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  • THE CANADA SHOW: The Complete History of Canada in One Hour!



    February 24, 2010

    A hilarious comedy featuring original songs, Jacques Cartier puppets, William Shatner acting, the comedy team of ‘Cabot and Costello’, and, of course, a giant beaver costume! A fast, funny, irreverent, hysterically historical joy-ride through 50,000 years of Canada.

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  • FEIST tonight



    February 15, 2010

    Wednesday, 2/17/2010 at 8:00 pm

    At the age of twelve Feist performed as one of 1000 dancers in the opening ceremonies of the Calgary Winter Olympics, which she cites as inspiration for the video "1234."

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  • Bilodeau wins Canada's first ever gold on home soil



    February 15, 2010

    The first ever gold medal on Canadian soil will be celebrated tonight at the Vancouver Victory Ceremony. Beginning at 6:30 pm at BC Place. For a complete history of Canada at the Winter Olympics visit:

    The Canadian Encyclopedia Online

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  • Winter Olympics Opening Ceremonies



    February 12, 2010

    At 6:00 pm (Pacific)! Who will perform?

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  • Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards



    November 27, 2009

    The music awards gala features performances by some of the best aboriginal musicians from across Canada.

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  • Take Two Minutes to Remember



    November 8, 2009

    At eleven o'clock on November 11, we will take two minutes to remember. We will stand up and be silent. When we do, we will join our fellow Canadians, wherever they may be, whatever language they speak, in honouring those who have served and are serving Canada, and those who have died for our country. When we take two minutes to remember, we pay tribute to their courage and sacrifice

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  • Egg On Mao Launch with Denise Chong



    November 4, 2009

    Egg On Mao Book Launch

    October 27 at 7:30pm with Collected Books At Library and Archives Canada 395 Wellington Street Ottawa ON

    Toronto event: November 4 at 7pm Toronto Public Library North York Central branch 5120 Yonge Street

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  • Toronto 175



    September 8, 2009

    Toronto 175 Event Listings Throughout 2009

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  • Canada Day Events



    June 30, 2009

    A listing of events for Canada Day and the month of July across the country.

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  • Celebrate 100 Years of the Burgess Shale Summer 2009 Events



    May 28, 2009

    The famous Burgess Shale is located in the magnificent Canadian Rockies of southeastern British Columbia.

    Charles D. Walcott, (then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution), discovered the first Burgess Shale fossils on Fossil Ridge in 1909. Between 1910 and 1924, he returned to collect more than 65,000 specimens from the quarry named after him.

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  • Earth Day Canada Event Listings



    April 22, 2009

    A comprehensive list of National Earth Day festivities with an interactive map.

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  • Black History Month Events in Canada

    February 28, 2009

    A detailed list of events happening this month from the Department of Citizenship and Immigration to commemorate the contributions that Black Canadians have made to Canada’s culture and seek creative ways to preserve and actively promote the Black Canadian heritage

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  • BC150 Hockey Game Canucks Vs. Calgary Flames



    November 25, 2008

    If you love hockey, you know the names of Stan Smyl, Pavel Bure and Trevor Linden. These Vancouver Canucks, along with their past and present team mates, have been inspiring British Columbians for over three decades.

    The Vancouver Canucks will host a special BC150 home game against the Calgary Flames to honour the rich history of hockey in British Columbia throughout the years.

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  • Remembrance Day Events



    November 30, 2008

    For a detailed list of Remembrance Day events and services across Canada visit the Veterans Affairs website.

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  • 1914-1918 Vigil

    At sunset November 4th through to sunrise November 11th, this site will present a vigil commemorating the 68,000 Canadians who lost their lives in WWI. The names of the 68,000 war dead will be projected over a week of nights onto the National War Memorial in Ottawa, buildings in other regions of Canada and onto the side of Canada House in Trafalgar Square in London, England.

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  • Entertainment

    Cultural Olympiad



    From January 22 until March 21, the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad will celebrate our creative spirit through an unparalleled variety of music, dance, theatre, visual arts, film, outdoor spectaculars and digital media experiences.

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  • Book

    Egg on Mao



    Published by: Random House Canada on September 29, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-307-35579-9, Format: Hardcover, 256 pages

    The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship

    The eagerly-awaited new book by Denise Chong, author of the award-winning, national bestseller, The Concubine’s Children.

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  • Entertainment

    The End of the Line



    The world’s first major documentary about the devastating effect of overfishing to premiere at Sundance Film Festival

    Imagine an ocean without fish. Imagine your meals without seafood. Imagine the global consequences. This is the future if we do not stop, think and act.

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History Buzz Archive

History Buzz

Books

  • Atom Egoyan's The Adjuster



    University of Toronto Press 2009

    In this accessible analysis, Tom McSorley traces the genesis, production, and reception of Egoyan's fourth feature film. The book locates The Adjuster in the larger context of Canadian cinema history's peculiar and often troubled evolution, and offers a provocative interpretation of the film's unique analysis of the malaise of materialism in North American culture. Richly illustrated and featuring new interview material with Egoyan himself, this study in the Canadian Cinema series offers an insightful review of one of Atom Egoyan's most searching, unsettling films.

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  • Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000



    Random House

    John English examines the strengths and weaknesses of Pierre Trudeau, revealing the public persona and the committed father, and traces the late prime minister’s evolution from the cultural icon that generated Trudeaumania to elder statesman. Finalist for the 2010 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction

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  • Canada's Olympic Diary



    Key Porter Books

    Canada’s Olympic Diary will be a complete record of Canada’s participation at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Canadian Press reporters and photographers will chronicle the performances of Canadian athletes competing in the biggest event of their lives, as well as provide a chronicle of the lead-up to the games and each day’s events.

