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Charlottetown Summer Festival

Pélagie-la-Charette

National Film Board of Canada

Plante, Jacques

Jutra, Claude

Krieghoff, Cornelius David

Lévesque, René

Anne of Green Gables

Habitant

Morenz, Howarth William

THIS MONTH'S FEATURE ARTICLES

Historical and biographical themes written in a narrative style

Bernier and Arctic Sovereignty

Joseph-Elzéar Bernier was Canada's greatest seaman, a man of strong will and extraordinary ingenuity. It is largely due to him that the Canadian flag now flies ...

The corvette’s guns opened fire keeping the Germans from manning their deck gun. The captain ordered the ship to ram the ...

David Thompson was an outsider, struggling to find a foothold in the empire that had consumed his country...

With the current almost religious belief in privatization and the recent debate about selling off Ontario Hydro, it is timely ...

1974 - Bill 22 Passed
Bill 22 made French the language of civic administration and services, and of the workplace, in Québec.

"Being Canadian has never been a nationality; it's a condition."
- Peter C. Newman

Outlook, Sask, is home of the longest pedestrian bridge in Canada. A former railway bridge it traverses the South Saskatchewan River.

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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.

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Bernier and Arctic Sovereignty

Magdeleine Martin. Pianist, teacher, b Montreal 28 Aug 1921. She studied piano with her sister Gilberte and organ and harmony with Georges-Émile Tanguay. In 1943 she was admitted to the CMM; her teachers there were Isidor ...

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