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Aluminum

Signal Hill

Sir Alexander Mackenzie (Explorer)

Québec City

Charlottetown Summer Festival

Tom Thomson

Frederick Horsman Varley

Louis-Joseph Papineau

Painting: 19th and Early 20th Century

Snowmobile

THIS MONTH'S FEATURE ARTICLES

Historical and biographical themes written in a narrative style

Shawnadithit: Last of the Beothuk

Shawnadithit grew anxious waiting for her uncle, Longnon, to return to camp at the junction of Badger Brook and the Exploits River, deep in the wilds of ...

Though he was tired and old, just a few days shy of his 75th birthday, Sir Charles Tupper persevered, lashing out at his critics. ...

Wilfrid Laurier took leadership of the Liberal party of Canada on 18th of June 1887. Frail and intellectual, preferring the ...

Canada's national anthem was first heard one fine June evening in 1880, on the campus of Laval University in Quebec City. A small ...

1934 - Liberals Win in Saskatchewan
The Liberals under James Garfield Gardiner won the Saskatchewan elections.

"All true wisdom is only to be learned far from the dwellings of men, in the great solitudes; and it can be obtained only through suffering."
- Igjugarjuk

Canada’s highest railway bridge spans the Oldman River at Lethbridge, Alta, 97.7 metres above the river.

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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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Michel Hirvy

Michel (Mischa) Hirvy (b Hirschowitz). Pianist, teacher, b Warsaw, October 1900?, d Montreal 31 Dec 1966. He studied piano with Paul Lutzenko and graduated from the Stern Cons in Berlin. After further studies in Austria he lived ...

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