Portia White

Portia White is an amazing African Canadian and I will be doing my assignment on her.

Portia white was an amazing Canadian vocalist. She was born in Truro, Nova Scotia. She started her career at the age of six. When she was six years old she joined her father's church choir. Her father would organize small concerts to raise money and she would perform at the concerts. At the age of seventeen she she received her first big win. She won a silver cup in the Nova Scotia music festival. That's when it all started. She then received a scholar ship to the Halifax Ladies Music Club. She was attending the Halifax conservatory of music.

Portia White was one of the best Canadian contralto singers there is. She made her first debut in Toronto 1941. She then made her big international debut in 1944 in New York City. She then went on a tour around the world. In 1964 Portia White preformed for Queen Elizabeth II. She preformed at the confederation center of arts in Charlottetown.

The concert to the Queen was the last big performance for Portia White . The reason why is that she got a rasp in her voice which made her retire early. After her retirement she went back to teaching. Portia White taught some of Canadians great pop singer.

Portia was one of eleven children in her family. Portia's family was famouse just like Portia. She had a brother named Bill who was the first Canadian with African heritage to run for political office. She also had a brother named Jack who was a noted Canadian labour union. Bill had two famous kids who where Chris who was a musician and Shelia who was a politician. Her Father Rev. William Andrew White was the first African Canadian to graduate from Acadia University.

Portia White has been named " person of national historic significance" by Canadian government. Portia White was a very god singer who was a Canadian of African heritage and that really helped her popularity. Portia's talent helped all people with African heritage who followed.

If you are interested in learning more about Portia White check out these two sites.

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assignement # 4

Hanad had a really nice blog for the assignment 3. He talk a lot about how there will be new discoveries and better cars. My favourite line in is blog entry is when he said"There will be better history for the teacher's and student's because of the historic election." I thought that that was really cool and so true. The only thing that I suggest for Hanad is that he explains a little bit more about what the new discoveries will be about.



Andi's blog entry about what he thinks that it will be like 2109 was really cool and had some interesting points. My favourite part was when he said that he thinks there will be medicine that will keep us alive longer."I think theres going to be pills that make you live longer until like 135 years old."[SIC] Andi had a lot of other great ideas on his blog.

Colton
In 2109 i believe there will be all new technology, like talking robot butlers, rocket cars, floating cities, and who knows, maybe we will be trading stocks with martians! This is part of Coltons very interesting blog entry. He thinks that there will be a lot of great new thing but he would be alive to see them. I think his entry was very cool and I loved that he talked about martins.

These are some of the great blogs done by some of the kids in E7A you should check them out.

Assignment # 3

In this assignment I will be estimating the answer to Christopher Moore's question what will 2109 be like. Check out Christopher Moore's history blog http://christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com/.

I think that in the year 2109 we will have had a black prime minister and also a girl prime minister in Canada. U.S.A will have had a girl presedent that did a great job and everyone thought see did a great job. We will have had progress with the gas problem. All cars will be run on electricity and not gasoline. This will solve alot of the population problem in the world. It will also save alot of the people money. The reason is that they wouldn'd ned to have to go and get gas all the time all they will need to do is plug in there car at night. Lastly most teaching will be on the blogs. The only subject that will not be on bloggers.com will be gym. With all this new tecnoligy everyone will know how to blog by then.

Welcome bloggers

Welcome to my history blog. I am in grade 7 and I live in Ottawa Ontario. On my blog I will be learning about Canadian history and you can learn with me. I really hope that you love my blog and I would love it too if you would respond to my blog. I am so excited to be finishing my Canadian history unit on my bloggers .com.

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