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Reflecting on the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act
On the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a look at the system of IDs used to track and control Chinese residents
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On the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a look at the system of IDs used to track and control Chinese residents
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A relic from the lost Franklin Expedition, along with other pieces of polar exploration history, will accompany King Charles III to his coronation
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After nearly 100 years, the Ni’isjoohl Memorial Pole stolen from the Nisga’a Nation and displayed in the National Museum of Scotland will be repatriated
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It plunged five million people into the dark and cold — the recovery would take years
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Fifty years ago, construction began on the CN Tower, now it stands as the pinnacle of the Toronto skyline
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An excerpt from We All Expected to Die: Spanish Influenza in Labrador, 1918-1919
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Now that a century has passed since the end of the First World War, is it inevitable that efforts to remember the events of the war will start to fade?
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Roaming First World War sites and cemeteries in northern France and Belgium, Stephen Smith reflects on what time heals — and what it can’t
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There are many ways to honour those who served and died in global conflicts, such as going to memorials — but perhaps it’s best to spend time there alone
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From noble mountains to local elementary schools, the Queen’s reign and the bonds she’s forged with Canadians are reflected across the map of Canada
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Some of these gifts are undeniably odd, but they have all been chosen carefully to represent or to engage the Queen in the full panorama of the Canadian story
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Noteworthy occasions in a lifetime of service between Queen Elizabeth II and the Commonwealth country she has visited more than any other
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Queen Elizabeth II’s famous horse, Burmese, is a symbol of the enduring ties between the Crown and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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Michael Adams, president of the Environics group of companies and the Environics Institute, and a regular contributor of published commentary on Canadian values and social trends, says most Canadians view multiculturalism as an important symbol of what we aspire to as a society
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Michael Adams, président du groupe de sociétés Environics et contributeur régulier de commentaires publiés sur les valeurs et les tendances sociales canadiennes, affirme que la plupart des Canadiens considèrent le multiculturalisme comme un symbole important de nos aspirations en tant que société
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Dora Nipp, CEO of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, reflects on the importance of chronicling migrant, ethnic and Indigenous stories as an essential means to understanding Canada in the 20th century and beyond
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Dora Nipp, directrice générale de la Multicultural History Society of Ontario, réfléchit à l'importance de consigner les histoires des migrants, des communautés ethniques et des Autochtones comme moyen essentiel de comprendre le Canada au XXe siècle et au-delà
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Omar Mouallem, auteur de Praying to the West : How Muslims Shaped the Americas (Prière vers l’Occident : comment les musulmans ont façonné les Amériques), examine pourquoi une foi inébranlable dans le projet de multiculturalisme canadien – commune à la génération d'immigrants musulmans arrivés dans les années 1970 – n'est pas toujours partagée par ceux qui ont migré au cours des 20 dernières années, et est rarement ressentie par leurs enfants
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The journey a master mountaineer described “one of the strangest ventures of my life.”
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Omar Mouallem, author of Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas, looks at why an unshakeable faith in Canada’s multiculturalism project — common amongst the generation of Muslim immigrants who arrived in the ’70s — is not always shared by those who have migrated in the last 20 years, and is rarely felt by their children
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La professeure Anna Triandafylllidou se penche sur un projet de mise en récit numérique où 28 étudiants de deuxième cycle de partout au Canada étaient invités à répondre à la question : Qui suis-je ?
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Professor Anna Triandafyllidou reflects on a digital storytelling project that saw 28 graduate students from across Canada answer the question: Who am I?
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Mary Vaux’s groundbreaking 19th-century study of B.C.’s Illecillewaet Glacier created an invaluable record of the glacier’s recession
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A century ago, a strange drama played out on Wrangel Island in the Russian Arctic. The hero of this tale? A 23-year-old Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack
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The journey a master mountaineer described “one of the strangest ventures of my life.”
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“Most successful season” of exploration since the wreck was discovered surfaces 350 artifacts from officers’ quarters
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A map of Toronto in 1878 shows a small city on the brink of massive expansion.
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Raymond Biesinger and Alex Bozikovic uncover the legacies of buildings from across that country that are now gone but still have something to say
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During the mass Irish migration to Canada 175 years ago, some 100,000 people passed through the quarantine island — and more than 5,000 died there
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Un siècle plus tard, l’ancienne politicienne fédérale Catherine McKenna fait le point sur ce qui a changé — et sur le chemin qu’il nous reste à parcourir.
