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Tremblay, Michel

Mackenzie, Sir Alexander (Explorer)

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Bernier and Arctic Sovereignty

Joseph-Elzéar Bernier was Canada's greatest seaman, a man of strong will and extraordinary ingenuity. It is largely due to him that the Canadian flag now flies ...

The corvette’s guns opened fire keeping the Germans from manning their deck gun. The captain ordered the ship to ram the ...

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

With the current almost religious belief in privatization and the recent debate about selling off Ontario Hydro, it is timely ...

1997 - Violent Crime Down
Statistics Canada reported that violent crime in Canada had dropped for the fourth straight year to 973 incidents per 100 000 population, including 633 murders.

"The medium is the message."
- Marshall McLuhan

Pincher Creek, Alta recorded the most extreme-ever weather change on January 1962 when the weather rose from -19ºC to +22ºC in one hour.

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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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Bernier and Arctic Sovereignty

Music therapy. As defined by the Canadian Association for Music Therapy, music therapy is 'the skilful use of music to aid the physical, psychological and emotional integration of the individual, and in the treatment of an ...

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