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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Viola Desmond to be on Canada’s new $10 bill]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In 1946, Viola Desmond’s stand at a segregated Nova Scotia movie theatre made her into a civil-rights icon for black Canadians. Now, the federal government has announced that she’ll be the new face on the Canadian $10 bill.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Lasers on a thumbnail reveal Franklin expedition diet, cause of death]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Scientists have used lasers and high-energy beams from the Canadian Light Source in Saskatoon to illuminate the last few months of the Franklin expedition, the doomed 19th-century British voyage to the Northwest Passage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Britain to get first major exhibition of Canada’s Franklin artifacts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The first major exhibition of artifacts from the sunken Arctic wreck of HMS Erebus is planned during Canada's 150th birthday next year — but Canadians will have to travel to Britain to see it.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Ancient water from Northern Ontario mine may harbour ‘alien’ life]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Scientists having been studying the mysterious reservoirs of ancient water that occasionally come bubbling up out of boreholes in the rock 2.4 kilometres deep in a Northern Ontario mine.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Canadian Museum of History acquires William James Roué collection]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of History has announced its acquisition of the William James Roué Collection, which includes significant pieces related to his most famous ship, Bluenose.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/October/Ottawa-Citizen-Canadian-Museum-of-History-acquires]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Global News: Officials call for change to ‘inaccessible’ Africville historic site]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Despite the Halifax community of Africville having been designated a National Historic Site, access is still limited for those who travel from across Canada and the world to learn its history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/October/Global-News-Officials-call-for-change-to-‘inaccess]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: Famed Dionne quintuplets’ original home could be on the move]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[More than 80 years after the Dionne quintuplets were whisked away from their family and transformed into human tourist attractions that drew millions, the North Bay, Ont., home where they were born could be on the move.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/October/Toronto-Star-Famed-Dionne-quintuplets’-original-ho]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Second ship from doomed Franklin expedition located, researchers say]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Researchers believe they have found in the waters off Nunavut the remains of HMS Terror, the second of the two missing ships of Sir John Franklin’s doomed 19th-century Arctic expedition.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/September/The-Globe-and-Mail-Second-ship-from-doomed-Frankli]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Restoration of historic police barracks stirs memories of notorious murder and hanging]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In 1922, in the final months of the prohibition era, two bootleggers gunned down Const. Stephen Lawson in front of the Alberta Provincial Police Barracks Building in Coleman, Alta. Now, the Crowsnest Historical Society has launched a project to restore the famous barracks and preserve the memory of the tragedy.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/September/Calgary-Herald-Restoration-of-historic-police-barr]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Community council votes to protect Conn Smythe’s Toronto home]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A house built for Toronto Maple Leafs founder Conn Smyth in a posh pocket of the city’s west end should be designated as a heritage building, Etobicoke York Community Council said on Wednesday, voting to protect the home over the objection of the property’s new owners.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/September/The-Globe-and-Mail-Community-council-votes-to-prot]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Facelift to restore Royal Alexandra Theatre to its former glory ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Walking into the orchestra level of the Royal Alexandra Theatre in its current state would be a shock for anyone who’s been a theatregoer in Toronto at some point in the past 100 years or so.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/September/The-Globe-and-Mail-Facelift-to-restore-Royal-Alexa]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Modernist ‘architectural gem’ restored]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The restoration of a downtown Saskatoon office building has yielded some pleasant surprises for its owner and the lead architect.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/September/Saskatoon-StarPhoenix-Modernist-‘architectural-gem]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Turn-of-the-century Winnipeg enclave reborn as heritage oasis]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Armstrong’s Point is poised to become Winnipeg's first heritage conservation district. Tyndal “gates” (they’re actually pillars) flank each of the three streets leading into the enclave, which is contained in a bend of the Assiniboine River.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/September/CBC-News-Timeworn-turn-of-the-century-enclave-rebo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Toronto’s Baby Point seeks heritage status to fend off ‘monster homes’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The entrance to the enclave of Baby Point, nestled in Toronto’s west end near Jane Street north of Bloor Street, is guarded by stone gates. A little way inside, you find a cluster of 90-year-old Tudor-style homes ringed around some tennis courts and a log-cabin-style clubhouse.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/September/The-Globe-and-Mail-Toronto’s-Baby-Point-seeks-heri]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[National Post: The grandiose — but failed — 1960s plan by an Ontario war hero to settle a ‘second Canada’ below the Arctic]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[If things had gone Richard Rohmer’s way in the 1960s, the Canada of 2016 could have been home to as many as 70 million people. Canada would have had a GDP rivalling that of the United Kingdom and new highways, new railways and new metropolises, all built in the sparsely populated boreal forest region that Rohmer came to call “Mid-Canada.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Ottawa backs request for return of Beothuk remains from Scotland]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ottawa is throwing its weight behind an effort to repatriate the remains of two Indigenous people taken from a Newfoundland gravesite in 1828 that are now at a museum in Scotland.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/August/CBC-News-Ottawa-backs-request-for-return-of-Beothu]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Newfoundland’s Mistaken Point named UNESCO World Heritage site]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Newfoundland ecological reserve that holds ancient evidence of some of Earth's oldest creatures is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/July/CBC-News-Newfoundland’s-Mistaken-Point-named-UNESC]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Bellevue whisky-tasting: the next best thing to boozing with Sir John A.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, was known to raise a glass or two, now and then. A whisky-tasting event at Kingston, Ont.’s Bellevue House National Historic Site, where Macdonald and his family lived in 1848-49, is “the next best thing” to grabbing a drink with Canada's first prime minister himself, Parks Canada says.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/July/The-Canadian-Press-Bellevue-whisky-tasting-the-nex]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Peterborough plans novel fine-dining experience under famous lift lock]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Opened in 1904, Lock 21 on the Trent-Severn Waterway is the world’s highest hydraulic lift lock. Starting this fall the National Historic Site in Peterborough, Ont., is set to become an unusual setting for a fine-dining experience.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Chatham Daily News: Book on Detroit River speaks to Underground Railroad history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The launch of a new book on black history was held at Ontario’s Buxton National Historic Site and Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/July/Chatham-Daily-News-Book-on-Detroit-River-speaks-to]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Commission wants major 24 Sussex upgrades to security, sustainability ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Rather than taking a giant wrecking ball to the prime minister’s official residence, the body overseeing federal properties in Canada’s capital is making clear it wants instead to give the crumbling building a major facelift.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/July/The-Canadian-Press-Commission-wants-major-24-Susse]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Ten animals that helped us create our country]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[We couldn’t have made the nation we celebrate on Canada Day without a menagerie of iconic beasts that supplied food and clothing, became economic staples, made it possible to clear trees and till the land – then attracted tourists and filmmakers.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/June/Ottawa-Citizen-Ten-animals-that-helped-us-create-o]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun: Historic New Fountain Hotel may be replaced]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Vancouver’s 1899-built New Fountain Hotel may not be around for much longer. A proposal would see the building demolished, except for its facade, and a new 11-storey building with social and rental housing built on the site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/June/Vancouver-Sun-Historic-New-Fountain-Hotel-may-be-r]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Replica biplanes unveiled to mark 100th anniversary of Vimy battle]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of two recently constructed replica biplanes was unveiled as part of a First World War commemoration project called Wings of Courage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Owen Sound Sun Times: Feds declined former PM’s Ontario home]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Conservative MP Larry Miller says hope is not lost that the John Diefenbaker's boyhood home in Neustadt, Ont., might some day be declared a national historic site, despite a Liberal minister's reply to him that the government “is unable to consider that option at the present time.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/June/Owen-Sound-Sun-Times-Feds-declined-former-PM’s-Ont]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Move to rename Vimy Park after Jacques Parizeau called ‘an insult’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A park in the Montreal borough of Outremont that is named after France’s Vimy Ridge, where more than 3,500 Canadians died in a First World War battle remembered as Canada’s coming of age, may be renamed in honour of man whose central mission in life was to break Canada apart — former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/June/Montreal-Gazette-Move-to-rename-Vimy-Park-after-Ja]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Iconic Royal Bank ‘ghost sign’ to be completely covered by college]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The faded blue Royal Bank of Canada sign at the top of the Union Bank Building in Winnipeg’s Exchange District will soon be replaced with a sign for the Paterson GlobalFoods Institute at Red River College.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/June/CBC-News-Iconic-Royal-Bank-‘ghost-sign’-to-be-comp]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: The 150th anniversary that really counts for the capital]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For all of the pan-Canadian hoopla that will surround the 150th anniversary of Confederation next year, there’s arguably a more important sesquicentennial for Ottawa and the rest of the national capital region.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/June/Ottawa-Citizen-The-150th-anniversary-that-really-c]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Drake, take one dance with that modernist home before tearing it down]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Dave Leblanc is angry with Drake because the Toronto rapper wants to tear down a home in Toronto’s tony Bridle Path neighbourhood. Back in the 1950s, Leblanc says, this subdivision of two-acre lots was one of the most architecturally progressive neighbourhoods in the city.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-Drake,-take-one-dance-with-that]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: Amherstburg, Ont., seeks to buy historic Belle Vue House]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Town of Amherstburg, Ont., will seek to purchase the historic Belle Vue House and all its surrounding properties on Dalhousie Street.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/May/Windsor-Star-Amherstburg,-Ont-,-seeks-to-buy-histo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Missing for seven decades, Canadian soldier to receive proper burial]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Kenneth Donald Duncanson is the latest unknown soldier to be identified by the Canadian Forces through a program that has matched dozens of families with relatives long considered lost to foreign battlefields.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-Missing-for-seven-decades,-Cana]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Developer sues Sulpician Fathers after it's forced to scale down project]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Lawyers delivered their final arguments in a lawsuit that was brought by a developer after the city of Montreal bowed to public pressure to preserve green space and limited construction on a 6.5-hectare site on a flank of Mount Royal that once housed Marianopolis College.  The site is inside the provincially protected Mount Royal Historic and Natural District.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Trudeau apologizes for ‘great injustice’ of Komagata Maru incident ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The federal government has formally apologized in Parliament for the “great injustice” of the Komagata Maru incident, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau using the solemn moment to highlight the contribution of millions of immigrants to Canada’s multicultural fabric.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-Trudeau-apologizes-for-‘great-i]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun: Mysterious B.C. vase goes on display in Whistler museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A metal vase with a mysterious past and a connection to the mining wealth of B.C. is being exhibited for the first time in the province at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Story of Toronto’s 19th-century sex trade uncovered by professor, students ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Professor Laurie Bertram, along with 12 students and a team of library staff members, spent several weeks examining archives and digital databases from 1865 to 1915 to reveal the well-hidden history of sex work in Toronto. It was all part of Ms. Bertram’s fourth-year history seminar at the University of Toronto, called The Oldest Profession in Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Finding the value in Calgary’s heritage buildings]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When Canada’s National Music Centre, Studio Bell, opens to the public, the impressive feat of architecture and engineering that totals 160,000 square feet over five storeys with nine interlocking towers will cradle the original 1905 King Edward Hotel.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-Finding-the-value-in-Calgary’s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Fort LaTour plan sees interpretation centre, walking paths and amphitheatre]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Members of Saint John, N.B.’s Fort LaTour Development Authority are planning to meet with Aboriginal groups about plans for the historic property on the city’s waterfront.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/May/CBC-News-Fort-LaTour-plan-sees-interpretation-cent]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Brant News: New exhibit by Brant Historical Society focuses on overlooked past ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Airing Our Dirty Laundry exhibit, put on by the Brant Historical Society at the Brant Museum and Archives, focuses on often glossed-over subjects.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/May/Brant-News-New-exhibit-by-Brant-Historical-Society]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Edmonton dig hopes to unearth shantytowns, industrial sites ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Edmonton’s Mill Creek Ravine is being scoured for remnants of the shantytowns and industrial sites that lined the banks of the river valley at the turn of the century.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/May/CBC-News-Edmonton-dig-hopes-to-unearth-shantytowns]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Tech millionaire steps in to save Vancouver’s historic Friedman House ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It’s a rare event when a historically important house on Vancouver’s west side is saved from the bulldozer, but it’s happened again.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-Tech-millionaire-steps-in-to-sa]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Elementary school students learn history of city]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Grades 4 and 5 students dressed as early Saskatchewan residents for a tour of Saskatoon, stopping along the way at historic sites.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/May/Saskatoon-StarPhoenix-Elementary-school-students-l]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Documents show culture officials initially opposed hotel tower for Mount Stephen Club]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Heritage experts for the Quebec government were deeply divided over a proposed hotel tower behind the Mount Stephen Club, documents obtained under a freedom of information request reveal.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/May/Montreal-Gazette-Documents-show-culture-officials]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: Canada’s History magazine nominated for two National Magazine Awards.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada’s History magazine nominated for two National Magazine Awards.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/May/Canada’s-History-magazine-nominated-for-two-Nation]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Tall ships visiting Charlottetown to mark Canada's 150th birthday ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A number of tall ships will visit Charlottetown in the summer of 2017, as part of a special sailing race organized to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/CBC-News-Tall-ships-visiting-Charlottetown-to-mark]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Nova Scotia home to oldest known pine tree fossils]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Nova Scotia can lay claim to the oldest known pine tree fossils, which date back to the time of the dinosaurs. The fossils, which measure between seven and 20 millimetres and are approximately 140 million years old, were discovered in a gypsum quarry near Windsor that is operated by Fundy Gypsum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/CBC-News-Nova-Scotia-home-to-oldest-known-pine-tre]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: In Hamilton, a Depression-era garden reblooms ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Generations of people have visited the Royal Botanical Gardens’ historic and spectacular Rock Garden even though it’s located in a hole in the ground at the edge of Hamilton and has been difficult to locate from the road. After four years of planning and renovating, the Rock Garden finally has an address, not to mention an updated look and amenities befitting this local treasure]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/The-Globe-and-Mail-In-Hamilton,-a-Depression-era-g]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: A modernist gem falls victim to Vancouver’s housing market ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Cornelia Hahn Oberlander stands in the centre of a Vancouver living room explaining to a real estate agent why the Friedman house matters. It is for sale for close to $4 million, and it’s almost a certainty that it will be torn down and replaced with a much bigger house.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/The-Globe-and-Mail-A-modernist-gem-falls-victim-to]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Canadian team explains why birds lived when dinosaurs died]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Even though dinosaurs were wiped out when a massive asteroid collided with Earth about 66 million years ago, their only living representatives, birds, managed to squeak through the ensuing cataclysm. Now a team of Canadian paleontologists has offered an explanation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/The-Globe-and-Mail-Canadian-team-explains-why-bird]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Supreme-Court-gives-rights-to-Metis,-non-status-In]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Supreme Court gives rights to Métis, non-status Indians under Canada's 1867 Constitution ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Métis are “Indians” within the meaning of Canada’s 1867 Constitution, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday, setting the stage for possible negotiations over land, government education and health programs.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Supreme-Court-gives-rights-to-Metis,-non-status-In]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Famous southern Alberta ranch preserved for conservation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A historic southern Alberta ranch once owned by eccentric multimillionaire brothers will now be protected from future development.
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     <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Famous-southern-Alberta-ranch-preserved-for-conser]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Regina Leader-Post: University of Regina students working to preserve residential school’s cemetery]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Work is underway to make sure the Regina Indian Industrial School never lies forgotten again. A group of University of Regina students have taken up the fight to preserve the old school’s cemetery.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Regina-Leader-Post-University-of-Regina-students-w]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Shipwreck protection strategy needed to protect wrecks from looters]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A leading marine archaeologist says Canada needs a consistent national strategy to protect the country's underwater wrecks, amid concerns that sunken ships are being looted and undermanaged.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/The-Canadian-Press-Shipwreck-protection-strategy-n]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Trudeau to offer apology in House for 1914 Komagata Maru incident ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will offer a full apology in the House of Commons for a decision by the government in 1914 to turn away a ship carrying hundreds of South Asian immigrants]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Trudeau-to-offer-apology-in-House-for-1914-Komagat]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Regina Leader-Post: Owner of historic Regina home to object to its heritage designation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The owners of a historic Regina home plan to formally object to the city’s consideration of heritage designation for the property.
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     <pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Owner-of-historic-Regina-home-to-object-to-its-her]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Historical collection leaving Lethbridge for Calgary]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Evicted from their 42-year digs at Lethbridge, Alta.’s Fort Whoop-Up National Historic Site at the end of 2015, most of that museum’s artifacts are moving to Calgary where they’ll be exhibited, said curator Doran Degenstein.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Historical-collection-leaving-Lethbridge-for-Calga]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: The Brutalist truth: 1960s concrete is part of history ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Winnipeg is leaning toward demolishing the brutalist Public Safety Building. The former police headquarters and jail in the Exchange District is monumental, bold and fortress-like. It’s a fine piece of design that wraps its concrete structure in slats of local Tyndall stone.
