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Day Twenty-Five:
A group of Inuit, along with the crew of the Neptune, celebrate Christmas at Cape Fullerton in present day Nunavut in 1903. The Neptune was a government ship sent on an expedition to the Arctic.
📸LAC 3406552
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Day Twenty-Four:
Christmas gifts are handed out to incoming European refugees to Canada on Christmas Eve 1959.
📸LAC 3298779
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Day Twenty-Three:
Former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker writes replies to the people who sent him Christmas cards during the 1967 Christmas season in this photo from January 1968.
📸U of S JGD/MG01/XVII/Slide988
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Day Twenty-Two:
Governor Georges Vanier and his wife Pauline arrive at Parliament Hill in an open carriage so that he can give the Throne Speech on Sept. 28, 1962.
📸Toronto Star TSPA_0107444F
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Day Twenty-One:
Mohawk men from the Kahnawake Reserve near Montreal in 1869 after winning the Canadian Lacrosse Championship.
📸Glenbow Archives CU1203945
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Day Twenty
A group of girls skate on Exshaw Lake near Canmore, Alberta on Feb. 13, 1963. L-R: Carol Fay, Janet Mills, Eileen Henderson, Patricia Jones and Teriesa Mills.
📸Glenbow Archives CU1203945
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Day Nineteen
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson has a laugh when Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip arrive in Canada at the Summerside Air Force Base in PEI on Oct. 6, 1964. It was the Royal Couples 4th visit in 13 years
📸Toronto Star TSPA_0122638F
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Day Eighteen
The Cree delegation that would be meeting Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier on Aug. 8, 1910 prior to his visit to Lloydminster, AB/SK.
Less than 2 months later, Laurier would be out as PM.
#Canada #History #Indigenous #FirstNations #Cree #Histodon #Histodons
📸University of Saskatchewan BCHCC0202
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Day Seventeen
A man points at an outhouse on the steps of the Ontario Legislature on April 26, 1973. The outhouse was placed there by a group of construction workers as a protest against outhouses on job sites.
📸Toronto Star TSPA_0011712F
#Ontario #ONPoli #ONPol #Canada #History #Histodons #Toronto
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Day Sixteen
Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard presents his friend, Luciano Pavarotti, with a Leafs sweater at a special gathering for the singer on March 17, 1985.
📸Toronto Star TSPA_0072753F
#Toronto #MapleLeafs #YYZ #TorontoMapleLeafs #Canada #SPorts #NHL #Hockey #Histodon #Histodons
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Day Fifteen
Louise Marleau, who plays the role of Juliet at the Stratford Festival, went to a swimming party and chatted with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau on Aug. 9, 1968.
📸Toronto Star TSPA_0085690F
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Canada #Cdnpoli #Canpol #Cdnpol #Canpoli
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Day Fourteen
Construction of the Low Level Bridge over the North Saskatchewan River in early 1900. The bridge will connect the communities of Edmonton and Strathcona, which will amalgamate in 1912.
📸Glenbow CU1108846
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Day Thirteen
Liberal Leader, and former Prime Minister, John Turner shows off a pineapple that a well-wisher presented to him on the campaign trail while touring the St. Lawrence Market on Oct. 1, 1988.
📸Toronto Star TSPA_0086748F
#Canada #History #Pineapple #Cdnpoli #Canpol #Cdnpol #Canpoli
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Day Twelve
Bison bones (and some other animals likely) piled high in preparation for shipment at Gull Lake, Saskatchewan in the 1890s.
By this point, most of the great herds had been wiped out.
📸Glenbow Archives CU1102780
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Day Eleven
Lt. W.J. Trump and Trooper W.H.G. Ritchie of the Fort Garry Horse attempt to give chewing gum to a child after liberation in 1945.
📸LAC 319886
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Day Ten
Arguably one of the earliest photographs of a tornado in Canadian history. This tornado touched down near Didsbury, Alberta on July 1st, 1909.
#Alberta #History #Histodon #Histodons #Cyclone #Tornado #Weather #ABStorm #Disaster
📸Glenbow Archives CU187898
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Day Nine
First Lady Jackie Kennedy stands with a Mountie & Olive Diefenbaker (left) during a visit to Ottawa on May 17, 1961. The Kennedys visited from May 16-18 & famously did not get along with the Diefenbakers
📸U of S JGD/MG01/XVII/JGD 1398
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Canadian #Canada #Ottawa #Kennedy #USA #UnitedStates #President #POTUS
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Day Eight
The Raging Grannies protest against environmental destruction, war and nuclear weapons in 1986. The organization was formed in Victoria, BC, and are now found in several countries.
📸LAC 3577148
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Day Seven
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill waves to the crowd on Aug. 24, 1943 as he tours with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King during the Quebec Conference.
#Canada #History #Histodon #Histodons #WW2 #SWW
📸Toronto Star TSPA_0038127F
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Day Six
On Dec. 10, 1989, people stand in line to pay their respects. An estimated 8,000 people filed past the coffins of eight of the women murdered in the Montreal Massacre.
📸Toronto Star TSPA_0122356F
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Day Five
A Bennett Buggy in Biggar, SK in 1933. The Bennett Buggy was the name given to a car which had its engine and windows taken out, and was pulled by a horse. It was named for the PM at the time, RB Bennett
#History #Histodon #Histodons #GreatDepression #Saskatchewan
📸Biggar Museum 72.145.01
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Day Four
Yvon Rainville enjoys a cup of coffee atop the CN Tower as his fellow workers help the tower reach 785 feet, one foot taller than the Commerce Court building, the tallest building in Toronto at the time
#Toronto #Canada #History #Histodons #Histodon #YYZ #CNTower
📸Toronto Star TSPA_0109803F
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Day Three
Former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker shows off the two ducks he shot while visiting Candle Lake near his home in Prince Albert on Oct. 11, 1967.
📸U of S JGD/MG01/XVII/JGD 6511
#Canada #History #Histodon #HIstodons #Canadian #Cdnpol #Canpol #Cdnpoli #Canpoli
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Day Two
An unidentified man pans for gold in the Klondike River in the early-1900s. At that point, the Klondike Gold Rush had come to an end, but many prospectors still tried their luck in the region.
📸LAC 3624350
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Day One
Lester B. Pearson presents Maple Leaf Dave Keon with an award for the Leafs having the best record against the other Canadian teams in the NHL at the 3rd Annual Charlie Conacher Awards Dinner on June 3, 1971.
#Hockey #HockeyHistory #Canada #MapleLeafs #Toronto #Canadian #YYZ #PMO #LesterBPearson
📸Toronto Star TSPA_0059579F