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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 ...

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

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

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1943 - Death of Aberhart
Longtime Social Credit premier of Alberta William Aberhart died in Vancouver. He was succeeded by Ernest Manning.

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
   - Samuel Johnson

The organ at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto has 5207 pipes.

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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

Erwin Marcus

Erwin Marcus. Choir director, composer, teacher, b Vienna 1902, naturalized Canadian 1956, d Montreal April 1956. He took music lessons privately and studied musicology at the University of Vienna. Between 1920 and 1938 he ...



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Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at ...

Great Depression

Few countries were affected as severely as Canada by the worldwide Depression of the 1930s. It is estimated that ...

Louis Riel

Louis Riel, Métis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the NORTH-WEST REBELLION (b at Red River ...

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Evangelical Christian Church in Canada (Christian Disciples)

Evangelical Christian Church, often called the Christian Church (Christian Disciples), is a denomination stemming from ...

New France

France was a colonial power in North America from the early 16th century, the age of great European discoveries and ...

Canadian Pacific Railway

Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British ...

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John Ware

John Ware, cowboy, rancher (born near Georgetown, SC 1845; died near Brooks, Alta 13 Sept 1905). John Ware was born a ...

Music Composition

The repertoire of works composed in Canada in the traditions of Western art music goes back about 300 years; but by far ...

Sir John Alexander Macdonald

Sir John Alexander Macdonald, lawyer, businessman, politician, first prime minister of Canada (b at Glasgow, Scot 10 or ...