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     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/The-Brutalist-truth-1960s-concrete-is-part-of-hist]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun: Early B.C. postcard ended up gracing San Francisco’s music scene]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of the best-known images of the psychedelic ’60s is a Native in a top hat smoking a joint. The man appears in a new exhibition of early B.C. photos collected by antique dealer Uno Langmann.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Early-B-C-postcard-ended-up-gracing-San-Francisco’]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Two horses at Alberta's Bar U Ranch named after pioneering Pocaterra]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[George Pocaterra has made quite a name for himself in Alberta’s southern Kananaskis area. Now he’s received a new equine honour: two Percherons acquired at the Bar U Ranch National Historic Site will henceforth be known as Poca and Terra.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Two-horses-at-Alberta-s-Bar-U-Ranch-named-after-pi]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Songs-of-Glass-Island-inspired-by-Robert-Smithson]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun: Songs of Glass Island inspired by Robert Smithson's failed Island of Glass in B.C.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A group of sound artists has used a failure by Robert Smithson in 1970 as inspiration to create a contemporary performance work.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Songs-of-Glass-Island-inspired-by-Robert-Smithson]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Money coming for First Nation punished in 1885 rebellion]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Saskatchewan First Nation is getting ready to be compensated for actions taken by the federal government more than 130 years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Money-coming-for-First-Nation-punished-in-1885-reb]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Museum’s new exhibit to lift veil on Canada's ‘invisible’ aboriginal story, Douglas Cardinal says]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The architect behind the Canadian Museum of History says the re-imagined Canadian History Hall will finally tell the whole story of the country, including the perspectives of those who lived here long before Europeans landed on its shores.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Museum’s-new-exhibit-to-lift-veil-on-Canada-s-‘inv]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Victoria Times Colonist: B.C. First Nations tourist draw has a piece of tawdry Trump history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A First Nations band is planning to start luring tourists this summer to the northern B.C. ghost town where U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s pioneering grandfather once ran a brothel.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/B-C-First-Nations-tourist-draw-has-a-piece-of-tawd]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Last RCAF C-130 E Hercules to be displayed at aviation museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Department of National Defence has donated the last CC-130 Hercules E aircraft still in service to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Last-RCAF-C-130-E-Hercules-to-be-displayed-at-avia]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Prime minister statue project finally finds home in Waterloo region]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A beleaguered prime minister statue project has finally found a home after two years of controversy.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Prime-minister-statue-project-finally-finds-home-i]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Toronto history rises from the ashes of an unsolved fire]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There’s an apparition of things past on the upper floors of a new three-storey building on Toronto’s historic Queen Street West.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Toronto-history-rises-from-the-ashes-of-an-unsolve]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Bison from Alberta return home to Blackfeet Nation in Montana]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[With 87 plains bison in trailers on their way to the United States border, the Siksika Nation held a ceremonial blessing to officially welcome the buffalo to Blackfoot territory. The bison, also known as buffalo, are descendants of a herd brought to Alberta from Montana more than a century ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Corduroy road likely one of Waterloo, Ont.’s first European-built roads]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A corduroy road unearthed by construction crews in Waterloo, Ont., dates back two centuries and is likely one of the first roads built by European-Canadian settlers in the region, according to a senior archeologist.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Corduroy-road-likely-one-of-Waterloo,-Ont-’s-first]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[New York Times: Satellites find elusive second Norse settlement in Newfoundland]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A thousand years after the Vikings braved the icy seas from Greenland to the New World in search of timber and plunder, satellite technology has found intriguing evidence of a long-elusive prize in archaeology — a second Norse settlement in North America, farther south than ever known.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Satellites-find-elusive-second-Norse-settlement-in]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Nova Scotia museum planning exhibit on Canadian-made Clairtone stereos]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Headquartered in Toronto but with a large factory in Stellarton, N.S., Clairtone produced high-end sound systems that briefly grabbed attention for their quality and smart design before the business went bust in 1972. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the factory’s opening in 1966, the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry is organizing the first in-depth exhibition to explore the company’s rise and sudden fall.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/April/Nova-Scotia-museum-planning-exhibit-on-Canadian-ma]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: New curator to take war museum’s art into the digital age]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The focus of the art vistors see at the Canadian War Museum is increasingly going to draw them into the world of photography and the digital age.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Fort Erie Times: Celebration set for 150th anniversary of the Battle of Ridgeway]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fort Erie, Ont., is set to celebrate the anniversary of an event that shaped the foundation of Canadian history and led to the birth of a new nation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Celebration-set-for-150th-anniversary-of-the-Battl]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Alaska Highway News: Museum marks 70 years since Canada took control of the Alaska Highway]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[B.C.’s Fort St. John North Peace Museum is celebrating 70 years since Canada took over responsibility for the B.C. and Yukon sections of the Alaska Highway from the U.S. Military.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Museum-marks-70-years-since-Canada-took-control-of]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Peterborough Examiner: Work begins to raise money for new $45-million Canadian Canoe Museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The new director of philanthropy at the Canadian Canoe Museum is leading a fundraising campaign to collect money for a new $45-million building.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Work-begins-to-raise-money-for-new-$45-million-Can]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Truth and reconciliation anthology launches in Edmonton]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A collection of stories about Canada's colonial past was inspired by testimony at the Truth and Reconciliation hearings in Edmonton.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Truth-and-reconciliation-anthology-launches-in-Edm]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Kingston Whig-Standard: Inmates’ literature displayed in university library]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A collection of prison newsletters, entitled Prison Sentences: Penitentiary Literature in Kingston, is being displayed on the Queen’s University campus.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Inmates’-literature-displayed-in-university-librar]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Banff’s Frank Lloyd Wright pavilion one step closer to being rebuilt]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A historic Banff building designed by prominent American architect Frank Lloyd Wright is one step closer to being rebuilt.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Banff’s-Frank-Lloyd-Wright-pavilion-one-step-close]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Hospital-campaigns-to-have-Elisabeth-Bruyere-appea]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Sun: Hospital campaigns to have Elisabeth Bruyère appear on Canadian money]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Bruyère Continuing Care in Ottawa is rallying support to honour its namesake and founder with a spot on Canadian currency.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Hospital-campaigns-to-have-Elisabeth-Bruyere-appea]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Ottawa to invest $10.6-million to upgrade historic Ste-Anne Canal]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ottawa is investing about $10.6 million to upgrade the infrastructure at the Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal as well as the adjacent green space.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Ottawa-to-invest-$10-6-million-to-upgrade-historic]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Lake of the Woods Museum exhibit highlights First World War]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Lake of the Woods Museum in Kenora, Ont., is focusing on the First World War with a pair of exhibits.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Lake-of-the-Woods-Museum-exhibit-highlights-First]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Ice-patrol-formed-after-Titanic-marks-famous-disas]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Hamilton Spectator: Ice patrol formed after Titanic marks famous disaster ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Members of an international ice patrol that formed as a result of the sinking of the Titanic will be in Halifax this week for a ceremony to commemorate the more than 1,500 people who died in the disaster.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Ice-patrol-formed-after-Titanic-marks-famous-disas]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Police believe minors started Snowdon Theatre fire]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Montreal police are investigating the fire that destroyed parts of the historic Snowdon Theatre as a possible case of arson.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Police-believe-minors-started-Snowdon-Theatre-fire]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Snowdon Theatre blaze possibly a case of arson]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Montreal police are investigating the fire that destroyed parts of the historic Snowdon Theatre as a possible case of arson.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Snowdon-Theatre-blaze-possibly-a-case-of-arson]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Efforts underway to make Canmore Lamp House a provincial historic site]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre has submitted an application to the province to have the Lamp House, an old stone building where miners would meet each day, declared a provincial historic resource.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Efforts-underway-to-make-Canmore-Lamp-House-a-prov]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Canadian sculptor Eleanor Milne’s art displayed — in a storage unit]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Eleanor Milne was the first female Dominion Sculptor of Canada, responsible for carving the country’s history into the walls on Parliament Hill.
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     <pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Canadian-sculptor-Eleanor-Milne’s-art-displayed-—]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: B.C. heritage houses finding new life in American community ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Developers and incoming buyers, flush with money, are targeting the historic municipality of Oak Bay, B.C., which has not protected its homes as rigorously as adjacent Victoria has protected much of its original housing stock. Old houses, considered rubbish to many, have become American treasure.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Oak-Bay,-B-C-,-heritage-houses-finding-new-life-in]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Aviation museum loses its founder, Godfrey Stewart Pasmore]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Aviation Heritage Centre, which opened in 2009, was the brainchild of Godfrey Stewart Pasmore, an aviation enthusiast who passed away March 12 at the age of 83.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Aviation-museum-loses-its-founder,-Godfrey-Stewart]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Yukon News: Conference to add new pages to Yukon’s history book]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A conference titled The North in World War I, taking place in Whitehorse and Dawson City, explores the events and people related to the northern regions during the Great War for the first time.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Conference-to-add-new-pages-to-Yukon’s-history-boo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Franklin expedition artifacts get cross-Canada exhibition]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Parks Canada and the Royal Canadian Navy have launched a new cross-Canada exhibit featuring artifacts from and stories about in launching a new HMS Erebus, found on the sea floor west of O’Reilly Island in Nunavut in 2014.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Franklin-expedition-artifacts-get-cross-Canada-exh]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/First-full-season-is-underway-for-Fashion-History]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Cambridge Times: First full season is underway for Fashion History Museum ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Cambridge, Ont.’s Fashion History Museum recently launched its first full season with three new exhibits.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/First-full-season-is-underway-for-Fashion-History]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Sun: National museums reap hundreds of millions in federal budget]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[National cultural institutions in Ottawa hit the jackpot in the federal budget, reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in fresh funding for new facilities and for badly needed renovations and repairs.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/National-museums-reap-hundreds-of-millions-in-fede]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Old Montreal metro cars proposed for pedestrian bridge]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A group from Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood has come up with a proposal for the city’s soon-to-be retired metro cars: use them to build a pedestrian bridge connecting the neighbourhood to the nearby Rosemont metro station.

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     <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Old-Montreal-metro-cars-proposed-for-pedestrian-br]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Cycling tour takes students on a ride through history ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The idea behind rolling through green stretches of Quebec by bike was in part to feel the geography that formed the province’s industry, and to meet the people who have been part of it, rather than learning it all from a classroom course – if one was even offered.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Cycling-tour-takes-students-on-a-ride-through-hist]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Return-of-Filumena-highlights-Calgary-Opera’s-2016]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Return of Filumena highlights Calgary Opera’s 2016-2017 season]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Calgary Opera’s 2016-17 season includes the return of Filumena, John Estacio and John Murrell’s original work that tells a historic tale about forbidden love during Alberta’s prohibition years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Return-of-Filumena-highlights-Calgary-Opera’s-2016]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Japanese internment, residential schools among stories at human library event]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Stories of Japanese internment, Indian residential schools and the ’60s scoop were to be shared by the 15 “human books” at an event in Saskatoon.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Japanese-internment,-residential-schools-among-sto]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Halifax Chronicle Herald: Canada’s poet laureate is an observer of Nova Scotia’s past]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Although he’s lived outside of Nova Scotia for most of his life, poet laureate and Nova Scotia native George Elliott Clarke has a voice that still resonates with the sounds and stories of his home.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Canada’s-poet-laureate-is-an-observer-of-Nova-Scot]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Going Home Star ballet brings residential school story to life]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In the ballet Going Home Star, by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the lead character, Annie, an urban aboriginal woman, learns through Gordon, a street person, about the history of residential schools.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Going-Home-Star-ballet-brings-residential-school-s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: A long-dead war hero makes magic at Ontario school]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The head of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa got a letter last fall from a student asking him to come to her school in Ajax, Ont., to help to argue that Sir Isaac Brock was the “Greatest Canadian Ever.” Mark O’Neill knew that if he brought Brock’s 200-year-old red army tunic — the one he died in at the Battle of Queenston Heights in 1812; fatal musket-ball hole still under the left lapel — it would make an impact on the young historians of Dr. Roberta Bondar Public School.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/A-long-dead-war-hero-makes-magic-at-Ontario-school]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Fossil of sharp-toothed Boreonykus, a dog-sized dinosaur, found in Alberta]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new species of dinosaur about the size of a dog and possessing a lethal claw has been discovered in northwestern Alberta.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Fossil-of-sharp-toothed-Boreonykus,-a-dog-sized-di]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Sun: Canada’s capital a work in progress, says author of new illustrated history ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[David Gordon, director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., has released an illustrated history of Ottawa’s development from the arrival of Philemon Wright in 1800 to contemporary times.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Canada’s-capital-a-work-in-progress,-says-author-o]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: River Canard bridge to undergo $500,000 rehabilitation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Almost $500,000 has been committed to keep the historic bridge over River Canard in tip-top shape. Originally built in 1937, the rare concrete tied arch or bowstring bridge at the Amherstburg-LaSalle border in Ontario, is the only remaining structure of this type on the county road network.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/River-Canard-bridge-to-undergo-$500,000-rehabilita]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Metro Halifax: Federal heritage minister announces funding for Canada’s 150th anniversary]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Federal funding for two signature projects to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary in 2017 was announced at Halifax’s Discovery Centre. Canadian Heritage Minister Melanie Joly announced almost $6 million for the project Innovation150, an initiative she said will help Canadians learn about scientific innovations realized in this country over the course of the past 150 years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Federal-heritage-minister-announces-funding-for-Ca]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: 80-million-year-old bird fossil named after 82-year-old Manitoba farmer]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A pair of Japanese paleontologists has named a marine bird species after a Thornhill, Man., homeowner after an 80-million-year-old fossil was dug up on his property.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/80-million-year-old-bird-fossil-named-after-82-yea]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Associated Press: New virtual reality app Timelooper takes you back in history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Timelooper app allows users to experience key moments in history with just a smartphone and a cardboard headset.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/New-virtual-reality-app-Timelooper-takes-you-back]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Belleville Intelligencer: Glanmore National Historic Site reopens]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Belleville, Ont.’s Glanmore National Historic Site is reopening to visitors. A new carpet, a reproduction of the original 1883 Wilton carpet, was custom manufactured in the United Kingdom and installed on the grand staircase as well as in the reception room and the main and upper halls.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Glanmore-National-Historic-Site-reopens]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Owen Sound Sun Times: Push on to get Macphail on banknote]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[With the Bank of Canada’s announcement that it is looking for public submissions on which woman should be the first Canadian woman featured on the face side of one of the country’s bills, several names have been thrown out. One of the names that has risen to the top is Grey County, Ont.-born politician Agnes Macphail.

