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1885 - Last Spike Driven for CPR
The last spike was driven by Donald Smith at Craigellachie, BC, at the western entrance to Eagle Pass, in a ceremony marking the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The CPR provided a transportation link from Atlantic to Pacific. |
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"If you are a Canadian, you have a bond with alienated Americans... in a way Canadians are expatriate Americans from birth."
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The first elected female provincial premier in Canada was Catherine Callbeck, in PEI in 1993. |
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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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| George MacKenzie Brewer. Organist, pianist, teacher, composer, lecturer, b London, Ont, 30 May 1889, d Montreal 18 May 1947; Associate (Dominion College of Music) 1903, Fellow (American Guild of Organists) 1910. Though he studied ... |
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| Louis Riel, Métis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the NORTH-WEST REBELLION (b at Red River ... |
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| The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. The original members - ... |
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| Sir John Alexander Macdonald, lawyer, businessman, politician, first prime minister of Canada (b at Brunswick Place, ... |
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| On 18 June 1812, at the height of the Napoleonic conflict (see NAPOLEONIC WARS), the US declared war on Great Britain ... |
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| John Ware, "Nigger John," horseman, rancher (b near Georgetown, SC 1845; d near Brooks, Alta 11 Sept 1905). ... |
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| Créditistes, Québec party involved in federal politics. For nearly 2 decades before its 1958 formation ... |
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| Julia Verlyn LaMarsh, "Judy," lawyer, politician, broadcaster, novelist (b at Chatham, Ont 20 Dec 1924; d at ... |
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