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Painting: Beginnings

Louis-Joseph Papineau

Anne of Green Gables

Martha Henry

Sir Alexander Mackenzie (Explorer)

Poundmaker

Petroleum Supply and Demand

Antoine Plamondon

Dumont, Gabriel

Northrop Frye

THIS MONTH'S FEATURE ARTICLES

Historical and biographical themes written in a narrative style

Toronto Maple Leafs 1967: The Last Stanley Cup

The Toronto Maple Leafs’ victory in the 1967 Stanley Cup was a singular event. Who would have predicted that it would not happen again?

It has become common knowledge that the first Thanksgiving in North America was held by Martin Frobisher and his crew in the ...

It is well known that the English victory on the Plains of Abraham in September 1759 placed the city of Québec under British ...

...The moment the train reached the bridge the immense weight crushed through the timbers, and the whole structure gave way, ...

1938 - Relief Workers' Strike in BC
Unemployed members of the Relief Project Worker's Union in Vancouver occupied the Hotel Georgia, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the central post office and began a sit-down strike.

"Canada has rarely been the promised land. About the closest we've come is the title of Wayne Johnston's 1998 novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams."
- Margaret Atwood

The first kiss in movie history was in 1896 in the short film The Kiss, starring May Irwin of Whitby, Ont. Irwin is kissed by John Rice. The film was only a minute long and had to be viewed through the peep-hole of a Kinetoscope.

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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.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC IN CANADA

Lawrence Cherney

Lawrence Cherney. Oboist, administrator, teacher, b Peterborough, Ont, 1 May 1946, BA (Toronto) 1969, M MUS (Toronto)1978. After studying 1959-64 with Perry Bauman at the RCMT, he entered the University of Toronto in 1964 as a ...

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