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Le 8 novembre 1946, Viola Desmond est entrée dans l’histoire au cinéma Roseland. Soixante-quinze ans plus tard, le site poursuit son travail de sensibilisation auprès de la communauté.
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Published in the New York Journal as a fanciful full-page map, Going to Klondyke encouraged everyday newspaper readers to try their luck at gold prospecting in the Yukon
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L’histoire méconnue de la grippe espagnole de 1918 et notre état de préparation à la prochaine grande pandémie
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The little-known story of the 1918 Spanish Flu and how we're preparing for the next great pandemic
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An exclusive abridged excerpt from a new book by the famed explorer, actor and comedian
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Between 1914 and 1920, some 5,000 ethnic Ukrainians were imprisoned in Canadian internment camps. A new documentary tells their stories.
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New multimedia project will examine the social and political impact of the flu on Canada, and how experts are preparing for the next pandemic
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Thousands of Canadians have fought and lost their lives overseas — and they haven’t been forgotten
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A century ago, the medical school building at the University of Toronto was the site of a momentous scientific breakthrough
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Il y a un siècle, le bâtiment de l’école de médecine de l'Université de Toronto était le site de la découverte révolutionnaire de l’insuline
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Our experts continue their discussion of the AMC series about the Franklin Expedition
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The amazing story of Renatus Tuglavina, remembered in northern Labrador as a folk hero
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This year marks a century and a half since the first numbered treaties were signed
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For the first time in history, officials were forced to cancel hockey’s biggest game as a flu pandemic continued to rage
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Why HMCS Haida became the flagship of the Royal Canadian Navy
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The author, actor and member of Monty Python wrapped up the Canadian leg of his North American book tour with a sold-out show in Ottawa
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On April 1, 1999, Canada’s youngest population took control of its largest territory. Here’s how Canadian Geographic covered the story.
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La participation du Canada à la bataille de l’Atlantique, montrée ici, est considérée comme étant son rôle le plus crucial dans la guerre.
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Canada’s part in the Battle of the Atlantic, shown here, is considered its most essential role in the war
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Winning gold 100 years ago in Antwerp, Belgium, Canada’s team set a standard for Olympic hockey dominance that would last for three more successive Games
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A book by environmental historian Daniel Macfarlane reveals the decades of technological feats and cross-border politics that went into “fixing” one of North America’s most important natural sites
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Canada’s last active seaport immigration shed closed 50 years ago — a look back at Pier 21
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Le symbolisme du Bluenose, l’emblématique goélette canadienne de pêche et de course, est peut-être tout aussi pertinent aujourd’hui qu’il y a 100 ans, lorsque le navire a touché l’eau pour la première fois
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A French-born Canadian changed the world of mapping by photographing the Rockies
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A 17th-century circumpolar map shows the early days of Arctic exploration
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Author Emma Donoghue’s novel about the 1918 pandemic offers up many parallels to our 2020 pandemic experience
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La première exposition des artistes avait lieu le 7 mai 1920
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Their first exhibition was May 7, 1920 at what is now the Art Gallery of Ontario
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Une rétrospective des débuts de l’institution fondée il y a 350 ans, qui revendiquait autrefois une part importante du globe
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Gagnante de la médaille d’or il y a 100 ans à Anvers (Belgique), l’équipe canadienne a établi une domination en hockey olympique qui a duré pendant trois autres Jeux successifs
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L’année 1970 marquait la naissance des Jeux, créés pour donner aux athlètes nordiques plus d’occasions de s’entraîner et de participer à des compétitions
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Games were started in 1970 to give northern athletes more opportunities for training and competition
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In his new book Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, Mark Bourrie examines the larger-than-life legacy of the French-Canadian fur trader
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A new book by Ken McGoogan traces the experiences of Scottish Highlanders evicted from their homes to pre-Confederation Canada
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Our beloved red-and-white maple leaf flag was raised on Feb. 15, 1965, but not before years of angry debates and a parade of competing designs were put down
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A new novel by Erika Behrisch Elce brings Lady Franklin — widow of doomed polar explorer Sir John Franklin — to life in new and creative ways