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History of Canada: Western Europe
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The mining industry in Canada has an extensive history of exploration and development that predates confederation in 1867. The most significant period of growth... has been since World War II, with mineral discoveries in almost every region of the country. Mining is an important source of national wealth; in 1999 mineral production was valued at about $27.7 billion. The Canadian mining industry is strongly oriented toward exports, and Canada is one of the world's leading mineral exporters. The U.S., Japan, and Western Europe are the leading purchasers of Canadian minerals.
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A comparative study of the history of childhood in Europe and North America in the 19th Century, examining the experience of childhood and the political, social and the economic contexts of children's lives. Topics include child abandonment, child labour, enslaved children, the child reform movement, the nature of play, and the relationship of the child, family, and school.
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Prior to the arrival of Columbus it was thought by some that both the Aboriginal people and the land on which they lived had no real history. It was as though the indigenous people of the Americas had drifted immutably across the millennia until they were discovered by the whiteman. On the contrary prehistoric peoples had hightly developed cultures which centred on oral rather than written traditions. There existed in the land that became Canada some fifty different tribes, each with its own particular manners and customs, its own defined hunting grounds and its own separate language or dialect. Seventeenth century northeastern North America, a huge area extending from Acadia westward to the Great Lakes, contained a mosaic of shifting tribes and bands differing greatly in their way of life. When encountered by Europeans in the 16th century the North American population was divided into complex band, tribal, cultural and linguistic subgroups.
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