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     <pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Push-on-to-get-Macphail-on-banknote]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: Paul Martin building finally to be repaired]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Long-awaited repairs on the Paul Martin building in downtown Windsor should begin within a few weeks.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Nature museum shopping for new, visitor-friendly ticketing system]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of Nature is shopping for a cutting-edge ticketing system that it says will greatly improve service for visitors buying admissions or attending museum events.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Nature-museum-shopping-for-new,-visitor-friendly-t]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Canadian Museum of History seeks input on new exhibit]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of History is asking the public to submit their suggestions for objects and images they'd like to see on display in the museum's new Canadian History Hall.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Canadian-Museum-of-History-seeks-input-on-new-exhi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: University students turn detectives for St. John’s Anglican Church history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For the first time at the University of Windsor, the history department offered a course called public history designed to help connect a community to its past.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/University-students-turn-detectives-for-St-John’s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: B.C. historian ‘thrilled’ women will soon appear on Canadian banknotes]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The portrait of an iconic Canadian woman is set to appear on a new series of banknotes, and a British Columbia historian says it’s about time. Merna Forster has been writing letters to politicians and Bank of Canada governors for years saying that it is unacceptable not to have a single bill featuring the image of a female figure from the country’s history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/B-C-historian-‘thrilled’-women-will-soon-appear-on]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Canadian War Museum to provide Brock’s coat to help Grade 8 student at history fair]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian War Museum is helping a Grade 8 student prepare for The Greatest Canadian History Fair at Dr. Roberta Bondar Public School in Ajax, Ont. To help Midhat Naeem support her case for Major-General Sir Isaac Brock as the greatest Canadian, the Canadian War Museum will display the coat in which Brock was killed during the Battle of Queenston Heights, according to a news release from the museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Canadian-War-Museum-to-provide-Brock’s-coat-to-hel]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun: B.C.’s ‘rich artistic heritage’ on display at new Whistler gallery]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The new Audain Art Museum in Whistler, B.C., houses a unique collection of art in an understated building that delivers surprises that start at the front entrance and continue through to the exhibition spaces inside.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/B-C-’s-‘rich-artistic-heritage’-on-display-at-new]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Winnipeg Art Gallery gives peek inside new Nunavut art collection]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Winnipeg Art Gallery has offered a first look inside a new exhibit that has been in storage for more than 15 years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Winnipeg-Art-Gallery-gives-peek-inside-new-Nunavut]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Peterborough Examiner: Canadian Canoe Museum hires veteran fundraiser for new campaign ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Canoe Museum has hired a new director of philanthropy. Jean-Charles D’Amours has 25 years of experience fundraising for institutions such as the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Canadian-Canoe-Museum-hires-veteran-fundraiser-for]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Diving pros push to reopen Bell Island mines]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fifty years after its closure, a group of underwater adventure seekers has embarked on an expedition to document and map the sprawling tunnels that make up the Bell Island mines in Conception Bay, Newfoundland. For members of the Mine Quest Expedition Team, the tunnels are a treasure trove of historical gems, all of which have been frozen in time.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Diving-pros-push-to-reopen-Bell-Island-mines]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Environment Minister seeks to boost Parks Canada after nearly $30 million in Tory budget cuts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she’s concerned about the tens of millions of dollars in cuts to Parks Canada under the former Conservative government and wants to ensure the agency is “true to the mandate” of ensuring the ecological integrity of the parks. McKenna said she wants more Canadians to enjoy the parks and historic sites, including getting more immigrants and refugees to visit them.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Environment-Minister-seeks-to-boost-Parks-Canada-a]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Paul Martin Sr. biography shortlisted for Shaughnessy Cohen Prize]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A biography about Paul Martin Sr. — a Liberal MP, cabinet member, senator, and three-time leadership hopeful — has landed on the shortlist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, one of the country’s pre-eminent non-fiction awards.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/Paul-Martin-Sr-biography-shortlisted-for-Shaughnes]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: New operator sought for Mackenzie King Estate tearoom after 2015 trial falls flat]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It sounds idyllic: a café and tearoom on the Gatineau Park estate of an illustrious former prime minister, serving up afternoon tea on a wraparound porch. But with the mid-May start of the season just 10 weeks away, the National Capital Commission has begun advertising for a new operator.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/March/New-operator-sought-for-Mackenzie-King-Estate-tear]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: Historic former church could be saved if city councils allows rezoning]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A shuttered Anglican church could be saved from the wrecking ball if city council decides to rezone it for possible uses, including a craft brewery, artists’ co-op or bed and breakfast.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Historic-former-church-could-be-saved-if-city-coun]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Regina Leader-Post: City council moves to protect historic home]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In a rare move, Regina city council voted in favour of protecting an historic home against its owner’s will.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/City-council-moves-to-protect-historic-home]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun: Communities aim to preserve the disappearing paths to B.C.’s past]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Talks have begun about highlighting the importance of a historic Vancouver-area trail as well as potentially renaming streets for pioneers.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Communities-aim-to-preserve-the-disappearing-paths]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Canadian Museum of History to launch 4K technology]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of History is adapting to new technology with the launch of a 4K digital laser projector in its theatre.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Canadian-Museum-of-History-to-launch-4K-technology]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Wanuskewin Park applies for prestigious UN World Heritage designation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Up to 30 bison could be roaming the plains of Wanuskewin Heritage Park by 2021 as the site expands its programming in an effort to become Saskatchewan’s first United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organization (UNESCO) world heritage site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Wanuskewin-Park-applies-for-prestigious-UN-World-H]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Why an oak almost as old as Toronto met the chainsaw ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After the sound of chainsaws broke the quiet of a comfortable Toronto neighbourhood, all that was left of a landmark tree was a massive trunk with scars where the branches used to be.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Why-an-oak-almost-as-old-as-Toronto-met-the-chains]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Molson recreates 1908 ale from recipe found in company archives]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Molson Coors Canada says it's offering a limited release pale ale brewed from a 108-year-old recipe found deep in the company's archives.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Molson-recreates-1908-ale-from-recipe-found-in-com]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun: Critics say heritage designation not enough to protect historic Chinese cemetery]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A large property in New Westminster that was recently included on a new list of B.C.’s Chinese historical sites is sparking controversy and renewing a debate about whether enough is being done to protect the location from future development.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Critics-say-heritage-designation-not-enough-to-pro]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[National Post: Toronto ‘re-reno’ creates the best of both old and new]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It took over a year to renovate an iconic Toronto home. The homeowners bought the adjacent house and received special permission from the South Rosedale Heritage Conservation District to tear it down and provide additional greenspace.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Toronto-‘re-reno’-creates-the-best-of-both-old-and]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Historic Golden Square Mile gets attention it deserves with new book]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two recent events have brought Montreal’s venerated Square Mile neighbourhood (“Golden” was a 20th-century addition) back into focus: the publication of a book celebrating its history and architecture, and a concerted effort by local hotels and cultural institutions to attract more business to the area.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Historic-Golden-Square-Mile-gets-attention-it-dese]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: Local author makes history come alive]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Bringing the past into the present and sharing it one tale, talk or tour at a time – for Windsor-Essex, Ont., historian and author Chris Carter, this is his passion.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Local-author-Chris-carter-makes-history-come-alive]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Folk pioneer La Bolduc, Mary Travers, named historic character of Quebec]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Quebec Minister of Culture and Communications Hélène David was to mark the 75th anniversary of the death of Mary Travers — better known as “La Bolduc” — to designate her a historic character of Quebec.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Folk-pioneer-La-Bolduc,-Mary-Travers,-named-histor]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Georgina Advocate: MP Van Loan’s museum study motion adopted]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As the Conservative critic for Canadian heritage and national historical sites, York-Simcoe MP Peter Van Loan has seen one of his first victories: The House of Commons Standing Committee for Canadian Heritage has adopted a motion for a study into the issues facing small museums in Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/MP-Van-Loan’s-museum-study-motion-adopted]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: New vintage shop opens in historic building]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Many startups have called a 100-year-old Windsor, Ont., building home since it reopened for business five years ago — and it’s getting ready to welcome another.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/New-vintage-shop-opens-in-historic-building]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Mississauga history in the Cotton-Hawksworth House]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[With a history dating to 1856, the Cotton-Hawksworth House is one of the oldest dwellings in Mississauga, Ont. The house is named after entrepreneur Robert Cotton, who sailed to Canada from Ireland in the 1830s.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Mississauga-history-in-the-Cotton-Hawksworth-House]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Inuit artifacts to be put on display in Winnipeg Art Gallery]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After decades of being hidden away in a storage room in the Northwest Territories, more than 8,000 Inuit artifacts will soon be put on display at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Inuit-artifacts-to-be-put-on-display-in-Winnipeg-A]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Century-old coal mine a surprise find under school construction site]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A historic underground surprise may prompt some extra work before construction of a new school can begin in Edmonton.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Century-old-coal-mine-a-surprise-find-under-school]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Halifax’s Young Avenue mansions ‘endangered’ by development ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It’s known as Halifax’s grand boulevard: a street filled with large estates that once housed the who’s who of the city. But now some people are worried that Young Avenue’s mansions could face a wrecking ball from developers eyeing the expensive properties.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Halifax’s-Young-Avenue-mansions-‘endangered’-by-de]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Mayor rejects call for Lowertown demolition moratorium]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Against the backdrop of annual Heritage Day celebrations at city hall, Mayor Jim Watson rejected a community group’s call for a moratorium on further demolitions of heritage buildings in Ottawa’s oldest neighbourhood.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Mayor-rejects-call-for-Lowertown-demolition-morato]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[North Bay Nugget: Book on Cobalt, Ont., 40 years in the making ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Douglas Baldwin has just published Cobalt: Canada’s Forgotten Silver Boom Town, a 380-page, lavishly illustrated account of the silver-mining town.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Book-on-Cobalt,-Ont-,-40-years-in-the-making]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Escape room game digs deep into Diefenbunker]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Diefenbunker Museum is joining forces with Ottawa adventure company Escape Manor to launch what they’re calling the world’s largest escape room.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Escape-room-game-digs-deep-into-Diefenbunker]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Old Toronto homes line up for the Century House stamp ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Heritage Toronto – an arm’s-length charitable agency of the city – has begun to offer “Century House” plaques that double as address markers for homes that are at least 100 years old.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Old-Toronto-homes-line-up-for-the-Century-House-st]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Metro Edmonton: Podcast series to bring city’s hidden history to your ears]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Edmontonians may not know that the North Saskatchewan River was used as a waste dump 100 years ago, or that Canada’s first mosque was built in the city, but the Edmonton Heritage Council is aiming to change that.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Podcast-series-to-bring-city’s-hidden-history-to-y]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Regina Leader-Post: Committee approves removal of home from heritage list]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A historic home in Regina that catches the eyes of passersby with its curved glass-block entrance is slated for demolition.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Committee-approves-removal-of-home-from-heritage-l]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Pointe-Claire Village's past and future to be discussed]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The future of one of the oldest parts of Montreal is up for discussion next week as the city of Pointe-Claire hosts a public consultation on revitalizing its village sector.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Pointe-Claire-Village-s-past-and-future-to-be-disc]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Ottawa urged to boost museum funding to restore aging buildings ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canadian Heritage officials are warning new minister Mélanie Joly that Ottawa will need to spend tens of millions more on museums because most are in old buildings that require urgent repairs.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Ottawa-urged-to-boost-museum-funding-to-restore-ag]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Vancouver moves to water down heritage protection bylaw ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Vancouver’s acting planning director has recommended that national guidelines be removed – guidelines that are considered the gold standard for heritage conservation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Vancouver-moves-to-water-down-heritage-protection]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Simcoe Reformer: Author says apology would help Home Children families]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Toronto author who has written about British Home Children – orphans brought to Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to work on farms – is calling for Ottawa to apologize for allowing the practice.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Simcoe-Reformer-Author-says-apology-would-help-Hom]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ashcroft-Cache Creek Journal: Lytton sites receive Chinese Heritage designation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Heritage BC announced that the Chinese Historic Places Recognition Project has given special recognition to two Lytton sites: the Lytton Joss House site and Rip Van Winkle’s Flats & Brownings Flats.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Ashcroft-Cache-Creek-Journal-Lytton-sites-receive]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Canadian War Museum criticized for accepting money from weapons maker for exhibit on recent wars]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian War Museum is being criticized for accepting funding from one of the world’s largest arms manufacturers for a speakers’ series as well as for a new exhibit devoted to recent conflicts such as Afghanistan and the Balkans.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/February-(1)/Postmedia-News-Canadian-War-Museum-criticized-for]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[National Post: Veteran calls out Canadian War Museum for using wrong salute on promotional poster]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When history buff Terry Hunter noticed a Canadian War Museum poster of Second World War-era women using a wrong “American-style” salute, he decided to say something, calling out the error on the museum’s Facebook page.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/Veteran-calls-out-Canadian-War-Museum-for-using-wr]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Irish and Canadian architects to design new Canadian Canoe Museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A team of architects from Ireland and Canada has been selected to build the new Canadian Canoe Museum at the Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/Irish-and-Canadian-architects-to-design-new-Canadi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Raising enough money ‘a struggle’ for history museum, CEO admits]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Budget challenges remain a pressing concern for the Canadian Museum of History, CEO Mark O’Neill admits.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/Raising-enough-money-‘a-struggle’-for-history-muse]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: A Montreal castle fit for a software king ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Montreal’s Gare Viger is an architectural marvel built in the late 1890s as a train station and luxury hotel. It’s often been neglected throughout its history, but it’s now at the centre of a robust $250-million development.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/The-Globe-and-Mail-A-Montreal-castle-fit-for-a-sof]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: History museum staff raised objections to acquisition of Empress of Ireland collection]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Three months before the Canadian Museum of History acquired a prized collection of artifacts recovered from the wreck of the Empress of Ireland, six of its curators and archeologists told museum management they had serious ethical objections to the purchase.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/Ottawa-Citizen-History-museum-staff-raised-objecti]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: New Chimczuk Museum brings wow factor to city’s rich history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There are so many other things to touch and feel and try on and interact with at Windsor’s spacious new community museum. There’s a wow factor just from the hundreds of historic artifacts that will be on display at any given time.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/Windsor-Star-New-Chimczuk-Museum-brings-wow-factor]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: 'Manitoba lost a good soldier': John Harvard remembered by Janice Filmon]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA['Manitoba lost a good soldier': John Harvard remembered by Janice Filmon]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/Manitoba-lost-a-good-soldier-John-Harvard-remember]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Historic Traffic Bridge comes down as planned]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Thousands braved frigid temperatures to see the demolition of part of Saskatoon’s historic Traffic Bridge. Some onlookers said they came simply to see a big explosion. Others wanted to witness and mourn the loss of an iconic structure.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/Historic-Traffic-Bridge-comes-down-as-planned]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Heritage plan offers more teeth to keep ‘monster homes’ out of Rockcliffe]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new heritage conservation district plan may help to prevent “monster homes” in Ottawa’s most prestigious neighbourhood.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/Heritage-plan-offers-more-teeth-to-keep-‘monster-h]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Protesters dig in and prepare for arrests at historic site in B.C.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[First Nations protesting the construction of the $9-billion Site C dam in northeastern British Columbia are preparing for their own arrests while they implore Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to intervene to stop the hydroelectric project.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/Protesters-dig-in-and-prepare-for-arrests-at-histo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Alexander Keith’s brew nearly as old as Canada tastes ‘pretty good’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Researchers at Dalhousie University and a Halifax brewer have tested the liquid found inside a historic bottle of Alexander Keith's beer found off the coast of Halifax, confirmed it was beer, and tasted it.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/Alexander-Keith’s-brew-nearly-as-old-as-Canada-tas]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: ‘Birthplace of hockey’ trademark holder blows whistle on Windsor, N.S.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A small town in Nova Scotia that loves to boast about its history as the "birthplace of hockey" is being accused of unsportsmanlike conduct by the group that holds the trademark to that phrase.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/‘Birthplace-of-hockey’-trademark-holder-blows-whis]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Government plans free entry to national parks, historic sites in 2017]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The federal government is making entry into the national parks and historic sites free in 2017 as a way to mark the 150th anniversary of Confederation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/Free-entry-to-national-parks,-historic-sites-in-20]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Skeleton found on farmer’s field becomes symbol of reconciliation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After a badger led Brian Rozmahelto to a burial site on his organic farm outside Viking, Alta., last August, an archeological team determined that the bones he discovered likely belonged to a young aboriginal girl of some prominence who died in the 1830s.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/Skeleton-found-on-farmer’s-field-becomes-symbol-of]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: New book offers a look back to Ottawa’s future]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Alain Miguelez’s new book, Transforming Ottawa, allows readers to graze through hundreds of historical photos and to marvel at how much the city has changed.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/New-book-offers-a-look-back-to-Ottawa’s-future]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Rebuilding city’s cobblestone history, brick by brick]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[On St-Gabriel St. in Old Montreal, Françis Lemaire and his team of mortar-stained men are slowly rebuilding the street as it was done 200 years ago, one granite stone at a time.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/January/Rebuilding-city’s-cobblestone-history,-brick-by-br]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Beacon Hill Park, Victoria’s ‘perfect Eden,’ to get historical makeover]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[At the top of Beacon Hill, the city of Victoria is hiding an unsightly part of its heritage behind a tangle of overgrown shrubs. Now the city plans to repatriate the site to the local First Nations, who will build a traditional longhouse.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/December/Beacon-Hill-Park,-Victoria’s-‘perfect-Eden,’-to-ge]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Historic ‘reefer’ boxcar to find new home in Revelstoke Railway Museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Rusty and covered in graffiti, a boxcar that has sat neglected in Kelowna, B.C.’s industrial district is thought to be the last of its kind and will soon be moved to the Revelstoke Railway Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/December/Historic-‘reefer’-boxcar-to-find-new-home-in-Revel]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun: A new generation defends Vancouver’s Chinatown traditions]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A controversial proposal to build a 13-storey condo building on an empty lot in Vancouver’s Chinatown has ignited opposition from a fresh set of organizers and volunteers who are working to keep alive “the history of Chinatown and the contributions made by many Chinese-Canadians to this city and country.