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The Army Show

The Army Show. At first a musical revue produced during World War II for the Canadian army, and later the operational name for entertainment units serving with the army.
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The Ashkenaz Festival

The Ashkenaz Foundation is a community-based non-profit organization dedicated to fostering an increased awareness of Yiddish and Jewish culture through the arts. Ashkenaz places equal emphasis on the need for preservation and innovation within this cultural milieu.
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The Assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee

The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated. It is the greatest murder mystery in Canadian political history. Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Father of Confederation and outspoken opponent of the Fenians, was assassinated on an Ottawa street in the early hours of Tuesday, 7 April 1868.
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André Laurendeau and the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism

The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated.
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The Background: Summer Wildfires in Canada

Wildfires occur every summer. However, the scale and frequency of wildfires is increasing due to climate change. In 2023, for example, Canada experienced its worst wildfire season on record, with smoke billowing eastward as far as Europe. Over 6,000 wildfires burned at least 15 million hectares of land during 2023, resulting in an area of destruction larger than England. Here is the background on wildfires, from a Canadian perspective.
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The Battle of Ogdensburg

Prescott, located 112 kilometres downriver from Kingston, was an important transhipment point where merchantmen exchanged cargo with the bateaux from Montréal. Ogdensburg, New York, lay on the opposite shore.
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Beaver Hall Group

The Beaver Hall Group (also known as the Beaver Hall Hill Group) was a group of artists (both male and female) who shared studio space at 305 Beaver Hall Hill in Montréal and exhibited together; A.Y. Jackson was the first president.
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The Birth of the National Hockey League (NHL)

The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated.
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William Lyon Mackenzie and the Founding of Toronto

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The Body Politic

The Body Politic was an influential Toronto-based monthly newspaper. Published from 1971 until 1987, it was the leading organ of Canada’s gay liberation and lesbian feminist movements. Read by gay activists around the world, the Body Politic challenged sexual orthodoxies, documented community resistance, and celebrated queer history and culture. It reported incidents of discrimination, police harassment and media homophobia, as well as activist efforts to pressure governments to change discriminatory laws. Complete issues of the newspaper formed the basis of the ArQuives, now one of the largest independent LGBTQ2 archives in the world.
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The Book of Negroes

The document called the “Book of Negroes” is a British naval ledger that lists the names of Black Loyalists who fled to Canada during the American Revolutionary War (1775–83). It is also the title of Lawrence Hill’s third novel, which was published in 2007. (It was released in the United States, Australia and New Zealand under the title Someone Knows My Name.) A work of historical fiction, The Book of Negroes tells the story of Aminata Diallo, who is captured by slave traders in Africa and brought to America. Aminata’s story illustrates the physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, religious and economic violations of the slave trade. The novel has been translated into more than eight languages and has sold more than 800,000 copies worldwide. It won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book. It was also the first book to win both CBC Radio’s Canada Reads and Radio Canada’s Combat des livres.
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The Breadwinner

The Breadwinner (2001) is the first book in a series of young adult novels set in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan by writer and activist Deborah Ellis. It was followed by Parvana’s Journey (2002), Mud City (2003) and the final book, My Name is Parvana (2012). Inspired by Ellis’s interviews with Afghan women in refugee camps, the series begins with 11-year-old Parvana, who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family after her father is arrested by the Taliban. It is a story of courage and empowerment and sheds light on the horrors of war, especially for the children caught in the crossfire. The Breadwinner was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award, while Parvana’s Journey was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Nora Twomey’s animated adaptation of The Breadwinner (2017) received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for best animated feature, as well as four Canadian Screen Awards and numerous other honours.
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The Bully Boys

Eric Walters’s The Bully Boys (2000) is a work of historical fiction for young adults. It follows Tom Roberts, a young farm boy who aids and observes Lieutenant James FitzGibbon and his mercenary soldiers during the War of 1812.
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The Burning of Washington

In the final summer of the War of 1812, British presence in the Chesapeake region was strengthened in an effort to divert the American forces from the frontiers of Upper and Lower Canada.
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The Canadian Armed Forces and Natural Disasters

Natural disasters have long been a part of the Canadian experience. Given the country’s geography, climate, vast forests and large bodies of water — coupled with climate change — natural disasters will continue to affect Canada. Since at least 1950, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has helped communities respond to natural disasters, mobilizing its personnel, equipment and expertise to deal with floods, storms, wildfires and other events. The demand for military assistance has grown significantly since 2013.
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