Henry (Harry) Winston Jerome

Harry Winston Jerome was and still is one of our many outstanding athletes, confirming his name as the fastest runner in Canada at his time and now too. He was born on September 30Th 1940 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Later on when he was 12 years old he moved to North Vancouver. There he competed in many different high school and college competitions building up his skills in sprinting, and soon representing Canada in the Olympics like his grandfather had once done. Harry had been to 3 summer Olympics representing Canada for the 100 meter dash in 1960, 1964, and 1968. He had also been part of the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth games and the 1967 Pan American Games. While he competed in these competition he had a lot of fame but he also supposedly suffered from a few medical conditions. A few of his accomplishments are--he made 4 world records in the years 1960, 1961, 1962, and 1966. Harry Jerome also won a bronze medal in the 1964 summer Olympics and a gold medal in the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth games. During his many accomplishments Harry Jerome also pulled his muscle in the 1960 summer Olympics, and tore a muscle in his left thigh in the 1962 commonwealth games, making his doctors think that he may never be able to run or walk again. After which another misfortune of brain aneurysm killed him at the age of 42 on December 7, 1982.

After Harry's retirement and death many places were honoured to have a statue of him built in it, or have that place named after him. Here are a few thing that were named after him--a weights room at the university of Oregan, a RecCenter, a sports center, and other places that involve sports. There is also a 9 foot bronze statue of him in the Stanley Park sea wall in Vancouver. And there is an annual Harry Jerome awards.




This is a websites about Harry Jerome talking about his youth and how he had been able to accomplish what he had accomplished and why he was so successful at his time. Here is another website I used that also talks about his life and accomplishments.

Assignment #5-It's really cold. Brrrr!!!

Immigrants are very important to the population of Canada. Every single citizen either has been an immigrant or has ancestors who were immigrants to Canada, but every one is an immigrant because Canada is one of the newest countries in the world. Without immigration Canada wouldn't have been where they are today. We wouldn't have accomplished everything we have accomplished in the last few centuries, which by far is a whole lot. And we wouldn't be who we are today. In this entry I going to be talking about the c-c-cold and some of the reasons why our families or some of the very first immigrants decided to come and stay in Canada despite the freezing cold.

The first time in recorded history, that anyone entered Canada or North America was probably the Aboriginals. They came and lived here for thousands of years BCE. Aboriginals are the first immigrants of Canada because at one point in time they had left their homeland following the buffalo over the land bridge connecting Asia and Canada. It had of course taken them several generations to walk across the land bridge (what is now the pacific ocean) but they never gave up. They walked and walked and soon spread all over North America, forming many self-sufficient, cultural and linguistic groupings. A few examples of their groups are the Huron, Mik-maq, Algonquian and many more. Without the help of the Aboriginals, the Europeans would have never survived the winter long enough to go back to their homeland and bring other immigrants to Canada. The reason why I think the Aboriginals decided to stay in Canada was that at the time they came to Canada, they were already used to the cold, since it was the ice age when they had first started to walk over the land bridge and when they had finally reached Canada. That explains a whole lot. Other reasons why the Aboriginals would stay in Canada is because there is:

• a lot of trees for shelter and protection
• a lot of wildlife for food
• a lot of wildlife fur and skin for clothing and shelter (tents...etc.)
• a lot of farm land to help them make a living off of farming and selling crops
• a lot of bodies of water for fishing and water
• a lot of land for building houses

So as you can see each one of the points that I have listed up there is basically related to survival and stuff that Canada had plentiful of, while other countries lacked them. Therefore, I think that Aboriginals actually made the right decision, after going through all the pros and cons.

