[CHLOE COOLEY!] <33

Can you believe it? We don't really think about it, but a few hundred years ago, slavery was LEGAL in Canada! Here's how Chloe Cooley contributed to helping end slavery in Canada.
Here is my project on Chloe Cooley, she was a slave in 1793.
On March 14 1793, Chloe Cooley's owner took her and tried to sell Chloe to a new owner in New York in the United States, against her will, and she protested against it. Peter Martin, a black veteran told Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe about her screaming and violent protesting, also William Grisley, who was a neighbor had seen and witnessed more of it, so he told Simcoe about it.That led Simcoe to make the July 1793 Act to Limit Slavery in Upper Canada, to completely get rid of slavery. Slavery in Canada wasn't over until 1834, so it did take some work before the slavery was completely done in Canada. After that, Canada became a place for slaves who were trying to get away from America. About 30 000 slaves traveled there until slavery was finally over in 1865. Chloe Cooley was a big contribute to ending slavery in Canada, and her name will always go along with the Act to Limit Slavery.

If you would like to see what my assignment was go to Mrs. Pollock's site

Here are the sites I got my information from :
newswire**
ontario paques**
accessmylibrary**

Assignment # 5 [ITS REALLY COLD!]

In Canada, its REALLY cold ! So why people come and settle here instead of somewhere warmer ? I'll tell you why.
For the people who came from Europe and traveled here, the journey was very long! Just taking the steamship could have taken them around two weeks! The sailing ships took even longer, so the steamship is better right ? Well, one thing which could change your mind is the fact that is was dirty, and it got overcrowded because so many people were taking it, that made some of the passengers sick. Another weird thing was that once you arrived, you couldn't just get off the boat and leave, they had medicals, and their travel papers were checked over, again.

Some of the settlers in other countries left because there lives in their other countries were horrible compared to their lives in Canada. One reason why some people left was because men were forced to serve in the army. Even if it's doing other people good, you might have a family who needs you, and its too much of a risk if you die or something.Another reason was because there were either no jobs, or the job had very low pay. A person needs good pay, to help provide for their house, and so that their family can have food, and shelter and water, and fuel..
Farmers also wanted to own their own land, when they came to Canada every person got their own strip of land for farming and living a new life, with a better job with better pay.
I like how the site said this sentence, and it makes sence :
"The Government of Canada was offering free land to those who were willing to settle on the prairies. For many this was an opportunity to own land and have a better life. "
http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/settlers1.html

Pioneers had to build their own houses, and not only that but they had to build them strong enough so they could stand the cold weather in winter. A settlers first house would probably made out of logs, or prairie sod. If you had a house made with bricks, has glass windows, and a good roof, its probably the end of your pioneering. Pioneers lives were pretty straightforward, the things which were most important in their lives were food, shelter, food, and clothing.
I think that this sentence had a a lot to do wit the last sentence of the third paragraph:
"Some pioneer settlers brought personal belongings, including furniture, kitchen utensils, books and ornaments; some settled on land prepared by COLONIZATION COMPANIES or within reach of villages or towns."
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006303

The habitants had a pretty hard life, they were the ones who had to build their houses, and it wasnt easy ! Building a house, clearing and farming his land, paying taxes to the seigneur and working on the seigneur's land a few days for a year, are a few examples of what the habitants had to do. Building their house was pretty tough, for building their house, first clearing the land, and that is cutting down trees and tree stumps, they then had to grow their crops, for their land . The crops included growing weed for bread, cows for milk and meat, sheeps for wool, and other stuff too.
Even though the habitants life was pretty hard, and tiring, its still better then being back in France.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/premierescommunautes/jeunesse/021013-2051.6-e.html

My family only moved to Canada eight years ago. We moved to Canada from London, because we had heard that even though Canada got REALLY cold in the winter, it was worth it, because of how it is in the summer and all the fun activities we could do in the winter like skiing, skating, tobogganing, snow shoeing etc. At first we HATED the winter so much, and couldnt wait for it to be over, but the longer we stayed here, the more we got used to the weather, and understood how to dress for the weather, to keep us warm. Another reason why we moved here in 2000, was because it's safe too, and a free country, and my family friends who lived here told us about what an awesome place it is, so we decided to move here, and see it for ourselves.
So if you think about it, we are actually lucky, we live in this safe place, where we have warm houses with hot water, heating, and warm clothing. Even though our weather in the winter can get pretty cold, its worth all the good times we have, and also the nice weather we have in the summer and spring, its actually a great place to live !

Here are the sites i went to:

http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/settlers1.html
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/premierescommunautes/jeunesse/021013-2051.6-e.html

If your kind of confused about what the assignment is about, check out my teachers blog,to find out!

[Linking] (:

There were a couple of blogs which I liked, which i read. First of all i like Sabrina's blog, she did an AMAZING job specifying what she thought about what would happen in 2109. The part i liked most was when she proved that she actually understood what she was reading, and reflected on it. For example " I think that 1606-1709 was the best time for the First Nations people. They were in power, they built alliances, and became central in the fur trade out of both Montreal and Hudson's Bay."
I also liked Ryleigh's blog, i also liked the fact that she read Christopher Moore's blog, and understood the fact that not very much changes in one century at times . "In the past, some things never changed in one century, but two.." What she said there was true because not everything changes in ONE century, well not in most cases.
The last blog i liked was Emily's blog. She came up with A LOT of ideas about things which are really possible that could happen in the future, she REALLY understood the project, and it was a REALLY easy way to learn about everything i read, and make predictions about what we may have , my favourite quote of her was "Canada's provinces might drift apart, including "the narrows" ". I liked it because that's probably true, because the world did drift apart, and it might again .

Assignment #3 : History of the Future

Hey, this is what i thought of Christopher Moore's blog. Click here to see Christopher Moore's blog.

Canada has gone through a lot of change in the past centuries. In 1509, we didn't have as much technology as we do now, i don't even think they knew it would exist. If you look at the way it was before 1909, the way we lived was completely different then it was starting 1909 to 2009. Starting in 1909 we started having things like industrialization, railroads, factories, intercontinental telegrapy, mass literacy, democratic government.

What i think about 2109 is that a lot of things will change, things like:
- much more technology, to do all the work humans have been doing in this past century for us
- robots may exist on earth, to take better care of humans, but would probably be worse for our environment
- because of the global warming, and some people not making an effort to stop littering, our environment will be much worse, who knows what could happen to it
- changes in the American and Canadian politics, like a woman for president in the United States
- maybe in the next 100 or 200 years from now, the earth may end, and we may find life on another planet, or maybe not
- there won't be anymore oil, and we will drive things like battery powered cars, we may even create a new way to power cars, not including oil or batteries, and that might even be good for our environment
- we may find cures for things like the common cold, but we may discover a new disease even worse then HIV-AIDS, or the flu
- things like gay marriage will be more accepted,and more common
- in the next 100 years, the earth may become more populated, and that may cause the pollution to expand, and earth to end faster

Those were some of my ideas about how earth would be like,and what it would look like in the next century to come. I think that it could change for the better, or for the worse.

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