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- ... that a 1974 provincial Order-in-Council has prohibited hunting on the Grand Codroy Estuary, the "most important wetland" on the island of Newfoundland? Read More
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- ...that Albertan politician Joseph Unwin was arrested for producing an official leaflet urging the "extermination" of opposition leader David Milwyn Duggan and Senator William Griesbach? Read More...
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- ...that David Lewis and his son Stephen Lewis served simultaneously as the leaders of the Canadian and Ontario New Democratic Party? Read More...
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- ...that prior to the construction of the Colonial Building the first legislative assembly for the Newfoundland government was held at a tavern and lodging house owned and operated by a Mrs. Travers? Read More...
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- ...that the tiny municipality of Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Quebec was set up in 1722 to protect its only occupant, a hospital, from taxes? Read More...
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- ...that John Sebastian Helmcken opposed British Columbia joining Canadian Confederation—until he negotiated the terms himself? Read More...,
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- ...that the architecture of Ottawa is dominated by its role as the national capital of Canada? Read More...,
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- ...that General A.D. McRae, the BC Industrialist who organized the election of Canada's 11th Prime Minister, R.B Bennett, made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan? Read More...
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- ... that Ontario politician Jan Dukszta, a psychiatrist by training, took time out of his 1981 re-election campaign to treat colleague Tony Lupusella who was suffering a nervous breakdown? Read More...
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- ...that Cairine Wilson was Canada's first female senator? Read More...
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- ... that the National Council of Women of Canada helped create the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Children's Aid Society, and played a vital role in declaring that women were persons? Read More...
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- ...that as a result of a 1972 referendum, the boundary between time zones in British Columbia ended up being different from the provincial boundary? Read More...
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- ...that in Upper and Lower Canada, the colonial government used concession roads to define lots which were to be developed? Read More...
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- ...that Irene Jordan of the South Fort George suburb of Prince George, British Columbia had owned a popular brothel that later became the first City Hall of Prince George? Read More...
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- ...that over nine percent of ballots were rejected for both questions in the British Columbia recall and initiative referendum, 1991? Read More...
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- ...that Colin H. Campbell won re-election to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 1907 election by a single vote? Read More...
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- ... that the Canadian Parliament Buildings have housed several dozen stray cats since the 1970s? Read More...
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- ...that the crown lands of the United Kingdom are different than crown lands in Canada and Australia, the latter being more like the public lands of the United States? Read More...
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