Special Features - Canada 150 Coast to Coast Pride

Canada is a big place. Canadians live in provinces larger than entire countries, spread out over nearly ten million square kilometres from the Pacific to the Atlantic to the Arctic. For those of us in British Columbia, the East Coast almost seems like a foreign land; to someone in Whitehorse, the rugged coast of Newfoundland might feel like another planet entirely.

To celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation, we wanted to showcase each of our 10 provinces and 3 territories on their path to Confederation. The result is this special section, Coast-to-Coast Pride. And of course, you’ll find local Abbotsford Canada Day Celebration information in this section too.

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Peggy’s Cove - Nova Scotia

Wilderness - Nunavut

Northern Lights - Northwest Territories

Dog Sledding - Yukon

Gros Morne National Park - Newfoundland and Labrador

Big Muddy Badlands - Saskatchewan

Canadian Museum of Human Rights - Manitoba

Hopewell Rocks - New Brunswick

Quebec City - Quebec

Sandy Beaches - Prince Edward Island

Osoyoos Lake - British Columbia

Lake Louise - Alberta

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Abbotsford celebrates Canada’s 150th birthday with a full day of fun and activities on July 1.

The main city parade begins at 11 a.m. along South Fraser Way, starting from Ware Street and ending in the area of Trethewey and Maclure.

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Abbotsford kicks off a weekend of Canada Day celebrations with a special night of entertainment on Friday, June 30 at Exhibition Park.

Producer Calvin Dyck has put together an entertaining lineup, including three choirs, an orchestra, dancers, skippers, drummers and more, starting at 6 p.m.

• The Pacific Mennonite Children’s Choir will perform Karl Jenkins’ tribal Dos a Dos, complete with choreography and orchestral accompaniment as well as a world premiere of O Canada, the Place We All Call Home, composed by Abbotsford’s own Joyce Janzen.

• National champions Abbotsford Skipping Sensations will skip to the famous Can Can, and the Sionnaine Irish Dancers will perform Lord of the Dance and Call to the Dance made famous by the Leahy Family.

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• The Valley Festival Singers, led by Dr. Joel Tranquilla, will perform works by four Canadian composers, and the May Day Choir will perform 3 songs: Heroes, Pompeii, and Lost Boy. • The 15-piece Korean Drummers of Abbotsford will perform.

• The Abbotsford Youth Orchestra will present its latest choreographed number Tango Jealousy, complete with bright red dresses and great moves.

• 11-year-old composer Rafael Brisebois, who won a national composition contest, will present his newest piece for orchestra entitled Hemlock Valley/Sasquatch Mountain, and there will be an appearance by an acrobatic sensation and a hula hoop contortionist, performing to music from Cirque du Soleil.

“This year’s Canada Day festivities will be

memorable for us all, as we celebrate our nation’s 150th anniversary,” said Mayor Henry Braun.

“I often reflect on how fortunate we are to live in such a great country, a country that celebrates our diversity and uniqueness.

What better way to honour our great country than to showcase our region’s diverse array of local entertainers.

“This lineup truly embodies our country’s multicultural character, and I look forward to celebrating our national heritage with the entire community this year.”

The day’s festivities conclude with a fireworks show starting at 10 p.m.

Visit abbotsford.ca/canadaday for more information.

The parade grandstand is located on South Fraser Way between Bourquin Crescent and Gladwin Road.

A family festival then runs from 1 to 5 p.m. at Abbotsford Exhibition Park (32470 Haida Drive) and includes an artisan market hosted by Abbotsford Arts Council, community displays, mini golf, hayrides, pony rides and several interactive play zones.

Also on the agenda is the Fraser Valley Food Truck Festival from 1 to 10 p.m.

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The festivities continue on July 1 at Exhibition Park. (See story on page B4 for full entertainment lineup.)

The City of Abbotsford also celebrates Canada150 on August 10 with a Live Symphony Orchestra directed by Calvin Dyck at Mill Lake Park.

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The Abbotsford community of Mt. Lehman hosts a parade and celebration preceding the main City of Abbotsford parade on July 1.

Complimentary coffee and tea will be served at Mt. Lehman Community Hall (6418 Mt. Lehman Rd.), starting at 8 a.m.

The parade starts at 9:30 a.m. from Mt. Lehman Credit Union (5889 Mt. Lehman Rd.).