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  • Complete Book of the Winter Olympics, Vancouver 2010 edition



    Greystone Books, D&M Publishers Inc.

    Authors Jaime Loucky and David Wallechinsky present everything anyone could wish to know about the Winter Olympics. Now in its eighth edition and published in anticipation of the 2010 Vancouver Games, The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics has been expanded to include the rules and scoring for all the upcoming events, and looks at the history of each Olympic event from inception to the present.

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  • Christmas in Canada: A Celebration of Stories from Past to Present



    Publisher: Red Deer Press; 1 edition (Oct 15 2003)

    "Three cheers and a glass of wassail." - Quill and Quire

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  • Just Poems, Reflections on the Armenian Genocide



    Hybrid Publishing Co-op Ltd. 2009

    This collection of personal and political poems expresses the enduring, painful legacy of the Armenian Genocide. It represents the trauma of the survivors and the isolation and fragmentation of life in the Diaspora. It is a narrative about heroic witnesses, the painful challenges of remembering, the obstacles to genocide education, the need to overcome state-sponsored genocide denial and the long quest for recognition and justice. The poems explore the difficult path towards apology, reconciliation and forgiveness and reflect on a world without genocide.

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  • Egg on Mao



    Published by: Random House Canada on September 29, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-307-35579-9, Format: Hardcover, 256 pages

    The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship

    The eagerly-awaited new book by Denise Chong, author of the award-winning, national bestseller, The Concubine’s Children.

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  • EXTRAORDINARY CANADIANS LESTER B PEARSON



    | 224 pages | ISBN 9780143172697 | 01 Dec 2008 | Penguin Canada | Adult

    In his 2 terms as prime minister, from 1963–1968, Lester B. Pearson oversaw the revamping of Canada through the introduction of Medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, the Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, the Auto Pact, and the new Maple Leaf flag. Pearson came to power after an impressive career as a diplomat, where he played a vital role in the creation of NATO and the United Nations, later serving as president of its General Assembly. He put Canada on the world stage when he won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his handling of the Suez Crisis, during which he brokered the formation of a UN peacekeeping force. Author Andrew Cohen, whose books have focused on Canada’s place in the world, is the perfect author to assess Pearson’s legacy.

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  • EXTRAORDINARY CANADIANS NELLIE MCCLUNG



    Book: Hardback | 235 x 159mm | 204 pages | ISBN 9780670066742 | 18 Mar 2008 | Penguin Canada | Adult

    Feminist, politician, and social activist, Nellie McClung altered Canada's political landscape, leaving a legacy that has long survived her. She had a wicked wit, and her convictions and campaigns helped shape the Canada we live in today. Acclaimed writer Charlotte Gray, who has forged a distinguished career exploring the lives of such notable women as Susanna Moodie and Pauline Johnson, is the perfect writer to reinterpret McClung.

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  • Operation Orca, Springer, Luna and the Struggle to Save West Coast Killer Whales



    Harbour Publishing, October 2007

    Through the story of Springer and Luna the larger history of orcas is explored in the Pacific Northwest and the whale's transformation for killer to icon.

    Winner of Forword Magazine’s Best Nature Non-Fiction Award.

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  • In Search of Canadian Political Culture



    Release Date: 1/1/2008, UBC Press

    What do we really mean by phrases such as "western Canadian political culture," "the centrist political culture of Ontario," "Red Toryism in the Maritimes," or "Prairie socialism"? What historical, geographical, and sociological factors came into play as these cultures were forged? In this book, Nelson Wiseman addresses many such questions, offering new ways of conceiving Canadian political culture.

    The most thorough review of the national political ethos written in a generation, In Search of Canadian Political Culture offers a bottom-up, regional analysis that challenges how we think and write about Canada. It will interest specialists in Canadian political culture and generalists in Canadian politics.

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  • No Time For Goodbye



    Bantam (September 25, 2007)

    No Time for Goodbye, written by Canadian Linwood Barclay, was Britain's best-selling paperback novel in 2008.

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  • The Governor General and the Prime Ministers: The Making and Unmaking of Governments



    By: Edward McWhinney, Published November 1, 2005, Ronsdale Press

    An analysis of the evolving role of the governor general as head-of-state in Canada and other Commonwealth countries, showing how the position has changed and how it can be adapted to deal with crisis-ridden minority governments.

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  • Surrender



    Roy Miki: The passionate poet

    His book of poetry, Surrender, described as a “brilliant intermixture of the lyrical with the political” and a “tour de force of clarity and beauty,”

    This collection of poems challenges and disturbs, upsets and disorients official language and history relating to the internment of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s — a subject that holds personal meaning for Miki.

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  • 101 Things Canadians Should Know About Canada



    Author: Rudyard Griffiths

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  • Shock Troops



    Shock Troops follows the Canadian fighting forces during the titanic battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, and the Hundred Days campaign. Through the eyes of the soldiers who fought and died in the trenches on the Western Front, and based on newly uncovered Canadian, British, and German archival sources, Cook builds on Volume I of his national bestseller, At the Sharp End. The Canadian fighting forces never lost a battle during the final 2 years of the war, and although they paid a terrible price in the killing fields of the Great War, they were indeed, as British Prime Minister David Lloyd George exclaimed, the shock troops of the Empire.

    About the Author

    Tim Cook is a curator at the Canadian War Museum, as well as an adjunct professor at Carleton University. He is the author of No Place to Run and Clio's Warriors. He lives in Ottawa with his family.

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