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- ... that the 1950s Canadian science-fiction television series Space Command featured William Shatner and James Doohan who later appeared on Star Trek? Read More
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- ...that the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben across Ontario from Montreal to Lake Nipissing, a depression formed by ancient faults, is a failed arm of the ancestor of the Atlantic Ocean? Read More
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- ... that Bristol, Quebec, had Canada's first horse-drawn railroad and Quebec's first iron ore pelletizing plant? Read More...,
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- ...that Canadian agronomist Seager Wheeler was instrumental in developing a sustainable agricultural economy in Saskatchewan, which has a short prairie growing season and harsh winters? Read More...,
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- ... that Yukon storyteller Angela Sidney was awarded the Order of Canada for contributions to ethnography? Read More...,
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- ...that Canada's first female columnist wrote under the pseudonym Faith Fenton so she could retain her day job as a teacher? Read More...
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- ...that in 1916, Berlin, Ontario changed its name to Kitchener due to World War I-era anti-German sentiment? Read More...
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- ...that John Rut sent the first known letter from North America and that it was from St. John's, Newfoundland on August 3, 1527?
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- ...that the St. Eugene Mine in Moyie, British Columbia produced ten million dollars' worth of ore between 1895 and 1905 and was considered to be the most important silver–lead mine in Canada? Read More...
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- ... that HMS Ontario, an 80-foot sloop of war recently discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario, is the oldest shipwreck and the only fully intact British warship ever found in the Great Lakes? Read More...
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- ... that when 20,000 Mennonites immigrated to Mexico from Canada in 1922, they were given freedom from taxation for 100 years so long as they supplied cheese to northern Mexico? Read More...,
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- ...that during the 1690 Battle of Québec , a group of French paddled a canoe up to the English flagship and under a hail of musket shots managed to return its ensign to the city unscathed? Read More...
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- ... that in the 1800s, Chichester, Quebec claimed to have the largest wooden locks in Canada, built as part of a scheme to encourage boat travel on the upper Ottawa River? Read More...
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- ...that in Upper and Lower Canada, the colonial government used concession roads to define lots which were to be developed? Read More...
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- ...that in the Ukrainian Canadian internment of 1914 to 1920, about five thousand Ukrainian immigrants from Austro-Hungary were classified "aliens of enemy nationality", and interned in twenty-four work camps throughout Canada? Read More...
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- ... that the 40th Grey Cup in 1952 was the first time this Canadian football championship was broadcast on television? Read More...
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- ... that the first seigneur of Beloeil, Quebec, participated in the 1704 Raid on Deerfield? Read More...
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