Mt. Lehman Road will be closed to traffic from 9 to 10 a.m. between Harris and Taylor roads (north/south) and from Ross and Taylor roads (east/ west).

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Cake and festivities will follow at the hall and Mt. Lehman United Church.

A birthday this big deserves a weekend celebration.

New this year is the children’s pet parade. Kids are invited to dress up their pets and bring them to the parade.

An impressive evening entertainment lineup has been booked for this year’s Canada Day celebrations at Exhibition Park in Abbotsford in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday.

They should meet with their pets at the Mt. Lehman United Church at 9 a.m. for judging and prizes and then join the parade.

Those who would like to participate in the parade by driving their car, motorcycle, tractor, bicycle or float or by walking or rollerblading are asked to meet at the credit union at 9 a.m.

This year’s Canada Day celebrations, sponsored by Prospera Credit Union and with grant funding received from the federal government, will be full of entertainers including Her Brothers, Saint Soldier, Sister Says and The Ballantynes.

This year also marks the first time that the event has been organized by the Abbotsford Arts Council, the same organization that has brought the Fraser Valley Concert Series (formerly Envision Concert Series) and Jam in Jubilee.

Kassandra Clack of Abbotsford gets things started at 6 p.m. Clack is an energetic country artist and is quickly becoming an up-and-comer.

Following Clack will be Aldergrove-based band Her Brothers. In 2015, they were the first and only band to win the title of Langley Has Talent.

This honour led them to an opportunity to perform on the We Day stage at Rogers Arena as well as Mighty Peace Day in Alberta.

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sense of justice towards not only two of the members’ own sister, but towards all women, an issue which they became acutely aware of while on a humanitarian trip to southeast Asia.

Rapper Saint Soldier of Abbotsford also performs on the main stage this year. Saint Soldier was born in Punjab, India, and immigrated to Canada as a young child in the mid 1980s.

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He has been performing for several years in the Lower Mainland, released his first of several recordings in 2010, and won at last year’s Fraser Valley Music Awards in the hip-hop category. His music discusses social issues facing South Asian youth of his generation, as well as youth of other backgrounds.

Performing next will be Thistle Dew, a folk vocal trio from Abbotsford. Using ukelele and guitar, they bring music from several eras and styles in beautiful three-part harmonies.

Next on the stage is Sister Says, a soulful indie pop group based out of Vancouver and fronted by mixed Haida-Tsimshian siblings Gillian and Robert Thomson.

They have performed in B.C., Ontario, Manitoba and Beijing at the likes of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Kaslo

Jazz Etc. Festival, Edge of the World Music Festival in Haida Gwaii, Canadian Music Week in Toronto, and many more.

Headlining the event at 9 p.m. are The Ballantynes, a Vancouver six-piece band inspired by 1960s soul and garage music.

They were named last year by The Georgia Straight as one of Vancouver’s best bands.

Their 2015 debut album, Dark Drives, Life Signs, was acclaimed by Exclaim! magazine for its “driving snare rolls, awe-inducing organs and positive vibes.”

The fireworks display will begin immediately after their performance.

The afternoon entertainment lineup from 1 to 5 p.m. will consist of several community and cultural performances, including singing, First Nations drumming, and dancing styles from ballroom to bhangra.

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• Spanning more than a million kilometres, Ontario is larger than France and Spain combined.

Before Ontario was Ontario, it was part of the colony of Quebec, which was home to both French and English settlers. Unsurprisingly, religious, linguistic and social differences soon divided the area’s growing population. Both groups, eager to self-govern according to their own political views, parted ways via the Constitution Act of 1791. The Act split the Quebec colony in two: the French-speaking Catholics claimed the eastern portion, Lower Canada, and the British Loyalists and American settlers took Upper Canada.

Things went smoothly at first, but the War of 1812 set off a chain of events fuelled by political instability and rebellions on both sides of the new border. In February 1841, Upper and Lower Canada reunited to form the Province of Canada; but the communities retained their distinct character.

When talks of Confederation began, both sides were at the table, with George-Étienne Cartier representing the French speakers and John A. Macdonald, the former residents of Upper Canada.

