The Student Book offers engaging features such as: Thinking Like a Historian which introduces the Historical Thinking Concepts: Historical Significance, Change and Continuity, Cause and Consequence, and Historical Perspective Connecting to Our Past profiles students taking action to engage with and discover Canada’s past History at Work profiles how people use skills related to history in a variety of careers. The Printed Teacher’s Resource includes: Unit and Lesson Planning, Blackline Masters Access to the Online Teaching Centre.

UNIT 1: Creating Canada: 1850-1890 -- How did government recognition of Indigenous Rights change over time? -- How did Indigenous Peoples respond to development in the Arctic and Western Canada? UNIT 2: Canada's changing society: 1890-1914 -- How did Indian agents attempt to control Indigenous Peoples' lives? -- How did Indigenous Peoples try to protect their land rights in the West? -- What was the significance of Inuit knowledge for European Arctic exploration?.