Social Studies 9 curriculum focuses on the big ideas of history: how emerging ideas and ideologies profoundly influence societies and events, how this can, in turn, cause disparities in power which alter the balance of relationships between individuals and between societies and how collective identity is constructed and changes over time. Social Studies 9 will investigate historical events and time periods in order the make connections with the big ideas.  Topics of study may include:   the English, American and French Revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, First Nation groups of Canada and the impact of the fur trade, Confederation and nation-building including the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the conflicts and triumphs of Canada’s 4 pillars of population: French, English, First Nations and Immigrants, and Canada’s role in the First World War. Please join us on this exciting educational adventure in understanding the forces that shaped early Canada!