The Province of Canada was divided into Quebec and Ontario in early 1867. Together, but as separate provinces, they joined the new Dominion of Canada on July 1 of that same year. Many Fathers of Confederation were from Ontario, including Sir Alexander Campbell, James Cockburn, George Brown and the first Canadian prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.

• When Ottawa’s section of the Rideau Canal freezes, it becomes the world’s longest out­ door skating rink.

• The name Ontario is thought to derive from either the Huron word for “great lake” or the Iroquoian word for “beautiful water.” The province contains more than 250,000 freshwater lakes.

• 1973–1981: Keep it beautiful • 1982–present: Yours to discover

Conservative premier Charles Tupper led the way for Nova Scotia — then a prosperous colony of approximately 350,000 people — to become one of the original provinces to join Confederation in 1867. He was a strong proponent of both a Maritime union and British North American union, in large part due to his belief that Nova Scotia would flourish if connected to other colonies by an inter-colonial railway.

Talks for both types of union began in 1864 at the Charlottetown Conference, but whereas the idea of a Maritime union was tabled, a confederation between the colonies was considered worth pursuing. Terms for the union were soon after debated at a second conference in Quebec City.

As a result, 72 guidelines were outlined in a document known as the Quebec Resolutions. Many Nova Scotians were vehemently opposed to the intended terms, especially those of financial nature. However, Charles Tupper led a majority government and was therefore able to pass the Quebec Resolutions through legislature.

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• There’s more Gaelic spoken in Nova Scotia than there is in Scotland.

The province houses North America’s only Gaelic College, and it boasts the world’s largest ceilidh fiddle.

• North America’s first ferry — powered by eight horses — was established between Halifax and Dartmouth. Our country’s first ferry crime occurred on this route when a drunk got aboard and stabbed all eight horses.

• Some other firsts include: first divorce granted in the colonies (1750), first covered hockey rink (1863), first public library in Canada (1864), and first Canadian hurricane warning system (1987).

• Pirates were a threat in early Nova Scotia, and their crimes were punishable with public hanging. The final execution occurred in Halifax in 1844. Tales of buried treasure and ghostly happenings are still common today.

Royal assent for Confederation was given at the London Conference in 1866, and on July 1, 1867 the new legislation took effect.

In 2008, a French-language version of the current licence plate was released. It fea­ tures the translated slogan Tant à découvrir.

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• Home to the McCain empire, the small town of Florenceville-Bristol, New Brunswick, is the french fry capital of the world. One-third of the world’s french fries come from New Brunswick.

• The world’s largest producer of maple syrup.

Its 48 million taps make 72% of the global share, which in 2016 was 148,200,000 pounds of syrup.

Quebec and Ontario jointly made up a single province at the time of Confederation called the Province of Canada, a union that developed in 1840 in response to rising rebellions in Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec). But things weren’t going well. In particular, governing with a single parliament run by multiple parties was a challenge. Confederation was a way to resolve this issue, as it would separate the Province of Canada into two provinces — Quebec and Ontario — and join it with other British North American colonies to form a new, federally governed country in which local issues could be provincially managed.

• Has some of the best whale watching in the world. Come summer, up to 15 different species of whales can be spotted in the waters surrounding the Bay of Fundy.

One of the four original provinces, New Brunswick joined the Dominion of Canada in 1867. Protection, mobility and economic prosperity were the driving forces behind this revolutionary merge.

• In 2012, a portion of Quebec’s reserved store of syrup (worth $18 million) was stolen.

Three of the men involved were convicted.

• At 1.5 million km2, or roughly three times the size of France, Quebec is our largest province.

• Approximately 95% of Québécois speak French. Montreal is the world’s secondlargest French speaking city.

Co-premier Sir George-Étienne Cartier from Canada East was a strong supporter of Confederation. In addition to the reorganization of government structures, he cited the Intercolonial Railway, economic stimulus and the protection of French Canadian interests as reasons to create the new union. While not everyone agreed (dissenters of Confederation were plentiful), Quebec officially joined the Dominion of Canada with Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick on July 1, 1867.

• The following were invented in Quebec: peanut butter in 1884, the Ski-Doo in 1959 and Trivial Pursuit in 1979.

Colonists, including Con­federation trailblazer and government leader Samuel Leonard Tilley, believed a wider national union would further elevate New Brunswick’s local economy by providing a larger market for goods and a link to the other colonies via the Intercolonial Railway system.

