Looking Back – True Tales from Saskatchewans Past

							        Looking Back – True Tales from Saskatchewan’s Past
                      Programme Summary
1. Stalked by Fate - a British couple misses their passage on the Titanic only to be
   killed three months later in the 1912 Regina Cyclone.
        ELA B10: Environment/Technology
        Social Studies Grade 5, Unit Two: Heritage
        Social Studies Grade 8, Unit 2: Citizenship
        History 30 Unit Two: The Road to Democracy
2. Saskatchewan Provincial Police - Saskatchewan had a provincial police force
   from 1918 to 1929. It’s primary job - to enforce the unpopular prohibition laws.
        ELA B10: Canadian Frontiers
        Social Studies Grade 4, Unit 4: Decision Making
3. Prince Albert Park - Prime Minister Mackenzie King promises to create a
   national park in exchange for a safe seat in the 1926 election.
        ELA B10: Environment/Technology
        Social Studies Grade 4, Unit 1: Identity
        Social Studies Grade5, Unit 2: Heritage
4. Scott’s Secret - Saskatchewan’s first premier suffers from manic-depression and
   spends more time out of the country seeking a cure than he does running the
   province.
        ELA A30: Personalities and Values
        Social Studies Grade 8, Unit 3: Identity
5. Saskatoon Lily - Saskatoon’s Ethel Catherwood wins gold at the 1928 Olympics
   and then turns her back on her sport and her country.
        ELA A10: Challenges
        ELA B10: Decisions
        Social Studies Grade 4, Unit 1: Identity
6. Moose Jaw’s Fly Boys - visiting pilots to Moose Jaw’s British Commonwealth
   Air Training Plan and local youths riot in 1944 over the attention of local girls.
        ELA B10: Equality
        History 30, Unit 3: External Forces and Domestic Realities
        Social Studies Grade 5, Unit 2: Heritage
7. White Man’s Country - Oklahoma Blacks migrate to Saskatchewan in 1910 only
   to face the same racism they had been trying to escape.
        ELA B10: Equality
        Social Studies Grade 8, Unit 3: Identity
        Social Studies 30, Unit 3: Culture
8. Damn Dam - Prince Albert is forced into bankruptcy because of an ill-conceived
   plan to build a massive dam on a nearby river.
        ELA B10: Environment/Technology
        ELA B10: Decisions
        Social Studies Grades 4, 5, Unit 3: Interdependence
        Economics 30, Unit 2: The Saskatchewan Economy
9. Almighty Voice - a Cree warrior slaughters a government cow to feed his family
    in 1897 and becomes one of Canada’s most wanted outlaws when he kills a
    Mountie during his escape.
         ELA B10: Equality
         History 30, Unit Two: the Nineteenth Century
10. An Unlikely Spy - an RCMP undercover agent disguised as a Regina house-
    painter infiltrates the local Communist Party of Canada until his cover is blown.
         ELA A10: Challenges
         History 30, Unit 4: The Forces of Nationalism
11. Sukanen’s Dream - a farmer in land-locked Saskatchewan builds a ship and
    plans to sail it home from Outlook.... to Finland.
         ELA A10: Challenges
         Social Studies Grade 4, Unit 1: Identity
12. The Reluctant Giant - Edouard Beaupre of Willow Bunch is exploited in life -
    and death - because of his extraordinary size.
         ELA A10: Challenges
         ELA B10: Equality
         Social Studies 30, Unit Three: Culture
         Social Studies Grade 4, 5: Decision Making
13. An Epidemic of Bullets - an epidemic kills off most of the elk in P.A. National
    Park in 1959.... an epidemic of bullets ordered by the Prime Minister.
         ELA B10: Environment/Technology
         Social Studies Grade 5, Unit 4: Decision Making
14. Quong Wing - a Moose Jaw restaurant owner is fined for breaking a law that
    prohibited Chinese from hiring white women. He fights it all the way to the
    Supreme Court.
