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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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The Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa tells Canada’s story of science and technology through hands-on learning. Its permanent galleries explore steam-powered travel, sound technologies, natural resources and medical innovations.
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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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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 Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia supports the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by building close working relationships with Indigenous peoples who have a claim to, or interest in, the material in its care.
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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 Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa preserves civil and military aviation collections. It is part of Ingenium, Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation.
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The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in Québec City preserves and presents Quebec art from earlier periods to the present. It was the first museum institution created by the Quebec provincial government.
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The Aga Khan Museum was founded in Toronto in 2014. Through collections including manuscripts, paintings, ceramics and textiles, it explores Muslim cultures and their connections with other cultures.
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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 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 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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The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, studies ancient life and presents dinosaur fossils and other palaeontological collections. It is operated by the Government of Alberta.
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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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The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa holds collections ranging from Indigenous and Canadian art to European works and contemporary installations.
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The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto brings together artworks, cultural artifacts and natural history specimens from different places and periods. Its collections connect the study of human cultures with the natural world.
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David Adams Richards was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2009. The appointment recognizes a writer whose work gives a voice to New Brunswick and the Maritimes.
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Alistair MacLeod was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2007. The appointment recognizes a writer whose fiction draws on the landscape and communities of Nova Scotia.
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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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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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