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    Principal Canadian Waterfalls (over 30m drop)

    Principal Canadian Waterfalls (over 30m drop) Principal Canadian Waterfalls (over 30 m drop) Name Vertical Drop Location Alexandra Falls 32 m Hay River, NWT Aubrey Falls 33 m Mississagi River, Ontario Brandywine Falls 61 m Brandywine Creek, BC Bridal Veil Falls 122 m Bridal Creek, BC Churchill Falls 75 m Churchill River, Labrador Della Falls 440 m Della Lake, BC Dog Falls 47 m Kaministiquia River, Ontario Elizabeth Falls 34 m Fond du Lac River,...

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    Principal Reservoirs in Canada

    Principal Reservoirs in Canada Principal Reservoirs in Canada Reservoir River Province Storage Capacity* Year Operational Lake St Lawrence St Lawrence Ontario 808 1958 Cross-Cedar Lake Saskatchewan Manitoba 9643 1965 Williston Lake Peace BC 70 309 1968 Manicouagan Manicouagan Québec 141 851 1968 Lake Diefenbaker South Saskatchewan Saskatchewan 9868 1972 Kinbasket Lake Columbia BC 24 670 1972 Wreck Cove Wreck Cove Nova Scotia 126 1978 Hinds Lake Humber Newfoundland 305 1980 SmallwoodChurchillLabrador28 0001971 *millions of cubic...

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    Principal Rivers of Canada

    Principal Rivers of Canada Principal Rivers of Canada and Their Basins Drainage Basin and River Drainage Area (km²) Length (km) Mean Discharge (m³/s) Pacific Ocean: 1 009 100 24 951 Columbia 102 800* 801 2 790² ³ Kootenay 37 700* 780 850³ Fraser 232 300 1 370 3 540 Thompson 55 400 489 750 Nass 21 100 380 950 Skeena 54 400 579 1 760 Stikine 49 800* 539 1 080² Yukon 323 800* 1...

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    Province House - Halifax

    Province House, Halifax, built between 1811 and 1818 to house Parliament, the courts and the public service of Nova Scotia.

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    Province House, Charlottetown

    ​Province House in Charlottetown is the home of Prince Edward Island's Legislative Assembly. 

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    Province of Canada (1841-67)

    In 1841, Britain united the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada. This was in response to the violent rebellions of 1837–38. The Durham Report (1839) recommended the guidelines to create the new colony with the Act of Union. The Province of Canada was made up of Canada West (formerly Upper Canada) and Canada East (formerly Lower Canada). The two regions were governed jointly until the Province was dissolved to make way for Confederation in 1867. Canada West then became Ontario and Canada East became Quebec. The Province of Canada was a 26-year experiment in anglophone-francophone political cooperation. During this time, responsible government came to British North America and expanded trade and commerce brought wealth to the region. Leaders such as Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir George-Étienne Cartier and George Brown emerged and Confederation was born. (This is the full-length entry about the Province of Canada. For a plain language summary, please see Province of Canada (Plain Language Summary).) 

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    Province of Canada (Plain-Language Summary)

    The Province of Canada existed between 1841 and 1867. The legislation that created the Province of Canada was called the Act of Union. The Province of Canada included parts of what are now Ontario, Quebec and Labrador. Before 1841, the region was made up of two British colonies. They were called Upper Canada and Lower Canada. When Britain created the Province of Canada, it combined these two colonies into one. In the new colony, Upper Canada became known as Canada West. Lower Canada was known as Canada East. The people in Canada West were mostly English. The people in Canada East were mostly French. (This article is a plain-language summary about the Province of Canada. If you are interested in reading about this topic in more depth, please see our full-length entry Province of Canada.)

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    The Rooms

    The Rooms is a cultural centre located in St. John’s, Newfoundland, that showcases the history, heritage and art of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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    Provincial Parks

    This image of Reesor Lake in Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park depicts mixed spruce, aspen woodland and fescue grassland (photo by Cliff Wallis, courtesy Cottonwood Consultants Ltd.).Typical boreal shield country in northern Ontario (photo by Brian Milne/First Light).PreviousNext Parks, Provincial Provincial parks are areas of land and water, large or small, natural or man-modified, designated by any of the provincial governments for the purposes of nature protection, recreation, TOURISM, historic preservation and education. They range in...

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    Prud'homme

    Prud'homme, Saskatchewan, incorporated as a village in 1922, population 167 (2016 census), 172 (2011 census). The village of Prud'homme is located about 45 km northeast of Saskatoon. Prud'homme is the hometown of Jeanne Sauvé, a former cabinet minister in the Pierre Trudeau government, the first woman to hold the position of Speaker of the House of Commons and the first woman to act as Governor General of Canada.

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    Public Archives of Canada

    See NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF CANADA.

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    Pugwash

    Pugwash, NS, incorporated as a village in 1948, population 744 (2011c), 784 (2006c). Pugwash is located 65 km northwest of TRURO, at the mouth of the Pugwash River.

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    Pukaskwa National Park

    Pukaskwa National Park (designated 1978, 1877.8 km2) is bracketed on the west by the coastline of Lake Superior, an impressive stretch of massive headlands and beaches of golden sand or water-worn cobble. The name is of native origin but its meaning is unclear.

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    Purcell Mountains

    The Purcell Mountains are an interior mountain range in British Columbia.

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    Qajartalik

    Qajartalik (pronounced k-eye-yar-tal-ick, meaning “where there is a kayak” in Inuktitut) is the largest and most well-studied site containing evidence of petroglyphs in the Canadian Arctic. Petroglyphs are a type of rock art made by carving directly into a rock panel. Qajartalik is one of only four known sites in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland with petroglyphs. All these petroglyph sites are located on the northeastern coast of the Ungava Peninsula. Based on the artistic style of the carved images, archaeologists believe the Dorset people, also known as the Tuniit in Inuit oral histories, from the latter third of their cultural period made them. This would mean the petroglyphs are roughly 700 to 1,500 years old. Given the large number of petroglyphs, at least 180, Qajartalik was likely an important site to the Dorset people and is one of the most significant archaeological sites in the Arctic.

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