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Historical and biographical themes written in a narrative style

Shawnadithit: Last of the Beothuk

Shawnadithit grew anxious waiting for her uncle, Longnon, to return to camp at the junction of Badger Brook and the Exploits River, deep in the wilds of ...

Though he was tired and old, just a few days shy of his 75th birthday, Sir Charles Tupper persevered, lashing out at his critics. ...

Wilfrid Laurier took leadership of the Liberal party of Canada on 18th of June 1887. Frail and intellectual, preferring the ...

Canada's national anthem was first heard one fine June evening in 1880, on the campus of Laval University in Quebec City. A small ...

1967 - National Library Opens
PM Pearson opened the National Library and Archives Building in Ottawa.

"Living next to you [the United States] is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."
- Pierre-Elliott Trudeau

Canadian pianist Glenn Gould’s famous eccentricities, such as his constant humming and his hypersensitivity to the environment, may have resulted from Asperger’s syndrome.

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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.

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Rhombus Media Inc

Rhombus Media Inc. An independent producer of television programs on the performing arts. The company was founded in 1979 at the York University film dept by Barbara Willis Sweete, Niv Fichman, and Larry Weinstein. The first ...

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