• The Bay of Fundy has the highest tides in the world, with waters rising at a rapid rate of one metre per hour. The force of the incoming tide is so overpowering that it causes the connecting St. John River to flow backwards twice a day, every day.

At the same time, fear of invasion reigned thick in the air as the American Civil War brewed in the south. With talk of the U.S. wanting to expand northward into New Brunswick, the majority of Maritime leaders believed their best defensive tactic was to become one with the Province of Canada (formerly Upper and Lower Canada).

Although this decision didn’t enjoy widespread agreement across the colony—many settlers feared their interests would be overshadowed in the greater Canadian context—the bid for Confederation prevailed, and New Brunswick became distinctly Canadian on July 1, 1867.

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• Is the world’s second biggest producer of diamonds, of superior quality than those found in Africa.

• Churchill in Northern Manitoba is the polar bear capital of the world. Local police advise against dressing as polar bears for Halloween so not to be confused with the real deal.

Like most of the Prairies, Manitoba began its journey to provincehood as part of Rupert’s Land, a sprawling territory that was owned by the Hudson’s Bay Company for nearly two centuries before being sold to Canada in 1868.

In 1867, a man named Thomas Spence had attempted to create the Republic of Manitobah; however, poor organization and a complete lack of recognition — or even interest — from authorities in London prompted the state’s swift demise.

Despite his disappointing democratic debut, Spence remained in politics and went on to serve on the council for Métis leader Louis Riel’s provisional government. Riel had established the group during the Red River Rebellion in reaction to the federal government’s complete disregard for Métis concerns. From the actions of Riel and his supporters — including Spence — emerged the Manitoba Act, a final step toward the creation of the Province of Manitoba.

• In 1959 Winnipeg became the first city in Canada to implement an emergency phone number.

• Manitobans donate more to charitable causes per capita than residents of any other province.

• The town of Gimli is home to the largest Icelandic community outside Iceland.

• Winnipeg is home to Canada’s oldest dance company the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

The act came into effect on July 15, 1870, officialising the status of Manitoba and its 15,000 residents within the Canadian Constitution.

• 1971–1975: Sunny Manitoba, 100,000 Lakes • 1976–present: Friendly Manitoba

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Canada purchased the expansive area owned by the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) — Rupert’s Land and North-Western Territory — after six months of gruelling negotiations that took place in London. As a freshly formed nation, Canada was eager to expand its borders both north and west, and simultaneously wanted to prevent the U.S. from further expanding (they’d already purchased Alaska from Russia a few years earlier). Britain supported these efforts and helped facilitate the transfer.

The lands acquired more than tripled Canada’s size. They encompassed all of modern-day Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, as well as most of Northern Ontario and Quebec. The land was purchased in 1869 for £300,000, and HBC kept the titles to various trading posts and 5 per cent of the territory (mostly farmland in the prairies).

However, the actual takeover was postponed due to the Red River Rebellion led by Louis Riel. As a result, appropriation only commenced on July 15, 1870. Upon Canada’s acquisition of the new region, the entire area — minus a small squaresized lot around Winnipeg that was pronounced the province of Manitoba — became known as the North-West Territories.

• Has no political parties. The government is made up of individuals who are voted in by their individual names rather than party affiliation. At a federal level, elected officials are assigned to whichever party is in power.

• Holds the largest amount of pingos — naturally occurring mounds of earth-covered ice — in the world.

• Yellowknife is the coldest city in Canada with an annual mean temperature of -5.4 °C. In the north, winter temperatures can dip to -50 °C.

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If you’re exploring beautiful British Columbia, expect the experience to be a memorable one. This Pacific Northwest paradise has it all: ocean breezes, mountain views, incredible food, world-class wine, rich history, vibrant culture and year-round festivals and events — not to mention Canada’s warmest weather.

Two members of the North West Company, Simon Fraser and David Thompson, established the first European settlement in present-day British Columbia during the early 1800s. The region was mainly used for the fur trade and remained largely undeveloped for the next 50 years or so, contrasting with the rapid development underway in Eastern Canada. In 1849 the British government invested in colonizing the area, and James Douglas became the first governor of the colony of Vancouver Island in 1851.

Things were relatively calm during the next few years, but this quiet period came to an abrupt halt when gold was discovered along the lower Fraser River in 1858. Gold-seekers flocked to the area and eventually formed a second colony, this one on the mainland, called British Columbia.