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/December/A-new-generation-defends-Vancouver’s-Chinatown-tra]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Heritage minister backs reappointments of directors of history, nature museums]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The directors of the Canadian Museum of History Corp. and the Canadian Museum of Nature have been informed that the minister of Canadian heritage fully supports their reappointment to new five-year terms, effective next June.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/December/Heritage-minister-backs-reappointments-of-director]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: McMichael Canadian Art Collection showcasing Christmas cards by Group of Seven ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is displaying 186 Christmas cards created by members of the Group of Seven and their contemporaries as well as artists of a more modern cast such as Jack Bush, William Ronald and Harold Town.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/December/McMichael-Canadian-Art-Collection-showcasing-Chris]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: A waterway’s rise to its former greatness]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Conservation efforts and a heritage designation have renewed a southwestern Ontario waterway that was once called an “open sewer” for its pollution.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/December/A-waterway’s-rise-to-its-former-greatness]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Demolition of Holman homestead fought by P.E.I. historical group]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Prince Edward Island’s Summerside and Area Historical Society says it is appealing a permit the city of Summerside has granted to tear down the historic Holman homestead. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/December/Demolition-of-Holman-homestead-fought-by-P-E-I-his]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Truth and Reconciliation report offers 94 ‘calls to action’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has made public its final report into the history and legacy of Canada’s residential school system.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/December/CBC-News-Truth-and-Reconciliation-report-offers-94]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Interactive ‘street museum’ to celebrate former PMs who lived along Laurier Avenue East]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A volunteer-led initiative aims to turn a stretch of Ottawa’s Laurier Avenue East into an interactive “street museum.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/December/Interactive-‘street-museum’-to-celebrate-former-PM]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[BBC News: Skull of the ‘real’ Winnie-the-Pooh goes on display]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The skull of the bear that inspired the Winnie-the-Pooh books is to be put on public display for the first time, in a museum in London, England.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/November/Skull-of-the-‘real’-Winnie-the-Pooh-goes-on-displa]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Métis flag raised at Kitchener, Ont.'s city hall to honour Louis Riel]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Métis flag was raised outside Kitchener, Ont.'s city hall to commemorate the death of Louis Riel 130 years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/November/Metis-flag-raised-at-Kitchener-City-Hall-to-honour]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Art Moderne landmark in Hamilton gets updated for modern life]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A landmark Hamilton home, with its single porthole window, lone speed-stripe and one curved wall, had been left empty in the wet spring and humid summer of 2013. And that’s exactly when Lane Dunlop and Tina Fetner came aboard for a look-see.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/November/Art-Moderne-landmark-in-Hamilton-gets-updated-for]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: B.C. author published first book at 99]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Frank White butchered hogs, delivered raw milk to dairies, hauled logs out of the woods, operated a waterworks, bit into the earth as an excavating contractor and pumped gas at a station in a picturesque fishing village on the British Columbia coast. Late in life, at the age of 99, he added bestselling author to his résumé.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Sotheby’s auction remembers a jewel of Canada’s war effort]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A tiara that survived the 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania is a symbol of both the sumptuous wealth of old Montreal and civilian tragedy in war. It sold for over $1 million at auction in Switzerland.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/November/Sotheby’s-auction-remembers-a-jewel-of-Canada’s-wa]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Beaded poppies draw attention to Aboriginal veterans]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The beaded poppy is the newest type of pin gracing jackets this Remembrance Day. However, the Royal Canadian Legion says the poppy is trademarked.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/November/Beaded-poppies-draw-attention-to-aboriginal-vetera]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Art installation recognizes nuns’ long history in Pointe-Claire]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Sisters of the Congregation of Notre-Dame and their presence in Pointe-Claire, Que., for more than 230 years has been commemorated in a new work of public art.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/New-document/Art-installation-recognizes-nuns’-long-history-in]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Historic apartments destroyed in fire once housed Edmonton's creative set]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An Edmonton apartment building destroyed by fire Saturday was once a haven for generations of artistic tenants.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/New-document/Historic-apartments-destroyed-in-fire-once-housed]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Home demolitions, tree clear-cutting threaten Vancouver neighbourhoods ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An average of nearly one pre-1940s house every day has been demolished in the past six years, according to Vancouver statistics. That includes the past year, in which a new recycling bylaw was brought in to deter demolitions. It doesn’t appear to be working.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/New-document/Home-demolitions,-tree-clear-cutting-threaten-Vanc]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: Armouries re-construction sparks curiosity downtown]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The doors of the Windsor Armouries have been flung open during construction to reveal the cavernous interior of what will become the University of Windsor’s School of Creative Arts.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/New-document/Armouries-re-construction-sparks-curiosity-downtow]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Province: Lawsuit launched over fire on historic street in New Westminster, B.C.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Legal action has been launched against a roofing firm after a massive fire destroyed a historic block of businesses in New Westminster, B.C.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/New-document/Lawsuit-launched-over-fire-on-historic-street-in-N]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Sports landmark facing demolition has a glorious past]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The controversy over a proposed 30-storey office tower on the site of the Maison Alcan has brought to light Montreal’s long forgotten role as the birthplace of organized figure skating in Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/New-document/Sports-landmark-facing-demolition-has-a-glorious-p]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Province: Historic B.C. interior watering hole dries up]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The 300 residents of Rock Creek, B.C., have been without their favourite watering hole since bailiffs shut down the Prospector Pub and Hotel last month for non-payment of taxes. The storied building in B.C.’s Southern Interior — constructed in 1895 alongside the Kettle River to service gold-rush miners in the area, according to realtor Jennifer Brock — has had a sorry time of late.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/New-document/Historic-B-C-interior-watering-hole-dries-up]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Victoria Times Colonist: Maritime Museum’s future at risk, MLA tells B.C. legislature]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Nearly a year after the province ordered the Maritime Museum of B.C. to close without providing new quarters, the NDP MLA for Victoria-Beacon Hill warned in the legislature on Tuesday that the facility’s economic, cultural and tourism contributions hang in the balance.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/New-document/Maritime-Museum’s-future-at-risk,-MLA-tells-B-C-le]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Sinclair Inn’s hidden murals offer glimpse of Acadian past]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hidden murals in Canada’s oldest surviving Acadian building may turn the walls of the museum into windows onto the past.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/New-document/Sinclair-Inn’s-hidden-murals-offer-glimpse-of-Acad]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Saskatoon StarPhoenix: City must do more to recognize indigenous history: report]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Saskatoon does not do enough to recognize the history of the region’s indigenous peoples, which shows a wider indifference, according to a new report.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/New-document/City-must-do-more-to-recognize-indigenous-history]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Lucy Maud Montgomery schoolhouse struggles to stay open]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A community group in Lower Bedeque, P.E.I., is looking for ways to attract more visitors to the schoolhouse where Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery once taught.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/New-document/Lucy-Maud-Montgomery-schoolhouse-struggles-to-stay]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Proposed diamond mine threatens sacred site in Saskatchewan]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A proposed diamond mine near Prince Albert, Sask., is drawing the ire of local residents and a First Nations community, since it will likely impact the surrounding environment and affect a sacred hill used by the community.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/New-document/Proposed-diamond-mine-near-threatens-sacred-site-i]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Papers related to HBC documentary donated to Manitoba archives]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Archives of Manitoba has obtained papers detailing the making of a documentary about the Hudson’s Bay Company activities nearly a century ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/New-document/Papers-related-to-HBC-documentary-donated-to-Manit]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Regina Leader-Post: 150 years of prairie history at the Sacred Heart Church]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Lebret, Sask.’s Sacred Heart Church is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/150-years-of-prairie-history-at-the-Sacred-Heart-C]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[National Post: University of Toronto looks to rejuvenate its downtown campus]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The University of Toronto unveiled four competing designs for a major architectural project. As one design team put it, the central King’s College Circle, “cluttered with traffic and parked cars, fails to engage the historic architecture at its edges and compromises the generous green within.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/University-of-Toronto-looks-to-rejuvenate-its-down]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun: New conservation area prohibits demolition of houses built before 1940]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Vancouver council approved a plan that outlaws demolition of older homes in the Shaughnessy neighbourhood.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/New-conservation-area-prohibits-demolition-of-hous]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Critics say Ottawa has failed on Alberta residential school commemoration]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two sentences on an innocuous plaque mark the only place in Canada where a former residential school is commemorated as part of a nationally designated historic site. And that is a shameful oversight that needs to be corrected if the country is to ever fully come to terms with a traumatic and difficult part of its history, say critics.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Critics-say-Ottawa-has-failed-on-Alberta-residenti]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Diefenbaker’s birthplace to be named historic site if Tories re-elected]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Conservative Leader Stephen Harper announced that a re-elected Tory government will commemorate the Neustad, Ont., birthplace of late Tory legend John George Diefenbaker as a National Historic Site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Diefenbaker’s-birthplace-to-be-named-historic-site]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Facelift begins on Edmonton’s McDougall United Church]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A facelift of the 105-year-old McDougall United Church in downtown Edmonton has begun.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Facelift-begins-on-Edmonton’s-McDougall-United-Chu]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Fort Saskatchewan Record: Quilt event offers chance to unveil hidden history ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Alberta’s Fort Heritage Precinct is hosting a public Quilt Documentation Day. The intention is to document and photograph the pre-1970 quilts in order to preserve their history and contribution to Alberta’s quilting history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Quilt-event-offers-chance-to-unveil-hidden-history]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Canadiens statues returning to their Bell Centre perches]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Four Montreal Canadiens greats are returning to their perches at the Bell Centre. Missing since 2013, the bronze statues of Howie Morenz, Maurice Richard, Jean Béliveau and Guy Lafleur are being installed on the east side of the Bell Centre.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Canadiens-statues-returning-to-their-Bell-Centre-p]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Jail hostel pronounces death sentence on Haunted Walk tours]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The death knell will sound next June for tours the Haunted Walk of Ottawa has been leading at the Hi-Ottawa Jail Hostel for nearly two decades, barring a change of heart by the non-profit organization that runs the hostel. Since 1996, hundreds of thousands of tourists and local residents have taken tours of the historic building, which was Ottawa’s main jail for more than a century until its closure in 1972.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Jail-hostel-pronounces-death-sentence-on-Haunted-W]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Hudson’s Bay puts spotlight on its Canadian heritage in new ad campaign]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hudson’s Bay Co. has launched a new campaign that it says will run indefinitely: a series of commercials that give glimpses into the history of Canada’s oldest company.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Hudson’s-Bay-puts-spotlight-on-its-Canadian-herita]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Council looks at moving, storing historic downtown Edmonton buildings]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Edmonton city councillors have voted to race against the clock in a bid to save the ARTery, an arts venue in a century-old wooden structure already leaning in some places.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Council-looks-at-moving,-storing-historic-downtown]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Vancouver one step closer toward demolition ban for First Shaughnessy ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Vancouver is one hearing closer to making First Shaughnessy the city’s first Heritage Conservation Area, which will make it extremely difficult for a homeowner to demolish their house.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Vancouver-one-step-closer-toward-demolition-ban-fo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Historic railway station damaged by fire]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A century-old train station that was supposed to be the centrepiece of a railway museum northeast of Calgary went up in flames.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Historic-railway-station-in-Beiseker-damaged-by-fi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Local student to represent Saskatchewan in Ottawa]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Grade 7 student at Moose Jaw’s Caronport Elementary School has been chosen to represent Saskatchewan youth in this year’s Young Citizens program. The program is put on by Canada’s History Society to promote cultural and history education for youth across the nation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Local-student-to-represent-Saskatchewan-in-Ottawa]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Construction begins to convert historic Winnipeg hotel into affordable housing]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Construction is now underway at Winnipeg’s old Merchants Hotel. The historic three-storey building is being converted into an affordable housing complex.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Construction-begins-to-convert-historic-Winnipeg-h]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Stephen Quick named director-general of Canadian War Museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Stephen Quick has taken over the top post at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, moving over from another national museum in the capital.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Stephen-Quick-named-director-general-of-Canadian-W]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Musicians, artists hope to save two Edmonton buildings from the wrecking ball]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Local musicians and artists are asking Edmonton city council to save two buildings slated for demolition to make room for the Valley LRT line.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Musicians,-artists-hope-to-save-two-Edmonton-build]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Homeowner faces race against time to save century-old Alberta home]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Homeowner faces race against time to save century-old Alberta home]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Homeowner-faces-race-against-time-to-save-century]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: Delicate renovation underway at historic Ontario church]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For more than a decade parishioners raised their own money, and they are now enjoying the rewards of watching an intricate $2.1-million renovation of landmark St. Joseph Church in River Canard, Ont..]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Delicate-renovation-underway-at-historic-Ontario-c]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: NCC working on plan to conserve 24 Sussex, other official residences]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The National Capital Commission is working on a new long-term renovation and conservation plan for the six official residence it manages.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/NCC-working-on-plan-to-conserve-24-Sussex,-other-o]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: National parks under threat by development, CPAWS report says]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society says national parks are under threat by commercial development and voters should challenge the federal parties about the issue during the election campaign.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/National-parks-under-threat-by-development,-CPAWS]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Conrad Black, meet Sir John A. Macdonald]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Conrad Black, one of Canada’s leading historians, commentators and controversial public figures, will be leading a special Sir John A. Macdonald historical walking tour.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Conrad-Black,-meet-Sir-John-A-Macdonald]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Northumberland Today: Harbour display offers nod to rail history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For almost a year now, a group of retirees has devoted each Wednesday morning to rebuilding and reproducing a genuine Crossen ore car based on the 150 turned out in the 19th century by legendary Cobourg, Ont., industrialist James Crossen.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Harbour-display-offers-nod-to-rail-history]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Anishinaabe author, historian Basil H. Johnston dies at 86]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Basil H. Johnston, respected author, storyteller and preserver of the Anishnaabe language, has died.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Anishinaabe-author,-historian-Basil-H-Johnston-die]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Capital museums squeezed by growing payments to municipalities]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Payments made by the capital’s four national museums to municipal governments have risen by millions of dollars, but those increased costs have not been offset by higher funding from the federal government.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Capital-museums-squeezed-by-growing-payments-to-mu]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Final vote on controversial project postponed]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Ville-Marie borough of Montreal has delayed final approval for a controversial 30-storey development on the site of the award-winning Maison Alcan. Built in 1981-83 as the headquarters of Alcan Aluminium Ltd., the Maison is considered an architectural icon for sensitively integrating historic structures into a modern complex.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Final-vote-on-controversial-project-postponed]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Province: Rowing club’s rugby team set to commemorate sacrifices made a century ago]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Members and former members of the Vancouver Rowing Club's rugby section are ready to visit First World War memorials and individual graves in France and Belgium to pay their respects to the lads who died fighting for freedom.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Rowing-club’s-rugby-team-set-to-commemorate-sacrif]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Roughriders-legend-George-Reed-speaks-at-museum-s]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Roughriders legend George Reed speaks at museum's anniversary symposium]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[George Reed is widely known as one of the greatest running backs in CFL history. After his long Hall of Fame career with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, he is speaking at the Saskatchewan African Canadian Heritage Museum’s symposium.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Roughriders-legend-George-Reed-speaks-at-museum-s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Owner of historic photo album sought]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Edmonton police are puzzled as to how a leather-bound album with nearly century-old photographs wound up on their front step.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Owner-of-historic-photo-album-sought]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Group denounces private dock on historic Lachine Canal]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Projet Montréal leader Luc Ferrandez denounced the installation of private docks on the Lachine Canal, saying they restrict public access to the canal and its banks. The canal, being a historic site, falls under the jurisdiction of Parks Canada, which approves the construction of docks.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Group-denounces-private-dock-on-historic-Lachine-C]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Heritage building at Banff park gate damaged after vehicle slams into it]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of the historic buildings at the east gate of Banff National Park received “substantial damage” after a vehicle slammed into it.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Heritage-building-at-Banff-park-gate-damaged-after]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Canadian-Football-Hall-of-Fame-gets-a-fresh-set-of]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Canadian Football Hall of Fame gets a fresh set of downs]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hamilton city council ratified a plan that will see the Ticats’ new venue become the Canadian Football Hall of Fame’s permanent home, starting as early as 2016. One key feature of the proposed plan will see the hall’s centrepiece artifacts — the 278 busts of members — featured in a high-tech studio on the grounds of Tim Hortons Field.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Canadian-Football-Hall-of-Fame-gets-a-fresh-set-of]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Thunder Bay's Finlandia Association focuses on hall revival ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Finlandia Association is working toward a resurgence — particularly for their historic hall — nearly six months after facing a potential financial collapse in Thunder Bay, Ont.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Thunder-Bay-s-Finlandia-Association-focuses-on-hal]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: GM smokestack in Windsor is down after multiple attempts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The smokestack at the former GM transmission plant in Windsor, Ont., has finally been demolished.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/GM-smokestack-in-Windsor-is-down-after-multiple-at]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Divers expect more secrets to surface from Franklin Expedition wreck]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Parks Canada divers have begun a 30-day dive session, an embarrassment of riches compared to the 14 plunges squeezed in two days last year, or the seven days and 88 dives spent under the ice in April.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Divers-expect-more-secrets-to-surface-from-Frankli]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Coerced-sterilization-of-Canadian-indigenous-women]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Reuters: Coerced sterilization of Canadian indigenous women in 1970s widespread, researcher says]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The coercive sterilization of indigenous women in Canadian health centers during the 1970s was more widespread than previously believed, with impoverished communities in the north disproportionately targeted, a researcher has found.