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Pointe-à-la-Renommée, Quebec.
CA-K1565History

The maritime wireless telegraph system, 1904

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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The Bell Homestead National Historic Site, Brantford, Ontario.
CA-K1564History

The invention of the telephone at Brantford, 1874–1876

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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Seeds of Red Fife hard red spring wheat.
CA-K1563History

Red Fife wheat, discovered in 1842

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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Michael Smith in 1994.
CA-K1552Culture & sport

Michael Smith, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993

Michael Smith of the University of British Columbia shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing site-directed mutagenesis.

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Vanier College, Montréal.
CA-K1244Institutions

Vanier College, Montréal

Vanier College, a publicly funded English-language CEGEP in Montréal, opened on September 8, 1970, welcoming close to 1,400 students in its first cohort. It is named for General Georges P. Vanier, soldier, diplomat and Governor General of Canada.

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