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Topic Ideas

Are you looking for a Heritage Fair Topic? There are lots of amazing stories from across Canada and right in your own community. Here are some that you might want to think about:

ARTISTS AND INTELLECTUALS
artists and authors, musicians, dance companies, scientists and inventors, teachers and education, television and movies

CANADA AND THE WORLD
diplomacy or peacekeeping, relationship with the U.S.A., World War One, World War Two, the United Nations, other international treaties, the Canadian armed forces, world-famous Canadians

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY
transportation routes, controversies, Chinese workers

 

CATASTROPHES
fires, floods, landslides, epidemics

COMMERCE
forestry, fishing, farming / ranching, stores and banking, early transportation, growth of industry, technological changes

CELEBRATIONS
family traditions, Canada Day, May Day, B.C. Day, leisure activities, cultural traditions, religious holidays

COMMUNICATION
radio / CBC, telephone / telecommunication companies, mail / Canada Post, newspapers, television / CBC, growth of the news media, electronic communication

EARLY SETTLERS
the fur trade, exploration of Canada, New France, the Hudson’s Bay Co./ forts, Upper & Lower Canada, the prairies, patterns of settlement

ENVIRONMENT
endangered animals, pollution, national parks, use of natural resources, anti-pollution legislation

FADS IN HISTORY
sayings and slang, fashions and clothing

FIRSTS IN YOUR COMMUNITY
graveyard, newspaper, railroad track, electricity, paved road, car / motor vehicle, baby born, retail store

FIRST NATIONS CULTURE
history and settlement, hunting and fishing, games, arts and crafts, types of housing, residential schools, interaction with Europeans

FOOD AND BEVERAGES
agriculture, cooking in the home, gadgets or inventions

GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE
influence on settlement, weather extremes, landscape changes,

GOVERNMENT
famous politicians, political parties, confederation

HOUSING
architecture, home furnishings, historic buildings, street names, tools / building materials

 
 
 

IMMIGRATION
patterns of immigration, official immigration policies, multiculturalism

PERSONAL MEMORIES
self and family history, narrative histories

RECREATION
sports, dances, parks, old fashioned toys / games, entertainment, ie theatres

SOCIAL STRUCTURES
families, community values, historical figures, famous pioneers, influential women, children’s work, family trees, different customs

SYMBOLS OF CANADA
flag, coat of arms, currency, national anthem, maple leaf, beaver, Canadian horse, provincial flags, flowers, etc.