John A. Macdonald, who proposed that a statue be erected in Cartier’s honour. It was sculpted by Louis-Philippe Hébert and unveiled in 1885. This was the first statue to be placed on Parliament Hill and it can still be seen today. Cartier left his mark on generations of Canadians. Th...
The Battle of Vimy Ridge, which began on April 9, 1917, was not an isolated operation; it was a small part of the Battle of Arras. The two major points of the battle for the ridge, for which the Canadians were responsible, were the ridge itself (Hill 145) and the Pimple (Hill 119...
The rum (I’ll use the term for now) is made in Canada, and therefore falls into the rabbit hole of the country’s arcane liquor laws, one of which, like Australia’s, states that a rum — assuming it meets the basic criteria of being made from cane derivatives like molasses, juice ...
with nearly half of those expressing that they expected to remain on OAT for at least a year. Others indicated that while they expected to remain on OAT in the short-term, they would like to wean off OAT by
and resilient salmon trusteeship54. Globally, other examples of pre-contact/pre-industrial selective fisheries have been identified [e.g.,84,85] and we expect that further research will reveal that such selective fisheries were once widespread, and partly responsible for the long-term resilience of...
1915 –Edmund Broderpurchased 160 acres of treed land in Horse Hill settlement North East of Edmonton, Alberta proximity to Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. 1917 –Edmund Broder purchased his first and only automobile a 1914 Ford Model T from Joe Smith a Ford Dealer in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, C...
Then the rest of us went down the side of the hill, and across a stream running through a donga, where some women were washing clothes. Old man drinking beer On the other hill, near the school, we talked to an old man who was sitting outside his house drinking beer, but he didn’...
Northern Development makes him a natural choice for this important role, allowing him to continue to build on the impor- tant work that Chuck Strahl and our Government have done in this area." The Prime Minister paid trib- ute to the former Government House Leader, the Honourable Jay Hill....
when doing genealogy research, we are looking for names of ancestors, as well as dates or places of key life events, such as births, marriages and deaths. For this exercise, let’s see whether we can find that information for this person. We’ll also see what we can find out about hi...
indicates that she lived in Glasgow with her sister Maggie and their widowed mother, also named Mary. The two sisters became orphans when their mother died in 1888. The next census (1891) indicates that the sisters lived at the Girls Industrial School in Maryhill, in the County of ...