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Peterson, Oscar Emmanuel

Groulx, Lionel-Adolphe

Jackson, Donald

McLoughlin, John

Krieghoff, Cornelius David

Charlottetown Summer Festival

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Charlottetown 1864: The Persuasive Power of Champagne

On Monday August 29, 1864 half the cabinet of the Canadian government boarded the steamer Queen Victoria at Quebec. They had heard that ...

When BC agreed to join the Canadian confederation, it did so with the understanding that within 10 years Canada would build ...

The parades held in support of the Nine-Hour Movement and the printers' strike led to an annual celebration...

Soldiers rounding up terrified civilians, expelling them from their land, burning their homes and crops - it sounds like a ...

1945 - Birth of Victor-Lévy Beaulieu
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, author of more than 60 books, essays and television screenplays, was born at Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix, Qué. He was called the voice of bas du fleuve (a region of Rivière-du-Loup), winning many literary prizes for his collected works and 4 prix Gémaux awards (1988 to 1996) for his programs (Héritage; Montréal, PQ; Bouscotte).

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

The Canadian government bought the rights to the English words to O Canada for one dollar, in 1970.

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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.

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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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Charlottetown 1864: The Persuasive Power of Champagne

Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff School of Fine Arts, 1933-89). In 1991 one of three divisions of the Banff Centre for Continuing Education, so named in 1978 when the Alberta Legislature proclaimed the Banff Act establishing the ...

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