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Bitumen

Purdy, Alfred Wellington

Anne of Green Gables

Parti Québécois

Dieppe Raid

Petroleum Supply and Demand

Painting: 19th and Early 20th Century

Naismith, James

National Film Board of Canada

Groulx, Lionel-Adolphe

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Charlottetown 1864: The Persuasive Power of Champagne

On Monday August 29, 1864 half the cabinet of the Canadian government boarded the steamer Queen Victoria at Quebec. They had heard that ...

When BC agreed to join the Canadian confederation, it did so with the understanding that within 10 years Canada would build ...

The parades held in support of the Nine-Hour Movement and the printers' strike led to an annual celebration...

Soldiers rounding up terrified civilians, expelling them from their land, burning their homes and crops - it sounds like a ...

1604 - Champlain Explores Bay of Fundy
Samuel de Champlain began exploring the Bay of Fundy to seek an ideal site for a permanent settlement, becoming the first European to create a geographical description of the area.

"If you are a Canadian, you have a bond with alienated Americans... in a way Canadians are expatriate Americans from birth."
- David Cronenberg

O Canada was first sung in 1880, but was not made Canada's official national anthem until one hundred years later.

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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.

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Charlottetown 1864: The Persuasive Power of Champagne

Charles-François Coron. Organist, tailor, notary, b St-François-de-Sales (Ile Jésus, later part of Laval, near Montreal) 21 Dec 1704, d there 13 Feb 1767. A comparison of extant documents suggests that there ...

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