Interesting History Website

Hello bloggers! I found this great history website. The website shows what happened years ago, today. What you do is choose a date that you want to know about and read on. Also you might notice on the side left side of the webiste there is a list of catagories and one of the catagories is Black History Month. Click here for the site. Here

Assignment #6

For this assignment I am supposed to write about an influential African- Canadian. The person I chose to write about is Portia White an African- Canadian singer.

To start off I am going to tell you about Portia white before she was a famous singer. Portia was born in Truro, Nova Scotia in 1911. She was the daughter of Reverend William Andrew White, a descendant of American slaves from Virginia and Izie Dora White of Mill Village, Nova Scotia. Portia was the third child of eleven. She had a very beautiful contralto voice. Contralto Italian for lowest female singing voice.

Portia White first started singing at the young age of six in a choir at her fathers church. Her family organized concerts to raise money for the church. When Portia finished her teaching training she started teaching at a school in Lucasville. She still continued her musical training at the Halifax Conservatory. In 1941 Portia had run into some good luck because she met a women by the name Edith Read, who was a principle of an all girls school in Toronto. Edith organized for her first Toronto appearance at the Eaton Auditorium. She became more famous and preformed in New York. She soon became international. She preformed in Canada, United States and Latin America in the years 1945 to 1948. One of her greatest achievements was when she was able to preform for Queen Elizabeth II. Unfortunately Portia White died of cancer at the age 57. In 1977 the Nova Scotia government created a special award for artists in her memory . She has accomplished some great things during her life. She was a truly amazing African- Canadian her singing made people happy a joyful. Her confidence made her a famous singing sensation that people around the world enjoyed.

For more information on Portia White click on theses links :

Portia White link 1

Portia White link 2

Assignment #5

In this Assignment I will be talking about the early Canadian settlers and what they did to survive the cold Canadian winter. alson I well be metioning about my family and what they did to survive the winter.

I can't imagine what the early Canadians had to do to survive the extremely cold winters in Canada.Some of the challenges they had to face were obviously keeping warm, finding food and building a durable shelter.

When the early Canadian settlers found out about the new continent, they decided to settle there to claim the land as there own. They called it New France.

The ways they dealt with the weather were to hunt caribou and seal. They used the animals for a variety of things that would keep them warm, provide food and make a shelter. They used the skin of the animals for clothing, blankets and tents. They ate the meat. There oil was used for cooking. The bones of the animals were very useful because the were made into tools which they used for hunting other animals and for cooking utensils.

My fathers family immigrated from Italy to Canada in 1966.They came to Canada for better opportunity of employment. My nonna which is grandma in Italian talks about the weather on a daily basis. Maybe that is due to the fact that her first Canadian winter came to as a shock.
My great grandmother and great grandfather on my mothers side also immigrated fom Italy to Canada. hey to came for better opportunity of employment.

My family and extended family have been in Canada for many years and have adapted to Canadian winters other then me I am still complaing that it is to cold to step outside the front door.

When I was looking for information about this topic it was almost literally impossible to find other then the link Mrs. Pollock provide which is The Kids' Site on Canadian Settlement. All week I have been on the computer searching about how the early Canadians learned to deal with the cold Canadian winters and I find nothing about it which really put me down but when I read through the website Mrs. Pollock provided and it helped but I wish I could have found more information. I have learned that the early Canadians used what they had around the land and found ways to use it in many diffenerent ways and nothing was wasted.

Assignment #4

I have seen some great Assignment #3 blog entry's and three of them i would like to share with you.

The first blog I would like to talk about is Sabrina's blog. This blog entry was great it had good detail of what she thought of what the future might look like. A quote from her blog "I think that 2109 will look much different than 2009. I think that there will be a lot of historical events(maybe there will be a black prime minister, or even an Aboriginal Prime Minister), and I think that the population will increase a lot". I think that is a very good idea of what might happen in 2109.

The second blog I would like to mention is Shukria's blog. I thought this blog entry had thoughts and predictions of the future politics, technology and environment. One of my favourite quotes from her blog is "The environment is probably one of the biggest changes that might impact our lives in the 22nd century. For example, due to all are carelessness we already have global warming, which will soon dry up all the water on earth". That quote really shows what will probably happen when we don't take care of are planet.

Last but not least i would like to say something about Jessi's blog. One of the things I like about this blog entry is it as looks back to the past like some of the things the world accomplished in the last 500 years. A good quote from the entry "There has been a lot to celebrate as well. From forming a new country to inventions that have helped the world. Such as the telephone and the Canadarm". Those are some really good inventions.

Assignment #3

Wow Christopher Moore's blog is great, he talks about so many great historic events that happened 500 years ago. I think it is quite important to stop and think about what happened way before we were born because the people in history are the people who made a change in what today would look like and how people think. What would have happened if General James Wolfe lost to the French other then what did happen that he won?

What I think might happen in the year 2109 is that the people will turn into total Eco freaks and I mean everybody, that are trying to try to fix all are mistakes that we have done with the world like one mistake polluting it. Even though we are trying to fix that now I think people will be more worried then. Also I think that people will be inventing new things that will help people with there everyday lives. And maybe just maybe all the war and the fighting will stop but I highly doubt that. Another thing that I think might happen is that they may find new life on planet Mars. Even better the new life are peaceful and are similar to humans but are also totally different and that together we think of great ideas of finding and using resources on other planets. One thing I hope and think the people of the world might do is think of a way that everyone can communicate around the world instead of using translators like inventing a new language that everyone in the world will learn. There are so many things that could be change and happen a hundred years from now that people just don't know what to expect. That's my idea of what will happen in the year 2109.

Fact: In Christopher Moore's blog he mentioned Sir. Wilfrid Laurier the prime minister of Canada in 1909. If you still don't know who he is just look on the 5 dollar bill. Anyway back to the point a friend of mine that is her great great great... grandfather. Pretty interesting, right?

If you want to check out Christopher Moore's great blog click on the link below.

Christopher Moore's blog

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