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Ottawa (city, Ontario) - geography.
National Gallery of Canada, OttawaThe National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa, houses the foremost collection of Canadian art. Made of glass and granite, it was designedby Canadian-trained architect Moshe Safdie.Wolfgang Kaehler The National Gallery of Canada, designed by Israeli-born, Canadian-trained architect Moshe Safdie, is one of 29 museums in Ottawa. It houses the world’s largest collectionof Canadian art. Across the Ottawa River in Hull is the Canadian Museum of Civilization, which has ext...
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Ottawa (city, Ontario) - Geography.
strike in November 1996. Finally, the outcome of the debate over Québec’s future within Canada will have a decisive impact on Ottawa because the National CapitalRegion includes parts of both Québec and Ontario. VII HISTORY Before European explorers arrived in Canada, the area around Ottawa was inhabited by hunters and gatherers of the Algonquian and Iroquoian ( see: Iroquoian Family) peoples. In 1613 the area was visited by Samuel de Champlain, founder of the French empire in North America. In...
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- Ottawa, convention d' - relations internationales.
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VILLE DU CANADA: OTTAWA
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Canadian Architecture
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INTRODUCTION
L'Anse aux Meadows
In around ad 1000 Norse Vikings sailed from Greenland to North America and set up a village on the tip of what is now
the island of Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula.
IglooSome Inuit peoples in the Arctic regions of Canada live in domed houses of snow, or igloos, which provide good insulationand protection from wind. The word igloo comes from the Inuit iglu, meaning “house.”George Holton/Photo Researchers, Inc. Canada’s original inhabitants are known as the First Nations. At the time of European arrival, about 40 nations were scattered across Canada. Many of them lived alongthe coasts, where they could fish. These nations can be classified into five major gro...
- Atwood (Margaret) Femme de lettres canadienne d'expression anglaise (Ottawa, 1939).
- Le 8 avril 1963, c'est l'élection à Ottawa d'un troisièmegouvernement minoritaire en six ans.
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mine (armes)
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PRÉSENTATION
mine (armes), dans le domaine militaire, système explosif utilisé sur terre ou en mer, destiné à détruire ou à mettre hors de combat des troupes ennemies, des bateaux ou des véhicules tels que des chars d'assaut ou des véhicules de transport de
troupes.
(dont l’immersion est assurée par un dispositif de contrôle hydrostatique qui les maintient à une profondeur déterminée, indépendamment de la marée). Les mines peuvent être lâchées en mer par des avions, par des navires spécialement équipés à cet effet (les mouilleurs de mines), ou encore par des sous-marins, qui déposent des mines de fond ou des mines équipées de câbles. En temps de guerre, les mines sont souvent utilisées pour assurer la protection des ports contre les sous-marins. Les zones m...
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Perry declared prohibition unenforceable and canceled the policing contracts for the two provinces. The strength of the force dwindled further as its members wererecruited into the military. Many, including Perry, believed it would not last into peacetime. VI EXPANSION TO A NATIONAL ROLE After the war Newton W. Rowell, a federal cabinet minister, was sent across western Canada to assess the future of the Mounties. The options were either to eliminatethe North-West Mounted Police or to expand i...
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LE CANADA DE 1944 A 1978 (histoire)
surtaxe sur les importations en provenance du Canada, ce qui a considérablement augmenté le chômage. C'est pourquoi ce pays souhaite diversifier ses échanges, se tourner vers l'Eu rope et établir des liens contractuels avec la C.E .E .; vis-à-vis de l'O.T.A.N. le Canada prend également ses distances et entend réduire graduellement ses effectifs en Europe, opéra tion terminée en 1972 . La visite de M. Trudeau à Washington, en 1971, et celle de...
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Grey Cup Champions.
1977 Montréal Alouettes Edmonton Eskimos 41-6 1978 Edmonton Eskimos Montréal Alouettes 20-13 1979 Edmonton Eskimos Montréal Alouettes 17-9 1980 Edmonton Eskimos Hamilton Tiger-Cats 48-10 1981 Edmonton Eskimos Ottawa Rough Riders 26-23 1982 Edmonton Eskimos Toronto Argonauts 32-16 1983 Toronto Argonauts British Columbia Lions 18-17 1984 Winnipeg Blue Bombers Hamilton Tiger-Cats 47-17 1985 British Columbia Lions Hamilton Tiger-Cats 37-24 1986 Hamilton Tiger-Cats Edmonton Eskimos 39-15 1987 Edmonto...
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Grey Cup Champions
The first Grey Cup was played in 1909 and was awarded for the Rugby Football Championship of Canada.
