By Sarah Wallace

P.A. students looking for votes in national competition

Mar 16, 2017 | 2:00 PM

French Grade 8 students at Prince Albert’s École Vickers are taking part in a nationwide contest to help celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday.

The project is called Canada’s Coolest School Trip – My Parks Pass, and is about encouraging people to get out and enjoy one of the many parks Canada has to offer.

Grade 8 teacher Gisele Vachon-Perillat said each participating class across the country creates a one-minute video on a local national park and this year her students picked the Motherwell Homestead National Historic Site located about 100 km east of Regina near Abernathy, SK.

“This year the theme was to promote a Parks Canada historic site or park for people during [Canada’s] 150 because of the free park passes this year,” Vachon-Perillat said.

Student Dana Ismail said the class picked Motherwell because it shows Canada’s history of agriculture.

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“In the video we talked about the history of Motherwell … we set the story of [William] Motherwell’s history and how he moved to Fort Qu’Appelle because there was no land in Ontario,” Ismail said.

Leah Bratvold, said the group now needs help racking up votes; the top prize is a class trip to Nova Scotia.

“We need people to vote every day until March 24 on ‘My Parks Pass’ website and vote for Motherwell Homestead,” Bratvold said.

Even if the class doesn’t win the top prize there is a chance for the school to win other prizes like a trip to a local Parks Canada site.

sarah.wallace@jpbg.ca

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