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The Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum in Banff presents the heritage of the First Nations peoples of the Northern Plains and the Canadian Rockies.
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The Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ontario, preserves canoes, kayaks and other paddled watercraft. It is on the traditional territory of the Williams Treaties First Nations.
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The Winnipeg Art Gallery opened in 1912. In 2021 it expanded with Qaumajuq, an Inuit art centre, bringing a dedicated space for Inuit art into its Winnipeg cultural campus.
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Antonine Maillet was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada in 1981. The appointment recognizes an Acadian writer known for creating the character La Sagouine.
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Joseph Boyden was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2015. The appointment recognizes an author recognized for his writing and social engagement, including support for First Nations.
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Kwantlen Polytechnic University was established by British Columbia’s government in 1981. Its name was given by the Kwantlen First Nation; the university explains “Kwantlen” as meaning “tireless runner.”
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The University of Regina became an independent, degree-granting university on July 1, 1974, building on its earlier history as Regina College. Its federated colleges include Campion College, Luther College and First Nations University of Canada.
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The Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research was founded in 1980 to meet the educational and cultural needs of Saskatchewan’s Métis community. It is the official training and education arm of the Métis Nation – Saskatchewan and is owned by the Métis people of Saskatchewan; its college delivers the first two years of University of Saskatchewan arts and science degrees.
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Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia protects a forested plateau cut by steep cliffs and deep river canyons along the Atlantic coast. About one-third of the Cabot Trail runs through the park. Its cool maritime climate and rugged landscape bring together Acadian, boreal and taiga habitats.
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Akami-Uapishkᵁ-KakKasuak-Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve in Labrador covers 10,700 square kilometres and is the largest national park in eastern Canada. Its Innu and Labrador Inuit names refer to white mountains and a mountain. The bare, glacier-rounded summits of the Mealy Mountains rise 1,180 metres above Lake Melville.
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Fundy National Park in New Brunswick lies on the Bay of Fundy, home of the world’s highest tides, on the unceded territory of the Mi’gmaq. Beyond the shore, where visitors can walk the sea floor at low tide, trails lead inland to waterfalls deep in Acadian forest, and the park works with partners to recover Inner Bay of Fundy Atlantic salmon.
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Pukaskwa National Park protects a remote granite shore of Lake Superior in Ontario, with windswept spruce and pine, towering cliffs and secluded sandy beaches. Black bears, loons and moose live here, and the culture of the Anishinaabe First Nations links the park’s wilderness to an ancient human story.
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Ukkusiksalik National Park lies along the shores of Wager Bay in Nunavut, a rolling tundra full of wildlife. Polar bears, Arctic wolves and caribou roam a landscape where hundreds of archaeological sites tell the story of Inuit who have lived and travelled here for thousands of years.
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Photo: Paul Gierszewski (Gierszep) · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Sirmilik National Park in Nunavut is a landscape of glaciers, valleys and red-rock hoodoos. Nesting seabirds crowd the cliffs of Bylot Island above icy waters full of narwhal and beluga whales, and the area’s rich wildlife has sustained Inuit for thousands of years.
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Qausuittuq, Inuktitut for “place where the sun doesn’t rise,” is a national park rich in natural and cultural heritage in Nunavut’s High Arctic. Managed jointly by Inuit and Parks Canada, it protects key habitat for Peary caribou.
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Auyuittuq National Park, on southeastern Baffin Island in Nunavut, is named with the Inuktitut words for “the land that never melts.” The peaks of Akshayuk Pass overlook a natural corridor through sprawling glaciers, steep fiords and winding river valleys, in a landscape rich in Inuit culture and history.
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Wapusk National Park in northern Manitoba covers 11,475 square kilometres where boreal forest gives way to Arctic tundra, and protects one of the world’s largest polar bear maternity denning areas. It is on Treaty 5 territory and lands traditionally used by the Cree, Dene, Inuit and Red River Métis, and visits are made through licensed tour operators in Churchill.
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Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba is home to a striking diversity of life: windswept grasslands and deep forests, wolf packs, orchids and lilies, and lakes and wetlands. The park is in Treaty 2 Territory, and Parks Canada works there with Anishinabe First Nations from Treaties 2, 4 and 1.
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Thaıdene Nëné, “The Land of the Ancestors” in Dënesųłiné Yati, is an Indigenous Protected Area of more than 26,000 square kilometres in the Northwest Territories, with Thaıdene Nëné National Park Reserve at its core. Here barrens and subarctic boreal forest meet on the shore of one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes. The park reserve is managed jointly with the Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation, the Northwest Territory Métis Nation, the Deninu Kųę First Nation and the Yellowknives Dene First Nation.
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Vuntut National Park lies above the Arctic Circle in northern Yukon, a remote wilderness with a First Nations history going back millennia. It includes part of the Old Crow Flats, a vast wetland of shallow lakes and streams important to the Vuntut Gwitchin for hunting and traditional practices, and the range of the Porcupine caribou herd, which is central to Vuntut Gwitchin culture.
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Pacific Rim National Park Reserve lies along the west coast of Vancouver Island, in the traditional territories of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations. It offers kilometres of long sandy beaches and temperate rainforest, and includes the Long Beach area, the Broken Group Islands and the West Coast Trail.
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Elk Island National Park lies about 48 kilometres east of downtown Edmonton, in Treaty 6 territory and the Métis homeland. Its rolling hills, lakes and dark skies form a landscape Indigenous Peoples have long used for sustenance, ceremony, trade and travel. The park supports bison, elk and more than 250 bird species.
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John Norquay, a Métis statesman born at St. Andrew’s in the Red River settlement, was elected to Manitoba’s first assembly in 1870 and became premier in 1878. His government, built on shared French and English participation, won an extended Manitoba boundary and better financial terms from Ottawa, and built railways in defiance of the Canadian Pacific charter and federal disallowance. He resigned as premier in 1887 but sat as a member until his death.
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Leopold McClintock sailed as a young lieutenant on the Franklin search expeditions of 1848 and 1850, proving an intrepid sled traveller on Somerset and Melville islands. In 1857 Lady Franklin sent him in the Fox to check the reports of Franklin’s death that Dr. John Rae had received from Inuit. In spring 1859 he found written evidence of Franklin’s fate on the shore of King William Island.
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Photo: John Powles Cheyne · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context