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Boy with a hockey stick and skates, in front of a house, Quebec City
March 14, 2013
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​Few things define what it is to be Canadian more than our love of hockey—"Canada's Royal Winter Game".
 
Group of boys working in a field at the Philanthropic Society Farm School
February 13, 2013
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​Between 1869 and the late 1930s, approximately 100,000 children were brought to Canada from Great Britain.
 
 
Painting in colour of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock
October 30, 2012
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​This year, Library and Archives Canada commemorates the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812.
 
 
Detailed graphite drawing of Roméo Dallaire’s profile.
September 27, 2012
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​Portraits of intriguing Canadians.
 
 

Black and White photograph of a crowd beneath a stone monument with a large Celtic cross.
June 22, 2012
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The massive immigration of Irish settlers to Quebec in the 1800s.
 
 

A painting of red poppies growing in the trenches on the Somme
March 28, 2012
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Connecting youth to Canada's history by making military service files available in person and online.
 
 
Photograph of an Inuit girl carrying an infant in a baby-pouch, Taloyoak (formerly Spence Bay), Nunavut, circa 1961
February 9, 2012
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A community-engagement and photo-identification project launched by Library and Archives Canada in 2004.