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Habitant

Krieghoff, Cornelius David

Eagle

Lévesque, René

Native People: Arctic

Thomson, Thomas John

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Historical and biographical themes written in a narrative style

Charlottetown 1864: The Persuasive Power of Champagne

On Monday August 29, 1864 half the cabinet of the Canadian government boarded the steamer Queen Victoria at Quebec. They had heard that ...

When BC agreed to join the Canadian confederation, it did so with the understanding that within 10 years Canada would build ...

The parades held in support of the Nine-Hour Movement and the printers' strike led to an annual celebration...

Soldiers rounding up terrified civilians, expelling them from their land, burning their homes and crops - it sounds like a ...

1888 - Birth of Dorothy Stevens
Portrait and figure painter Dorothy Stevens, who was highly regarded as a painter of oil and pastel portraits of women and children, was born at Toronto.

"What experience and history teach us is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."
- G.W.F. Hegel

Journalist Sandy Gardiner coined the term "Beatlemania" while working for the Ottawa Journal in the 1960s.

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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.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC IN CANADA

Charlottetown 1864: The Persuasive Power of Champagne

Few countries possess a folk music as rich and culturally varied as Canada's. Traditional folk music of European origin has been present in Canada since the arrival of the first French and British settlers in the 16th and 17th ...

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