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    Reconstruction Party of Canada

    The Reconstruction Party of Canada was a Canadian political party that was active during the mid-1930s. It was mainly a federal party that contested the 1935 election. It also had a short-lived Alberta wing that contested the 1935 Alberta election. It was one of four new political parties created in Canada during the Great Depression. (The others were the Social Credit Party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and Quebec’s Union Nationale). The right-wing party was isolationist, favoured workers’ rights and opposed the power of big business. It was founded by longtime Conservative Party MP and Cabinet minister Henry Herbert Stevens, who was known for his anti-immigrant views. The party won only one seat in 1935 — the Kootenay East riding that Stevens had held for years. The party was dissolved when Stevens rejoined the Conservatives in 1938.

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    Recorded sound production

    The first recordings made in Canada were those made 17 May 1878 by the Governor-General, Lord Dufferin, and his guests at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. On 17 May 1878 Lady Dufferin wrote in her diary (My Canadian Journal 1872-1878, Toronto 1969, p 292): 'This morning we had an exhibition of the phonograph.

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    Recorded Sound Technology and its Impact

    From the beginning, sound recording offered the consumer an unprecedented access to musical sound - an access virtually uninhibited by the constraints of skill, time, place, and social standing.

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    Red Coat Trail

    A number of highways in southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta roughly follow the original route. The ride was re-enacted in 1999, the 125th anniversary of the march.

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    Canadian Red Ensign

    The Canadian Red Ensign was the de facto Canadian national flag from 1868 until 1965. It was based on the ensign flown by British merchant ships since 1707. The three successive formal designs of the Canadian Red Ensign bore the Canadian coats of arms of 1868, 1921 and 1957. In 1891, it was described by the Governor General, Lord Stanley, as “the Flag which has come to be considered as the recognized Flag of the Dominion both afloat and ashore.” Though it was never formally adopted as Canada’s national flag, the Canadian Red Ensign represented Canada as a nation until it was replaced by the maple leaf design in 1965.

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    Red Fife Wheat

    Red Fife is a bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) variety that David Fife and family began to grow in 1842 at their farm in Peterborough, Ontario. Its name is derived from the original red colour of the wheat kernel and the name of the farmer; this was a typical procedure for naming wheat in the mid-1800s.

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    Red River Cart

    The Red River cart was a mode of transportation used by Métis people in the Prairies during the settlement of the West in the mid- to late-1800s to carry loads across distances. The name of the cart derives from the Red River, along which the Red River Colony (1812–70), inhabited mainly by Métis peoples, was settled. The Métis had their own Michif words for the cart, including aen wagon and aen charet.

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    Red River Colony

    The Red River Colony, a key part of Manitoba's rich history, was a settlement on the Red and Assiniboine rivers whose boundaries crossed parts of what are now Manitoba and North Dakota. Founded in 1812 by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, the colony grew through times of extreme hardship into a multiracial society. It was the site of the Red River Resistance before reluctantly joining Canada as the province of Manitoba.

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    Red River Expedition of 1870

    The Red River Expedition (May–August 1870) was a military expedition to oversee the transfer of territory from the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) to Canada and the transition of power from Louis Riel’s provisional government to one headed by the new lieutenant-governor of Manitoba. The expedition was led by Garnet Joseph Wolseley.

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    Red River Flood

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 12, 1997. Partner content is not updated. The flood of the century, they have been calling it in Manitoba, an awesome demonstration of nature’s raw might.

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    Red River Resistance

    The Red River Resistance (also known as the Red River Rebellion) was an uprising in 1869–70 in the Red River Colony. The resistance was sparked by the transfer of the vast territory of Rupert’s Land to the new Dominion of Canada. The colony of farmers and hunters, many of them Métis, occupied a corner of Rupert’s Land and feared for their culture and land rights under Canadian control. The Métis mounted a resistance and declared a provisional government to negotiate terms for entering Confederation. The uprising led to the creation of the province of Manitoba, and the emergence of Métis leader Louis Riel — a hero to his people and many in Quebec, but an outlaw in the eyes of the Canadian government.

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    Red Tory

    The language of Red Toryism became popular in the mid-1960s when Gad Horowitz suggested that George Grant was Red Tory.

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    Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts

    Redistribution describes both the allocation of seats in the House of Commons to the provinces and the procedure for drawing specific constituency boundaries within the provinces. This occurs every 10 years.

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    Redpath Museum

    The Redpath Museum is a natural history museum located on the grounds of McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec. Founded in 1882, it is the first purpose-built museum in Canada and one of the oldest continually operating museums in the country. The Redpath’s expansive collection is divided into four broad groups: mineralogy, palaeontology, zoology and world cultures (ethnology). (See also Minerals; Anthropology in Canada.) The collections are housed in a stand-alone museum building of Greek Revival style (see Architecture). In addition to its public education function, the Redpath is an integrated component of McGill University’s Faculty of Science, complete with research labs and undergraduate and graduate courses that make use of the museum’s ample collections.

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    Redpath Sugar

    Redpath Sugar Ltd. is a Canadian sugar refining company (see Sugar Industry). It is one of the oldest continuously operated companies in Canada. It is also the oldest sugar cane refining operation in Canada, having been established in Montreal in 1854. The company bears the name of its founder, John Redpath, whose company expanded considerably under the direction and leadership of his son, Peter Redpath, and his son-in-law, Sir George Alexander Drummond. In 2007, Redpath Sugar Ltd. became a subsidiary of American Sugar Refining (ASR Group). Redpath Sugar Ltd.’s primary production and refining operation is located on the Toronto waterfront.

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