While exploring, you could: • Spend a few hours exploring Canada’s first and oldest Chinatown in Victoria, or its biggest in Vancouver.

• Swim in the warmest freshwater lake in Canada, Osoyoos Lake.

• Experience the West Coast Special: skiing and golfing on the same day.

• Enjoy the booming craft beer scene at one of 100+ breweries and brew pubs. Alternatively, join the fun during Vancouver Craft Beer Week, the Great Canadian Beer Festival or the Okanagan Fest-of-Ale. • Travel back to the gold rush era at Barkerville Historic Town.

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• Discover the province’s diverse Aboriginal heritage at the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, the Haida Village Centre or the Nk’mip Desert Cultural Centre.

• Embrace the pristine remoteness of the Great Bear Rainforest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest and only place where it’s possible to glimpse a majestic Spirit bear.

• Take in the majesty of Canada’s highest waterfall at Strathcona Provincial Park, on Vancouver Island. At 440 metres, Della Falls is eight times taller than Ontario’s Niagara Falls!

• One of North America’s largest film production centres. The province’s stunning scenery was featured in the Twilight series, The Hurt Locker, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

• Rumour has it that from 1947 to 1986 it was illegal to sell a stove in Vancouver, but only on Wednesdays.

• Okanagan Lake is the purported hoe of BC’s own sea monster, named Ogopogo.

• Learn about Arctic exploration at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, prehistory at the Dinosaur Discovery Gallery, or the fur trade era at Fort Langley National Historic Site.

• Tour one or several of BC’s 200+ wineries.

• Attend the annual International Bathtub Race in Nanaimo. Participants must make their way to the finish line while staying afloat in a modified bathtub. It’s quite the sight to behold!

In 1871, the 12,000 non-Aboriginal residents of the Vancouver Island and British Columbia colonies agreed to join Canada as a single province, on the condition that the federal government build a transcontinental railroad to link them to the economic mainstays of the east.

• The electric oven, egg carton and walkie-talkie were all invented in BC

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British Columbia entered Confederation on July 20, 1871; 15 years later, the much-delayed Canadian Pacific Railway finally reached the province’s southwest coast.

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• With 38,200 residents, it’s the least populated of all the provinces and territories.

• Produces a quarter of Canada’s potatoes.

Spuds have been grown on the Island since the 18th century.

• Is the smallest province, in both size and population, however the most densely populated.

Construction of a railroad on Prince Edward Island left the colony with a crippling debt. Confederation was the solution to this financial disaster, as well as an answer to the so-called Land Question. The Land Question was a highly contentious issue involving the system of land ownership on the Island. Canada agreed to pay out the railway debt and buy land from absentee landlords, and further promised to implement and maintain a year-round communication link with the Island.

On July 1, 1873, it became official: P.E.I. was the seventh province to enter the Canadian Confederation. The occasion was observed in Charlottetown with a small ceremony and celebration.

However, all of this occurred less than ten years after the Charlottetown Conference, during which the Maritime colonies and the Province of Canada (Quebec and Ontario) first began to put together the ideas that led to Confederation. Unlike the other colonies involved, Prince Edward Island ultimately declined to partake in the union, feeling that the terms were disagreeable. Still, P.E.I.’s original involvement in the preliminary talks led to the province touting itself as the birthplace of Confederation.

• Has no major lakes or rivers so residents depend on naturally filtered groundwater for drinking.

• Confederation Bridge, linking P.E.I to New Brunswick by road, first opened in 1997. It’s 12.9km long and takes about 10 minutes to cross.

Gold was discovered near Dawson City in 1896.

This discovery triggered an era of unbridled mining activity known as the Klondike Gold Rush.

People from all over the continent ventured to the Canadian North in hopes of snagging a slice of the gilded pie.

The region was originally part of the Northwest Territories, but this sudden influx of gold-seekers — as many as 100,000, according to some estimates — prompted the government to make Yukon a distinct federal territory in 1898.

• Consists of more than one island — Prince Edward Island, and a few dozen smaller islands. Some are deserted, others are privately owned and a few occupied by the Mi’kmaq peoples.

• A nationwide vote found 278,380 Canadians in favour of prohibition and 264,690 against.

