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May 31, 1970: Earthquake in Peru kills more than 65,000 people, buries 16,000 people alive in Yungay (pictured above) May 24, 1970: Soviet Union begins digging a hole 12 kilometers into the Earth May 4, 1970: Four college students killed, nine wounded, by Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent State University
1601 – On his map, Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan writes Hochelaga for the inhabited area, and calls the hill Mont Royal. 1603 – Samuel de Champlain reaches the Island of Montreal (Île de Montréal) and Île Perrot, and describes Mont Royal, Lake Saint-Louis and the Lachine Rapids.
Highway 407 begins at the Highway 403/Queen Elizabeth Way junction in Burlington. Highway 407 is a 151.4-kilometre (94.1 mi) [1] controlled-access highway that encircles the GTA, passing through Burlington, Oakville, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Markham, Pickering, Whitby, Oshawa, and Clarington, as well as travelling immediately north of Toronto.
A map of Toronto's Census Metropolitan Area, which contains a large portion of the GTA Toronto is the central city of the Greater Toronto Area. Mississauga is the largest city in Peel Region, and the second-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area.
The initial hockey game took place February 20, 1999 (Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Montreal Canadiens), the first basketball Game on February 21, 1999 (Toronto Raptors vs. Vancouver Grizzlies), and the opening concert on February 22, 1999 (The Tragically Hip). [21]
Television in Quebec is a part of the culture of Quebec, with over 99% of households owning a television in Quebec.Long a preferred medium of many of Quebec's actors, artists, and writers, television has been one of the important forces in Quebec society, including its substantial influence in a series of dramatic changes in the 1960s: the Quiet Revolution.
Toronto (Census Metropolitan Area) 442,180 2 Montreal (Census Metropolitan Area) 233,996 3 Vancouver (Census Metropolitan Area) 163,475 4 Calgary (Census Metropolitan Area) 111,259 5 Edmonton (Census Metropolitan Area) 91,568 6 Ottawa–Gatineau (Census Metropolitan Area) 88,664 7 Quebec (Census Metropolitan Area) 48,544 8
The total area of the province is 21,504 km 2 - constituting 14.57% of Nepal's total area. According to the latest census, the population of the province was 2,479,745. [2] The newly elected Provincial Assembly adopted Gandaki Province as the permanent name by replacing its initial name Province No. 4 on 27 April 2023. Surendra Raj Pandey is ...