

• Klondike Gold Rush

• Women and the Klondike

• Canada at the turn of the century (1890-1910)

• Sir Wilfred Laurier (Prime Minister)