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Redrawing the West: The Politics of Provincehood in 1905

The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated.

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Cupids, Newfoundland: Canada's First English Settlement

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"Thomas Willoughby, thou art a ne'er-do-well! Get thee to Cupers Cove and reform thyself." Young Willoughby, 19, may not have heard exactly those words, but he was sent to Cupers Cove, Newfoundland in 1612 to "reform himself."

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Adam Beck and the Creation of Ontario Hydro

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The Stories Behind Canada's Fringe Festivals

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The Road to Inclusion: Transgender Health Care in Canada

The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated.

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Toronto Maple Leafs 1967: The Last Stanley Cup

The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated.

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Editorial: Newfoundland’s Contribution to the Patriation of the Constitution

The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated.

In the decades since 1982, politicians and the media have recounted the same story about the patriation of Canada’s constitution and the adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Most of the credit in this version goes to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Three others are credited with breaking an impasse in the 1981 negotiations: federal justice minister Jean Chrétien, Saskatchewan attorney general Roy Romanow, and Ontario attorney general Roy McMurtry. But in his memoirs, former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford argues that the key intervention in the patriation process came from Peckford and the members of the Newfoundland delegation.

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The First Thanksgiving in North America

The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated.

It has become common knowledge that the first Thanksgiving in North America was held by Sir Martin Frobisher and his crew in Nunavut in 1578. There are those — mainly Americans upset by the thought of having their holiday co-opted — who argue that it wasn't a “real” Thanksgiving. I would counter that Frobisher had reason to give thanks, and that giving thanks was an important aspect of Elizabethan society, so it would have been a natural thing for him and his men to do.

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Vancouver Feature: Canada’s First Gas Station Opens for Business

The following article is a feature from our Vancouver Feature series. Past features are not updated.

The first gasoline-powered automobile had arrived in Vancouver in 1904, and there were not many more by 1907. But that year someone in the local Imperial Oil office determined that filling cars with a bucket and funnel was not very safe. So the first Canadian filling station — a hot-water tank and a garden hose — was set up at the company’s storage yard at Cambie and Smithe.