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Climate Change (Plain-Language Summary)
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Second World War (Plain-Language Summary)
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Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Lions Gate Bridge Opens to Traffic
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War Measures Act (Plain-Language Summary)
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COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Canada’s First Gas Station Opens for Business
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Women and the Indian Act
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Province of Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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First World War (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Mob Storms Chinatown and Japantown
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History of Labour Migration to Canada
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Trailblazing Black Canadian Athletes
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Seven Years’ War (Plain-Language Summary)
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Decorative Arts in Canada
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Geography of Quebec
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Vancouver Feature: Pot Demonstration Turns Ugly
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Turtle Island (Plain-Language Summary)
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34 Canadian Brigade Group (34 CBG)
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Black Female Freedom Fighters
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André Chagnon
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37 Canadian Brigade Group (37 CBG)
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Vancouver Feature: UBC Students Stage Great Trek
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Immigration to Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Canada Interactive Map
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Reserves in the Northwest Territories
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Charlottetown Accord (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Hero Slain on a Vancouver Street
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Vaccination and Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Battle of Vimy Ridge (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: St. James Rises Again
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Patriation of the Constitution (Plain-Language Summary)
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Persons Case (Plain-Language Summary)
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Geography of Yukon
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George Fox (singer)
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Meech Lake Accord (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Pioneer Retailer Opens Woodward’s
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Canadian Cinema's New Generation
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1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (1 CMBG)
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Vegetation Regions (Plain-Language Summary)
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Canadian Press Newsmaker of the Year
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Halifax Explosion (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: The Carnegie Library’s Own Tut
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Constitution Act, 1982 (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Sikh Migrants Stalled in Harbour
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Public Health in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Loyalists in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Indian Act (Plain-Language Summary)
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Premiere Para-Athletes
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Geography of Newfoundland and Labrador
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Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup Finals Appearances
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Elections to Remember
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Mothers of Confederation
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The Quebec Act, 1774 (Plain-Language Summary)
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Five Digital Technologies and their Challenges
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Canadian Refugee Policy
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National Parks of Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Foncie Pulice Takes His Last Street Photo
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Railway History in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Notwithstanding Clause (Plain-Language Summary)
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Residential Schools in Canada Interactive Map
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Vancouver Feature: Mysterious Count Funds City’s First Skyscraper
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Fur Trade in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Notable Wrongful Convictions in Canada
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Largest Lakes in Canada
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Agriculture in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Physiographic Regions (Plain-Language Summary)
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Editorial: Black Women in the Arts
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Geography of Nova Scotia
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Statute of Westminster, 1931 (Plain-Language Summary)
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Métis (Plain-Language Summary)
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William Baerg
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Daylight Saving Time in Canada
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Plain-Language Summary)
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Natural Resources in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Upper Canada Land Surrenders
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Playing-Card Money
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Hart Memorial Trophy
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Alert
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41 Canadian Brigade Group (41 CBG)
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Tony Bradan
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Gun Control in Canada
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Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy
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Acadian Expulsion (Plain-Language Summary)
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Dallas Harms
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Premiers of British Columbia
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Denny Christianson
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Sir John A. Macdonald
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A Part of Our Heritage
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John McIntosh
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Canadian Olympic Hockey Teams
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Richard Semmens
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Governors General of Canada Since Confederation
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Constitution of Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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The Great Flag Debate
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First Nations in Canada
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Conn Smythe Trophy
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Sekani
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Canadian Gold Medal Winners at Olympic Winter Games
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Martial Asselin
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Bush Flying in Canada
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Tom Longboat
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American Civil War and Canada
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Lieutenant-Governors of Ontario
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Languages in use in Canada
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Black Enslavement in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Rose Fortune
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David C. Onley
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Manitoulin Island
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Ovide Mercredi
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Mike Bossy
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Pro Pelle Cutem
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Canadian Gold Medal Winners at Olympic Summer Games
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Red Cross Society
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Canadian Forces Base Borden
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Vancouver Feature: Vancouver Wins the Stanley Cup!
