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The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal was founded by the Quebec government in 1964 and opened to the public in March 1965. It collects, preserves and presents contemporary art from Quebec and beyond.
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The Montreal Holocaust Museum traces its history to the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, founded in 1976. The centre opened to the public on September 9, 1979, with Holocaust survivors participating in its inauguration.
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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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Glenbow in Calgary was founded in 1966 as an independent, non-profit museum, archive and gallery. Its collections preserve art, objects and belongings from Alberta and beyond.
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The Bata Shoe Museum opened on May 6, 1995, on Bloor Street West in Toronto. Its building was designed by Moriyama and Teshima Architects, and its collections trace footwear history across cultures and periods.
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The Canadian Museum of Nature is Canada’s national natural history museum. Its castle-like public building in Ottawa opened in 1912 and is a national historic site.
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Casa Loma in Toronto was built as the home of financier Sir Henry Pellatt. In 1911, Pellatt worked with Canadian architect E.J. Lennox on plans for the castle-like residence, which took three years to build.
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Robert Munsch was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 1999. The appointment recognizes a children’s author who draws on everyday experiences to create humorous stories.
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Farley Mowat was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 1981. The appointment recognizes a novelist and naturalist whose work reflects an interest in the Arctic and the natural world.
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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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Jean Little was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 1992. The appointment recognizes an author recognized for books depicting children overcoming difficulties.
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Dennis Lee was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 1993. The appointment recognizes a poet, editor and co-founder of the House of Anansi Press.
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Joy Kogawa was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 1986. The appointment recognizes an author whose novel Obasan portrays the wartime treatment of Japanese Canadians.
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Robertson Davies was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada in 1972. The appointment recognizes a writer whose work spans literature, theatre and journalism.
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Austin Clarke was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 1998. The appointment recognizes a novelist and short-story writer whose work explores immigrant experiences.
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Roch Carrier was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991. The appointment recognizes a Quebec writer whose work includes poetry, novels, plays and children’s books.
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Marie-Claire Blais was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada in 1972. The appointment recognizes a writer recognized for her contribution to literature.
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Margaret Atwood was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada in 1981. The appointment recognizes a poet, novelist and critic whose work has contributed to Canadian literature.
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Canadian plant breeders turned rapeseed into an edible oil crop. In 1974 the first agronomically viable variety low in erucic acid and glucosinolates was released in Canada, and in 1978 the name “canola,” from “Canadian oil,” was adopted for these varieties.
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In 1961 James Till and Ernest McCulloch, scientists at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, reported cautious findings they called “spleen colony-forming units.” In later years they and their collaborators established that these were stem cells and explained their properties, setting the stage for all later stem-cell research.
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In 1904 the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company opened its first Canadian marine station at Pointe-à-la-Renommée, Quebec, one of six stations that began radio communication between ships at sea and the coast. The network grew into an indispensable navigation aid, and the federal government began regulating the airwaves as early as 1905.
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Donna Strickland, born in Guelph, Ontario, in 1959 and working at the University of Waterloo, shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for a method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short laser pulses.
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Arthur McDonald, born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1943 and working at Queen’s University, shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering neutrino oscillations, which show that neutrinos have mass.
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Ralph Steinman, born in Montréal in 1943 and educated at McGill University, was awarded a share of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering, in 1973, the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.
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