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The Smokehouse Creek Fire was a record-breaking wildfire affecting the northeastern Texas panhandle and western Oklahoma that started on February 26, 2024. The fire affected numerous communities in Hemphill and Roberts counties, including the town of Canadian. [3][4] As of March 16, 2024, the fire had burned approximately 1,058,482 acres (1,654 ...
George F. G. Stanley was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1907 and received a BA from the University of Alberta in Edmonton. [2] He studied at Keble College, University of Oxford, in 1929 as the Rhodes Scholar from Alberta, and held a Beit Fellowship in Imperial Studies and a Royal Society of Canada Scholarship.
Canadian, Texas. Canadian is a city in, and the county seat of, Hemphill County, Texas, United States. [4] The population was 2,339 at the 2020 census, [5] down from 2,649 in 2010. [6] It is named for the nearby Canadian River, a tributary of the Arkansas River. Incorporated in 1908, Canadian is sometimes called "the oasis of the High Plains ".
Joanna Troutman also Johanna Troutman (February 19, 1818 – July 23, 1879) sewed a flag for a battalion of Georgia volunteers who were leaving to fight in the Texas Revolution, which became known as the Troutman flag, consisting of a five-pointed blue star and the words "Liberty or Death" on a white silk field. On the reverse side was the ...
The National Flag of Canada (French: Drapeau national du Canada), [1] often referred to simply as the Canadian flag, consists of a red field with a white square at its centre in the ratio of 1∶2∶1, in which is featured one stylized, red, 11-pointed maple leaf charged in the centre. [2] It is the first flag to have been adopted by both ...
The Canadian Red Ensign emerged as an informal flag to represent Canada as early as the 1870s and was used at sea [3] and on land "on all public buildings throughout the provinces," [4] prior to becoming the country's civil ensign in 1892. The flag was adorned with the arms of the Canadian provinces until 1922, when the arms of Canada replaced ...
25,000,000 – 50,000,000 (estimated) The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread ...
The Great Canadian flag debate (or Great Flag Debate) was a national debate that took place in 1963 and 1964 when a new design for the national flag of Canada was chosen. [ 1 ] Although the flag debate had been going on for a long time prior, it officially began on June 15, 1964, when Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson proposed his plans for a ...