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Harold Innis (1894–1952) – political economist; author of seminal works on Canadian economic history, media and communications; Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) – communications theorist, coined phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village" Steven Pinker (born 1954) – psychologist, cognitive scientist, writer of popular science
Writing Canadian History: Aspects of English Canadian Historical Writing since 1900, 2nd edition (1986) Berger, Carl, ed. Contemporary Approaches to Canadian Writing (1987) Bliss, Michael. "Privatizing the Mind: The Sundering of Canadian History, the Sundering of Canada," Journal of Canadian Studies 26 (Winter 1991–92): 5-17; Brandt, Gail ...
Francis Pegahmagabow MM & two bars (/ ˌ p ɛ ɡ ə ˈ m æ ɡ ə b oʊ / peg-ə-MAG-ə-boh; March 9, 1891 – August 5, 1952) was an Ojibwe soldier, politician and activist in Canada. He was the most highly decorated Indigenous soldier in Canadian military history and the most effective sniper of the First World War.
The Greatest Canadian is a 2004 television series consisting of 13 episodes produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to identify one greatest Canadian of all time, according to those who watched and participated in the program. [1]
Canada Day – celebrated nationwide 1 July annually, marks Canada's 1867 Confederation and establishment of dominion status, Civic Holiday – is a public holiday in Canada celebrated on the first Monday in August [63] Family Day – In most provinces of Canada, the third Monday in February is observed as a regional statutory holiday
For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Canadian. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their
The 1979-80 edition of New Year's Eve with Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians moved back to syndication and only featured the celebration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, with nephew Bill Lombardo leading the band for the second year. This was the Royal Canadians' final New Year's Eve special to air on television. [citation needed]
The list was started in 1984 because Canadian film was taking off, and was made by polling critics, professors, fans and festival staff. [2] According to Piers Handling, a TIFF director, the idea of the Top 10 was to introduce the public to Canadian film, and around 100 people were polled.