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    Saskatchewan Legislative Building

    Saskatchewan Legislative Building, Regina, was built 1908-12, following the plans of Montréal architects Edward and William Maxwell. 

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    Saskatoon Centennial Auditorium

    Saskatoon Centennial Auditorium. Home of the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra.

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    Science Centres in Canada

    Canada is home to more than 40 science centres, planetariums, children's museums and related institutions that have been established to advance scientific literacy by making science learning fun and accessible.

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    Security Improved at 24 Sussex

    Some things will have changed around the house by the time Prime Minister Jean Chrétien returns home to Ottawa on Nov. 19 from the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in New Zealand and his other travels in Asia.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on November 20, 1995

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    Séminaire de Québec

    Séminaire de Québec, an educational institution consisting of the Grand Séminaire and the Petit Séminaire. The former, fd 26 Mar 1663 by Mgr François de LAVAL, was to train priests and guarantee parish ministries and evangelization throughout the diocese. In 1665 it was affiliated with the Séminaire des Missions Étrangères de Paris.

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    Shaftesbury Hall

    Shaftesbury Hall. The auditorium in Toronto's first YMCA, built at Queen and James streets in 1872 to designs by the architects Smith and Gemmel. The hall was on the ground floor with a direct entrance from the street, a double gallery, and a seating capacity of about 1700.

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    Shand House

    Shand House in WINDSOR, NS, is an ornate Victorian residence built by Clifford and Henrie Shand in 1890 as a family home. Clifford Shand was a noted bicycle racer and the son of a Windsor furniture manufacturer, and the interior of the house reflects this association with fine woodworking.

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    Signal Hill

    Signal Hill, overlooking the harbour of St John's, Nfld, was for many years the centre of the town's defences.

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    Skyscrapers

    A skyscraper, simply put, is a building of well-above-average height with useable storeys and a self-supporting skeleton structure. There is no fixed height at which buildings qualify, but those less than about 40 metres (130 feet) or 10 storeys have historically not been considered skyscrapers.

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    Skyscrapers: Table

    Skyscrapers: Table Skyscrapers: Table Skyscrapers: Table NAME CITY HEIGHT YEAR First Bank Tower Toronto 298 m/978 ft 1975 Scotia Plaza Toronto 275 m/901 ft 1988 Commerce Court West Toronto 239 m/784 ft 1972 Canada Trust Tower Toronto 226 m/740 ft 1990 Toronto Dominion Bank Tower Toronto 223 m/731 ft 1967 Petro-Canada Centre, West Tower Calgary 210 m/689 ft 1984 Tour du 1000 de la Gauchetière Montréal 204 m/669 ft 1991 Tour IBM-Marathon Montréal 198 m/650...

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    Smith House

     Architect Arthur ERICKSON designed the house for artists Gordon and Marion Smith. It sums up a period in West Coast modernist architecture of experimentation with open plans and visual and physical interpenetration of indoors and outdoors.

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    Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum

    The Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum is an organization that aims to “collect, record, interpret and commemorate the soccer heritage of Canada.”

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    Sony Centre for the Performing Arts

    A landmark modernist design by architects Earle C. Morgan and Peter Dickinson of Page and Steele of Toronto, with Eggers and Higgins of New York as consultants and V.L.

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    Soulpepper Theatre

    Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre was founded in 1998 by 12 actors who had trained and performed at the Stratford Festival. Considered the best year-round repertory company in Canada, Soulpepper has presented such acclaimed productions as Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya (2001, 2002, 2008) and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (2013). Since relocating to Toronto’s Distillery District in 2006, Soulpepper has presented such Canadian plays as Sharon Pollock’s Doc (2010), John Murrell’s Waiting for the Parade (2010), and Ins Choi’s Kim’s Convenience (2012). In January 2018, the company was rocked by allegations of sexual harassment against founding artistic director Albert Schultz and accompanying lawsuits against Schultz and Soulpepper.

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    Southern Alberta Art Gallery

    The Southern Alberta Art Gallery was given the mandate to present historical and contemporary art of national and international significance to the region of southern Alberta.

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