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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 Bytown Museum in Ottawa opened on June 27, 1952, in the Commissariat building, its present home. It grew out of the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, formed in June 1898.
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Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay recreates Fort William as it was in 1815, when it served as the North West Company’s inland headquarters in the fur trade.
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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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The Manitoba Children’s Museum opened in its present home at The Forks in Winnipeg on June 1, 1994. It occupies the oldest surviving train repair shop in Manitoba, built in 1889 by the Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railway Company.
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The Marine Museum of Manitoba, established in 1972, tells the story of shipping on Lake Winnipeg and the Red River from about 1850 to the present day. Visitors can board ships that sailed those waters.
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The Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History in Halifax traces its roots to 1868, when it opened as the Provincial Museum in rooms in the Post Office Building. Its present site at 1747 Summer Street was established in 1970.
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Upper Canada Village was founded in eastern Ontario in 1961. The living-history site recreates daily life in a rural English Canadian community in 1866.
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McGill University’s Redpath Museum in Montréal opened in 1882 to preserve and display the natural history collections of Sir William Dawson.
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The Canadian War Museum is Canada’s national museum of military history. It traces its origins to 1880, when it was mainly a collection of militia artifacts, and opened in its present building on LeBreton Flats in Ottawa on May 8, 2005.
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The Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau explores the histories and cultures of what is now Canada. Its institutional roots date to 1856, and it stands on the traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg.
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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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At his father’s home near Brantford, Ontario, Alexander Graham Bell conceived the fundamental principle of the telephone on 26 July 1874. There, on 3 and 4 August 1876, he publicly demonstrated his patented invention, and on 10 August he made a long-distance call, to Paris, 13 kilometres away.
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Red Fife, an early-maturing, high-quality wheat, was discovered in 1842 by David Fife in an experimental plot on his farm near Keene, Ontario. For over 60 years it was Canada’s spring wheat; it opened up the grain potential of the West and is a parent of Marquis wheat.
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In 1768 the Hudson’s Bay Company sent two British astronomers to Prince of Wales Fort, on Hudson Bay, to observe the 1769 transit of Venus. It began more than forty years of HBC cooperation with the Royal Society of London in astronomy, meteorology, cartography and natural history in the North, with Indigenous collaborators sharing their deep knowledge of the land, plants and animals.
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The South African War, also known as the Boer War, was fought in southern Africa from 1899 to 1902 between the British Empire and the Boers. More than 7,000 Canadians volunteered to serve alongside British forces, and five earned the Victoria Cross. In February 1900 Canadians played an important role at Paardeberg, the first major British victory of the war.
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McGill University is a public university in Montréal, founded in 1821. Its history includes Ernest Rutherford’s research on radioactivity, carried out at McGill before his Nobel Prize.
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Brandon University was established in Manitoba in 1967, building on Brandon College, founded in 1899.
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The University of Ottawa began as the College of Bytown, founded in 1848 by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate as a bilingual Catholic college where students studied in English and French. Renamed the College of Ottawa, it received university status by royal charter in 1866 and a pontifical charter in 1889.
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The University of Guelph was established in 1964 from the Ontario Agricultural College, the Ontario Veterinary College and the Macdonald Institute. The agricultural college traces its origins to the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm, opened in May 1874.
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A $900,000 bequest from Senator William McMaster supported the establishment of McMaster University in Toronto on April 23, 1887. Teaching began in 1890 in arts and theology.
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Université Sainte-Anne was founded on September 1, 1890, by Father Gustave Blanche and the Eudist Fathers of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary. It is the only French-language post-secondary institution in Nova Scotia.
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Saint Mary’s University traces its beginnings to 1802, when the Reverend Edmund Burke taught young men at the Glebe House in Halifax. The boys’ school grew into a college and then a university, and received degree-granting status from the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1841.
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Mount Saint Vincent was established in Halifax in 1873 by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. It provided higher education for women and girls at a time when their educational opportunities were limited.
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