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36 Canadian Brigade Group (36 CBG)
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38 Canadian Brigade Group (38 CBG)
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Ethel Blondin-Andrew
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Donald Oliver
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Norm Amadio
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Wayne Gretzky
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Premiers of Manitoba
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Keith Spicer
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NOVA Corporation
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Indian Act
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Commissioners of Nunavut
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Natalie Kuzmich
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Margaret Parsons-Poole
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John Reeves
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Charles Dutoit
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Quiet Revolution (Plain-Language Summary)
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Peter Goddard
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Vancouver Feature: Fledgling City Incinerated in Minutes
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Canadian Pacific Railway (Plain-Language Summary)
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Piapot
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Bill Phillips
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George Brough
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"Jesous Ahatonhia"
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Treaties with Indigenous Peoples in Canada
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Dolores Claman
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Vancouver Feature: Mayor McGeer Reads the Riot Act
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Mi'kmaq
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Internment of Japanese Canadians (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Squatters Settle in Stanley Park
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Residential Schools in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Official Languages Act (1988) (Plain-Language Summary)
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Canadian Technological Inventions and Innovations
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Numbered Treaties (Plain-Language Summary)
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5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group
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Geography of the Northwest Territories
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Chinese Head Tax in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Louis Riel (Plain-Language Summary)
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Premiers of Alberta
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Scotiabank Giller Prize Winners
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Premiers of Nova Scotia
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Premiers of Nunavut
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Vancouver Feature: Asahis Win Terminal City Championship
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Vancouver Feature: “Babes in the Woods” Discovered
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Vancouver Feature: The Bay’s Days
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Vancouver Feature: Billionaire Recluse Commandeers a Hotel
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Vancouver Feature: BC Electric Building Opens
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Vancouver Feature: Birks Building Demolished
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Vancouver Feature: Birks Clock Moves Downtown
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Vancouver Feature: Bloody Sunday
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Vancouver Feature: Gassy Jack Lands on the Burrard Shore
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Craig Kielburger
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Canada at the 1924 Olympic Winter Games
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Canadian Medical Discoveries and Innovations
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Vancouver Feature: Joe Fortes Saves Lives, Wins Hearts
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Vancouver Feature: The Milkshake Murder
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31 Canadian Brigade Group (31 CBG)
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Battle of the Plains of Abraham (Plain-Language Summary)
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Longest Rivers in Canada
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Sixties Scoop (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Shining Ball Punctuates Expo Site
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Vancouver Feature: Pauline Johnson Names Lost Lagoon
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Five Prehistoric Canadian Animals
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Kanesatake Resistance (Oka Crisis) (Plain-Language Summary)
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Recession in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Chinese Canadians (Plain-Language Summary)
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Genocide and Indigenous Peoples in Canada
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Regional Economics in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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The Rights Revolution (Plain-Language Summary)
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D-Day and the Battle of Normandy (Plain-Language Summary)
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Ten Black Canadians in the Armed Forces
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Canadians in Space
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Twenty Pioneering Newspaperwomen in Canada
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Canada and the Cold War (Plain Language Summary)
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Ten Female Trailblazers of Western Canada
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Canada and the Battle of the Atlantic (Plain-Language Summary)
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Portia White (Plain-Language Summary)
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Lucy Maud Montgomery (Plain-Language Summary)
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Reciprocity (Plain-Language Summary)
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National Policy (Plain-Language Summary)
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Immigration Policy in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Refugees to Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Oscar Peterson (Plain-Language Summary)
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Racial Segregation of Black People in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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London Conference (Plain-Language Summary)
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Constitutional Act, 1791 (Plain-Language Summary)
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Rebellions of 1837–38 (Plain-Language Summary)
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Act of Union (Plain-Language Summary)
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Durham Report (Plain-Language Summary)
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Charlottetown Conference (Plain-Language Summary)
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Great Coalition of 1864 (Plain-Language Summary)
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Quebec Conference, 1864 (Plain-Language Summary)
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Rep by Pop (Plain-Language Summary)
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Quebec Resolutions (Plain-Language Summary)
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Idle No More (Plain-Language Summary)
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Intergenerational Trauma and Residential Schools (Plain-Language Summary)
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Treaty 6 (Plain-Language Summary)
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Canadian Nobel Laureates
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Responsible Government (Plain-Language Summary)
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Dominion of Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Great Depression in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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North-West Resistance (Plain-Language Summary)
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Women's Suffrage in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Hudson’s Bay Company (Plain-Language Summary)
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Canadian Shield (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Marine Building Opens Amid Wall St. Woes
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Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Active Citizenship (Plain-Language Summary)
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35 Canadian Brigade Group (35 CBG)
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Conscription in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Buddha Smiles on Vancouver Punk Scene
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National Parks of Canada Interactive Map
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Geography of Alberta
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New France (Plain-Language summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Murder in Shaughnessy Heights Mansion
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2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (2 CMBG)
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Berger Commission
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Vancouver Feature: Ironworkers Plunge to their Deaths
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Constitution Act, 1867 (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Japanese-Canadians Held at Hastings Park
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39 Canadian Brigade Group (39 CBG)
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Red River Resistance (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Little Tramp Graces the Orpheum Stage
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Canadian Bill of Rights (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Timber Arch Installed on First Nation Site
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32 Canadian Brigade Group (32 CBG)
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Montreal Canadiens in the Hockey Hall of Fame
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Vancouver Feature: “China-town” Develops on Old Dupont
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Vancouver Feature: Police Chief Slain in Wild Gun Fight
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Vancouver Feature: Police and Strikers Battle on the Docks
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Dinosaur Fossils in Canada Interactive Map
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Vancouver Feature: Restless Ghost Haunts the Old Court House
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Largest National Parks in Canada
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33 Canadian Brigade Group (33 CBG)
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Vancouver Feature: Doors Open into an Exotic Cave
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Vancouver Feature: Nine Maidens Adorn the New World Building
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The War of 1812 (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Heavyweight Champ Battles Future Movie Star
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Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Plain-Language Summary)
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Vancouver Feature: Homeless Vets Invade the Hotel Vancouver
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Reserves in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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10 Indigenous Firsts in Canada
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The Underground Railroad (Plain-Language Summary)
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Reconciliation in Canada (Plain-Language Summary)
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Heritage Minutes Interactive Map
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Vancouver Feature: KKK Moves into Shaughnessy Mansion