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/September/Coerced-sterilization-of-Canadian-indigenous-women]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[National Post: Mansion central to Canadian democracy likely to become condos]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Montreal house was the scene of dramatic conflict and passionate debate, a crucible of Canada’s parliamentary democracy. But today it stands as a monument to neglect, and time is running out before it becomes the site of just another luxury condominium.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Mansion-central-to-Canadian-democracy-likely-to-be]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Discoveries-a-boon-for-Arctic-tourism]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Discoveries a boon for Arctic tourism]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ever since divers began surveying the Erebus wreck, roughly a day’s voyage from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, there have been speculations about potential tourism implications once they’re done.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Discoveries-a-boon-for-Arctic-tourism]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: First Nations in northern B.C. worry Site C dam will obliterate their heritage]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For 12,000 years, people have roamed Peace River Valley, leaving traces of their presence. But BC Hydro’s proposed Site C dam threatens to obliterate that heritage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/First-Nations-in-northern-B-C-worry-Site-C-dam-wil]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Wellness hotel opens in Quebec City monastery]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A striking architectural fusion of old and new — and the eco-conscious product of a $40-million overhaul — Le Monastère des Augustines is a 65-room sanctuary on the grounds of the historic Hôtel Dieu hospital. The hotel modernizes and also preserves the historic character of the former residence of Les Soeurs Augustines, who were pioneers in health care as far back as the 1600s.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Wellness-hotel-opens-in-Quebec-City-monastery]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Inside Toronto: City marks 400th anniversary of explorer’s epic journey along Humber’s Carrying Place Trail]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Toronto’s rich history will be celebrated as the city’s neighbourhoods are set to host events to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Étienne Brûlé’s epic journey along the Humber River.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/City-marks-400th-anniversary-of-explorer’s-epic-jo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Qu’Appelle, Sask., town hall up for sale]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A century-old town hall, located in a historic Saskatchewan town, is for sale.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Qu’Appelle,-Sask-,-town-hall-up-for-sale]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Vancouver heritage homes debate gets heated]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Real estate agent Peter Saito has a problem with the city’s proposed ban on the demolition of Vancouver’s oldest, most prized collection of heritage houses. The old Shaughnessy estate houses, he says, aren’t worth saving.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Vancouver-heritage-homes-debate-gets-heated]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Regina Leader-Post: Viterra heritage building rejuvenated]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Masons have toiled for months on the Viterra headquarters’ facade. Built in 1913 for $350,000, the building originally stood as the C.W. Sherwood Co. Ltd. Department Store and remains the only pre-First World War structure in Regina hearkening back to those shopper roots.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Viterra-heritage-building-rejuvenated]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: More Bluenose II sailings cancelled due to 'delayed steering' problem]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Bluenose II has another problem with its $700,000 custom-built hydraulic steering system, resulting in delayed responses from the rudder.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/More-Bluenose-II-sailings-cancelled-due-to-delayed]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Inuit carvers create a monument at Toronto's York University]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two Inuit carvers from Nunavut are living out their dream, working on a 26-tonne block of granite to create a traditional sculpture, which will be housed at Toronto's York University.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Inuit-carvers-create-a-monument-at-Toronto-s-York]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Planning committee goes with cheaper windows for heritage-designated building]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The rejuvenated Bayview Yards heritage building will get its much-needed window replacements, but not the ones that are most appropriate for the heritage character of the building, Ottawa council’s planning committee decided.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Planning-committee-goes-with-cheaper-windows-for-h]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Inside Toronto: Junction Triangle development to preserve the area’s history while moving in a modern direction ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Unlike a typical mixed-use condominium project that focuses on the residential component, the company behind a Junction Triangle development in Toronto is concentrating its efforts on neighbourhood amenities. As per the community’s wishes, the heritage Auto Building will remain the tallest, most prominent building on the site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Junction-Triangle-development-to-preserve-the-area]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Niagara Falls painting prompts British brouhaha]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A historic painting of Niagara Falls is causing a stir in Britain. The country’s culture minister, Ed Valzey, has ordered a temporary export ban on a 1762 piece by artist Captain Thomas Davies, believed to be the first eyewitness painting of the falls.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Niagara-Falls-painting-prompts-British-brouhaha]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Guelph Mercury: Modelling Guelph’s Petrie Building, piece by piece]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A man is building a pair of scale models of Guelph's iconic A.B. Petrie building, one small, 3D printer piece at a time.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Modelling-Guelph’s-Petrie-Building,-piece-by-piece]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Associated Press: Dig at Colonial battleground in upstate N.Y. uncovers stone walls from unfinished British fort]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An archaeological dig at an 18th-century military site in the southern Adirondacks has uncovered large sections of stone walls that are believed to have been constructed within a larger British fortification that was never completed more than 250 years ago]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Dig-at-Colonial-battleground-in-upstate-N-Y-uncove]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Improving ‘an experience’ at Bell Centre closes a door on Habs’ illustrious history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ten thousand square feet of remarkable Montreal Canadiens history is soon to be gone forever.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Improving-‘an-experience’-at-Bell-Centre-closes-a]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Regina Leader-Post: Civic Museum of Regina to be dissolved]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Home to approximately 19,000 civic artifacts, including Canada’s first ATM and one of the few remaining buffalo hide presses that still exists, the Civic Museum of Regina will be closing its doors.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Civic-Museum-of-Regina-to-be-dissolved]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Historic Knowlton log house open to the public after being saved from demolition]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The historic Paul Holland Knowlton House is ready to welcome visitors again, a year and a half after it was approved to be demolished and a kilometre-and-a-half from where it once stood.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Historic-Knowlton-log-house-open-to-the-public-aft]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: Windsor Club one step closer to historic reception centre ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Windsor Club cleared one more hurdle on route to reviving a stylish Hiram Walker reception centre that only a year ago faced possible demolition.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Windsor-Club-one-step-closer-to-historic-reception]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: Rare streetcar to be restored]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[No. 351, a 97-year-old Windsor streetcar, is finally home. What may be the only remaining Sandwich, Windsor and Amherstburg Railway streetcar in good enough shape to restore was moved Monday to the historic building where it would have been maintained until the late 1930s.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Elders to guide deconstruction process of B.C. home built atop burial site]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Crews will soon deconstruct a partially built home on a sacred burial site off Salt Spring Island, B.C., after a multimillion-dollar deal with the landowner.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Elders-to-guide-deconstruction-process-of-B-C-home]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Smokestack still standing at former GM transmission plant]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An attempt to bring down a smokestack at Windsor's old General Motors plant failed.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Smokestack-still-standing-at-former-GM-transmissio]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Historic mansion sold, could be used as bed-and-breakfast]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A 1912 Edmonton Tudor mansion without a heritage designation has been sold. The home is filled with Victorian-style antiques and still has drawing room walls covered in silk grasscloth with the original chandelier and fireplace mantel piece.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Historic-mansion-sold,-could-be-used-as-bed-and-br]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Items stolen from rural museum north of Winnipeg]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Staff at a small, rural museum north of Winnipeg say they were surprised and disappointed to discover some items on display were stolen by a visitor.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Items-stolen-from-rural-museum-north-of-Winnipeg]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Archeology students dig for 15th-century Iroquois artifacts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Students from the University of Montreal are spending the month of August in St-Anicet, Que., digging for artifacts left behind by the St. Lawrence Iroquois tribe back in the 1400s.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Archeology-students-dig-for-15th-century-Iroquois]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Fort Edmonton, Métis Nation of Alberta sign agreement of understanding]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fort Edmonton Park signed a historic agreement with the Métis Nation of Alberta to solidify a partnership to provide accurate Métis cultural programming toward the park’s Indigenous People’s Experience.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Fort-Edmonton,-Metis-Nation-of-Alberta-sign-agreem]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Hanna roundhouse reunion celebrates railroad history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The 1913 Hanna, Alta., roundhouse, officially the Canadian Northern Railway roundhouse, was put out of commission in 1961. The province has designated the roundhouse a provincial historic resource to recognize the “iconic piece of historic railway infrastructure.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Hanna-roundhouse-reunion-celebrates-railroad-histo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Doc about Lancaster bombers to get free Remembrance Day screenings]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A film documenting the historic reunion of the world's two remaining airworthy Lancaster bombers will be screened for free at select theatres on Remembrance Day.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Doc-about-Lancaster-bombers-to-get-free-Remembranc]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Heritage doyenne weighs in on lack of city planning]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre’s approach to dealing with development projects is “willy nilly” and is sending Montreal back to an era when a lack of planning and a disregard for heritage and consultation reigned, says architect and urban planning activist Phyllis Lambert.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Heritage-doyenne-weighs-in-on-lack-of-city-plannin]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: Veterans Memories Project producing documentary on first and second world wars]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Windsor Historical Society-Veterans Memories Project is in the midst of its largest undertaking yet: a documentary and book on Canada’s involvement in the First World War and the Second World War from the perspective of those who were in the trenches.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Veterans-Memories-Project-producing-documentary-on]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Weekend fun in Lachine during archaeology month]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[August is archaeology month, and family-friendly activities are scheduled for weekends in the Montreal neighbourhood of Lachine.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/August/Weekend-fun-in-Lachine-during-archaeology-month]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Franklin expedition to Arctic included cannibalism, researchers say]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Inuit have long shared tales of cannibalism on Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the Arctic, and now researchers say they have found evidence to back up those stories.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Franklin-expedition-to-Arctic-included-cannibalism]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Humboldt Journal: Annual dig focuses on Northwest Rebellion]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The archaeological dig at the Original Humboldt site has come to a close for another year with Humboldt Museum staff, archaeologists with Western Heritage in Saskatoon and members of the public digging for relics. This year, the dig focused on finding remnants from the approximately 100 soldiers who camped at the site during the Northwest Rebellion.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Annual-dig-focuses-on-Northwest-Rebellion]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Canada’s first legion closed amid financial troubles]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The country's first Royal Canadian Legion is closed, its building sold and its war memorabilia slated to be inventoried and packed up.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Canada’s-first-legion-closed-amid-financial-troubl]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Sault Star: ‘Bushplane Museum’ like home to senior volunteers]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[To volunteers Jack Baker, Jim Scotland, and Lyle Mcleod, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.’s Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre — or “Bushplane Museum,” as they call it — is so much more than a cultural and historical landmark.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/‘Bushplane-Museum’-like-home-to-senior-volunteers]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Larry LeBlanc, making the Canadian Music Hall of Fame happen]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Veteran music journalist Larry LeBlanc is working for the National Music Centre, the ambitious music museum, concert venue and home to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame set to open in Calgary next year.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Larry-LeBlanc,-making-the-Canadian-Music-Hall-of-F]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Uncertain future for West Vancouver ‘work of art’ ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The West Vancouver home designed by artist/educator Bertram Charles Binning in 1939-40, and built in 1941, is considered the first truly modern house on the West Coast. It has been host to a who’s who of architecture and art-world luminaries.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Uncertain-future-for-West-Vancouver-‘work-of-art’]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Historic Moore Farm Estate to become a showcase for urban farming and ecotourism]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The historic Moore Farm Estate in Gatineau, Que., will be reborn this fall as an ecotourism and urban farming centre.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Historic-Moore-Farm-Estate-to-become-a-showcase-fo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Battlefield tour has special meaning for teacher]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An Edmonton high school teacher is among a group of Canadian instructors chosen to take a tour of First and Second World War battlefields in France.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Battlefield-tour-has-special-meaning-for-teacher]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Dorval, Que., to transform its museum with new permanent display]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Dorval, Que.’s Museum of History and Heritage will undergo a major transformation over the next few months, including a ‘big book’ sculptural display.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Dorval,-Que-,-to-transform-its-museum-with-new-per]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: Fate of Assumption Church still in limbo ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Historic Assumption Church was closed down by the diocese because of the deteriorating condition of the Windsor, Ont., landmark. The church, which opened in 1845, is a nationally protected historic site in need of extensive repairs.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Fate-of-Assumption-Church-still-in-limbo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Griffintown rising: The transformation of a storied district]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Griffintown, the industrial birthplace of Canada that was home to a storied working-class Irish community, is transforming. Only a few small blocks of vintage row houses remain, most homes having fallen to ruin, ripe for demolition.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Griffintown-rising-The-transformation-of-a-storied]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Opponents ask council to kill development]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Calgary council chambers drew a crowd as the city’s elected officials considered whether to approve or reject a 101-hectare development just east of Canada Olympic Park. Concerned residents maintain the proposal is inappropriate for an area they say contains significant natural, cultural and historic value.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Opponents-ask-council-to-kill-development]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Historic ship St. Roch to be scanned with lasers and digitally preserved]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The RCMP schooner St. Roch is world-renowned for being the first vessel to sail the Northwest Passage from west to east and the first to circumnavigate North America. Now — even if the physical ship housed in the Vancouver Maritime Museum crumbles into oblivion — the schooner will go down in history in digital form.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Historic-ship-St-Roch-to-be-scanned-with-lasers-an]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Historic transmitter approaches the end]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of Saskatchewan’s most legendary pieces of architecture — the iconic CBK Building, located outside Watrous — is set to be torn down.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Historic-transmitter-approaches-the-end]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Proposed tower would disfigure Montreal's iconic Maison Alcan, critics say]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When it opened in 1983, Montreal’s Maison Alcan was hailed for successfully integrating heritage gems into a thoroughly modern yet human-scale corporate headquarters. But 32 years later, part of the award-winning complex and an adjacent building could face demolition to make way for a 30-storey commercial tower.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Proposed-tower-would-disfigure-Montreal-s-iconic-M]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Halifax Citadel gets replica First World War trench for hands-on experience]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Parks Canada will be offering tours of a replica trench at the Halifax Citadel so people can experience what trenches looked like during the First World War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Halifax-Citadel-gets-replica-First-World-War-trenc]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Navy’s new Arctic patrol ship named after War of 1812 hero]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Royal Canadian Navy's newest Arctic patrol ship is named HMCS Frédérick Rolette, honouring a War of 1812 hero who was stationed in Amherstburg, Ont.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Navy’s-new-Arctic-patrol-ship-named-after-War-of-1]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: 1850s farmhouse has a rich history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A historic home in the Highland Creek neighbourhood of Scarborough, Ont., has some interesting tales to tell about life in the area long before it was overtaken by suburban sprawl and amalgamated into the city of Toronto.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/1850s-farmhouse-has-a-rich-history]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Grand Manan Museum brings historic journal to the island]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The journal of one of Grand Manan’s prominent early residents has been returned to the island, with help from the New Brunswick Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Grand-Manan-Museum-brings-historic-journal-to-the]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Calgary’s Heritage Park offers luxury dining in old CP railcar]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Canadian Pacific railcar built in 1929 has been brought back into service as a luxury dining car at Heritage Park Historical Village, the living history museum in southwest Calgary.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Calgary’s-Heritage-Park-offers-luxury-dining-in-ol]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[National Post: Canadians give thumbs-down to grandiose memorials planned for Ottawa and Nova Scotia: poll]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[National Post: Canadians give thumbs-down to grandiose memorials planned for Ottawa and Nova Scotia: poll]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Canadians-give-thumbs-down-to-grandiose-memorials]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Historians question Samuel de Champlain's portages in northern Ontario]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As citizens of North Bay, Ont., prepare to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of French explorer Samuel de Champlain to the shores of Lake Nipissing, questions have arisen around the monuments commemorating his travels. Some believe those monuments are misplaced.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Historians-question-Samuel-de-Champlain-s-portages]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Charlottetown Guardian: Samuel Holland map of P.E.I. on display]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A massive, 250-year-old map of Prince Edward Island, which laid the groundwork for developing the province, has returned home.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Samuel-Holland-map-of-P-E-I-on-display]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Windsor, Ont.’s iconic Lazares Furs sign up for heritage register]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Lazares Furs sign is one of more than two dozen pieces of property that may soon be added to the Windsor, Ont., municipal heritage register.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Windsor,-Ont-’s-iconic-Lazares-Furs-sign-up-for-he]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Rooftop patio puts new spin on National Club ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Framed by soaring skyscrapers, the small, red-carpeted stairway leading up to the front door of the four-storey National Club seems to offer a portal back to a more august time. The 108-year-old red brick walls of the clubhouse at 303 Bay St. have borne silent witness to many of Toronto’s movers and shakers, dignitaries and British royalty over the past century.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Rooftop-patio-puts-new-spin-on-National-Club]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Plans in the works to commemorate Signal Hill’s 100th anniversary]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As Signal Hill’s stony numbers near their first century, a Calgary artist and a city councillor are determined to keep the site’s history alive.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Plans-in-the-works-to-commemorate-Signal-Hill’s-10]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Halifax Chronicle Herald: St. Paul Island lighthouse preps for centennial celebration]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[St. Paul Island is an inhospitable piece of rock jutting out of the ocean off northern Cape Breton, N.S., with two landing spots. One, the island’s southwest lighthouse, is a cast-iron structure built in 1915 to replace the wooden one that burned down the year before.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/St-Paul-Island-lighthouse-preps-for-centennial-cel]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Geographic Society CEO says group had no control over Franklin expedition documentary ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The CEO of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society says his organization had no editorial control over a Franklin expedition documentary that has been put back in the spotlight by the resignation of reporter Paul Watson from the Toronto Star.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Geographic-Society-CEO-says-group-had-no-control-o]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Tour provides opportunity to learn history by rail]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Rail Travel Tours, a Winnipeg-based rail tourism company, is organizing a special tour through the Parklands of Manitoba and Saskatchewan to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Canadian National Railway completing its transcontinental line.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Tour-provides-opportunity-to-learn-history-by-rail]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Vancouver’s older houses are disappearing fast ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In July 2014, Vancouver implemented a rule that a pre-1940 house could be demolished only if it was 75-per-cent recycled. And if it was deemed a character house it had to be 90-per-cent recycled — extra work and cost to a builder, but it wasn’t much of an obstacle. Demolition permits for dwellings have increased 17 per cent in the past year.