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Kimiwan: Cree word for rainy. Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland Provincial Park (Wood Buffalo Park). Kitaskino Nuwenëné is both Cree and Dene meaning “our land.”. Lake Minnewanka: "Water of the Spirits" in Sioux (Nakoda/Stoney language) Lily Lake—name is translation of Indigenous place name.
National Historic Sites of Canada ( French: Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) are places that have been designated by the federal Minister of the Environment on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (HSMBC), as being of national historic significance. [1] [2] Parks Canada, a federal agency, manages the National ...
A village is a type of incorporated municipality within the majority of the provinces and territories of Canada . As of January 1, 2012, there were 550 villages among the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, the Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Yukon. Since then, Kedgwick in New Brunswick ...
Free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) — refers to people of mixed African, European, and sometimes Native American descent who were not enslaved in the era of slavery in the Americas. They were a distinct group of free people in the colonies of the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States.
1978. Igloolik Island. 69°23′N 081°40′W. / 69.383°N 81.667°W / 69.383; -81.667 ( Igloolik Island Archaeological Sites) Nine archaeological sites dating from Dorset and Pre-Dorset occupations, demonstrating 4000 years of human activity; also the wintering site for William Parry in 1821 and the base of the Fifth Thule ...
List of Canadians by notability; By city A. Abbotsford (British Columbia) Airdrie (Alberta) B. Barrie (Ontario) Bedford (Nova Scotia) Brampton (Ontario) Brandon (Manitoba) Brantford (Ontario) Brooks (Alberta) Burlington (Ontario) Burnaby (British Columbia) C. Caledon (Ontario) Calgary (Alberta) Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island) Coquitlam ...
National broadcast television networks English. CBC Television, a national public network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).; Citytv, a privately owned television network owned by Rogers Media, with stations in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.
Lt. James Robertson 1813–1815? [1] Captain Runchey's Company of Coloured Men was a Canadian militia company of free blacks and indentured black servants, raised in Upper Canada as a small Black corps under a White officer, Robert Reuben Runchey (1759–1819), a tavern keeper from Jordan, Upper Canada. The unit fought in several actions during ...