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The "Other" Last Spike
What about the men who actually built the railway? Where are their names recorded, except on tombstones along the way?...
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“a forlorn expenditure of valour and life without equal in futility”...
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Canada’s premier ballet company is the National Ballet of Canada (NBC), which debuted on November 12, 1951...
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Time waits for no man… and neither do trains...
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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.
"If you are a Canadian, you have a bond with alienated Americans... in a way Canadians are expatriate Americans from birth."
   - David Cronenberg
The first elected female provincial premier in Canada was Catherine Callbeck, in PEI in 1993.
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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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Brewer, George MacKenzie
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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