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Vancouver’s-older-houses-are-disappearing-fast]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Regina Leader-Post: Claybank historic site to be revitalized]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After 15 years of revitalizing heritage properties in the United Kingdom, the Prince’s Charities Canada will restore it’s first Canadian building — Saskatchewan’s Claybank Brick Plant. Located 60 kilometres southwest of Regina, the plant manufactured materials used to construct buildings across Canada, including the Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon and the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Claybank-historic-site-to-be-revitalized]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: New ‘Wendiceratops’ named for legendary Alberta dinosaur hunter Wendy Sloboda]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Wendiceratops, a new species of dinosaur with spectacular headgear, is named after an Alberta woman who may be one of the best dinosaur hunters in the world.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/New-‘Wendiceratops’-named-for-legendary-Alberta-di]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Dispute erupts over credit for finding Franklin flagship]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Less than one year after the discovery of the HMS Erebus in its watery Arctic grave, the public-private partnership formed to locate John Franklin’s doomed flagship has descended into a fractious fight over credit for the find.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Dispute-erupts-over-credit-for-finding-Franklin-fl]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: St. Clair College could take over Heritage Village, transportation museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A deal is in the works to hand over management of the Canadian Transportation Museum and Heritage Village in Kingsville, Ont., to St. Clair College.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/St-Clair-College-could-take-over-Heritage-Village,]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Camrose Canadian: Historian captures story of quilts across Alberta]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Royal Alberta Museum assistant curator Lucie Heins welcomed a steady stream of visitors and their heritage quilts to the Camrose and District Centennial Museum. Now six years into a project documenting quilting in Alberta, Heins has completed a survey of contemporary quilting in the province and moved on to capturing details about quilts made before 1970, either in the province or brought as part of migration.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Historian-captures-story-of-quilts-across-Alberta]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Peterborough Examiner: Trent University prof Shelagh Grant to receive Polar Medal]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Peterborough author will receive the newly created Polar Medal from Governor General David Johnston at a ceremony at the MacBridge Museum of Yukon History in Whitehorse. Shelagh Grant, author of Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America, is receiving the medal for her work as an historian, researcher, author, editor and adjunct professor.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Trent-University-prof-Shelagh-Grant-to-receive-Pol]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: SS Kyle in Harbour Grace, N.L., falling apart, no longer safe]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The shipwreck of the SS Kyle is running out of time, and residents of Harbour Grace, N.L., are calling on the provincial government to help salvage it.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/SS-Kyle-in-Harbour-Grace,-N-L-,-falling-apart,-no]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Manitoba Museum has ambitious plan for the future]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Manitoba Museum has a $160-million plan to catapult itself past 2020.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Manitoba-Museum-has-ambitious-plan-for-the-future]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Summerside Journal Pioneer: Map comes home to Confederation Centre art gallery]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Samuel Holland’s 1765 manuscript map of St. John’s Island, now P.E.I., is on loan from the United Kingdom’s National Archives.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Map-comes-home-to-Confederation-Centre-art-gallery]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Sun: Fort Calgary gets $269,000 gift from federal government]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Fort Calgary Preservation Society received a $269,789 contribution from the Department of Canadian Heritage to help maintain the historic site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/Fort-Calgary-gets-$269,000-gift-from-federal-gover]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: A beacon of hope for Canada’s heritage lighthouses ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Five years ago, the federal government declared 970 lighthouses across the country redundant and too expensive to maintain. Communities from Newfoundland to B.C. rallied to try to save them, prompting the federal government to designated 74 as protected heritage sites]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/July/A-beacon-of-hope-for-Canada’s-heritage-lighthouses]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Summer homes of Canada’s aristocracy still stand in Rivière-du-Loup ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Communities across Canada are renewing connections to John A.MacDonald this year, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Canada’s first prime minister. Few people realize that Rivière-du-Loup, Que., is where the nation’s founder spent many of his vacations in power, making the town the unofficial capital of summertime Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Summer-homes-of-Canada’s-aristocracy-still-stand-i]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Amateur historian fights to correct the record on historic Macdonald home ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A faded and tarnished bronze plaque installed 74 years ago is driving Bernard Dionne to distraction.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Amateur-historian-fights-to-correct-the-record-on]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Federal government still mum on Canada 2017 celebrations]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[With barely 18 months to go until Canada’s sesquicentennial year, the federal government has still not determined how it will celebrate the country’s 150th birthday in the National Capital Region.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Federal-government-still-mum-on-Canada-2017-celebr]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nunutsiaq News: Nunavut’s fish fossil treasures come home to Canada]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After spending the last 10 years in the hands of the researchers from the United States, who found them on Ellesmere Island, a precious collection of globally renowned Nunavut fish fossils came back to Canada for safe-keeping at the Canadian Museum of Nature.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Nunavut’s-fish-fossil-treasures-come-home-to-Canad]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Value of Nova Scotia home plummets after archaeological find]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The value of a waterfront home outside Antigonish, N.S., is in dispute after a Mi'kmaq burial site and artifacts were discovered on the property — ultimately reducing its assessed value to just $1.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Value-of-Nova-Scotia-home-plummets-after-archaeolo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: RCMP Musical Ride returns to roots at Fort Walsh Historic Site in Saskatchewan]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The RCMP Musical Ride returns to its roots this summer with a performance at Fort Walsh National Historic Site in southwestern Saskatchewan.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/RCMP-Musical-Ride-returns-to-roots-at-Fort-Walsh-H]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Countdown begins to save historic Halifax building]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Supporters of Halifax’s Khyber Centre have launched a “Summer of the Khyber” to try to convince Halifax council to save the aging building.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Countdown-begins-to-save-historic-Halifax-building]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Brantford Expositor: City to contribute to campaign to restore Mohawk Institute]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Brantford city council has voted in favour of contributing $220,000 to the Save the Evidence campaign, and a councilor said he is launching a campaign to raise additional funds to repair the Mohawk Institute, the former residential school housed thousands of Six Nations children.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/City-to-contribute-to-campaign-to-restore-Mohawk-I]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Halifax’s Pier 21 museum officially reopens to the public]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Halifax's Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is officially reopening to the public after months of renovations.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Halifax’s-Pier-21-museum-officially-reopens-to-the]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Franciscans celebrate 400 years since first mass in Montreal]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[This year is the 400th anniversary of Montreal’s very first mass, which took place by the shores of Rivière-des-Prairies — an event that marked what is considered the starting point of Catholicism in New France.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Franciscans-celebrate-400-years-since-first-mass-i]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Saved from demolition, historic Vancouver cabin needs a new home ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Almost five months after it was due to be demolished, an artists’ cabin perched on Vancouver’s North Shore was instead being prepared for a move — a hard-won victory for the group of artists who fought to save it. Now they have a new challenge: finding a permanent home for the historic structure.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Saved-from-demolition,-historic-Vancouver-cabin-ne]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Hard-won urban renewal on Winnipeg’s Red River waterfront ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new hotel and café represent the latest chapter in the birth, decay and renewal of Winnipeg’s historic Exchange District — an 80-acre collection of heritage buildings on the northeast side of downtown. The establishments are located near the region’s first fur-trading post for the Hudson’s Bay Company]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Hard-won-urban-renewal-on-Winnipeg’s-Red-River-wat]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Historic Saskatoon mill demolished as former workers look on]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An elevator and grain mill, built in 1910 by the Saskatoon Milling Company, was once the largest milling and storage facility in Western Canada. Now it has been demolished.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Saskatoon-mill-demolished-as-former-workers-look-o]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Waterloo Region Record: Museum unveils major beer exhibit ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Waterloo Region Museum is hosting an exhibit on the region’s brewing heritage and history of beer.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Museum-unveils-major-beer-exhibit]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Manitoba formally apologizes for mass adoption of Aboriginal children ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Manitoba has become the first province to apologize for the mass adoption of Aboriginal children into non-Aboriginal families, a historic mea culpa that some survivors hope will spur other governments to follow suit.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Manitoba-formally-apologizes-for-mass-adoption-of]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Allan Hawco, Mark Critch to trace steps of Newfoundland Regiment in new documentary]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new film about the Newfoundland Regiment's role in the First World War will feature two familiar personalities from the province.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Allan-Hawco,-Mark-Critch-to-trace-steps-of-Newfoun]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Château Frontenac reaches out to a new generation ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Every hotel goes through renovations, but this one was a special case. The Château Frontenac is one of Quebec City’s chief landmarks: At the peak of Old Quebec’s skyline, it’s a UNESCO-recognized heritage site so iconic that it’s immortalized on Canadian passports.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Gatineau, Que., residents say no to highrises near Canadian Museum of History]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A group of Gatineau, Que., residents is saying no to a proposed development project across from the Canadian Museum of History. A developer is proposing the construction of two highrise towers directly in front of the museum and in the heart of the Museum Quarter, a historic residential neighbourhood protected by the city of Gatineau’s urban development plan.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Gatineau,-Que-,-residents-say-no-to-highrises-near]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: Aboriginals push to save former Ontario residential school]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Former students of the Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School in Brantford, Ont., want to preserve the building despite the horrors experienced there decades ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Aboriginals-push-to-save-former-Ontario-residentia]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Sarnia Observer: Lambton Heritage Museum marks community's military history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new exhibit at the Lambton Heritage Museum, in Lambton Shores, Ont., shares artifacts from the community’s military history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Lambton-Heritage-Museum-marks-community-s-military]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Elders, youth examine ancient Banks Island artifacts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Elders and youth from Sachs Harbour, N.W.T., gathered in Yellowknife to examine some of the oldest artifacts ever found in the Canadian Arctic.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Elders,-youth-examine-ancient-Banks-Island-artifac]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Halifax Chronicle Herald: Museum tells Canada’s history through immigrants’ voices]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is located at the historic Halifax Seaport and was once a major entry point into Canada. It underwent substantial renovations in 2015, doubling its original size and making space for more exhibits that tell the larger story of Canada-wide immigration.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Museum-tells-Canada’s-history-through-immigrants’]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Black Loyalist Heritage Centre opens in Nova Scotia]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The new Black Loyalist Heritage Centre in Birchtown, N.S., opens up a world of genealogy that some Nova Scotians say has been left out of the history books for too long.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Black-Loyalist-Heritage-Centre-opens-in-Nova-Scoti]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Battle lines drawn over preservation of documents detailing abuse at residential schools]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The most horrific stories of abuse at residential schools may never become public as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission prepares for a legal battle to block the destruction of key documents.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Battle-lines-drawn-over-preservation-of-documents]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Restaurants in restored buildings offer more than just food and drink]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Many independent restaurateurs are willing to give old structures a new lease on life. And their restaurants, many of which are in buildings that sat empty for decades or were slated for demolition, have become some of the most alluring places to eat.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Restaurants-in-restored-buildings-offer-more-than]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Metro Winnipeg: Dalnavert museum draws big crowds for reopening]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Dalnavert Museum drew more than 1,700 visitors as part of the Open Doors Winnipeg event. It was the first time the museum was open to the public since it was shut down by the Manitoba Historical Society in 2013.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Dalnavert-museum-draws-big-crowds-for-reopening]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Landmark report urges education on ‘cultural genocide’ of aboriginals]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released a historic document – a five-year quest to record the truth of what happened at Indian residential schools – that essentially provides Ottawa with a road map to mend the fractured relationship between the country and its native peoples.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Landmark-report-urges-education-on-‘cultural-genoc]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Calgarian loans rare First World War uniforms to Military Museums]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A stockbroker has loaned about 100 rare uniforms worn by Canadians in the First World War to the Military Museums of Calgary.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/June/Calgarian-loans-rare-First-World-War-uniforms-to-M]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Vancity head to lead charge for creation of Terry Fox museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The family of Terry Fox has recruited the head of one of Canada’s largest credit unions to enlist partners to finance and build a museum in his honour in Vancouver in the next few years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/May/Vancity-head-to-lead-charge-for-creation-of-Terry]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Fossilized fish found during excavation in Calgary suburb]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A school of fossilized fish estimated to be 60 million years old was discovered in the basement of a new development in northwest Calgary.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/May/Fossilized-fish-found-during-excavation-in-Calgary]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Federal museum dumps exhibit of Winnipeg General Strike]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Critics railed at news a 16-year-old exhibit on the Winnipeg General Strike will not be included in the Museum of Canadian History in Gatineau, Que.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/May/Federal-museum-dumps-exhibit-of-Winnipeg-General-S]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Researchers hope public can shed light on Franklin Expedition ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The discovery of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition has left much unanswered, researchers say, and they’re hoping the public and students can help solve the mystery.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/May/Researchers-hope-public-can-shed-light-on-Franklin]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Jack Miner’s 150th birthday celebrated with duck and goose calling championship]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Jack Miner won’t be at the party, as it’s his 150th birthday. The Canadian government uses Jack Miner’s April birthday each year to launch National Wildlife Week.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/April/Jack-Miner’s-150th-birthday-celebrated-with-duck-a]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Kitchener, Ont.’s Former Mayfair Hotel to be demolished over structural deficiencies]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The city of Kitchener, Ont., has ordered the demolition of the Mayfair Hotel in the city's downtown “because of significant structural issues identified by two separate structural engineer's reports.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/April/Kitchener,-Ont-’s-Former-Mayfair-Hotel-to-be-demol]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Sault Ste. Marie Star: Tourist investment small price to pay]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Councillor Susan Myers believes both history and tourism are important in a community like Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and every little attraction is vital.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/April/Tourist-investment-small-price-to-pay]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Owen Sound Sun Times: Old Durham Road cemetery to get pavilion]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Some important pieces of Grey County, Ont.’s black history will be better protected thanks to a pavilion being constructed near Priceville this summer.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/April/Old-Durham-Road-cemetery-to-get-pavilion]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun: Comox, B.C., to demolish former homes of B.C. naturalist and painter]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Tucked away amid manicured gardens of a cul-de-sac fronted by some of Vancouver Island’s most valuable suburban homes is a park that was willed to the people of Comox by one of British Columbia’s most fascinating historical figures, Hamilton Mack Laing.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/April/Comox,-B-C-,-to-demolish-former-homes-of-B-C-natur]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Wildcat Café replica among history museum items up for grabs]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, is getting rid of a variety of props and reproductions from its Canada Hall exhibit — everything from bed curtains and candlesticks from New France to furniture, wooden barrels and the entire structure of its Wildcat Cafe reproduction.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/April/Wildcat-Cafe-replica-among-Canadian-museum-items-u]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Toronto may finally be getting a history museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The notion of creating a museum of Toronto history has been kicking around for years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/April/Toronto-may-finally-be-getting-a-history-museum]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Library and Archives resumes spending after six years of cuts ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Library and Archives Canada is suddenly in a spending mood after six years of budget cuts and curtailing of acquisitions. In its first purchase in six years, the collector of national art and archives announced it would spend $175,000 on 10 items from the coveted Winkworth collection, including a variety of watercolour paintings and a journal of a tour in Canada, the United States and Jamaica.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/April/Library-and-Archives-resumes-spending-after-six-ye]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: New Canadian Museum of History exhibit honours Terry Fox ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new exhibition at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., features two of Terry Fox’s prosthetic legs, the camper van in which he ate and slept, plus other personal items that he wore or used on his historic journey.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/April/New-Canadian-Museum-of-History-exhibit-honours-Ter]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Metro Ottawa: Group aims to create ‘Prime Minister’s Row’ for city neighbourhood]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A group of residents is proposing that Ottawa’s Laurier Street East — former home to eight prime ministers, seven Fathers of Confederation, and a First World War flying ace — become a historical “Prime Minister’s Row” complete with ceremonial arches as well as place markers at important buildings.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/April/Group-aims-to-create-‘Prime-Minister’s-Row’-for-ci]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Paintings netting nearly $1-million set ‘new benchmark’ in Canadian art sales]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two vividly rendered early 19th-century oil paintings of Mi’kmaqs hunting Canada geese were the big earners at a highly successful sale of Canadiana conducted London by Christie’s auctioneers.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/April/Paintings-netting-nearly-$1-million-set-‘new-bench]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Archaeological survey finds no Iroquois artifacts at downtown Montreal site]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Construction has resumed on a downtown Montreal office tower after an archaeological survey failed to turn up indigenous Iroquois artifacts in the ground below.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/March/Archaeological-survey-finds-no-Iroquois-artifacts]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: 130-year-old St. John’s, N.L., home levelled in minutes]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A 130-year-old home in St. John’s, N.L., has been reduced to a pile of rubble by an excavator. The building’s demolition was approved by city council, but at least one councillor called the loss of the structure a “tragedy.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/March/130-year-old-St-John’s,-N-L-,-home-levelled-in-min]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Race is on to save Fraser Valley’s bald eagles, Echo Lake old-growth forest ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Up to 700 bald eagles roost in a small grove of old-growth trees around Echo Lake in B.C.’s Fraser Valley each fall. But they might not be returning for much longer if a provincial-government logging plan goes ahead, says Mark Hume.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/March/Race-is-on-to-save-Fraser-Valley’s-bald-eagles,-Ec]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Finnish community in Thunder Bay struggles to save landmark restaurant ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It has stood for 105 years as a measure of Thunder Bay’s history, a three-storey building with a restaurant that has fed generations of locals, many of them of Finnish descent. But now that building, once home to political activists, and its restaurant, the Hoito, are on the brink of financial ruin.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/March/Finnish-community-in-Thunder-Bay-struggles-to-save]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Cornwall Standard-Freeholder: SD&G Regimental Museum seeks cash to buy artifacts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The curator of the regimental museum in Cornwall, Ont., is looking for funding to help buy artifacts to keep the museum going.