Every province voted dry except Quebec. The result was deemed too close for Parliament to take any action.

• Canada Post released the world’s first Christmas-themed stamp.

• The first locomotive was put in operation on the White Pass and Yukon Railway.

• Emma Casgrain from Quebec became Canada’s first female dentist.

However, Alberta lacked the financial resources to build schools and advance public works. It became clear to politicians like Sir Frederick William Haultain that provincial status was the only way to achieve strong political power. In the early 1900s, Haultain fought tirelessly to obtain provincial self-government, and although he always advocated for one single province, in the end, Canada welcomed two: Alberta and its eastern neighbour, Saskatchewan.

• Between 1896 and 2013, an estimated 14 million ounces of gold was mined in Yukon. At current market price, the total bounty would be worth an unfathomable 20 billion 800 million dollars.

• Instead of a key to the city, dignitaries visiting Calgary receive a white felt cowboy hat: a coveted Smithbilt.

• Patricia Lake in Jasper was the site of Operation Habbakuk, a top-secret WWII military project to build a prototype aircraft carrier out of ice. The theory was that ‘ice ships’ could bypass magnetic mines undetected.

• Named in honour of Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, 4th daughter of Queen Victoria, and wife of John Campbell, former Governor General of Canada.

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• Whitehorse is the current territorial capital (and home to over 75% of Yukon’s population). Dawson City was the first capital until 1952.

• 1954–1969: Land of the Midnight Sun • 1970–1976: Home of the Klondike • 1977–present: The Klondike

• In 2015, Medicine Hat announced it had built enough micro homes to end chronic homelessness within its borders.

In 1883, the Canadian Pacific Railway reached Calgary, opening the floodgates to Alberta’s fertile, wheat-bearing lands. And, with the United States demonstrating true expansionist aims , Canada began asserting its presence in the Prairie Provinces by sending the Royal Mounted Police westward to present-day Lethbridge, where they founded Fort Macleod.

• Every second year, adventurous athletes take on the Yukon 1000, a 1,000-mile canoe race along the Yukon River between Whitehorse and the Dalton Highway. Competitors paddle up to 18 hours a day over the course of 7 to 12 days.

For context, the following events also took place in Canada in the year 1898:

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Alberta joined Confederation in 1905, along with Saskatchewan. With the fur trade in rapid decline in the 1850s and 60s, British North American leaders started exploiting the land’s agricultural potential. By the end of the 19th century, the Canadian West had undergone exponential change. In addition to experiencing an agricultural boom, the territories west of Ontario also saw urban development thanks to an increase in logging camps, mining centres and railway construction sites.

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In the late 19th century, the European population in the part of Canada we now call Saskatchewan was rapidly growing. The Dominion Lands Act, a law which granted free land to settlers who established homesteads in the Prairies, was a large factor in their arrival.

First Nations leaders in the area had signed away their land rights in the Numbered Treaties, and were attempting to make the switch from a nomadic way of life to an agricultural one. However, when the treaties were broken, rebellions ensued and the rallied First Nations in the region were forcibly quelled so that Canadian expansion might continue.

At the turn of the century, the area was administered as a part of the North-West Territories, which then included all of present-day Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut, Alberta and Saskatchewan, as well as large parts of Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. But with the Prairie population mushrooming, a more localized government began to make sense. In 1900, local leaders began petitioning for provincial status, and in 1905 the NorthWest Territories was cut up to create two new provinces: Saskatchewan and Alberta.

• Saskatchewan is the name of the principal river running through the province and an anglicised version of a Cree word, kisiskâciwanisîpiy, meaning swiftly flowing river.

• Is Canada’s largest producer of wheat, but the province also produces most of our country’s mustard, chickpeas, dry peas and lentils.

• Has more days of sunshine per year than any other Canadian province. The sunniest town is Estevan, which boasts an annual average of 2,540 hours of sunlight.

• The only province that doesn’t observe daylight saving time.

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• Has no connecting highways; travelling between communities is largely done by aircraft, cruise ship, snowmobile and even dogsled.

• There are more varieties of English spoken in Newfoundland and Labrador than anywhere else in the world. The province has its own English-language dictionary the Dictionary of Newfoundland English.

