Assignment: Identify an article published before 2011 in newspapers, magazines or government publications. (By stipulating this assignment needs to focus on an older article, it ensures that students will need to use the on-line newspaper data bases or visit local archives). Students might decide to look at newspaper coverage of the Quincentenary, the 500 years since the arrival of Columbus, in 1992.

Identify an article published before 2011 in newspapers, magazines or government publications. (By stipulating this assignment needs to focus on an older article, it ensures that students will need to use the on-line newspaper data bases or visit local archives). Students might decide to look at newspaper coverage of the Quincentenary, the 500 years since the arrival of Columbus, in 1992; students might want to examine obituaries of notable Canadian Indigenous people, like E. Pauline Johnson or Louis Riel; students can also find an article about a community of importance to themselves.