Ages: 16-18
Courses
Courses
- British Columbia History
- Canadian History
- British North American Colonial History
- Daily life in the Crown Colony of Vancouver Island around 1858
- Important events in the historical development of British Columbia
- Primary and secondary source analysis including visual sources
- Continuity and change in history
Daily Life in Victoria before and after the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush
Step 5: Analyze post-gold rush images and texts
Inform students that their task is now to learn about daily life in Victoria during the post-gold rush period. You may want to distribute the eleven source documents found in #10 Post-Gold Rush Sources in one of several ways:
- with younger students, use only the five images (Post-Gold Rush Documents #1-5);
- assign students to work in pairs to analyze one image and one page of text documents (in most cases, there are two short text documents per page);
- create groups of four students, and expect them to analyze all eleven documents.
As was done previously, distribute multiple copies of the activity sheet, #2 Portrait of Daily Life, so that students have one copy for each page of source documents they are to analyze. Remind students to focus on the aspects of daily life that best apply to the documents they are analyzing. After completion of the activity, you may want evaluate the assignment and/or invite students to use the rubric, #4 Assessing Observations and Inferences, to assess their own or each others’ work.
