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  1. Cartier -- Jacques Cartier
    Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) was an explorer of the St. Lawrence River to present day Montreal. Cartier's exploration was the base for France's claim to Canada. Their origional intent was to search for thJacques Cartier (1491-1557) Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) was an explorer of the St. Lawrence River to present day Montreal. Cartier's exploration was the base for France's claim to Canada. Their origional intent was to search for thJacques Cartier (1491-1557) was an explorer of the St. Lawrence River to present day Montreal. Cartier's exploration was the base for France's claim to Canada.
  2. Brittany -- Channel Islands
    Brittany occupies a large peninsula in the northwest of France, lying between the English Channel to the north and the Bay of Biscay to the south. Its land area is 34,034 km² (13,137 sq mi). The historical province of Brittany is divided into five departments: to the west is Finistere, Côtes-d'Armor lies to the North, Ille-et-Vilaine is in the north-east, Loire-Atlantique is to the south-east and Morbihan lies in the middle.
  3. Mohawk Valley -- New York
    The Mohawk (Kanienkeh, Kanienkehaka or Kanien’Kahake, meaning "People of the Flint") are an indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario. Their current settlements include areas around Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River in Canada. Their traditional homeland stretches southward of the Mohawk River, eastward to the Green Mountains of Vermont, westward to its border with the Oneida Nation traditional homeland territory, and northward to the St Lawrence River. As original members of the Iroquois League, or Haudenosaunee, the Mohawk were known as the "Keepers of the Eastern Door" who guarded the Iroquois Confederation against invasion from that direction.
  4. Cardiology -- Interventional Cardiology
    Cardiology was one of the first clearly defined subspecialties to develop in pediatrics and the second to establish formal subspecialty board certification. During its existence, this discipline has seen extraordinary changes that are continuing at a rapid pace. The practice of pediatric cardiology is increasingly demanding. The cardiologist must continue to have excellent bedside skills as well as expertise in pharmacologic therapy, non-invasive imaging, cardiac catheterization and interventional cardiology, arrhythmia management, exercise physiology and post-operative care. In addition, progress and growth in a subspecialty is dependent upon active work in basic and applied research.
  5. Prince Edward Island -- New Brunswick
    Although Prince Edward Island did not implement an independent trade deal with the Americans, the possibility of stronger ties between Prince Edward Island and the United States concerned Canada. In 1869, the new country decided to try again to convince the Island to join Confederation with a deal known as "Better Terms". In addition to an offer to assume the Island's debts, the deal provided a debt allowance, and an annual per capita subsidy of 80 cents. As well, Canada offered a steamer service to the mainland for delivery of passengers and post, and a renewed pledge of $800000 to purchase remaining absentee landlord holdings. The government of Robert Haythorne rejected this offer in January of 1870.
  6. Canadian (World Literature) -- French Canadian
    It was the rise of Quebec patriotism and the 1837 Lower Canada Rebellion, in addition to a modern system of primary school education, which led to the rise of French-Canadian fiction. L'influence d'un livre by Philippe-Ignace-Francois Aubert de Gaspé is widely regarded as the first French-Canadian novel. The genres which first became popular were the rural novel and the historical novel. French authors were influential, especially authors like Balzac.
  7. Canada -- New France
    Canada is generally a good place to work in and with unemployment rates hovering at historic lows, there is no shortage of jobs in Canada. The minimum wage varies by province, from $7/hour in New Brunswick and $8/hour Alberta to $8.50/hour in Nunavut. One should be aware that factory and manufacturing work is becoming more scarce every year and are highly sought, most factories require a highschool education. Minimum wage jobs are becoming more common every year, though there is still a fair amount of good construction jobs to be had.
  8. Canada
    For many years Subaru Ironman Canada was the only Ironman triathlon in continental North America - that is no longer the case. So now with seven other Ironman Races on the North American schedule, how then does Subaru Ironman Canada remain one of the most popular races in the world? What is it that makes athletes line up the night after their race, sleep on the sidewalk so they can get a spot in next year's race?
  9. Montreal
    Situated on an island in the St. Lawrence River just at its highest navigable point, Montreal has been a strategic location since before the arrival of Europeans in Canada. A thriving Mohawk town called Hochelaga was on the site of present-day Montreal when explorer Jacques Cartier first visited in 1535. A hundred years later, in 1642, the tiny town of Ville-Marie was founded as a Sulpician mission by Paul Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve. It soon became a centre of the fur trade. After its capture by the English in 1762, Montreal remained the most important city in Francophone Canada, and was briefly capital of the province in the 1840s.
  10. History of Canada -- New Brunswick
    In terms of history, Atlantic Canada would come to include the coastal or maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and little Prince Edward Island, along with the big sea-isle of Newfoundland that lay across the ocean approaches to the mainland. In environmental terms instead, this was a region of ancient, worn-down mountains, lined with valleys which the sea had penetrated deeply, past jutting headlands into sheltered coves and harbours. Inland, the valleys were hemmed by high rock ridges, rough, hard terrain that in New Brunswick rose northward to the crests of the Appalachian ranges, a formidable barrier between the Atlantic region and the rest of Canada beyond. But seaward, the open waters gave ready access all around the shores, or carried Maritime and Newfoundland ships to Old or New England, to the Caribbean and the Mediterranean as well. The chief cities of the region were seaports first and foremost: St. Johns, closest to Europe on the eastern edge of Newfoundland, Halifax, the main naval base fronting Nova Scotia, or busy, ship-building Saint John on New Brunswick's southern shore. Moreover, prolific fishing grounds along the coastline, extending far out into the Atlantic off Newfoundland, supplied a basic livelihood for the hardy peoples who developed in this sea-domain.
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