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Coot

Painting: Beginnings

Antoine Plamondon

Pélagie-la-Charette

Painting: 19th and Early 20th Century

Mount Edziza Provincial Park

Martha Henry

Louis-Joseph Papineau

John McLoughlin

Antonine Maillet

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The Formation of the RCMP

The Dominion government's advertisement asked for volunteers "able to read and write either the English or French language" with "good antecedents" who were ...

2001 - Death of Yvonne Dionne
Yvonne Dionne, one of the famous Dionne Quintuplets, died in Montreal at the age of 67.

"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 Canadian soldier Lieutenant Gitz Rice was credited with writing the famous song "Mademoiselle from Armentières" in World War I.

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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.

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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.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC IN CANADA

Madeleine Bernier

Madeleine Bernier. Pianist, accompanist, b Quebec City 26 Aug 1929; deuxième prix piano (CMQ) 1953, B MUS (Laval) 1953, teaching diploma (Institut Jacques-Dalcroze, London) 1957. She studied 1950-3 at the CMQ with Guy ...

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