• St. John’s is the oldest city in North America. A European explorer first sailed into the harbour in 1497, although this has been hotly contested. Archaeological findings and the ancient tales of the Norse Sagas found the Vikings may have been the first to make land in the New World, settling in Newfoundland and Labrador (or Vinland, as they called it).

Newfoundland was an independent country before joining Canadian ranks in 1949 and the decision to join Canada contradicted the province’s history.

Many decades before, its people rejected Confederation.

In 1907, Newfoundland acquired Dominion status from the UK, which put it on equal ground with Canada. The two countries self-governed until 1933. With unsustainable government debt following World War I, declining fish prices and the cost to maintain a trans-island railway, Newfoundland was forced to give up independence in exchange for the Crown’s support.

At the dawn of World War II, Newfoundland began to prosper, and locals aspired to break from English rule once more. But political leader Joseph R. Smallwood, the last Father of Confederation, believed a union with Canada would lift the province out of poverty by providing a social safety net and paving way for industrialization.

• About 94% of the province’s total population resides on the island of Newfoundland, and half of that population lives in St. John’s.

After two consecutive referendums, Newfoundland became the tenth province to enter Confederation on March 31, 1949, and in December 2001, an amendment was made to the Constitution to change the official name to Newfoundland and Labrador.

On April 1, 1999, new boundaries were drawn in Canada’s North. Carved out of the central and eastern areas of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut — which means “our land” in Inuktitut — finally became a distinct Canadian territory after years of tireless negotiations.

• Home to the world’s northernmost permanently inhabited settlement, Alert — a cold, hard and desolate land with a population of 62.

The creation of Nunavut was the outcome of the largest Aboriginal land claims agreement in Canadian history. A surge in oil, gas and mineral exploration in the North during the 70s forced the Inuit to organize in response to the fast-paced economic developments affecting their land. The Inuit and First Nations peoples have a spiritual connection to the land, animals and sea, and believe resources must be used wisely as a show of respect.

• All homes in Nunavut are built on stilts to avoid melting the region’s permafrost (yearround frozen subsoil).

• Nunavut has the highest birthrate of Canada’s provinces and territories, with 52% of its population under the age of 25.

A traditional hunter-gatherer society, the Inuit sought self-governance as a means to protect their cultural well-being. After years of re-negotiating treaties, the Canadian government finally enacted the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement in 1993, which gave the Inuit a slice of the North and bestowed them with various rights, including wildlife and resource management.

• Nunavut has no local or city police, but one RCMP branch located in the territory’s capital.

The birth of Canada’s newest, largest and northernmost territory resulted in the first major change to the country’s geo-political map since the inclusion of Newfoundland in 1949.

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Canada 150 $20,000 prize giveaway winners announced

Black Press contest awards prizes including trip of a lifetime

S. Cleland of Union Bay (Vancouver Island) receives a one week RV rental along with $500 groceries and $100 gas. The prize was sponsored by Abbotsford’s own, Fraser Way RV. A houseboat trip is awarded to K. Brookes of Langley. The prize, sponsored by Waterway Houseboats, includes a three day weekend or four day midweek rental of a Genesis 66 Waterway Houseboat that sleeps up to 24.

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Two return helicopter fares from Vancouver to Victoria by Helijet K. Reid, Sidney

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Two nights at the Ramada Kelowna and four green fees at Gallagher’s Canyon D. Coulas, Hope

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Two nights at St. Eugene Golf Resort & Casino, Cranbrook S. Casey, Lumby

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Two nights at The Beach Club Resort, Parksville N. Atleo, Nanaimo

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Two nights at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel, Victoria R. Fenton, Prince Rupert

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Two nights at the Fairmont Express Victoria, including dinner for two S. Nelson, Quesnel

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2 nights at the Union Club, Victoria J. Beal, Red Deer

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Tickets to Coldplay BC Place Stadium Vancouver Sept. 29/17 L. Cochrane, Duncan

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Tickets to Bruno Mars Rogers Arena Vancouver July 26/17 G. Dube, Fernie

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The Black Press Canada 150 $20,000 Giveaway contest came to end on June 23 and the lucky winners were announced on Monday. The Great Canadian Getaway grand prize winner was K. Bertrand from Chilliwack. The prize, sponsored by Travel Best Bets, Travel Brands and Air Canada, includes a trip for two from Vancouver to Halifax Nova Scotia, five nights accommodation, airfare and $1,000 spending money.

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