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The guide names Terry Fox, Rick Hansen, Wayne Gretzky, Donovan Bailey and Chantal Petitclerc as examples of Canadian sporting achievement and public contribution. It also connects James Naismith with basketball.
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Photo: William B. Grice · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Discover Canada names the Group of Seven, Emily Carr, Les Automatistes and Kenojuak Ashevak among important Canadian visual-arts examples. It presents cultural achievement in both English and French and across regions and communities.
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Photo: John Vanderpant · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & contextCanada Day is July 1 and Remembrance Day is November 11. Labour Day is observed on the first Monday in September and Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October; Victoria Day falls on the Monday preceding May 25.
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The Owens Art Gallery opened in 1895 on the campus of Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.
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The Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke was founded in 1982 by a group of art lovers. It has become the principal institution for preserving and sharing visual art in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.
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The Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown began collecting in 1964. Its holdings include research material on Robert Harris, the Charlottetown-raised painter of The Fathers of Confederation.
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Photo: Larry from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0 · Credit & context
The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria opened in 1951 in a mansion built in 1889. Its collection brings together historical and contemporary art.
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Art Windsor-Essex, formerly the Art Gallery of Windsor, is a public art gallery in Windsor, Ontario, where art is made, presented and shared through exhibitions, programs and events.
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The Canadian Football Hall of Fame was awarded to Hamilton, Ontario, in February 1963, after a successful presentation by Mayor Lloyd D. Jackson.
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The Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver is a public gallery run by the British Columbia Photography and Media Arts Society. Its building received a Governor General’s Medal in Architecture in 2020.
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The Ottawa Art Gallery explores the community’s history and development through art. Its expanded building, designed by KPMB and Régis Côté Architects, opened on April 28, 2018.
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The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery on Toronto’s waterfront opened in 1987 in a former coal-burning powerhouse built in 1926.
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The Art Gallery of Hamilton opened on Sunday, June 28, 1914, with an inaugural exhibition of paintings by the Hamilton-born artist William Blair Bruce.
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The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum is on the historic Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, five kilometres from Parliament Hill. It is a working dairy farm, home to farm animal breeds important to Canadian agriculture past and present.
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The Beaverbrook Art Gallery’s permanent collection began in 1959 with a gift of 300 works from Lord Beaverbrook. Its early collection focused on British and Canadian painting.
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The McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario, preserves historical and contemporary Canadian and Indigenous art. Its collection includes work by Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven and generations of Indigenous artists.
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The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax traces its history to 1908. It took its present name under the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Act in 1975.
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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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The Art Gallery of Alberta in downtown Edmonton presents Alberta’s artistic heritage alongside work by international artists. Its exhibitions support cultural exchange through visual art.
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Founded in 1860, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts collects and presents art from different cultures and periods. Its collections include Quebec and Canadian heritage, Indigenous art and international art.
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The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto holds Indigenous, Canadian, European and contemporary art. Its exhibitions and programs bring these collections into dialogue with artists and audiences.
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Photo: Owen Byrne from Ottawa, Canada · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0 · Credit & context
M.G. Vassanji was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2004. The appointment recognizes a writer who moved from nuclear physics into a literary career.
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Jane Urquhart was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2004. The appointment recognizes a writer whose stories explore memory, love and art across different places and periods.
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Miriam Toews was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2025. The appointment recognizes a novelist whose work explores human suffering and comedy.
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Photo: Alessio Jacona from Rome, Italy · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 · Credit & context