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Louis Riel

Aluminum

Monarch Butterfly

Sir Alexander Mackenzie (Explorer)

Painting: 19th and Early 20th Century

Aboriginal People: Arctic

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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 ...

1900 - Birth of Alain Grandbois
Alain Grandbois, poet, considered the first great modern Québec poet, was born at St-Casimir, Qué.

"Canada is not yet a country that asks for and uses all the possibilities of its people."
- Robertson Davies

In 1942, the RCMP’s wooden schooner, St Roch, became the first ship to sail the Northwest Passage from west to east. The journey took two years.

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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.

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East Coast Music Awards

East Coast Music Awards (ECMAs). Awards founded by Rob Cohn; initially named the Maritime Music Awards. Headquartered in Charlottetown, P.E.I., the Maritime Music Awards were staged for the first time in the Flamingo Café ...

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