THIS MONTH'S FEATURE ARTICLES
Historical and biographical themes written in a narrative style
Calling elections is like Goldilocks visiting the three bears – which political stew will turn out to be too soon, too late, or just right...?
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The Dominion government's advertisement asked for volunteers "able to read and write either the English or French language" with ...
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Besides hockey and the maple leaf, there is little as symbolically Canadian as the CBC – the Canadian Broadcasting ...
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"Five!? There are five? My God! What am I going to do with five babies?" exclaimed Oliva Dionne when his wife Elzire delivered ...
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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.
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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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC IN CANADA
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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Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at ...
Few countries were affected as severely as Canada by the worldwide Depression of the 1930s. It is estimated that ...
Louis Riel, Métis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the NORTH-WEST REBELLION (b at Red River ...
Evangelical Christian Church, often called the Christian Church (Christian Disciples), is a denomination stemming from ...
France was a colonial power in North America from the early 16th century, the age of great European discoveries and ...
Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British ...
John Ware, cowboy, rancher (born near Georgetown, SC 1845; died near Brooks, Alta 13 Sept 1905). John Ware was born a ...
The repertoire of works composed in Canada in the traditions of Western art music goes back about 300 years; but by far ...
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, lawyer, businessman, politician, first prime minister of Canada (b at Glasgow, Scot 10 or ...