Ontario Heritage Fairs

Today, we honour the women and men who have served - and who continue to serve - our country with bravery and courage. We also pay our respects to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom, peace, and democracy. Lest we forget. https://bit.ly/2IrMhCf

Join the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation for a new lecture series starting Tuesday, November 17. The first will be The Promise of Equity: Race, Multiculturalism, and First Nations Education. Register now for this free talk https://enochturnerschoolhouse.ca

For #WomensHistoryMonth we're highlighting some of the women in our Canadian History mysteries. Kate Carmack (Shaaw Tláa) is one of 5 people credited with findi...ng the #Klondike gold bonanza. Jennifer Duncan, in her book "Frontier Spirit: The Brave Women of the Klondike" (Ottawa: Doubleday Canada, 2003), describes this "epic moment" this way: "At first, George said Kate found the gold, then he said he found it. Skookum Jim later said he'd found the gold himself. Dominion Lands Surveyor William Ogilvie, who had interviewed all of the party shortly after they registered their claims, also gave Skookum Jim credit for the find. The account of Emilie Tremblay has the menfolk gathering wood to make a cookfire for the bull moose they'd just shot and Shaaw Tlaa going to the creek to get water. She carries her cedar bark basket down through the woods and kneels on the bank, as she's probably done already several times that day. But this time there is a flash of sun in the shadows. Gold nuggets gleam at her in the shallow water. She scoops them up, feels their rough shapes, their ominous weight. She takes them back to camp. She tells George to open his hand and, to his wondering eyes, deposits the gold in his palm. He asks her over and over how she found the nuggets and has her lead him to the spot on the creek. They find more and more gold and he shouts, resplendent with triumph, that they are all rich now." Learn more about Kate, access primary & secondary sources, and explore the mystery surrounding the greatest gold discovery in North America https://bit.ly/34oMjTD #WomensHistoryMonth #cdnhist #cdned #SocialStudies

October is Women’s History month