To Do
From CanadianIdentity.com: significant Canadian events, history, inventions, and people
Contents |
To Do Priorities
- Add a new User
- Install recaptcha http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/
- Add content for Canadian Prime Ministers http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/FederalGovernment/PrimeMinisters/Biographical.aspx?Language=E
- The fight by women for the vote was called the Woman Suffrage Movement. http://www.pc.gc.ca/apprendre-learn/prof/sub/histc-cstor/histc-cstor9_e.asp
- Nellie McClung http://www.canadianstudies.ca/NewJapan/mcclungunit.html
- WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH Quizzes http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/dates/whm/index_e.html
- modify content for James_Raffan
- Some good ideas here http://proudcanadiankids.ca/index.htm http://www.constable.ca/openingpage.html
- Add META tags to Bark Lake HTML http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/mk-metas.html
- Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is a digital library providing access to 2,474,020 pages of Canada's printed heritage. It features works published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th Century. http://www.canadiana.org/eco.php?doc=about&id=4dbe86fc1f088fa4&page=ItemRecord
- Invite these camp professionals to list http://www.tawingo.net/about_camp_tawingo/meet_the_directors.php
- consider these glossaries http://www.glenbow.org/mavericks/teacher/english/indxglos.html
- Alberta was shaped by Mavericks – men and women who were adventurous, hard-working, and spirited. Discover our province’s history through their stories. http://www.glenbow.org/mavericks/
- read this http://ao.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=2087&pubtype=DailyArticles
8. Add http://www.haliburtonschoolofthearts.ca
9. Guy Laliberté and Cirque du Soleil http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/CirqueDuSoleil/en/company/default.htm
9. Anik Satellite
10. Find info on Nova Scotia heritage http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/
11. Africville http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/africville/
12. Don Messer http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/messer/
13. Halifax Explosion http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/explosion.asp
Buildings
- Sells photos of Canadian buildings http://www.booktown.com/stcroixprints/state.php
- Canada's Architectural History
- Who is Canada’s greatest architect?
- Add more buildings from this list
- Sudbury Museums
- Canadian Architecture 101
Document
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Event
Add these festivals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivals_in_Canada
bison (mistakenly called buffalo)become extinct on the western plains 1889
Canadian Film Development Corporation
Canadian flag
Carabana
Charlottetown Accord
Christmas
Confederation
Expression
- backbencher
- baloney
- bee's knees
- big cheese
- bump off
- bunk
- carry a torch
- cat's meow
- caucus
- cheater's
- crush
- cultural mosaic
- So long for now.- closing by Stuart McLean of CBC radio
Group
Canadian Links http://www.snark.org/hertel.htm Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO)
Bloc Quebecois (BQ)
BQ (Bloc Quebecois)
The Bell'Arte Singers is one of Canada?s finest community choirs. Founded in 1988 by Dr. Lee Willingham, they have established themselves in all genres of repertoire and styles through concerts, recordings, and broadcasts. Three European tours have established the choir?s reputation outside of Canada. http://www.bellartesingers.ca/
Canadian Authors' Association
Canadian Brass
Canadian Car and Foundry
Canadian Council of Business
Canadian Department of Communications
Canadian Film Development Corporation
Canadian Group of Painters
Canadian International Development Agency
Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian National Railway (CNR)
Canadian Pacific Airlines
Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) http://cprheritage.com/index.htm
Canadian Press (CP)
Canadian Radio Television Telecommunications Commission
Canadian Red Cross
Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Canadian Tire
Caughnawaga (Kahnawake)
Cayuga
CBC Radio
Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission
CBC Television
Champlain Society
Chapters
Christian Heritage Party
Cirque de Soleil
Coloured Corps
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) info
Council of Canadians
Women In Film & Television Vancouver (WIFTV) is an internationally affiliated non-profit society committed to advancing & celebrating women in screen based media. http://www.womeninfilm.ca
Invention
Add Canadian inventions http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/innovations/index-e.html
Cinesphere with IMAX film
Person
Add the following people:
- Terry Fox
- Frederick Banting
- Lester Pearson
- Louis Riel
- Tommy Douglas
- Isaac Brock
- Laura Secord
- Billy Bishop
- Nellie McClung
- http://www.heroines.ca/about/100canadianheroines.html
- http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/Canadians/
- Manitoba Heroes http://www.wsd1.org/sargentpark/hero/heroes.html
- Walk of Fame people http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com
- Canadian sports people
- Canadian Heroes published in 1999
- Canadian Heroes published in 2001
- Brampton Sports Hall of Fame http://www.bramptonsports.ca/hall.php
- Feist
- Paul Mason http://www.canoemuseum.net/bubblestreet.asp
- Backbencher
- Ned Hanlan athlete
- Gordie Howe athlete
- Ferguson Jenkins athlete
- Guy Lafleur athlete
- Mario Lemieux athlete
- Donovan Bailey athlete
- Bronko Nagurski athlete
- James Naismith athlete and inventor of basketball
- Patrick Roy athlete, Hockey player.
