Assignment #8

Hello, welcome to the Dr. Phil show. The topic of todays show is rebels with... or without a cause, with a special guest Canadian rebel and politician legend the ghost of Louis Riel.

Phil: Hello Mr. Riel. Nice to have you on today's program.

Riel: Well thanks for having me.

Phil: I hear that you have family, can you tell me about them?

Riel: Yes, yes I can. I have two beautiful children named Jean and Marie, and a wife Marguerite.

Phil: That's nice. So lets start off today's interview with all this controversy around what you stand for and your legacy.

Riel: I think all my two resistances against the Canadian government were for good causes, I really have no regrets.

Phil: Some one told me founded some thing or some place?

Riel: Why yes I did, nice of you to notice.

Phil: Well what did you found.

Riel: I think... uhhhhh... ya I founded Manitoba. Sorry, being dead for that long does weird things to you.

Phil: That's quite a accomplishment, and who did doing that make you feel?

Riel: It felt really good, I felt like I actually did something that people will remember me for.

Phil: That's about all the time we have for today. We'll see you next time.

Assignment #7.

I liked the ''we built'' section of the meet the personalities section of the Canadian museum of civilization website because it shows you really who discovered and started the country hundreds of years ago.

The profile I chose was on the French explorer, Samuel de Champlain. I chose him because he was a very interesting person because he was one of Canada's first people, one of the first discovers of Canada, and was a mapmaker. He traded furs with the aboriginals and fought in some of the aboriginals peoples wars.

I think that the explorer John Cabot should be added to the website because he is said to be the first European to set foot on Canada, David Suzuki should be on the website because he is a very well known Canadian environmentalist, he would probably fit into the ''we inspired'' category. Another influential person is Roberta Bondar, one of the first Canadian female astronauts, I think that she would fit into the we inspired section because there is not very many women who are astronauts but didn't stop her from becoming what she wanted to be.

I was most like Thomas Longboat, a world famous long distance runner. I couldn't figure out who it was because I had never even heard of him. We both liked sports and running

I think that I would want to be remembered for being so good at skate boarding that I would have achieved the Tony Hawk status at skate boarding or beat Barry Bonds record for home runs but I wouldn't use steroids or land a 1080 degree spin on my skate board and get in a world record book and being a mega millionaire, I hope.

I got my information from:

http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/top_twenty_women/

http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/biography/biographi201e.shtml

Assignment #6.

An African Canadian who contributed to Canadian society was Harry Jerome. He was the worlds fasted man and one of Canada's most-known athletes. Harry Jerome was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan , and grew up in Vancouver British Columbia, his first world record was a 100 metre sprint in 10 seconds, he won a gold medal at the 1966 commonwealth games and bronze medal in the 1964 Olympic games.

Another African Canadian who contributed to society was Elijah McCoy studied engineering in Scotland. On his return to Canada the only job he could find was a railway fireman. While he was a mechanic he noticed that every time a train stopped it needed oil, so he invented a machine that oiled the train machinery while it was working called, he called it the McCoy Lubricator.



I got my information from: http://http://archives.theglobeandmail.com/hubs/breakingnews/top10/black.html