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William Lyon Mackenzie King

John McLoughlin

Petroleum Supply and Demand

Cornelius David Krieghoff

Cariboo Gold Rush

Pélagie-la-Charette

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Fire on the Hill!

Suddenly there was a commotion at the main door of the chamber. Two men rushed in and one shouted “Fire... Everybody get out!”...

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 ...

1975 - Oil Sands Development
The Alberta, Ontario and federal governments agreed to invest $600 million in the Syncrude Canada project to develop the Athabasca oil sands near Fort McMurray, Alberta.

"Astronomy is terrifying. It describes a hell in which we seem to be the only inhabitants."
- Louis Dudek

Canadian pilot Bob Gauchie survived freezing arctic conditions longer than any other reported human when his plane went down north of the Arctic circle on 2 February 1967. Gauchie endured 58 days of temperatures as low as -50° Celsius before help arrived.

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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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Austria

Austria. The pre-1914 Austrian-Hungarian Empire created a socio-political mix which has made it difficult to estimate the number (probably close to 50,000 in 1960) of true Austrians in Canada. For the purpose of this article an ...

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