- Paul Tracy athlete, IndyCar driver
- Gilles Villeneuve athlete, Formula One driver
- Jacques Villeneuve athlete
- Rod Smith- was the President of Black's Photography
- Augusta Stowe in 1883 she was the first woman to receive a degree in medicine in Canada. She married another doctor and became Augusta Stowe-Gullen
- Mary Ann Shadd- was Canada's first black newspaperwoman
- Maurice Strong- Ontario Hydro, United Nations environment
- Ruth Bailey
- Conrad Bain
- Scott Bairstow
- Frederick Banting (1891-1941)
- Dave Barrett
- Gwennyth Barton
- Robert Bateman
- Adam Beach
- Emily Shaw Beavan (circa [[1820)
- Adam Beck
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
- Marilyn Bell
- Steve Bell
- Gil Bellows
- Richard Bedford Bennett
- Joseph E. Bernier (1852-1934)
- Rosalie Bertell
- Pierre Berton
- Charles Best
- Norman Bethune
- Francis Beynon
- Alfred Jackson Billes
- John William Billes
- Florence Bird
- Billy Bishop
- Conrad Black
- Martha Munger Black (1866-1957)
Rachel Blanchard
I. S. Bloch
Lothaire Bluteau
Joseph Armand Bombardier
Roberta Bondar
George Borden
Robert Laird Borden
Paul-Emile Borduas
Lucien Bouchard
Henri Bourassa (1968-1952)
Robert Bourassa
Mackenzie Bowell
Robert Borden
Leonard Braithwaite
Joseph Brant
Molly Brant (1736-1796)
Isaac Brock
Wilson Brooks
Blair Brown
Roy Brown
Kurt Browning
Robert Bryce
Genevieve Bujold
Mike Bullard
Raymond Burr
Chief Justice
constituent
Victoria Belcourt Callihoo (1861-1966)
June Callwood
James Cameron
Kim Campbell
Neve Campbell
John Candy
Harold Cardinal
Tantoo Cardinal
Franklin Carmichael
Emily Carr (1871-1945)
Jim Carrey
Mary Shadd Cary (1823-1893)
Gerry Carty
Casavant
Henri Casgrain
Therese F. Casgrain (1896-1981)
Ethel Catherwood
Kim Cattrall
Sarah Chalke
Raymond Chan
Thomas Chapais (1858-1946)
Jean Charest
Maurice Alexander Charles
Don Cherry
Rae Dawn Chong
Tommy Chong
Jean Joseph Jacques Chretien
Hayden Christensen
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Charles Joseph (Joe) Clark
Adrienne Clarkson
Mike "Pinball" Clemons
Bruce Cockburn
Leonard Cohen
Holly Cole
James Coleman
McQuesten family of Whitehern in Hamilton http://www.whitehern.ca/index.php
- J. Richard Wakefield HO railway models of Ontario http://www.mcswiz.com/MyLayout/Homepage.asp
http://www.heroines.ca/people/heroines.html
- Ann Harvey
- Fanny 'Bobbie' Rosenfeld
- Dr. Leonora Howard King
- Thérèse Casgrain
- Elsie MacGill
- Anna Mae Aquash
- Agnes Macphail
- Mary Ann Shadd
- Dr. Margaret Newton
- Violet Clara McNaughton
- Major Margaret C. Macdonald
- Helen Harrison
Susan Aglukark, singer and songwriter Louise Arbour, judge Jean Augustine, teacher and politician Roberta Bondar, astronaut Jocelyne Bourgon, civil servant Liona Boyd, classical guitarist Deanna Brasseur, jet fighter aircraft pilot Rosemary Brown, politician and feminist Kim Campbell, politician and 19th prime minister of Canada Maryse Carmichael, Snowbirds pilot Emily Carr, artist and writer Fran�oise David, activist and social worker Amelia Douglas, fur trade pioneer Ellen Fairclough, politician Barbara Frum, journalist Annie Gale, politician Pauline Julien, actress and singer Joni Mitchell, singer and songwriter Lucy Maud Montgomery, author Barbara Paterson, artist and sculptor Julie Payette, astronaut Chantal Petitclerc, athlete Buffy Sainte-Marie, musician, artist and activist Judith Simpson, Loyalist Cairine Wilson, politician Sharon Wood, mountaineer
Place
Arctic Red River (Tsiigehtchic)
Bark Lake (Ontario Camp Leadership Centre)
Program
- Canada A People's History
- Country Hoedown
- In June of 2002, CFPL generously donated, to the Archives of Ontario, the entire news output for their first 15 years of operation. http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/cfpl/index.html
- Hollywood's View of Canada http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/Places/Canada/CanadaMovies.html
- Canadian Movies http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/Places/Canada/CanadianMovies.html
Symbol
amethyst
beaver
Canada Council Medal
Canadian Flag
Canadian Red Ensign Flag (1945-1965)
Coat of Arms for Canada
common loon
Vegetation and Plants
Wildlife
- beaver
- Bigfoot
- Cadborosaurus
- common loon
- Igopogo
- Kraken
- Manipogo
- Memphre
- Ogopogo
- Sasquatch http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/fact_or_fiction/
- Sicopogo
- Thunderbird http://pyramidmesa.netfirms.com/passam3.html
- Winnipogo
- Books on sea monsters and creatures http://www.amazon.ca/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2FSMNDDHPP8BF