1977 Montréal Alouettes Edmonton Eskimos 41-6 1978 Edmonton Eskimos Montréal Alouettes 20-13 1979 Edmonton Eskimos Montréal Alouettes 17-9 1980 Edmonton Eskimos Hamilton Tiger-Cats 48-10 1981 Edmonton Eskimos Ottawa Rough Riders 26-23 1982 Edmonton Eskimos Toronto Argonauts 32-16 1983 Toronto Argonauts British Columbia Lions 18-17 1984 Winnipeg Blue Bombers Hamilton Tiger-Cats 47-17 1985 British Columbia Lions Hamilton Tiger-Cats 37-24 1986 Hamilton Tiger-Cats Edmonton Eskimos 39-15 1987 Edmonto...
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JANVIER 1978 DANS LE MONDE
nomique et échanges culturels, ligne qui n'est pas toujours facile à suivre. Comme l'a souligné M. Peyrefitte, dans un récent entretien, la politique française est faite de « non-ingérence » et non de « non-indifférence », mais qui devra l'emporter en cas d'incompatibilité sur les bords du Saint Laurent? Un an après l'accession au pouvoir des indépendantistes, le voyage en France, de leur chef provoque une certaine inquiétude à Ottawa. M. René Lév...
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Ontario - Geography.
governed Ontario’s initial settlement and development. The province’s most important river is the St. Lawrence. Its route was much improved and enlarged by dredgingand canal building in the mid-20th century. This enabled large ocean-going vessels to reach Great Lake ports ( see St. Lawrence Seaway). The Ottawa River was an important early route to the interior for fur traders and timber merchants. The Niagara River, because of its falls, is a great center of hydroelectric power as well as aninte...
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Ontario - Canadian History.
governed Ontario’s initial settlement and development. The province’s most important river is the St. Lawrence. Its route was much improved and enlarged by dredgingand canal building in the mid-20th century. This enabled large ocean-going vessels to reach Great Lake ports ( see St. Lawrence Seaway). The Ottawa River was an important early route to the interior for fur traders and timber merchants. The Niagara River, because of its falls, is a great center of hydroelectric power as well as aninte...
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Kanada - geographie.
der Gebirge gedeihen dichte Wälder mit Tannen, Fichten und Zedern, während in der intramontanen Plateauregion Kiefer die Hauptbaumgattung ist. Der Gürtel des borealenNadelwaldes erstreckt sich in einem weiten Bogen von Neufundland bis ins nördliche Alaska und hat eine Breite von nahezu 1 000 Kilometern. Diese Vegetationseinheitumfasst vorwiegend Fichten, Tannen und Kiefern. Nach Norden geht der Nadelwald in die Waldtundra über, ein Gebiet mit lichteren Baumbeständen. Auf dem nördlichenFestland u...
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Library (institution).
rooms, special galleries for exhibitions, auditoriums for lectures or concerts, computer rooms, children’s rooms, photocopy rooms, and classrooms. A3 Lending Materials As part of their mission to provide information resources to the community, public libraries allow users to borrow items from their collections for limited amounts of time.To be eligible to borrow public library materials, a user must register her or his name, address, and other basic information with the local library’s circulat...
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Canadá - geografía.
perennes; las principales especies son el abeto, la tsuga, el abeto Douglas, el bálsamo, los pinos baulasiana y de los pantanos y el cedro. 2.6 Fauna Los animales de Canadá son muy similares o idénticos a los del norte de Europa y Asia. Entre los carnívoros destacan las especies de la subfamilia de la comadreja, talescomo el armiño, la marta cebellina o cibelina, el Martes pennanti, el glotón y el visón. Otros carnívoros representativos son el oso negro, el oso gris, el lince, el lobo, el coy...
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Museum.
History museums are dedicated to promoting a greater appreciation and knowledge of history and its importance to understanding the present and anticipating thefuture. They range from historic sites and small historic house museums to large, encyclopedic institutions such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of AmericanHistory in Washington, D.C. Many cities and states have historical societies that operate museums or historic sites. History museums usually collect a wide range ofobjects, includi...
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Canada de 1980 à 1989 : Histoire
Le 20 mai 1980. les électeurs québlcois re je/lent par 59.5% des voix le pro1e1 de K SOtll>eroineté-associaticn•. Le Québec demeurera partie imégrame tlu Canada. © Ponomnr �ff-Gamma 1984. La campagne des élections générales bat so11 plein. Le scrwin consacrera en septembre la •·ictoire des co11servotews qui dé.sig11ero11t Bri(lft Mu!roney à fit direction du gou•·ememem. © Tmmenbaum - Sygma Québec. seule province à avoir rejeté le texte. De plus,...
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Regina - Geography.
in 1883, was incorporated as a city in 1903, and was made the capital of Saskatchewan when the province was created in 1905. The headquarters of the police forcewere moved in 1920 to Ottawa, the nation’s capital, but the force’s training facility remained in Regina. Regina has been associated with a number of important historical events. In 1885 Louis Riel, leader of the Northwest Rebellion, was tried for treason and executedthere. In 1933 Canada’s newly formed socialist party, the Co-operative...
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Native American Literature.