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/March/SD-G-Regimental-Museum-seeks-cash-to-buy-artifacts]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: The controversy surrounding the Vancouver Art Gallery’s J.E.H. MacDonald donation ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In January, the Vancouver Art Gallery issued a news release announcing an astonishing donation: Ten “newly discovered and never-before-displayed oil paintings” by Group of Seven co-founder J.E.H. MacDonald. But a number of Canadian art veterans are eager to see further testing to verify the authenticity of the artwork.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/March/The-controversy-surrounding-the-Vancouver-Art-Gall]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Alliston Herald: Funds needed to preserve Simcoe County’s aging heritage sites ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two original Royal Flying Corp. hangars won’t likely be ready for their close-up when Ontario’s Base Borden hosts more than 20,000 people during its centennial celebrations next year.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/March/Funds-needed-to-preserve-Simcoe-County’s-aging-her]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Brantford Expositor: Ontario awards recognize work with history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two Brantford, Ont., men have been honoured with Ontario Heritage Awards for lifetime achievement.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/March/Ontario-awards-recognize-work-with-history]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Breathing life into B.C.’s ghost towns]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[B.C.’s waxing and waning communities have a small group of people working to either preserve, restore or repurpose them.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/Breathing-life-into-B-C-’s-ghost-towns]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: The Connolly builds a new history for downtown Hamilton]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In Hamilton’s historic downtown core, a crumbling religious landmark will become a contemporary sanctuary with retail space for the public and recreational amenities for residents in private suites above.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Museum of History to receive boost in funding]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of History, the National Capital Commission and the Canadian Science and Technology Museum will see increases in funding, in some cases by several millions of dollars.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/Museum-of-History-to-receive-boost-in-funding]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CTV News: Cape Breton community recognized as symbol of Canadian diversity]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Cape Breton community of Whitney Pier has been one of the most ethnically diverse places in the Maritimes for well over a century. That rich history is now being recognized by the prime minister as a symbol of Canada's diversity.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/Cape-Breton-community-recognized-as-symbol-of-Cana]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Dinosaurs for sale: How fossil business impacts science]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Dinosaurs are a huge public draw, but for many Canadian museums, buying dinosaurs is the only way to get them.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/Dinosaurs-for-sale-How-fossil-business-impacts-sci]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[London Free Press: Heritage fair salutes local war veterans]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[This year’s London heritage fair honours Canada’s veterans. It includes talks and exhibitions about military medals, London streets and the records of about 40 Londoners who were among those killed in the 20th century’s two global wars.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/Heritage-fair-salutes-local-war-veterans]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Mystery of the missing village of Hochelaga persists]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of the enduring mysteries of Canadian history resurfaced when a developer halted excavation for a new office tower in downtown Montreal. The shutdown came after a photojournalist raised concerns that bulldozers could be destroying traces of Hochelaga, a 600-year-old First Nations village described by explorer Jacques Cartier.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/Mystery-of-the-missing-village-of-Hochelaga-persis]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Toronto's O’Connor estate lives on — with the luck of the Irish ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Heritage Toronto has given its award of merit to those who raised funds and painstakingly restored the former estate of Frank O’Connor.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/Tornto-s-O’Connor-estate-lives-on-—-with-the-luck]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Demolition ceremony set for ‘haunting’ Vancouver Island residential school ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Many of those who attended see the planned demolition of St. Michael’s Indian Residential School as the removal of a cancer that has been eroding the remote Vancouver Island community of Alert Bay.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/Demolition-ceremony-set-for-‘haunting’-Vancouver-I]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Montreal office tower site may be an aboriginal burial ground ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canadian real estate developer Ivanhoé Cambridge is suspending construction on a new Montreal office tower after a freelance photographer expressed concerns that the site could be an ancient aboriginal burial ground.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/Montreal-office-tower-site-may-be-an-aboriginal-bu]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Time capsule home on a sprawling Toronto estate ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The house at 28 Valleyanna Dr. has a singular perch in Toronto — sitting high atop a promontory that slopes down to the Don River Valley below. Over the span of a century or so, the setting has inspired three of Toronto’s most notable architects, with Eden Smith, Gordon Adamson and Raymond Moriyama each adding a layer to the historic estate.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/Time-capsule-home-on-a-sprawling-Toronto-estate]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Truro Daily News: Nova Scotia woman carries her sister's legacy]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Wanda Robson of North Sydney, N.S., is reflecting upon the life of her late sister Viola Desmond, for whom the province’s first Heritage Day holiday will be celebrated.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/North-Sydney-woman-carries-her-sister-s-legacy]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[BBC News: Old gold: The Henry Seth Taylor steam buggy]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The 2015 Toronto motor show displayed 19th-century watchmaker Henry Seth Taylor’s steam carriage — the first known car built in Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/Old-gold-The-Henry-Seth-Taylor-steam-buggy]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Waterloo Region Record: Gramophone tour to memorialize RCAF airmen lands at warplane museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Jay (Jeroen) Pinto grew up in the Netherlands and wanted to do something to recognize a Canadian Second World War aircrew that sacrificed their own lives to save a Dutch village, as well as all the other Canadian airmen who helped turn the tide of the war. So he bought a 1935 portable gramophone and has been travelling to former RCAF airfields in the United Kingdom and other sites frequented by Canadian airmen back then.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/Gramophone-tour-to-memorialize-RCAF-airmen-lands-a]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Vancouver bylaw meant to slow demolitions sends old homes to the chipper]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Old heritage houses in Vancouver might not be saved from demolition, but at least they're being saved from the landfill.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/Vancouver-bylaw-meant-to-slow-demolitions-sends-ol]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Devil’s Brigade veteran dies one day before getting U.S. medal]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A decorated Hamilton war veteran was due to get one more medal — a U.S. Congressional Gold Medal for his service in the Devil’s Brigade. But one day before the ceremony he was to attend in Washington, D.C., Al Wilson died at the age of 90.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/Devil’s-Brigade-veteran-dies-one-day-before-gettin]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: P.E.I. rock with 1880s etchings designated official heritage site]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Seven Heritage Places will be added to the P.E.I. government list of protected heritage sites, including railway stations, a church, a house and — a rock.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/Rock-with-1880s-etchings-designated-official-herit]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: City says ad to convert rail bridge over Ottawa River was posted early]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An online ad seeking qualified engineers to convert a 135-year-old rail bridge linking Ottawa and Gatineau, Que., into a pedestrian crossing was posted prematurely and will be removed, the City of Ottawa said.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/February/CBC-News-City-says-ad-to-convert-rail-bridge-over]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Auditor issues scathing report on Bluenose II ‘boondoggle’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The delays and cost overruns plaguing the restoration of the Bluenose II stem from Nova Scotia’s decision to hand the job to a government department that had little experience managing construction projects, the province’s Auditor-General says.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/January/Auditor-issues-scathing-report-on-Bluenose-II-‘boo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Former Newfoundland railway is now the province's narrowest park]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In a previous life, T’railway Provincial Park was the longest narrow-gauge railway in North America and carried trains coast-to-coast across the island of Newfoundland for more than 100 years. Now it’s a provincial park that’s 883 kilometres long and 15 metres wide.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/January/Former-Newfoundland-railway-is-now-the-province-s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Stollerys demolition raises questions about Toronto heritage rules]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The crowbars came out at the Stollerys building in Toronto as crews began work to remove the façade The building housed an apparel store that had operated at the corner for more than 100 years before the building was sold last fall. Architect Catherine Nasmith, president of the Toronto branch of Ontario's Architectural Conservancy, said the building should have been preserved.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/January/Stollerys-demolition-raises-questions-about-Toront]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Why is Ottawa sinking Kingston’s Marine Museum? ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Kingston, Ont., is the home of the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes, and this piece of Canadian history is on the verge of sinking, says historian J.L. Granatstein.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/January/Why-is-Ottawa-sinking-Kingston’s-Marine-Museum]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Timmins Press: Antique snowmobile show displays Canadian heritage]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A lineup of vintage sleds was on display at Hollinger Park in Timmins, Ont., as part of the third annual Antique Snowmobile show.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/January/Antique-snowmobile-show-displays-Canadian-heritage]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Vancouver’s Chinatown residents seek moratorium on condo development]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The rapid pace of condo development in Vancouver’s historic Chinatown has prompted a local advocacy group to start petitioning for a moratorium on new building.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/January/Vancouver’s-Chinatown-residents-seek-moratorium-on]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Using traces from Vancouver’s past, a vibrant community is recognized]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A unique, three-part exhibit allows the Musqueam nation to breathe new life into the region’s origin story.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/January/Using-traces-from-Vancouver’s-past,-a-vibrant-comm]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Aviation museum gets the royal treatment]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The former Aviation Museum of Western Canada will now be known as the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada, an honour that is not given lightly.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/January/Aviation-museum-gets-the-royal-treatment]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: B.C. to buy Grace Islet to protect First Nations burial ground ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A multimillion-dollar deal, expected to be finalized in February, will see Grace Islet in B.C.’s Gulf Islands protected as a nature conservancy, jointly managed by the local First Nations who had threatened legal action to protect what they deemed to be a sacred site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Planning underway to rebuild Edmonton’s Roxy Theatre]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As the investigation continues into what caused a fire that torched Edmonton’s historic Roxy Theatre, the community has already begun planning to resurrect the building.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/January/Plans-to-rebuild-Edmonton’s-Roxy-Theatre-underway]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Lost Group of Seven collection finds new home at Vancouver gallery]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Buried for more than four decades in a backyard in Thornhill, Ont., then kept for another 40 years or so in the home of Toronto art collectors, a cache of 10 works by Group of Seven founding member J.E.H. MacDonald has been rediscovered and donated to the Vancouver Art Gallery.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/January/Lost-Group-of-Seven-collection-finds-new-home-at-V]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Prime minister helps celebrate 200th anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald’s birth]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Stephen Harper paid tribute to the country’s first prime minister Sunday, marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir John A. Macdonald by saying the Scots-born politician “forged Canada out of sheer will.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/January/Prime-minister-helps-celebrate-200th-anniversary-o]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: History museum pays $300,000 for world’s oldest hockey stick ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of History has acquired the “Moffatt stick” for $300,000. Research has established that a member of the Moffatt family handcrafted it from a single piece of sugar maple between 1835 and 1838 in Cape Breton.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/January/History-museum-pays-$300,000-for-world’s-oldest-ho]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Unlocking the mystery of Sir John A. Macdonald’s birthplace]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Intriguing new clues have come to light in the ongoing search for Sir John A. Macdonald’s precise birthplace in Glasgow, settling one key issue but leaving the central mystery unsolved.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/January/Unlocking-the-mystery-of-Sir-John-A-Macdonald’s-bi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: The problems that arise when cemeteries are not cemeteries under the law]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The rules for heritage sites in B.C., including ancient First Nations burial grounds, are very different than those for regular cemeteries, and conflicts can start when those sites are on private land.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/The-problems-that-arise-when-cemeteries-are-not-ce]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Toronto restaurant bringing Canadian history back to life]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Evelyn Wu and Wayne Morris, co-owners of a new Toronto restaurant, are taking recipes from Canada’s early history and revitalizing them with a modern twist.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/January/Toronto-restaurant-bringing-Canadian-history-back]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Old Montreal icon getting a modern, mixed-use boost ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After years of neglect and the cancellation of an upscale redevelopment project following the 2008 financial meltdown, Château Viger is set to once again take pride of place as a centre of urban activity at the eastern edge of historic Old Montreal.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2015/January/Old-Montreal-getting-a-modern,-mixed-use-boost]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Evicted bookstore owner fears demolition of historic Saskatoon buildings ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An independent Saskatoon bookstore is closing after being served with an eviction notice. Now, the owner fears the demolition of historic buildings will follow.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/December/CBC-News-Evicted-bookstore-owner-fears-demolition]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: HMS Erebus bell replica to be centrepiece of Franklin expedition exhibit]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A full-scale 3-D printed replica of the bell that once rung out aboard the HMS Erebus will be the centrepiece of a new exhibition showcasing the expedition and its connection to Canadian history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: B.C. to revive historic Riverview Hospital as mental-health, addiction treatment centre ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[What was once the home for Metro Vancouver’s mentally ill will soon be the location of a rehabilitation and recovery program for those battling mental-health and substance-abuse issues. Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, B.C., first opened in 1913, began taking fewer patients in the 1990s and officially closed in 2012.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/December/B-C-to-revive-historic-Riverview-Hospital-as-menta]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Poet Elizabeth Bishop’s N.S. house for sale]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Nova Scotia house where American poet Elizabeth Bishop lived as a child is up for sale after a decade as a retreat for writers, artists and Bishop scholars.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/December/Poet-Elizabeth-Bishop’s-N-S-house-for-sale]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Halifax Chronicle Herald: First Nations played big role in carving out hockey history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Cheryl Maloney is working on a documentary film about the history of the hockey stick to show the Mi’kmaq’s vital contributions to Canada’s favourite game.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/December/First-Nations-played-big-role-in-carving-out-hocke]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Request to preserve one of Canada’s last remaining ‘Trend Houses’ goes to city council]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A couple has discovered that their home is the Calgary Trend House, one of only 11 such houses built across the country as part of a Trend House Program in the 1950s.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/December/Request-to-preserve-one-of-Canada’s-last-remaining]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Douglas Cardinal files appeal over redevelopment plans]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Renowned architect Douglas Cardinal has filed an appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board over Ottawa’s approval of a rezoning application for Albert and Chaudière islands, which he says are sacred to the Algonquin people.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/December/Douglas-Cardinal-files-appeal-over-redevelopment-p]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Courier: Grants help preserve city’s heritage buildings]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Vancouver Heritage Foundation is accepting applications for its 15-year-old small grant program, which is designed to help owners preserve Vancouver’s heritage homes and buildings.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/December/Grants-help-preserve-city’s-heritage-buildings]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson ‘comes to life’ in Yellowknife]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The museum in Yellowknife is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Arctic Expedition by peering into the life of lead explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/CBC-News-Arctic-explorer-Vilhjalmur-Stefansson-‘co]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Postcards from Saskatchewan’s past go viral]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A website of photos of prairie towns has suddenly gone viral, and the man behind the website has no idea what happened.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/Postcards-from-Saskatchewan’s-past-go-viral]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Emily Carr, Lawren Harris works to go up for auction in Toronto]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A cache of Canadian masterpieces is headed to the auction block, offering art collectors the chance to own museum-quality fine art.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/Emily-Carr,-Lawren-Harris-works-to-go-up-for-aucti]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: $15M Library and Archives Canada system never used]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Future generations may not be able to enjoy Canada's recorded heritage — including photos, maps and important documents — because Library and Archives Canada is not collecting all of the material it should from federal agencies, the auditor general says.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/CBC-News-Auditor-general-s-fall-2014-report-$15M-L]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Study to probe reopening Dalnavert Museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Friends of Dalnavert is undertaking a study with the goal of seeing the Winnipeg institution reopened as a museum. Dalnavert is the former home of Hugh John Macdonald, the son of Canada’s first prime minister, John A. Macdonald. Hugh John was a Manitoba premier and judge.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/Study-to-probe-reopening-Dalnavert-Museum]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Financial woes halt construction of Ukrainian museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Ukrainian Canadian Museum and Archives of Alberta was supposed to rejuvenate two of Edmonton’s most important Edwardian buildings and provide a marvellous place to preserve and celebrate Alberta’s rich Ukrainian heritage. But two years after construction began the museum, which was supposed to open this spring, is in trouble.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/Financial-woes-halt-construction-of-Ukrainian-muse]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Fort York: Toronto's most historic site gets a 21st-century upgrade ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Railway lines, abattoirs, a parking lot, two homely bridges, and an overhead highway that bears a sooty rush of traffic. This is a partial list of the indignities that have been inflicted on Fort York, the spot where the town of York was founded in 1793.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/Fort-York-Toronto-s-most-historic-site-gets-a-21st]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: A James Wolfe portrait up for auction reveals the general’s off-battlefield romance ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[James Wolfe may have been the dauntless hero who, in 1759, planted firm Britannia’s flag on Canada’s fair domain. But in the years before his death at 32 on the Plains of Abraham, the battlefield general and central figure in Canadian history had not had much luck with love.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/A-James-Wolfe-portrait-up-for-auction-reveals-the]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: B.C. Aviation Museum: Legends of flight on display]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A shiny, chrome-coated Beechcraft 18 aircraft once used by former provincial Cabinet minister Phil Gaglardi to inspect British Columbia’s highways is one of the exhibits at British Columbia’s Aviation Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/B-C-Aviation-Museum-Legends-of-flight-on-display]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Vancouver learns how to make an old house pay ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There are a lot of people who care deeply about preserving Vancouver’s remaining old character houses.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/Vancouver-learns-how-to-make-an-old-house-pay]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Remembrance Day draws huge crowds as National War Memorial rededicated]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada’s National War Memorial has been rededicated to add the dates of the Afghanistan mission and the South African War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/Remembrance-Day-draws-huge-crowds-as-National-War]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CTV News: Halifax MP tables bill to save historic Sambro Island Lighthouse]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Support is growing to preserve Nova Scotia’s historic Sambro Island Lighthouse, the oldest standing lighthouse in Canada, the U.S. and the Caribbean.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/Halifax-MP-tables-bill-to-save-historic-Sambro-Isl]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Global News: John McCrae honoured in hometown of Guelph, Ont.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Every year on Nov. 11, Lt. Col. John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields” is recited as Canadians remember those lost in the line of duty and honour those who continue to serve. Now a provincial plaque has been unveiled in his hometown of Guelph, Ont., to commemorate the life and works of the soldier, poet and physician.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/John-McCrae-honoured-in-hometown-of-Guelph,-Ont]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Bell of captain’s ship recovered from Franklin Expedition]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Parks Canada has ‎retrieved a bronze bell from the wreck of the HMS Erebus, one of two ships lost during Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition in search of the Northwest Passage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/Bell-of-captain’s-ship-recovered-from-Franklin-Exp]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: After uproar, new Montreal bridge won’t be named after hockey great]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Federal Infrastructure Minister Denis Lebel attempted to squelch a furor he sparked when the government floated a plan to replace the name of one of Canada’s founders, Samuel de Champlain, with that of the hockey great and Quebec folk hero Maurice Richard on a multi-billion dollar bridge project.