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    Smith House

     Architect Arthur ERICKSON designed the house for artists Gordon and Marion Smith. It sums up a period in West Coast modernist architecture of experimentation with open plans and visual and physical interpenetration of indoors and outdoors.

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    Smithers

    Smithers, British Columbia, incorporated as a town in 1967, population 5,401 (2016 census), 5,404 (2011 census). The town of Smithers is located on the Bulkley River in central BC, on Highway 16. The town is 334 km west of Prince George and 371 km east of Prince Rupert.

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    Smiths Falls

    Smiths Falls, ON, incorporated as a town in 1882, population 9,254 (2021 census), 8,780 (2016 census). The Town of Smiths Falls is located on the Rideau River, 60 km southwest of Ottawa. The town is an important lockport on the waterway.

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    Snag

    Snag, Yukon Territory, was a community located at the mouth of Snag Creek, 465 km northwest of Whitehorse. The creek was so named in 1898 by members of the US Geological Survey, possibly because it was choked with dead trees.

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    Snow Lake

    Snow Lake, Manitoba, incorporated as a town in 1976, population 723 (2011c), 837 (2006c). The Town of Snow Lake is located 679 km northwest of Winnipeg on the Canadian SHIELD.

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    Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum

    The Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum is an organization that aims to “collect, record, interpret and commemorate the soccer heritage of Canada.”

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    Somerset Island

    Somerset Island, 24 786 km2, ninth-largest island in the ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO. Its western part is on Precambrian bedrock, reaching an elevation of 503 m, but the larger part is an elevated plateau of sedimentary rocks.

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    Sony Centre for the Performing Arts

    A landmark modernist design by architects Earle C. Morgan and Peter Dickinson of Page and Steele of Toronto, with Eggers and Higgins of New York as consultants and V.L.

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    Soper River

    The Soper River winds southwards 108 km through the tundra-covered hills of southern Baffin Island before emptying into Soper Lake, a brackish water body, and then directly into Hudson Strait near the community of Kimmirut, Nunavut.

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    Sorel-Tracy

    Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, incorporated as a city in 2000, population 35,165 (2021 census), 34,755 (2016 census). Sorel-Tracy is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, at the mouth of the Richelieu River, approximately 80 km northeast of Montreal. Sorel-Tracy is the result of the voluntary amalgamation of the municipalities of Sorel (founded in 1642) and Tracy (incorporated in 1954) in 2000. Sorel-Tracy is known for its industrial port and metallurgy industry.

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    Music in Sorel

    City situated 60 km east of Montreal at the junction of the St Lawrence and Richelieu rivers on the former site of Fort Richelieu, built in 1642, and the seigneury given in 1672 to Pierre de Saurel, a captain in the Carignan-Salières Regiment.

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    Soulpepper Theatre

    Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre was founded in 1998 by 12 actors who had trained and performed at the Stratford Festival. Considered the best year-round repertory company in Canada, Soulpepper has presented such acclaimed productions as Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya (2001, 2002, 2008) and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (2013). Since relocating to Toronto’s Distillery District in 2006, Soulpepper has presented such Canadian plays as Sharon Pollock’s Doc (2010), John Murrell’s Waiting for the Parade (2010), and Ins Choi’s Kim’s Convenience (2012). In January 2018, the company was rocked by allegations of sexual harassment against founding artistic director Albert Schultz and accompanying lawsuits against Schultz and Soulpepper.

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    Souris (Man)

    Souris, Manitoba, incorporated as a town in 1903, population 1837 (2011c), 1772 (2006c). The Town of Souris is located at the junction of Plum Creek and the SOURIS RIVER, 45 km by road southwest of Brandon.

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    Souris (PEI)

    Souris, Prince Edward Island, incorporated as a town in 1910, population 1,079 (2021 census), 1,053 (2016 census). Located in Kings County in the northeastern portion of PEI, the town is situated along Colville Bay at the mouth of the Souris River. Due to the orientation of its port, there is minimal fast ice (ice anchored to the shore) in the harbour. Additionally, it is strategically close to major shipping routes, and it is PEI’s nearest practical port with the shortest sea voyage to both sides of the Atlantic. Souris has been the location of the interprovincial ferry terminal for the service to Quebec’s Magdalen Islands since 1971.

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    Souris River

    Souris River, about 720 km long, rises in the Yellow Grass marshes N of Weyburn, Sask, flows SE past Estevan and wanders S across the N Dakota border before entering Manitoba.

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