Many Native American writers of the 19th century wrote histories of their tribes. One tribal historian was David Cusick (Tuscarora), whose Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1827) was the first published tribal history. Tribal histories explained the deep ties that tribes had to their ancestral homelands. Beginning in the 18th century, these ties took on special meaning because the United States government began removing Native Americans from their traditional lands. These removal...
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Supreme Court of Canada.
whether the leave to appeal will be granted and the case heard by the Court. The Court has no specified criteria by which it determines whether to grant leave, and the Court does not give reasons for its decision. The key factor appears to be acase’s degree of national importance. Other factors might include the impact of uncertainty in the challenged law, the case’s appropriateness for developing the law torespond to changing social needs, and the presence of a split decision at the court of ap...
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Stanley Cup Winners.
1989 Calgary Flames 1990 Edmonton Oilers 1991-92 Pittsburgh Penguins 1993 Montréal Canadiens 1994 New York Rangers 1995 New Jersey Devils 1996 Colorado Avalanche 1997 Detroit Red Wings 1998 Detroit Red Wings 1999 Dallas Stars 2000 New Jersey Devils 2001 Colorado Avalanche 2002 Detroit Red Wings 2003 New Jersey Devils 2004 Tampa Bay Lightning 2005 No Winner* 2006 Carolina Hurricanes 2007 Anaheim Ducks * Season was canceled. Source: Source: National HockeyLeague.
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Stanley Cup Winners
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Champion
1893
Montréal AAA
1894
Montréal AAA
1895
Montréal Victorias
1896
Winnipeg Victorias
1897-98
Montréal Victorias
1899 Feb.
1989 Calgary Flames 1990 Edmonton Oilers 1991-92 Pittsburgh Penguins 1993 Montréal Canadiens 1994 New York Rangers 1995 New Jersey Devils 1996 Colorado Avalanche 1997 Detroit Red Wings 1998 Detroit Red Wings 1999 Dallas Stars 2000 New Jersey Devils 2001 Colorado Avalanche 2002 Detroit Red Wings 2003 New Jersey Devils 2004 Tampa Bay Lightning 2005 No Winner* 2006 Carolina Hurricanes 2007 Anaheim Ducks * Season was canceled. Source: Source: National HockeyLeague.Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1...
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French Canadian Nationalism - Canadian History.
The revolution ended in independence for the Americans, who named their new country the United States of America. In the aftermath, thousands of people who hadopposed the American Revolution migrated from what was now the United States to British North America. These people, known as the United Empire Loyalists, settledin the Maritimes, where they greatly increased the British majority over the Acadians, and in Québec. Some settled near francophone communities around Montréal andin the Eastern T...
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Si le « Canada utile » n'occupe qu'un dixième de la superficie,
au sud, sur les rives des Grands Lacs et du Saint-Laurent, là où
vivent les neuf dixièmes de la population, les espaces agricoles,
les villes, les industries qui s'y rassemblent font du pays une
grande puissance.
arc de cercle, se déploie un chapelet de grands lacs, depuis celui de l'Ours jusqu'au lac Ontario. Le bloc des hautes terres offre de grandioses paysages de montagnes avec des pics acérés, des cirques, des auges : les sommets des Rocheuses s'élèvent autour de 3 500 m (mais 3 954 m au mont Robson) ; les chaînes pacifiques ont aussi des glaciers et, sur la côte, des fjords. Sur 2 000 km, les Prairies sont des plaines à très faible pente (1 000 m à Calgary, 300 m à Winnipeg). En Gaspésie et dans le...
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Canada.
Six general landform regions are distinguishable in Canada: the Appalachian Region, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Canadian Shield, the Great Plains,the Canadian Cordillera, and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. B1 Appalachian Region and Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands Eastern Canada consists of the Appalachian Region and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands. The Appalachian Region embraces Newfoundland Island, NovaScotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and the G...
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Canada - country.
Six general landform regions are distinguishable in Canada: the Appalachian Region, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Canadian Shield, the Great Plains,the Canadian Cordillera, and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. B1 Appalachian Region and Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands Eastern Canada consists of the Appalachian Region and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands. The Appalachian Region embraces Newfoundland Island, NovaScotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and the G...
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Canada - Canadian History.
Six general landform regions are distinguishable in Canada: the Appalachian Region, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Canadian Shield, the Great Plains,the Canadian Cordillera, and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. B1 Appalachian Region and Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands Eastern Canada consists of the Appalachian Region and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands. The Appalachian Region embraces Newfoundland Island, NovaScotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and the G...
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Indian Treaties in Canada - Canadian History.
Pontiac led an attack on British forts in the Great Lakes area to end British domination and to reinforce Indian autonomy. In response, British king George III issued theRoyal Proclamation of 1763 to try to appease the Indians of the interior. The proclamation set aside land for the Indians west of the Appalachian Mountains anddescribed this land as “lands reserved to [Indians] … as their Hunting Grounds.” The proclamation not only recognized Indian land ownership, but also required thattreaties...