The second important immigrants of Canada are the European explorers. Some of the very first European explorers came from France, or Britain. Most of these European settlers never thought they would find new land, all they were interested in finding was a sea/ocean route to the Asian silk and spices. Soon a competition began between the European countries over the exploration of the new land. So from that time on the exploration time began. Each country would send ship loads of men and explorers to explore the new land and claim it for their country. While these people were experiencing fame, they were also experiencing hardships, failures, and success. Here are a list of examples of what some explorers experienced:

• death of companions and really close friends
• had to survive the many different viruses and diseases that had gone around the ship and the new land.
• they had to survive the freezing cold without blankets, heaters, or warm clothing to keep them warm
• they had to survive the disease the cold and lack of food and water brought (scurvy, frostbites...etc.) killing many of the very first people who stayed in Canada for the winter
• they had to find a way to be successful in building colonies
• they had to find a way to help the immigrants they brought over to Canada through the winters and other hardships they had or faced

So as you can see they had gone through a lot of losses from death of friends to fear of their own death. However each one of these problems were dealt with or else we wouldn't be in Canada today. Here are how they coped with a few of their problems and how the Aboriginals came to the rescue with perfect timing:

• seeing the new settlers dying so fast, the aboriginals showed Jacques Cartier this recipe for a tea made out of boiled white cedar tree to cure the settlers disease
• although Jacques Cartier had failed greatly, 60 years later Champlain came of assistance to form very successful colonies
• he himself went back and forth from Canada to France convincing families to immigrate to Canada unlike Jacques who came and took a shipload of criminals to Canada.
• John Cabot had found the great banks where people then started fished for enough cod to last them a year
• as the fishers fished they also started to trade some of their tools for fur which later helped them keep themselves warm when they decided to stay in Canada for the winter
• after those encounters the little trading gradually ended up becoming huge and the primary reason why people came and immigrated to Canada.
• their winters were no longer harsh ever since they got the cure and because of the fur trade they were warm

The European explorers have done many more for our country but those are a few start up points. Although they faced a lot of hardships, they also did a lot for our country. Without fishing on the great banks the fur trade wouldn't have started. Without the fur trade immigrants wouldn't have a reason to come to Canada. And without the immigrants coming to Canada, Canada wouldn't have come so far as today.

Finally the third most important immigrants of Canada who had to cope with the cold is you and I. A few of us may have ancestors who were here since the beginning but most of us don't. Most of Canada is build up of people and citizens of other countries. Some of the hardships that my family had experienced when they first came was the cold. My family came to Canada in the middle of winter and it was really hard for them because my country is always summer and the coldest temperature in the winter there is probably the warmest temperature in winter here. But it obviously wasn't as hard as it was for the early European explorers because they had nothing with them, and they weren't prepared for they cold. For example, we have heaters, warm clothing, and other stuff that keeps us warm; however, the Europeans didn't have anything to keep them warm until the fur trade began.

Therefore, Canada may be cold but once you look at how much the first people had to suffer to make this a successful country it is actually worth freezing sometimes. I mean what if the early settlers hadn't suffered and had just left the country as soon as they found out how cold it was, then our lives would change completely, each one of us wouldn't be what we are today. Especially the people who left their country because of threats or human rights and came to Canada to lead a normal and safe life here. So forget the cold think about where you might be if Canada hadn't been here. How would you lead your life?

Here are the links to the websites I used for my research:

I used a website about Jacque Cartier, Immigration to Canada, and John Cabot. Each one of these websites talked about how the explorers settled in Canada, and how newer immigrants are now coming to Canada despite how cold it had been and how cold it still is.

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Assignment #4-Linking back to my peers

Hey everybody,

I have been reading many of your assignment #3 blogs and they all look amazing. I especially liked Jessica, Allyson, and Sandra's blogs they were all done very well and thorough.

The first one I read was Jessica's and it had an excellent summary about what Christopher Moore's blog was about, to sort of give us an idea of what we may be reading next. She also added a lot of her imaginative predictions on what she thought 2109 would probably look like. Here is an example of her writing that really gave me something to be happy about in the future. "I am optimistic that the environment will change for the better." Her blog was different than the other ones I read because almost everybody else including me thought that the environment would change for the worst except for her. It really gave me something else to think about. To know why she thought the environment will change for the better instead of worst check out Jessica's Blog.

