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    Canadian Gold Medal Winners at Olympic Winter Games

    1924 Chamonix Toronto Granite Club Hockey 1928 St Moritz University of Toronto Grads Hockey 1932 Lake Placid Winnipeg Falcons Hockey 1948 St Moritz Barbara Ann Scott Figure Skating RCAF Flyers Hockey 1952 Oslo Edmonton Mercurys Hockey 1960 Squaw Valley Anne Heggveit Skiing Barbara Wagner and Bob Paul Figure Skating 1964 Innsbruck Vic and John Emery, Douglas Anakin, and Peter Kirby Bobsledding 1968 Grenoble Nancy Greene Skiing 1976 Innsbruck Kathy Kreiner Skiing 1984 Sarajevo Gaétan Boucher...

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    Canadian Women At The Olympic Winter Games

    Canadian women have participated in every Olympic Winter Games since their inception in 1924. The first Canadian woman to medal at the Games was figure skater Barbara Ann Scott, who won gold in 1948. Her success was followed by gold medals in such sports as alpine skiing (e.g., Anne Heggtveit in 1960 and Nancy Greene in 1968), speed skating (e.g., Catriona Le May Doan in 1998 and 2002 and Cindy Klassen in 2006), biathlon (Myriam Bédard 1994), and hockey (2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014). Canadian women have also excelled in Olympic sports such as bobsled, snowboarding, short track speed skating, freestyle skiing, and curling. Since the 1948 Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Canadian women have won 105 Olympic medals, including 38 gold medals.

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    Canadian Women Dominate Grammys

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 11, 1996. Partner content is not updated.

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    Canadian Women in the Cold War Navy

    Women served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) throughout the Cold War. Known for much of this period as “Wrens,” they played an important role in RCN missions and operations, including antisubmarine warfare. In 1951, the Canadian Naval Reserve began recruiting women into the service. Women could join the regular navy beginning in 1955; the RCN was the first Commonwealth navy to integrate women into the permanent force. For many years, Wrens served in shore-based branches and trades, including stores, communications, intelligence, submarine detection and in the medical services. By the end of the Cold War, all naval trades and occupations, except submarine service, were open to women. (See also Canada and the Cold War; Women in the Military.)

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    Canadian Women's Army Corps

    During the Second World War, Canadian women, for the first time, were mobilized for service in the Canadian Armed Forces. Of the roughly 50,000 women who enlisted, more than half served in the Canadian Army. Most were assigned jobs involving traditional female work such as cooking, laundry and clerical duties, but women also pioneered roles in the mechanized and technical fields. The Canadian Women’s Army Corps (CWAC) performed essential services, both at home and overseas, that helped bring about Allied victory.

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    Canadian Women's Hockey Team at the Olympics

    Year Host Result Champion 1998 Nagano Silver United States 2002 Salt Lake City Gold Canada 2006 Turin Gold Canada 2010 Vancouver Gold Canada 2014 Sochi Gold Canada 

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    Canadian Women's Hockey Team at the World Championships

    Year Host Result Champion 1990 Ottawa, Ontario Gold Canada 1992 Tampere, Finland Gold Canada 1994 Lake Placid, New York Gold Canada 1997 Kitchener, Ontario Gold Canada 1999 Espoo, Finland Gold Canada 2000 Mississauga, Ontario Gold Canada 2001 Minneapolis, Minnesota Gold Canada 2003 Beijing, China (Cancelled due to SARS) — — 2004 Halifax/Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Gold Canada 2005 Linkoping/Norrkoping, Sweden Silver United States 2007 Winnipeg/Selkirk, Manitoba Gold Canada 2008 Harbin, China Silver United States 2009 Hameenlinna,...

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    Canadians Have a Shaky Start to 2002 Winter Games

    Canadians have never needed banana peels as a cure for rare displays of over-confidence; ice works well enough. It was ice last week on the speed-skating oval and in Salt Lake City's figure-skating arena that momentarily flattened Canada's self-described "best ever" Winter Olympic team.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on February 25, 2002

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    Canada's Forgotten Baseball History

    Baseball has much deeper roots in Canada than most people realize. Baseball was once so popular in Canada that there was even talk of making it our national sport. The story goes back far enough. The first game was played in Beachville, Ontario, about 40 km east of London, on 4 June 1838, with a ball of twisted yarn covered in calfskin and a club carved from cedar. In the audience was a battalion of Scottish volunteers on their way to mop up the remnants of the Upper Canada Rebellion. This baseball game took place seven years before the founding of the first American baseball team, New York’s Knickerbocker Base Ball Club.

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    Canadians in Space

    In 1983, the National Research Council of Canada created the Canadian Astronaut Program (now run by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA)). Since the first recruitment campaign in 1983, 14 Canadians have completed astronaut training and 9 have participated in missions to space (see Canadian Astronauts). A minority of Canadians have joined orbital or suborbital flights as citizen-astronauts or space tourists. The following list includes information about Canadians who have travelled to space as astronauts, citizen-astronauts or space tourists.

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    Canadians Succeed in Animation

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on June 24, 1996. Partner content is not updated. In his blue smoking jacket, white sneakers and sandy-grey muttonchop whiskers, Clive Smith bears an eerie resemblance to one of his company's own creations.

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    Canadians in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL)

    The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) operated between 1943 and 1954. A total of 68 Canadian women from six provinces signed contracts to play on the circuit. It was later immortalized by the Hollywood movie A League of Their Own (1992). Canadian players were among the best pitchers and hitters in the league. Mary “Bonnie” Baker starred on the field and appeared on the league’s behalf on TV and in magazines. Helen Fox led the league as a pitcher, Eleanor Callow was the league’s all-time best power hitter and Helen (Callaghan) Candaele St. Aubin was known as “the feminine Ted Williams.” The Canadians who played in the AAGPBL were inducted as a group into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1998. Candaele St. Aubin was inducted individually in 2021.

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    CANO

    CANO. Franco-Ontarian folk-pop collective, active 1975-85. The founding musicians were members of the Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel Ontario (CANO), an agricultural and artistic commune established in Sudbury in 1970.

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    Cantata Singers of Ottawa

    Cantata Singers of Ottawa. Mixed 45-voice choir founded in 1964 by conductor Gerald Wheeler. Brian Law succeeded Wheeler in 1965 and gradually increased the choir's membership from its original 16.

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    Canuck

    “Canuck” is a nickname for a Canadian — sometimes bearing a negative implication, more often wielded with pride. It goes back at least as far as the 1830s, and its meaning has changed over time. The word “Canuck” may be most familiar today as the name of a National Hockey League franchise, the Vancouver Canucks (see British Columbia). In the 20th century, the term enjoyed a much broader use.

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