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James Wolfe

Sir Alexander Mackenzie (Explorer)

Howie Morenz

Munsinger Affair

Pitcher Plant

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Historical and biographical themes written in a narrative style

The Formation of the RCMP

The Dominion government's advertisement asked for volunteers "able to read and write either the English or French language" with "good antecedents" who were ...

Besides hockey and the maple leaf, there is little as symbolically Canadian as the CBC – the Canadian Broadcasting ...

"Five!? There are five? My God! What am I going to do with five babies?" exclaimed Oliva Dionne when his wife Elzire delivered ...

Violence peaked on the morning of June 1, 1873, when traders and some wolf hunters from Fort Benton scattered an Assiniboine ...

1615 - Récollets Arrive
Four Récollets from France arrived at Tadoussac with Champlain, only to quickly go their separate ways. The best-known Récollet, Gabriel Sagard, later published Le Grand Voyage du pays des Hurons, an indispensable source of knowledge of Huron customs and culture.

"Being Canadian has never been a nationality; it's a condition."
- Peter C. Newman

Marc Lescarbot established Canada’s first library in 1606, lending his own books to fellow settlers at Port Royal.

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Gallery

Browse the rich visual resources of The Canadian Encyclopedia through thematic galleries of Canadian Art, History, Nature, People, and Science and Technology.

Interactive Resources

Illustrations, lively text, animations, sounds and games help make learning about Canadian history, art, geography, architecture and other topics entertaining as well as informative.

Canucklehead

The ultimate test of your knowledge of Canada, trivial and otherwise. You can choose from more than 60 dynamic quizzes with visual or text clues. Your scores depend on the speed with which you answer and the number of clues you need. Results are sent to you by email and high scores are posted on the site.

Timeline

This unique resource includes more than 6000 events from Canadian and world history. It can be searched by era, subject, keyword or date. To find out what happened on your birthday, select the month and day of your birth.

100 Greatest Events

This selection of the 100 "greatest" events in Canadian history was made by editor in chief James H. Marsh to draw attention to events that have left an indelible memory in the minds of later generations.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC IN CANADA

Confederation and music

Confederation and music. Confederation is the popular term for the federal union in 1867 of the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada (thereafter Ontario and Quebec), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia under the name Dominion of ...

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