The Canada Studies Foundation Volume 09 Number 2 THE CANADA
STUDIES FOUNDATION (CSF), incorporated in 1970 as an
independent, non-profit organization, was designed to find ways
of improving the quality of Canadian studies in the elementary
and secondary schools of all provinces so that our young people
might gain a better understanding of themselves and other
Canadians from different regional, cultural, and linguistic
groups across the country. Since 1970, the Canada Studies
Foundation has sponsored teacher-centred curriculum development
of a pan-Canadian nature. Its goal is a greater understanding of
Canadian society. No other organization has involved so many
teachers in co-operative curriculum development endeavors from
such a wide-spread geographical area. To be more specific: In
its first phase (1970-75), the Foundation completed curriculum
projects involving more than seven hundred people from every
level of education and over eight thousand five hundred students
from all provinces; in its second phase