         ELA B10: Equality
         Social Studies 30, Unit Three: Culture
         Law 30, Unit One: Foundations
15. Canada’s Pin-Up Girl - A Saskatoon woman unknowingly becomes the favourite
    pin-up girl of Canadian troops fighting in Italy during World War Two.
         ELA B10: Equality
         ELA A10: Challenges
         Social Studies Grade 8, Unit Three: Identity
         History 30, Unit 3: External Forces and Domestic Realities
16. Charlie’s Silver - one of many Gentleman Farmers to settle in Saskatchewan
    amasses the largest, private collection of silver in Canada.
         ELA A10: Canadian Frontiers
         ELA B10: Decisions
         Social Studies Grades4, 5, Unit 2: Heritage
17. Murdered by the RCMP - Estevan-area coal miners fight for better working
    conditions and run head-long into the trigger-happy RCMP.
         ELA B10: Equality
         Social Studies Grade 8, Unit 2: citizenship
         History 30, Unit 3: External Forces and Domestic Realities
18. Just Another Victim - University of Saskatchewan President covers up the death
    of a student from alcohol poisoning by blaming the 1919 flu epidemic.
          ELA B10: Decisions
19. Depression Photo - the Fehrs become the poster family for the Depression when
    their car breaks down in Edmonton on their way home in 1934.
          ELA B10: Environment/Technology
          Social Studies 30, Unit 1: Change
          History 30, Unit 3: External Forces and Domestic Realities
20. God’s Painter - a German painter makes an international name for himself by
    decorating hundreds of Saskatchewan churches.... but he dies penniless.
          ELA A10: Canadian Frontiers
          ELA B10: Decisions
          Social Studies Grade 4, Unit 2: Heritage
21. The Fighting Bishop - Anglican Bishop Lloyd - the saviour of the Barr colonists
    - fights against the immigration of continental Europeans in the late 1920s.
          ELA B10: Equality
          History 30: Unit 3: External Forces and Domestic Realities
          Social Studies 30, Unit 3: Culture
22. Lions of Winter - The Richardson rink of Regina win national and international
    championships in the early 1960s and change the game of curling in the process.
          ELA A10: Challenges
          Social Studies Grades 4, 5, Unit 2: Heritage
23. The Blizzard of ‘47 - an elderly couple get lost in a snowstorm during the worst
    blizzard in Saskatchewan history.
          ELA B10: Environment/Technology
          ELA B10: Decisions
          Social Studies Grade 4, Unit 2: Heritage
24. The Unionist Party - two Conservative MLAs from Saskatchewan start the
    province’s first separatist party in 1980 giving the movement some fleeting
    credibility.
          ELA B10: Decisions
          History 30, Unit 5: Challenges and Opportunities
          Social Studies 30, Unit 5: Globalization
25. Factoria - investors lose a bundle when a proposed industrial mega-park
    collapses during Saskatoon’s real estate bust in 1912.
          ELA A10: Challenges
          Economics 30, Unit 2: The Saskatchewan Economy
26. The Birth of Medicare - Saskatchewan doctors go on strike in 1961 to protest the
    introduction of Medicare.
          ELA B10: Decisions
          History 30; Unit 3: External Forces and Domestic Realities
27. Chief Whitecap - the Dakota-Sioux Chief is the only Indian leader to be
    acquitted during the 1885 North-West Rebellion because he had a white
    witness.... and friend.
          ELA B10: Equality
          ELA B10: Decisions
          Social Studies Grade 4, Unit 2: Heritage
          History 30, Unit 2: The Road to Democracy
          Social Studies 30, Unit 1: Change
28. The Sage of Sintaluta - E.A. Partridge sells farmers on his utopian vision of how
    farming and grain-handling should work.
          ELA B10: Decisions
          Economics 30, Unit 2: The Saskatchewan Economy
          Social Studies Grades 4, 5, Unit 2: Heritage
29. Dickens of the Mounted - NWMP Inspector Dickens - the alcoholic son of the
    British novelist - wisely surrenders Fort Pitt during the 1885 North-West
    Rebellion, but is vilified for his perceived cowardice.
