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REMEMBERING OUR CANADIAN HISTORY: LEARNING, KNOWLEDGE AND PRIDE

Jack Jedwab and Julie Perrone

Association for Canadian Studies

July 2, 2013

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150 ACS Activities-National History Conference

ACS will Attempt to have this index ready for presentation at the PEI Conference and seeks your input as to what indicators are best suited to measure learning, knowledge, interest and identity salience.

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Methodology Do we remember what we learned in high school about Canadian history? Do we remember the name of a high school Canadian history teacher? Which Canadians most often read about Canadian history? Which Canadians consider it most important to learn about Canadian history versus other histories? Which Canadians are most proud of our history? These questions were part of an effort to map knowledge and interest in Canadian history undertaken by the Association for Canadian Studies to mark the inauguration of Canadian History Week (July 1-8, 2013). The survey data cited in that which follows was conducted by the firm Leger Marketing for the Association for Canadian Studies with some 1503 Canadians via web panel between June 10th and 12th. The survey has a probabilistic margin of error of 2.5 points 19 times out of 20.

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SOME SIX IN TEN CANADIANS SAY MOST OF WHAT THEY KNOW ABOUT HISTORY WAS LEARNED IN HIGH SCHOOL

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I don't remember much about what I learned in my high school course on Canadian history(June 2013)

:

Total Man Woman 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65 +

Total absolu :

1503 783 720 161 188 255 322 257 320

NET AGREE

47% 40% 54% 51% 47% 45% 48% 47% 46%

Strongly agree

12% 11% 13% 13% 15% 15% 13% 8% 8%

Somewhat agree

35% 29% 41% 38% 32% 29% 36% 38% 38%

NET DISAGREE

45% 53% 38% 43% 47% 43% 44% 46% 47%

Somewhat disagree

29% 35% 24% 26% 37% 29% 26% 30% 27%

Strongly disagree

16% 18% 14% 17% 11% 14% 18% 16% 20%

I don't know

5% 4% 5% 3% 4% 7% 3% 5% 5%

I prefer not to answer

3% 3% 3% 4% 1% 5% 5% 3% 2%

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• 55% of Canadians say they remember the name of one of their high school Canadian history teachers

• One-third vividly remember • 53% between 18-24 vividly remember• Drops to less than one third as of age 45• 54% can name at least one popular Canadian historian

• 27% can do so easily • One third of respondents agree that my Canadian history teacher influenced my attachment to Canada. Less than one in ten strongly agree

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The history I learned in high school provided me with skills that were useful later in life

Total Man Woman 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65 +

NET AGREE

50% 52% 48% 46% 40% 51% 48% 54% 59%

Strongly agree

12% 13% 11% 12% 10% 16% 8% 13% 13%

Somewhat agree

38% 39% 37% 33% 29% 35% 40% 41% 46%

NET DISAGREE

41% 42% 40% 42% 52% 39% 44% 37% 33%

Somewhat disagree

27% 28% 26% 27% 33% 24% 27% 26% 23%

Strongly disagree

14% 14% 15% 15% 19% 15% 17% 11% 10%

I don't know

7% 5% 8% 9% 5% 7% 6% 7% 6%

I prefer not to answer

2% 2% 3% 4% 2% 2% 3% 2% 2%

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Canadian History readers rises at age 35Read books or essays

about Canada's history

Often Occasionally

Often and Occasiona

lly combined Rarely Never

Between 18 and 24 6.2% 21.9% 28.1 39.2% 26.9%

Between 25 and 29 7.0% 19.4% 26.4 39.2% 32.8%

Between 30 and 34 7.0% 21.6% 28.6 36.3% 32.2%

Between 35 and 39 8.8% 27.6% 36.4 38.6% 24.1%

Between 40 and 44 8.3% 29.9% 38.2

42.2% 18.1%

Between 45 and 49 5.0% 36.1% 41.1

39.7% 18.7%

Between 50 and 54 9.8% 30.7% 40.5 43.6% 15.6%

Between 55 and 59 3.8% 31.0% 34.8 39.2% 25.9%

Between 60 and 64 10.6% 37.1% 47.7

35.9% 16.5%

65 years of age or older 11.4% 39.5% 50.9

33.6% 14.5%

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British Columbians most avid readers of Canadian history

Do you {b}often, occasionally, rarely or never… / Read books or essays about Canada's history

Often Occasionally Rarely Never

Don’t know/prefer not to answer

British Columbia 14.3% 34.0% 37.1% 12.9% .1.7%

Saskatchewan 9.0% 37.3% 28.4% 25.4%

Ontario 8.9% 32.7% 34.5% 22.7% 1.2%

Alberta 8.4% 32.7% 43.8% 13.7% 1.3%

Canada 8.1% 30.3% 38.4% 21.7% 1.5%

New Brunswick 7.7% 26.9% 51.9% 13.5% .0%

Manitoba 7.6% 20.3% 50.6% 19.0% 2.6%

Nova Scotia 4.5% 33.3% 39.4% 9.1% 13.6%

Quebec 3.8% 23.0% 42.1% 30.5% ..6%

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Allophones help move world history to the top of what history Canadians think it is most important to learn; francophones pick history of their province

Most important Total French English Other

Maritimes QC ON MB/SK AB BC

History of the World

40% 26% 39% 56% 37% 31% 44% 28% 45% 45%

History of Canada

27% 20% 34% 15% 29% 18% 29% 37% 37% 26%

History of my province

10% 32% 4% 1% 12% 30% 1% 7% 4% 1%

History of my City or Town

6% 8% 7% 3% 4% 7% 7% 7% 3% 5%

History of the country of my ancestors

17% 15% 15% 25% 18% 15% 18% 22% 11% 21%

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Youth regard learning about history of the world as far more important than learning about

history of Canada

Most important History of the World History of Canada World >Canada

Between 18 and 24 51.4% 19.3% 32.1

Between 25 and 29 42.0% 23.4% 18.6

Between 30 and 34 37.4% 24.6% 12.8

Between 35 and 39 42.0% 27.4% 14.6

Between 40 and 44 45.4% 27.3% 18.1

Between 45 and 49 40.9% 20.9% 20.0

Between 50 and 54 44.9% 28.0% 16.9

Between 55 and 59 35.2% 25.8% 9.4

Between 60 and 64 39.4% 28.8% 10.6

65 years of age or older 25.6% 39.0% -14.0

Total 39.7% 27.3% 12.4

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In general, I am proud of Canada's history.

Total 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65 + French English Other

NET AGREE

84% 70% 80% 83% 87% 89% 91% 73% 90% 82%

Strongly agree

43% 26% 32% 41% 46% 51% 55% 22% 53% 37%

Somewhat agree

41% 44% 48% 43% 41% 37% 36% 51% 36% 45%

NET DISAGREE

10% 19% 11% 10% 7% 7% 8% 20% 7% 8%

Somewhat disagree

7% 14% 8% 7% 4% 6% 6% 14% 5% 6%

Strongly disagree

3% 5% 3% 3% 2% 2% 1% 6% 1% 2%

I don't know

4% 9% 7% 5% 4% 3% 1% 6% 3% 7%

I prefer not to answer

2% 2% 2% 1% 3% 1% 1% 1% 1% 3%