Niagara Canada My visit to Ontario Canada was exciting and very informative. ... I didn't think that there was going to be a lot to see in Canada but I soon found out that I was completely wrong. ... It is actually a museum/haunted house. ... The legal age for drinking in Canada is 19. ... It is Canada's leading producer of premium VQA wines. ...
Organization Presentation The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is an incorporated not-for-profit organization under the Law of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. ... The auditor's report for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is addressed to its members. ... Major Accounting Choices The MMFA made the decision to prepare its 2011 financial statements in accordance with the Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. ... The museums long term debt balance dropped by $3.4 M, to reach $16.4 in 2011. ... This change is mainly due to the use of two lines of credits specially set up for the...
Roberta Bondar - A Biography In January of 1992, Roberta Lynn Bondar made Canada very proud when she became the first female Canadian to go into space. ... Bondar has also photographed all of Canada's national parks for a millennium project entitled 'Passionate Vision - Discovering Canada's National Parks', which began touring Canada as an exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Nature in June of 2000. It completed a four-month showing at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and opened in April of 2001 at the Regional Art and Historical Museum in London, Ontario. The exhibit...
(Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2001) FAMOUS DISCOVERIES Some of the most famous discoveries in the bogs was Tollund man (1950) and Yde Girl (1897), as mentioned. ... (Drents Museum, 2003). ... (Drents Museum, 2003). ... The mayor informed the Drents Museum (in the Netherlands) about the find and fortunately the museum was interested in preserving the body, including the woolen cape that was also found with her. ... (Drents Museum, 2003) CONCLUSION Thanks to modern scientific and archaeological technology (such as Carbon 14 dating and facial reconstructions), we can rev...
This put a huge strain on English - French relations in canada. ... The English speaking Canadians pointed out that only four percent of the man power involved in the war were French Canadians, yet forty percent of the men between eighteen and forty-five are French Canadian. ... (Canadian War Museum, par 1) So Mackenzie King introduced an act that called for a countrywide registration of suitable men and approved conscription for home defense called the National Resources Mobilization Act. ... (Canadian War Museum, par 3) The results of the plebiscite show how divided French and English ...
Finally we land, I have arrived, Toronto airport, Ontario, Canada. ... Another thing about the Canadians is that they are all really polite and they are nearly always smiling. Okay, enough of me praising the Canadians, lets get going. ... I am in Ingersoll, the home of the famous cheese factory, no really, Ingersoll is a really small town where the highlight of its attractions is the cheese factory museum. ... In nearly every town in Canada there is a chain of coffee houses called Tim Hortons, it's the type of place where you are really reluctant to try, but as soon as you take your f...
There were schools in every province and territory in Canada except Newfoundland & Labrador. Native Canadians are the backbone of much Canadian history, and still, the Native Canadian children were deprived, abused, and secluded for years in these schools. ... These schools, run by religious people, were not a choice for Native Canadians. ... There were a total of 130 schools across Canada, and over 90 000 children attended them. ... The Aboriginal Healing Foundation of Canada has been working for years to make Canadians today aware of the Residential schools for Native Canadians and the effec...
It is not only the metaphysical city of tolls, hills and monuments but also the town with the highest density of poets and museums in South-Eastern Europe. ... Food and other products are very cheap compared to Canadian prices. ... In Iasi every rock "speaks of the past" through the high number of monasteries, museums, cultural buildings, reason for which we can say that the city is a national museum through its cultural treasures...
Many Iroquois tribes who fought for the British moved to Canada. ... Pennsylvania has a number of great museum like Carnegie in Pittsburgh and The Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Houdini Museum is located in Scranton and is the only place in world dedicated to the famous magician. ... From the outdoors to music festivals, museums and zoos; Pa. may be the place for you....
Central Malakula, Iapkotas village Burial Plaque (nenglataki), 20th century Tree fern, leaves and grasses, mud, pigments 96.5 x 10.4 x 17.7 cm. 1992.190 Museum purchase, with funds realized through the deaccession and sale of gifts from Marjorie van Andel and Tjeerd van And Oceania encompasses about 25,000 islands clustered in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, and the collection addresses both of these regions comprehensively. ... Tlingit people Northwest Coast, Canada, Queen Charlotte's Island Crest Hat, late 19th century Carved and painted cedar inlaid with abalone shell ...
Ronald Burgos 9/28/00 Period1 The Rosetta Stone In 1799, when Napoleon's army was dismantling a wall in Rashid, Egypt, they discovered the Rosetta Stone. Little did they know that this 11-inch thick piece of rock would be one of the greatest discoveries in history! It contained Egyptian scri...
