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Grade 9 · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 7

Identities & Migration in Canada

Who we are and how newcomers shaped Canada.

What your child practises

Practises various perceptions of identities in Canada and the impact of migration and immigration on those identities. It follows the Grade 9 social studies skill descriptors on history in the New Brunswick curriculum.

New Brunswick Curriculum skill descriptor: History: Events and Peoples · various perceptions of identities in Canada and the impact of migration and immigration

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Why is it important to look at more than one perspective about identity?

    • People experience being Canadian in different ways
    • Differences don’t matter
    • Only one story is right
    • Everyone has the same view

  2. Question 2

    Black Canadians have lived in the Atlantic region since…

    • the 2000s
    • the 1950s
    • the 1600s
    • the 1990s

  3. Question 3

    Chinese workers were important in building…

    • the Hartland Covered Bridge
    • the Rideau Canal
    • the Canadian Pacific Railway
    • the Confederation Bridge

  4. Question 4

    Who are the First Peoples of Canada?

    • only the French
    • only the Dutch
    • First Nations, Inuit and Métis
    • only Europeans

  5. Question 5

    Canada’s founding peoples are often described as…

    • only one Nation
    • only the Dutch
    • Indigenous Peoples, the French and the British, with many others who came later
    • only Americans

  6. Question 6

    Canada’s multiculturalism policy began in…

    • 1871
    • 1771
    • 1921
    • 1971

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