          ELA A10: Challenges
          History 30, Unit 2: The Nineteenth Century
30. Death Over Moose Jaw - a TransCanada passenger plane collides with a training
    jet over Moose Jaw in 1954 and rains death down on the city.
          ELA B10: Environment/Technology
31. Cowboy Impostor - a Quebec teenager flees to southwestern Saskatchewan in
    1907 to live the cowboy life and changes his identity to become Will James, the
    famous artist-writer cowboy.
          ELA A10: Canadian Frontiers
          Social Studies Grade 4, Unit 2: Heritage
          Social Studies Grade 8, Unit 3: Identity
32. The Price of Pride - a Glidden-area couple is charged with murder after the
    Depression drives them to a botched suicide attempt that ends in the death of their
    son. (Content Caution)
          ELA B10: Decisions
          Economics 30, Unit 2: The Saskatchewan Economy
33. Summer of Fear - a child-murderer terrorizes Saskatoon in the summer of 1975.
    David Threinen is eventually caught and remains in jail today. (Content Caution)
          ELA A10: Unknown
34. Naked We Stand - Doukhobours march nude through Yorkton when the federal
    government refuses to honour immigration pledges.
          ELA B10: Decisions
          ELA B10: Equality
          Social Studies 30, Unit 3: Culture
          History 30, Unit 3: External Forces and Domestic Realities
35. City for a Day - Melville grows from 4,000 to 60,000 in one day during the 1939
    Royal Tour.... blowing away the King and Queen.
          ELA A10: Canadian Frontiers
          Social Studies Grade4, Unit 2: Heritage
36. The Missing Recipe - people in Saskatchewan don’t know what to do with the
    salt cod sent as relief supplies from Maritimers during the Depression.
          ELA A10: Canadian Frontiers
          ELA B10: Environment/Technology
          Social Studies Grades 4, 5, Unit 3: Interdependence
37. The White Man Governs - The Federal Government executes 8 Indians in
    Canada’s largest mass hanging in order to teach Indian people a lesson.
          ELA B10: Equality
          Social Studies Grade 8, Unit 3: Identity
          History 30, Unit 2: The Nineteenth Century
38. The Accidental MLA - Saskatchewan’s first female MLA is elected to replace
    her late husband in the legislature and ends up doing NOTHING to promote the
    women’s movement.
          ELA B10: Equality
39. The Welwyn Massacre - one of the “Home Children” who comes over from
    England, commits a brutal crime of passion in a small Saskatchewan hamlet in
    1910. (Content Caution)
          ELA A10: Unknown
          ELA B10: Equality
          History 30, Unit 3: External Forces and Domestic Realities
40. The French Counts of Whitewood - French aristocrats flock to Whitewood and
    try to re-create their extravagant lifestyles, but their farms and businesses fail
    miserably.
          ELA A10: Canadian Frontiers
          Social Studies Greades4, 5, Unit 2: Heritage
          History 30, Unit 3: External Forces and Domestic Realities
41. The Debden Miracle - every single soldier from Debden who left to fight in
    World War Two.... returns safely after the parish priest makes a deal with God.
          ELA A10: Canadian Frontiers
          Social Studies Grade5, Unit 2: heritage
          History 30, Unit 3: External Forces and Domestic Realities
42. The Regina Riot - an eyewitness account of the 1935 On-to-Ottawa trek and the
    Riot that ended it.
          ELA B10: Equality
          History 30, Unit 3: External Forces and Domestic Realities
43. Sitting Bull’s Mountie - the famed Sioux Chief seeks refuge in Canada and is
    befriended by the Mountie assigned to watch over him.
          ELA B10: Equality
          Social Studies Grades 4, 5, Unit 2: Heritage
          History 30, Unit 3: External Forces and Domestic Realities
44. The Great Soul Rush - Anglican and Catholic missionaries rush to convert
    Aboriginal people in northern Saskatchewan to their particular brand of
    Christianity.
          ELA A10: Canadian Frontiers
          Social Studies 30, Unit 3: Culture