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Mount Edziza Provincial Park

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Historical and biographical themes written in a narrative style

David Thompson: The Greatest Geographer the World has Known

David Thompson was an outsider, struggling to find a foothold in the empire that had consumed his country...

While the games always carried a sacred aspect, held on the open plains of Elis, surrounded by magnificent groves of ...

Hunter ordered them to drill down just another metre or so. And then, finally, there it was! Primal ooze, the black goo that made ...

The strike in Asbestos, Quebec, is one of those events that resonate beyond the immediate and define history. It was, as ...

1999 - Liberals Keep Newfoundland
The Newfoundland Liberal Party, led by Premier Brian Tobin, won re-election with a reduced majority in the provincial election.

"Canada is above all an idea of what a country could be, a place of imagination."
- John Ralston Saul

Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor and Robert Kerr invented IMAX film and first displayed it at Expo 67 in Montreal.

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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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Neil Swainson

Neil (James Sinclair) Swainson. Bassist, composer, b Victoria, BC, 15 Nov 1955. He studied briefly with Robert Meyer in Victoria but is largely self-taught. After playing 1975-7 with the Paul Horn Quintet, he moved to Toronto, ...

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