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Sealing

Frederick Horsman Varley

Montgomery, Lucy Maud

Eagle

Northrop Frye

Stephán Gudmundsson Stephansson

THIS MONTH'S FEATURE ARTICLES

Historical and biographical themes written in a narrative style

Elections of 1979 and 1980

Calling elections is like Goldilocks visiting the three bears – which political stew will turn out to be too soon, too late, or just right...?

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

Besides hockey and the maple leaf, there is little as symbolically Canadian as the CBC – the Canadian Broadcasting ...

"Five!? There are five? My God! What am I going to do with five babies?" exclaimed Oliva Dionne when his wife Elzire delivered ...

1838 - Last Fatal Duel
In Verdun, Qué, lawyer Robert Sweeny shot and killed Maj Henry Warde, who had sent a love letter to Mrs Sweeny, in the last fatal duel recorded in Canada.

"Men have need of history because, without it, the past would be likely to crush them."
- Guy Frégault

The world’s fastest speaking broadcaster was Gerry Wilmot, a Canadian hockey commentator from Victoria, BC, who spoke over 300 words per minute while calling games in the 1950s.

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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.

Interactive Resources

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

Valdine Anderson

Valdine Anderson. Soprano, teacher, b Winnipeg 4 Jul 1960; B MUS (Manitoba) 1987, Opera Diploma (Toronto) 1990. Valdine Anderson studied with Dorothy Lawson in Winnipeg, Mary Morrison in Toronto, Jane Manning in London, and ...

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