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2/2 Capturing history in contemporary art: NL artist Reilly Fitzgerald paints sealing disaster of 1914.#CdnHistory

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2017-05-22

Check out this collection of Inuit art featured in The Beaver in Spring 1956. https://t.co/Dzt5OBSCuJ

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2017-07-15

Despite its out-of-date language, this article from the June-July 1996 issue of The Beaver magazine tells a fascinating story of Annie Midlige, a Lebanese woman who beat the Hudson's Bay Company at its own game: trade. https://t.co/yOjgs5ZXqp

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2019-02-26

Annie Midlige immigrated to New York from Lebanon around 1894 & made her way up to Ottawa, where she worked hard and started her own business. Three years later she had made enough money to bring her 4 children over to Canada too. https://t.co/yOjgs5ZXqp

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2019-03-07

Canadians have come up with lots of odd, innovative, and downright zany ways to transport good and people. Check out some of these modes of in our latest education newsletter. https://t.co/U6hG35KikY

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2019-03-11

Jane Jacobs loved cities, and she was fascinated by what made them work. https://t.co/uam3qdHoWl

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2019-03-12

This week we're looking at infrastructure... specifically 'burbs and byways! https://t.co/ew1VNEKmD9

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2019-03-21

In this article Lawrence Hill tells the story of the Book of Negroes, the original book that inspired his best-selling book and popular mini-series. https://t.co/gcSIyY5zrn

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2019-03-25

twenty years ago the map of Canada was re-drawn: the Northwest Territories divided into two territories to allow for the creation of Nunavut, a homeland for many Inuit in Canada. https://t.co/nXvn9Q7E0Z

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2019-04-01

Have you ever heard of a human-carrying kite? How about the Avrocar? Check out some of the wacky modes of from Canada’s past. https://t.co/2zzCyOTcx3

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2019-04-02

A missed train led Sir Sandford Fleming to create a better system for time, including what we now know as https://t.co/1BSfzjugsQ

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2019-04-03

Explore the lighter side of Canadian history with these and storytellers. https://t.co/NZC4QrLgoj

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2019-04-17

In 1972, the Montreal Gazette's Terry Mosher (a.k.a. Aislin) was in Moscow to cover the Canada-Russia Summit Series. Here's how hockey's cold war unfolded, as seen through Aislin's eyes — and pen. Originally published in August 2012. https://t.co/xlf0Sf9A7A

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2019-04-26

Lynn Johnston is one of the world’s best-known cartoonists. This story is based on facts, but it’s a fictional version of how we imagine Canada’s most famous comic strip might have got its start.  https://t.co/48c3fRFakn

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2019-05-02

One of the earliest known witticisms recorded in English Canada took place in 1817 in the town of Hamilton. It occurred in a prison and was uttered by a debtor confined there. 
Originally published in October 2004. https://t.co/CGAHqKdj7c

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2019-05-03

In past issues of The Beaver there are stories about violent polar bear confrontations, but there are also stories about polar bears who “became great pals” with people. https://t.co/FEOGdJxBjx

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2019-05-09

In his notes from the 1972 Summit Series, Aislin notes that Foster Hewitt, a Toronto hockey broadcaster, had memorized the names of all of the Soviet players, but still managed to mangle the pronunciation of all the French-Canadian player's names https://t.co/xlf0Sf9A7A

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2019-05-09

Did you know that the creator of "For Better or For Worse," is Lynn Johnston, a Canadian cartoonist from Collingwood, Ontario? https://t.co/48c3fRFakn

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2019-05-17

From wolf attacks to brute labour, from cholera to forest fires, from black flies to hatchet wounds, northern humour is birthed out of everyday misery. https://t.co/CGAHqKdj7c

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2019-05-17

While congratulating Aislin on his work, former NHL president Clarence Campbell, asked him if he had ever seen the awful cartoon of Campbell taking the Stanley Cup into a pawn shop....What do you think Aislin said? https://t.co/1wbuUC6hAD

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2019-05-23