Assignment 6, John Alleyne

Hello readers,

Today I had to research a influential African-Canadian, and I decided to research John Alleyne. I decided to research John Alleyne, because he is a famous dancer, and I dance and I think it would be cool to learn about a famous African-Canadian dancer for this assignment.

John Alleyne come to Canada with his family in 1965, and was born in Barbados. He graduated in Toronto at The National Ballet School. Then, he also joined the Stuttgart Ballet in 1978, where he started to choreograph.Then in 1984, he decided to return to Canada and dance with the National Ballet of Canada and become company's resident choreographer. Then in the late 1980s, John Alleyne began his association with "Ballet British Columbia," choreographing many pieces.

Then in 1992, the "Ballet British Columbia" gave Alleyne the position of artistic director. "Johns leadership marked the beginning of a creative and prosperous period in the company's history." (from http://www.artsvivants.ca" People remember his choreography because it was noted for its technical complexity and innovative expansion of the classical ballet lexicon. He has raised the profile of Ballet British Columbia.


The link I used to do this assignment is;
http://www.artsvivants.ca/en/dan/meet/bios/artistDetail.asp?artistID=80

Assignment 5;Its so cold,

hello everyone,
It is really cold, like wow! You walk out side, and in a second your eyes are watering and you can see your warm breath. Well, can you even imagine what the "Early Canadians," had to go through to even stay alive in the cold winters we have here in Canada!? Well since you don't know, I'm going to tell you :)

I did some research on saskschool.ca, and when I read the paragraph on the website, I learned first of all, some of the reasons they moved to Canada in the first place.

Here's a few;
-The government had control on their way of life
- Men were forced to serve in the army
- There were no jobs/low-paying jobs
- Many were very poor/barely made enough to survive
- Farmers wanted to own there own land
- City's were dirty, and over powered

The Government of Canada, were offering free land to people who wanted/could move to the prairies. People liked that idea because that means a good opportunity for owning your own land, and starting a new life, and for some that means making some money, and buying some new land or starting up a new business.

When they got to Canada, they were happy about what the conditions were there,though, little did they know, that very soon going to change. It would be freezing cold in a few months and would have to find ways to keep warm and survive.They faced a lot problems moving to Canada, and here are a few.

So Basically there were people living on a strip of farmland along rivers, so they could grow there crops and such. As we know the winter is terribly cold, and you don't want to be out there for too long, but too bad for the Canadian settlers, they obviously had to build there homes. Don't get me wrong there was a lot of timber there to use, though to prepare the timber was the real problem. First they had to get the wood, fell the wood, trim the wood, cut the wood into strips, then carry it to the place they wanted to build there house/shack. That's a lot of work especially when it feels like its -100.

Even when they were done all that, they still had a hard time keeping warm! If it wasn't for the fur trade, they wouldn't be able to keep warm in there house, that was usually made out of field stone/sod/wood, with just holes for windows! Lucky for them they got the fur trade because man oh man, if they didn't have those furs to keep them warm at night they would have to live on one warm bath a month! If things were as bad as this, why did people want to stay in this horrible place!? Well supposedly, before they came they were expecting way worse then what they had in Europe!

Now talking about my family, that was a different story. What I hear from the grandmother, my family a long time ago, supposedly settled in Canada, sometime in the late 1800's. My great, great grandmothers family came from Ireland, and my great, great grandfathers family came from France and settled out west and went into the grain business, then after many years they settled in Montreal. They came from France because they were persecuted, and were not aloud to live there anymore, while on my great, great grandmothers family had to move from Ireland because back then times were very difficult in Ireland and back then it was just easier to move to Canada were you were free to think what you want/be who you want to be.

Now don't you feel lucky that you have windows that open and close, and heating and air conditioning!? We will never know/experience what they went through so I believe that we are lucky to have had these relatives who brought us to Canada. A free, safe place. :)

Here are some of the websites I used;
http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/settlers1.html

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006303

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/premierescommunautes/jeunesse/021013-2051.6-e.html

http://americanhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_pioneer_homestead

Assignment 4, Linking to your Peers

hello readers :)
I have been commenting on other peoples blogs and i would like to link them, for you.. because thats what this assignment is about :D
First is Tale's Blog, I like how he put so much of his thoughts into his Assignment 3. Check it out! :)
Second is Firas's Blog, I like how he put alot of his imagination into his Assignment 3!
and lastly, I commented on Chongo's Blog, and I really liked how she really thought about Canada and what would change in it.

Assignment #3, HistoryFromTheFuture

Hello Again,
I just read, a blog that i thought was pretty interesting.
It was a blog made by a man names Christopher. Christopher had a post about what was happening with electronics ex. in different time periods. He was also wondering what people think would happen in 2109.
For me, i have a feeling that in 2109, there will be many more electronics, such as new ipods, new sound systems ect. Also, I think there will be a many more new, advanced cars out there, considering that there is new cars comming out each day!
Also sometimes I think that the world hopefully will be cleaner, but at the same time there are all those factories and people litering out there, and somtimes I think its not going to be possable. Also i really hope that in the futer (2109) that they will find a cure to cancer. Considering all the money and work thats being put into cancer research, hopefully they will know alittle bit more about the cure, later in life.
Click here to view Christophers Blog. It is very interesting!

HELLO,

Oh hey :)
I am a grade 8 student in Ottawa, Ontario doing a blog project about Canadian history, with my teacher Mrs.Pollock.I hope that you, as my readers, leave comments and questions, but most of all i hope you injoy yourself while reading my blog. I am so exited to have a change in learning, and instead of working out of textbooks we can learn and express ourselfs in a blog ! :)

This is my teachers blog-dont worry, shes pretty cool