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A Canadian Heritage Moment

Final Summative Assignment

By. Asha Persaud

Rick Hansen

John McCrae

Tom Thomson

"The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break."

"Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one."

  • Born on August 26, 1957 in Port Alberni, BC
  • He is a Canadian Paralympian, an activist, coach and mentor
  • At 15, he got into an accident and sustained a spinal cord injury - was paralyzed from the waist down
  • Was the first student with a physical disability to graduate in Physical Education from the University of British Columbia.
  • In 1985, Hansen did his Man in Motion World Tour - spanned over 40,000 km through 34 countries, took over two years to complete, and raised more than $26 million for spinal cord injury research.
  • He become a world-class athlete, competing for Canada in the 1984 Para-Olympic Games
  • Won 19 international wheelchair marathons (including three world championships)
  • Is President and CEO of the Rick Hansen Foundation - is committed to advancing spinal cord research and making communities more accessible for people with a spinal cord injury
  • This Foundation has generated more than $178 million for spinal cord injury-related programs.
  • Born August 5, 1877 in Claremont, ON
  • Was a Canadian artist of the 20th century
  • Came from an artistic family - learned to play several instruments, also learned to draw and paint.
  • Closely associated with the Group of Seven (he wasn't apart of the famous group of artists)
  • In 1912, Thomson took his first visit to Algonquin Park and he fell in love with the beauty of nature around him.
  • He began to paint scenes from the park, and would disappear for days into the park to paint his surroundings - he would make many small oil sketches in the park.
  • Most famous paintings - Jack Pine, West Wind and Northern River
  • Died July 8, 1917 in Algonquin Provincial Park, ON (a lot of speculation over his death, as he was found floating on the river)
  • Had an art gallery named after him in Owen Sound, ON.

Winnie the Pooh

Pierre Elliot Trudeau

Citations (MLA Format)

John McCrae - Granfield, Linda. "John McCrae." The Canadian Encyclopedia. N.p., 15 Mar. 2016. Web. 13 June 2016.

Winnie the Pooh - "History of Winnie the Pooh." Just Pooh News. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 June 2016.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau - WHITAKER, REG. "Pierre Elliott Trudeau." The Canadian Encyclopedia. N.p., 11 July 2013. Web. 13 June 2016.

Lester B. Pearson - Bothwell, Robert. "Lester B. Pearson." The Canadian Encyclopedia. N.p., 6 July 2011. Web. 13 June 2016.

Tom Thomson - Murray, Joan. "Tom Thomson." The Canadian Encyclopedia. N.p., 27 Aug. 2013. Web. 14 June 2016.

Rick Hansen - "Rick Hansen." Rick Hansen. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 June 2016.

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

Lester B. Pearson

  • Was born in Guelph, Ontario, on November 30, 1872.
  • Was a poet, physician, author, artist, soldier (during WWI), and a surgeon
  • Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae was the Canadian army doctor who wrote the famous poem In Flanders Fields.
  • When the First World War broke out in 1914, McCrae was 41 years old.
  • He enlisted and was appointed brigade-surgeon in the First Brigade of the Canadian Field Artillery.
  • In April 1915, McCrae was stationed near Ypres, Belgium, in the area called Flanders.
  • On May 2, 1915, McCrae’s friend, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, was killed in action and buried in a makeshift grave. McCrae saw that wild poppies were blooming between the crosses, marking many graves, and he was inspired to write In Flanders Fields the next day.
  • John McCrae died on January 28, 1918, of illness and is buried at Wimereux Cemetery, near Boulogne, France.

“The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.”

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

  • Born on April 23, 1897 in Newtonbrook, ON
  • Canada's 14th Prime Minister (1963–68)
  • Was a Canadian scholar, a professor, a statesman, a soldier and a diplomat
  • Established the Canadian Pension Plan
  • Established a universal medicare system
  • Established a unified armed force
  • Established the new Canadian flag
  • Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis.
  • Died on December 27, 1972 in Ottawa, ON
  • Born in Montreal on October 18, 1919
  • Was a politician, a writer, a constitutional lawyer, and a professor
  • Came from a father who was Québécois, and a mother of Scottish descent
  • Married Margaret Sinclair (m.1971 - 84) and had 3 sons (Justin - current PM -, Alexandre and Michel - died in a avalanche accident in 1998 -)
  • Trudeau was the 15th prime minister of Canada (1968 - 79, 1980 - 84)
  • Establish the Canadian Constitution
  • Established the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
  • Trudeau brought in the Official Languages Act (1969) - this making Canada officially bilingual.
  • Behind the 1980 defeat of Québec separatism
  • Died in Montreal on September 28, 2000
  • During WWI, a Canadian soldier named Harry Colebourn from Manitoba, Canada, bought a small female black bear cub from a hunter for $20.
  • She was named Winnipeg (after his hometown) or "Winnie" for short
  • The bear became his troop's mascot and later a resident of the London Zoological Gardens where he became a popular attraction and lived until 1934.
  • The bear was favored with Christopher Robin, the son of author A.A. Milne. It was said to be his favourite animal at the Zoo, and he often spent time inside the cage with it.
  • The bear was also Christopher's inspiration to call his teddy bear Winnie, Winnie the Pooh (before was named Edward Bear. Also, the name Pooh originally belonged to a swan of Milne's 'When We Were Very Young'.)
  • Milne started to write a series of books about Winnie the Pooh, his son Christopher Robin, and "their friends" in the Hundred Acre Wood - included characters like Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger, Kanga and Roo (based off stuffed animals Christopher had.)
  • The books became a favorites with a lot of people (old and young) and have been translated into most languages.
  • The books was also a favourite of Walt Disney's daughters and it inspired Disney to bring Pooh to film in 1966.
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