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Painting: 19th and Early 20th Century

Painting: 19th and Early 20th Century

Munsinger Affair

Snowmobile

Louis-Joseph Papineau

Signal Hill

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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 ...

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

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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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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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