The second blog I read was Allyson's. She had thought a lot about the future, and listed many realistic and possible predictions of what it might look like. She too added a few things that makes the future look a lot better then most people did. Here is an example from her writing that is something everybody would probably hope for someday. "I hope that when 2109 comes there will be a cure for all diseases and so that no one will have to suffer anymore." I mean who wouldn't want a disease-free environment or country. Check out Allyson's Blog to find out why exactly she hoped for a disease-free world and other positive stuff she hoped for to make us more confident of the future.

The third blog I read was Sandra's. She to has done what Allyson and Jessica has done and they were all amazing. But what I like the most about Sandra's blog was that she connected a few very unusual things to help her readers sort of understand what she is trying to say. For example, she sort of connected how we would react to 2109 to how people from 500 years ago would react to 2009. Here is an example of what I just explained in Sandra's words. "If you think about it, just imagine that a person from the past came back to life again to the 21 first century. Think about what they would see and how different their life was compared to now." Read Sandra's blog to know exactly what she thought about it and try to make your own predictions.

So as you can see or have read that each one of these are excellent. Theirs and many of the others I read were done really well for many different reasons.

History of the Future-Assignment #3

Have you ever wondered how much our lives could change in the next century? To list the obvious, if we are still alive we will be over 100 years old, or dead. However, that is not what this blog is about. In this blog I will be talking about how the environment, the population, politics, and big historical events might change or take place in the next century.

The environment is probably one of the biggest changes that might impact our lives in the 22nd century. For example, due to all our carelessness we already have global warning, which will soon dry up all the water on earth. Also, sooner or later there won't be enough trees for paper, which probably means that in the 22nd century or later the children would probably never see paper in their lives. Without as many trees there is going to be a few more changes that might take place. For instance, usually when children play together in the park, their first suggestions are to climb trees or play hide and seek. However, that is going to be a little hard because there probably aren't going to be as many trees in the park as there usually is. Also, in the next few centuries, due to all the technology taking place, and all the self sufficient factories that have been in Canada for centuries, may as well pollute the air and have the people shifted to another planet. It's a good thing they found water on Mars. Therefore, if we don't find a way to save our planet from pollution soon, Earth is not going to be in good condition in the 22nd century (2109).

The population is going to change a little as well. To begin with, it might not be as soon as the 22nd century but at some point in time our planet will be over populated. However, by 2109 the population on Earth and in Canada will be a lot more then it is now. A few reasons why I said that is because when Canada first became a country there weren't as many citizens as there are now. For example, when I was learning about New France, they mentioned that they had to pay citizens to marry early (at the age of 16-20) and have a family. By the next few centuries they are probably going to have a limited amount of children allowed per family, just like I read in a book about the 22nd century.

I don't think that there is going to be much change for politics, unless our prime minister is an alien or a robot. Which can be possible, yet unlikely. However, I do think that there will be a big political based historical event. For example, since in America they already have a black president, I think that by the time it is 2109 we will have our first native, black or someone of a different background as our prime minister. Maybe that prime minister might be one of you. Who knows? Another big historical event that might happen in the next few centuries, is that a few of our astronauts might visit Mars. Their visit to Mars will probably lead to some of our citizen visiting Mars, and soon some of us would actually be able to go there for a holiday or to go shopping or something. That would be an experience alright.

Overall, I think that by 2109 we the people, Canada, and Earth will be going through many changes that may effect us in many ways. But we can't be certain because 2109 is a long time from now and anything can happen during that period of time.

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Hi everybody, this is Shukria. In case you are wondering, I am in grade 7, and I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I am really looking forward to doing the remainder of my history classes online. It really makes history a whole lot less stressful. If you happen to reach my blog at some point, feel free to respond and leave comments. Thank-you.

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