This year’s in-depth has really been an adventure. I wrote a first draft of a novel for the first time, was able to secure a mentor who is a professional author, and made giant leaps in my understanding of the book/publishing industry as a whole. Although I cannot say I have written a novel, which […]

I’m currently reading David Lam: A Biography by Reginald H. Roy. The following are 5 passages from the text that I considered impactful.   1. “It was a torture to study English and to study a lot of things, which, to my young mind, I considered totally irrelevant. We learned about Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Midlands – […]

It is often easier to forget out mistakes than to address them, but the erasure of errors does nothing to rectify them. Due to controversy surrounding Macdonald’s past actions according to our current values, some believe that those who have instigated ethical wrongdoing, such as Macdonald, should no longer be honored as statues, have public […]

I met with my mentor this week at Lougheed Mall. This was a bit nerve-wracking for me because recently I’ve really been trying to write without boundaries. Some of the stuff I put in my document was really embarrassing because I didn’t allow myself to erase anything, including an illiterate paragraph where I typed in […]

A. Outline the focus of  your inquiry and provide background knowledge. Why is this an important and significant questions to ask about the past? Provide evidence from primary and secondary sources.   Inquiry Question: How did the arrival of the “Filles du Roi” or “King’s Daughter’s” impact today’s French-Canadian society? The Filles du Roi were […]