Philip Currie is a world-renown paleontologist, and curator of dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta. His work takes him all around the globe, including places like China, Canada, Montana, Mongolia, and even the Arctic. ... At one location in Alberta, Canada, Currie found over a hundred centrosaurus. ...
Once a classy, power hungry coordinator at Toronto's Museum of Natural History, she has become lazy, appearing old and lifeless. ... Lesje is Nate's lover and Elizabeth's coworker at the museum. ... Tiny, but muscular, he also worked at the museum. ... Setting Life Before Man is set in Toronto, Canada. ...
A new demand for Nature-based, adventure and eco- tourism has risen significantly in Canada over the past decade, creating a major window of opportunity for Canada's tourism industry (Buckley, 2002). ... New protected areas are being drafted and implemented in all parts of Canada in hopes of equal monetary distribution (Lansing, 2002). ... It already employs one sixteenth of the world's work force and generates annual worldwide revenue of over 2.5 trillion Canadian dollars. ... This organization runs the museum in Algonquin Park, has two bookstores, and organizes tours, lectures and...
Galt, was also a superintendent of the British development firm "Canada Company". ... Guelph is considered one the first planned towns in Canada. ... The Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway and the Guelph Junction Railway run through Guelph and are used to transport industrial goods and resources. ... Agri-food generates $63 billion a year in Canada. ... Guelph's unemployment rate is smaller than Canada's. ...
Part 1: Book Summery Truth and Bright Water are dual communities separated by a river and the Canadian/American border. ... Upon arrival in Toronto, Swimmer got a job at the Royal Ontario Museum, and attempted, unsuccessfully to sell paintings of animals on the weekends. ... Pg. 129 He became renowned for his ability to restore other museum art. ...
Abstract This paper will describe and illustrate the life of Erik Erikson. It will account for all the events and findings he accomplished during his lifetime which began in Frankfurt, Germany and ended in Harwich, Massachusetts. This paper will outline his achievements in the field of Identi...
With the vast number of professional schools within the United States and Canada, choosing the right school can be extremely difficult. ... True, there are only nineteen optometry schools in the United States and Canada, but an optometry student must go through the same necessary steps as all other pre-professional students in order to find the school that fits him best. ... Memphis also has a multitude of museums, historical districts, parks, art galleries and music venues. ...
Also, 660 were founded in Britain and Ireland, 156 in Canada, and a handful of libraries were also scattered in New Zealand, the West Indies, and even Fiji (PBS Online). ... Chartered by Carnegie in 1905 with $15 million, the foundation established the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association in 1918, and currently provides retirement pensions for teachers of colleges, technical schools, and universities in the United States and Canada. ... Also benefiting from Carnegie's charity include various Carnegie museums of history, science, and art, Carnegie Hall in New York, and other public s...
Canadian, European, and U.S cities are just a few hours distance from where we are located. ... John's is one of the most active and innovative R&D communities in Canada as well as Memorial University. ... John's nightlife scene is one of the most vibrant in Canada. ... There are many sites to visit on Bell Island, the museums which hold many years of history during the mining years. ...
In fact this happens a lot in Canada. In 1999 the forestry industry of Canada made a loss of 10 million because of trees that were too damaged because of acid rain to be used anywhere. And you know Canadian are worried today that if the forests get wiped out because of acid rain then what will the all the lumberjacks and woodcutters do. ... This has caused a loss of $200 million in the Canadian fishing industry. ... Books and age-old art that are centuries old are also being affected; the ventilation systems of the libraries and museums that hold them do not prevent the acidic particles fro...
Focusing on the first half of the twentieth century, one can see the city of Montreal taking shape gradually growing to become Canada's first metropolis. ... We can see Canada's own movements leading the way in new schools of artistic technique, which could be considered the first truly Canadian art as its own unique entity. ... The Montreal Museum of Fine Art features a permanent exhibit on Quebec and Canadian Art. ... It is still considered the metropolis of Canada even with Toronto squeezing for control of the economy. ... Nevertheless, Montreal is still an invaluable driver of...
The game became a huge success in 1892 that 'Triangle' magazine published an article about it with the title 'A New Game' (Naismith Museum). ... Naismith's student's, Frank Mahan, suggested the game be called the 'Naismith Game', but Naismith refused and decided to name it Basketball, given there was a ball and a basket (Naismith Museum). ... The NBA is comprised of thirty teams, 29 teams in the United States, and one team in Canada (Martin, 2012). ... It has a total of 30 teams, 29 in the US and 1 team in Canada. ...
According to Donald Lopez, Senior Advisor to the director of the National Air and Space Museum, in his book Aviation a Smithsonian guide, people of that time tried to imitate birds. ... They are strictly regulated "in the United States, by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); in Canada, by Transport Canada; and in other countries, by other national aviation authorities. ...