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/After-uproar,-new-Montreal-bridge-won’t-be-named-a]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Remembering The Real Winnie exhibition opens in Toronto]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canadians can delve into the true story behind Winnie the Pooh and the Canadian connection to the classic children’s stories at a new exhibition in Toronto.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/Remembering-The-Real-Winnie-exhibition-opens-in-To]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Victoria Times-Colonist: Author brings Canadian view to war’s horror]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[History writer Mark Zuehlke has earned the 2014 Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media: The Pierre Berton Award.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/Author-brings-Canadian-view-to-war’s-horror]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Falcons hockey team featured in heritage clip]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The winners of Canada’s first Olympic gold medal in hockey in 1920 are the stars of a soon-to-be-released Heritage Minute.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/November/Falcons-hockey-team-featured-in-heritage-clip]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CTV News: Nomad aircraft pulled from Lake Muskoka 72 years after deadly crash]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Seven decades after their deaths, a solemn two minutes of silence was observed for two airmen at the place where their plane went down — in the middle of Ontario’s picturesque Lake Muskoka.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Nomad-aircraft-pulled-from-Lake-Muskoka-72-years-a]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: B.C. park a finalist for National Geographic travel award]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A national park at the southern edge of British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii archipelago is in the running for a National Geographic travel award that recognizes protection of historical monuments, archaeological sites, cultural events, indigenous heritage and artistic traditions.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/B-C-park-a-finalist-for-National-Geographic-travel]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Sun: Story of Komagata Maru to be profiled at human rights museum ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Exactly one century after the Komagata Maru incident, the Sikh community is reminding everyone what happened to ensure such historic atrocities do not repeat themselves.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Story-of-Komagata-Maru-to-be-profiled-at-human-rig]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Belleville Intelligencer: Recovery of Second World War aircraft underway ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Instead of reaching the skies, aerospace and telecommunications engineering crews are going deep to support the recovery of a Second World War aircraft that crashed into Ontario’s Lake Muskoka in 1940.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Recovery-of-Second-World-War-aircraft-underway]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Canada’s first outdoor neon sign museum lights up downtown Edmonton street]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The City of Edmonton has collected unwanted neon signs and spearheaded Canada’s first neon sign museum with help from the Alberta Sign Association.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Canada’s-first-outdoor-neon-sign-museum-lights-up]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Documentary asks: Were historic 'Indian treaties' a scam?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Alanis Obomsawin’s Trick or Treaty? argues that Treaty 9 is a puzzle that can be solved only by considering everything that was said before the paper was signed.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Documentary-asks-Were-historic-Indian-treaties-a-s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Northumberland News: Cobourg, Ont.’s Crossen railway car comes home]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One day in 1881, Cobourg, Ont.-made railway cars transporting iron ore fell off the tracks and into the Trent River.  For 99 years those five or six cars stayed in the river, but now parts of at least one of them have made their way back to Cobourg.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Northumberland-News-Cobourg,-Ont-’s-Crossen-railwa]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Scots slam perceived snub in Upper Fort Garry park]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[While construction proceeds on the site of Upper Fort Garry, the multimillion-dollar provincial heritage park is already mired in criticism.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Winnipeg-Free-Press-Scots-slam-perceived-snub-in-U]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Halifax Chronicle Herald: Stones speak for the dead]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A group of social scientists from Antigonish, N.S., is studying the death and funeral practices of immigrant Scots in the Maritimes.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Halifax-Chronicle-Herald-Stones-speak-for-the-dead]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Waterloo Region Record: Descendant celebrates Guelph, Ont.’s Petrie Building]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Alex Christie might be the only person who thinks the Petrie Building on Guelph, Ont.’s Wyndham Street is in “remarkably good condition.”  Christie said inside the building, on the upper floors, there's still original wallpaper from 1882. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Waterloo-Region-Record-Descendant-celebrates-Guelp]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Goderich Signal Star: Storm remembrance receives history award ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Goderich, Ont., is being celebrated nationally for ensuring that lives lost will be remembered for years to come. The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 Remembrance Committee came together in 2012 to plan a series of centennial remembrance events and activities to honour those who lost their lives in the greatest Canadian maritime disaster ever to occur on the Great Lakes. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Goderich-Signal-Star-Storm-remembrance-receives-hi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Nova Scotia Premier apologizes for abuse at Halifax orphanage ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil has apologized for the abuse former residents of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children suffered, acknowledging that their pleas for help went unanswered in what he described as one chapter in the province’s history of systemic racism.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/The-Canadian-Press-Nova-Scotia-Premier-apologizes]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Province: Wait For Me, Daddy not just a photo anymore]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A $2 Canadian coin has been minted, a postage stamp produced and a bronze statue unveiled in New Westminster, B.C., near the original scene where a little boy was famously photographed escaping the clutches of his mother and racing to his father, a rifleman who was leaving for war with the B.C. Regiment (Duke of Connaughts Own Rifles).]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Wait-For-Me,-Daddy-not-just-a-photo-anymore]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Bishop endorses plan to remove former church]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The head of the Anglican church in eastern Newfoundland is throwing his support behind a controversial effort to demolish a former church in Portugal Cove-St. Philip's.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Bishop-endorses-plan-to-remove-former-church]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Victoria Times-Colonist: Royal BC Museum Gold Rush exhibit will travel to China]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Royal BC Museum will step into the global spotlight when its upcoming gold rush exhibition travels to China in late 2015. Gold Rush! El Dorado in B.C. will showcase links between Chinese immigrants to Canada and their participation in the gold rushes of the 1800s.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Victoria-Times-Colonist-Royal-BC-Museum-Gold-Rush]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: HBC hands over historic murals for museum display]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Hudson’s Bay Company announced it is adding two more historic pieces to the Manitoba Museum collection — two giant canvas murals that for decades hung in the main-floor elevator bay of its historic downtown Winnipeg department store.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/HBC-hands-over-historic-murals-for-museum-display]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Historic Saskatoon church seeks money for repairs]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The caretakers of the 100-year-old Knox United Church, one of Saskatoon’s iconic riverside buildings, are asking city hall for some help keeping the roof sound.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Historic-Saskatoon-church-seeks-money-for-repairs]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Vimy Memorial Bridge name approved by Ottawa committee]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ottawa's transportation committee has approved changing the name of the recently opened Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge to the Vimy Memorial Bridge. Two Ottawa Royal Canadian Legions had put forth the suggestion to name the bridge after the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the defining victory for Canadian and Allied troops in the First World War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/CBC-News-Vimy-Memorial-Bridge-name-approved-by-Ott]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Windsor church to close, but priest hopes not forever]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The future of Our Lady of Assumption Church in Windsor's west end may not be as final as initially thought, even though the Diocese of London plans to close the church in November.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Windsor-church-to-close,-but-priest-hopes-not-fore]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Franklin expedition ship found in Arctic ID'd as HMS Erebus]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Stephen Harper will announce today in the House that the Franklin expedition ship found last month in the Arctic has been identified as HMS Erebus, CBC News has learned.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Franklin-expedition-ship-found-in-Arctic-ID-d-as-H]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Franklin wreck found in Arctic identified as captain’s ship]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada has determined the historic Franklin Expedition shipwreck discovered in the Arctic last month is in fact HMS Erebus, the vessel on which Sir John Franklin sailed.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/October/Franklin-wreck-found-in-Arctic-identified-as-capta]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: History abounds in HBC Archive]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There is a repository of some of Canada's early history that few people know about, and it's celebrating its 40th anniversary.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/History-abounds-in-HBC-Archive]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Alberta ranchers to conserve huge tract of native grassland]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Southern Alberta ranchers are banding together to preserve a huge swath of native grassland almost untouched by development.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/Alberta-ranchers-to-conserve-huge-tract-of-native]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Canadian government joins 11th-hour search for Sir John A. Macdonald’s birthplace]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Barely 100 days before planned celebrations to mark the bicentennial of Sir John A. Macdonald’s birth in Glasgow, Scotland, the Canadian government has joined in an 11th-hour search for the precise birthplace of the country’s founding prime minister.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/Canadian-government-joins-11th-hour-search-for-Sir]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Toronto developers are embracing time-worn storefronts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Toronto is waking up to the economic benefits of historic architecture.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/Toronto-developers-are-embracing-time-worn-storefr]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Thieves may be peddling stolen First Nations mask to art collectors]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Mounties are investigating the theft of a mask that holds historical and cultural significance to a group of First Nations off the northern B.C. coast.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/The-Canadian-Press-Thieves-may-be-peddling-stolen]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: UBC attempts to correct a 60-year-old racial injustice]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new program in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration studies completes the promises the University of British Columbia made to recognize its role in the province’s internment policy.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/UBC-attempts-to-correct-a-60-year-old-racial-injus]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Smiles, gasps as first visitors enter Winnipeg's human rights museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Smiles and gasps were the reactions among the first members of the public to enter Winnipeg's Canadian Museum for Human Rights.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/Smiles,-gasps-as-first-visitors-enter-Winnipeg-s-h]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: ‘Kitchen Accord’ site demolished despite Senate request to save it]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The site of one of the most well-known events in the fight to bring home Canada’s Constitution is gone, with everything removed including the kitchen sink.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/‘Kitchen-Accord’-site-demolished-despite-Senate-re]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Fort York opens a new door to Toronto’s history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A striking new visitors’ centre adds a new, prominent front door to Fort York, one of Toronto’s most important and earliest historic sites.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/The-Globe-and-Mail-Fort-York-opens-a-new-door-to-T]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Inside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the labyrinth of conscience ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There are 11 galleries in total in the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights, staggered over seven levels, taking up a little over 4,000 square metres.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/Inside-the-Canadian-Museum-for-Human-Rights,-the-l]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Quebec Museum of Civilization fire damage delays reopening]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fire damage to Quebec City’s Museum of Civilization is more extensive than originally believed and has delayed its reopening.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/Quebec-Museum-of-Civilization-fire-damage-delays-r]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Aldergrove Star: First World War medallion returned to Langley, B.C.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Langley Centennial Museum curator Kobi Christian is pleased with the museum’s newest acquisition: a bronze medallion featuring the name of Langley, B.C.’s Arthur Thomas Johnston.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/First-World-War-medallion-returned-to-Langley,-B-C]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Fire erupts at Quebec City’s Musée de la civilization]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A major fire has sent flames shooting from the roof of one of the country’s most important museums, the Musée de la civilization in Quebec City.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/The-Globe-and-Mail-Fire-erupts-at-Quebec-City’s-Mu]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Historians close to pinpointing Sir John A. Macdonald’s birthplace]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Just four months before the bicentennial of Sir John A. Macdonald’s birth is to be marked by celebrations in Canada and Scotland, a new discovery has shed fresh light on the long-standing mystery surrounding the precise Glasgow birthplace of this country’s first prime minister.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/Historians-close-to-pinpointing-Sir-John-A-Macdona]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Future of historic Edmonton building up in the air]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Alberta government is trying to preserve a 116-year-old building on Edmonton’s Whyte Avenue.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/Future-of-historic-Edmonton-building-up-in-the-air]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Franklin find proves ‘Inuit oral history is strong’: Louie Kamookak]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Some in Nunavut are welcoming the discovery of one of Sir John Franklin's ships off King William Island as proof of the reliability of Inuit oral history, and a potential boost for tourism.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/Franklin-find-proves-‘Inuit-oral-history-is-strong]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Lost Franklin expedition ship found in the Arctic]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Stephen Harper says one of Canada's greatest mysteries now has been solved, with the discovery of one of the lost ships from Sir John Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/Lost-Franklin-expedition-ship-found-in-the-Arctic]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Nova Scotia boy finds 1,500-year-old arrowhead on beach]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A 10-year-old Nova Scotia boy has a cool show-and-tell story after finding a piece of Nova Scotia history, believed to be about 1,500 years old.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/Nova-Scotia-boy-finds-1,500-year-old-arrowhead-on]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Westman Journal: Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum to receive funding]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Government of Canada has announced funding to the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum through the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund of the Department of Canadian Heritage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/September/Commonwealth-Air-Training-Plan-Museum-to-receive-f]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: When science meets Aboriginal oral history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[This week, the prestigious journal Science has published a study that resolves long-held questions about the people of the prehistoric Arctic.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/August/When-science-meets-Aboriginal-oral-history]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Lethbridge Herald: Keeping local war history alive]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Piecing together war history one photograph or artifact at a time may be a huge task, but Glenn Miller, branch service officer for the Royal Canadian Legion, says it’s essential to remembering the human stories behind them.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/August/Keeping-local-war-history-alive]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Couple updates 1930s diner while staying true to its history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In 2012, Ken Mikalauskas and his wife Lara Ross bought Mel’s Tearoom in Sackville, N.B. The restaurant was an old-fashioned variety store selling not only food but staples such as bread and eggs as well as tobacco products and had been a fixture in small town since the 1930s.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/August/Couple-updates-1930s-diner-while-staying-true-to-i]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Apparent Stanley Cup ring discovered by seven-year-old]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A treasure hunter in Tide Head, N.B., uncovered something unusual on the beach last week — what could be a Stanley Cup ring. It may have belonged to former Montreal Canadien Elmer Lach, who helped lead the Habs to Stanley Cup victory three times in his career in the 1940s and ’50s.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/August/Apparent-Stanley-Cup-ring-discovered-by-seven-year]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Capital Regional District mulls expropriation of Grace Islet]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[British Columbia’s Capital Regional District will decide whether to expropriate a tiny islet off Saltspring Island after the provincial government refused to stop the construction of a luxury home amid First Nations burial cairns.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/August/Capital-Regional-District-mulls-expropriation-of-G]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Moncton's Castle Manor has been sold]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Moncton's historic Castle Manor has a new owner.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/August/CBC-News-Moncton-s-Castle-Manor-has-been-sold]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Museum displays Victoria Cross medals]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The three original Victoria Cross medals awarded to the “Pine Street Boys” are on display at the Manitoba Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Tough love: Which buildings are worth preserving?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[What old buildings are worth preserving? The beautiful ones, sure, and the ones of great historical significance. But what if they are ugly? What if they are ugly and useless? asks Russell Smith.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/August/The-Globe-and-Mail-Tough-love-Which-buildings-are]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Hamilton to research best way to open Gore Park time capsule]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[City of Hamilton conservators will research an artifact found during construction in Gore Park to determine how to better examine or possibly open it.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/CBC-News-Hamilton-to-research-best-way-to-open-Gor]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Self-guided walk includes historical tour of Winnipeg]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Tourists and Winnipeg residents alike are being invited to take a stroll on a new 9.5-kilometre circuit through the city.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/CBC-News-Self-guided-walk-includes-historical-tour]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Thunder Bay heritage group wants government funds to preserve historic buildings]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Aging buildings and dwindling resources are challenging Thunder Bay churches and those in charge of protecting historic structures in the city.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/CBC-News-Thunder-Bay-heritage-group-wants-governme]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Museum exhibit extols Niagara Fall’s motel modernism]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[[No] Vacancy, Honeymoon Suite or By-the-Week: Motel Culture in Niagara wears a warm cloak of nostalgia to lure patrons, but sheds that layer as one explores deeper.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/The-Globe-and-Mail-Museum-exhibit-extols-Niagara-F]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Manitoba to name August long weekend Terry Fox Day]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger wants to change the name of the August long weekend to Terry Fox Day.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/CBC-News-Manitoba-to-name-August-long-weekend-Terr]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Halifax Forum saved by council vote, renovations considered]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After five years of discussions to close the Halifax Forum, Halifax regional council has voted to save and renovate the nearly 90-year-old building.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/CBC-News-Halifax-Forum-saved-by-council-vote,-reno]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Vintage fire trucks for sale in Calgary ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Five vintage fire trucks are for sale in Calgary. The city is helping to sell the antiques on behalf of the Firefighters Museum Society of Calgary, which no longer wants them.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/CBC-News-Vintage-fire-trucks-for-sale-in-Calgary]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Newfoundland's former legislature receiving $22M facelift]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There’s a story behind the spectacular ceiling frescoes now brought back to full glory as part of a $22-million restoration of Newfoundland's former legislature.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/CBC-News-Newfoundland-s-former-legislature-receivi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Feminist icon disappears from public history under Harper government]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Harper government has spent millions to commemorate the War of 1812 and other episodes from Canadian history, but has also erased at least one inspiring piece of the past. Therese Casgrain, a feminist icon and Quebec heroine who died in 1981, has been quietly removed from a national honour, to be replaced by a volunteer award bearing the prime minister’s banner.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/The-Canadian-Press-Feminist-icon-disappears-from-p]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Vancouver heritage home rescued with painstaking renovation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Vancouver neoghbourhood’s biggest mansion will be restored to its original glory, thanks to a new offshore owner who fell for its glorious 1910s craftsmanship.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/The-Globe-and-Mail-Vancouver-heritage-home-rescued]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Portrait of aboriginal leader Joseph Brant sells at auction for $7.5 million]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It may be the most valuable portrait of a Canadian historical figure that’s ever been produced. And the stunning $7.5-million sale at a British auction earlier this month of an 18th-century depiction of legendary aboriginal leader Joseph Brant is a testament to the Mohawk chief’s pivotal role in Canadian and U.S. history, as well as the sterling reputation of the artist.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/Postmedia-News-Portrait-of-aboriginal-leader-Josep]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Original Tim Hortons store set for redesign that adds coffee chain museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The original Tim Hortons store will be revamped into a two-storey modern building, with a collection of memorabilia from the chain's 50-year history on the second floor of the Hamilton buuilding.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/CBC-News-Original-Tim-Hortons-store-set-for-redesi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: War monuments of southern Alberta are reminders of soldiers who didn’t come home]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When the Great War broke out, more than 20 farmers, businessmen and other residents from the Blackfalds area of Alberta enlisted to help fight. Close to 100 years later, the local historical society in Blackfalds is determined to build a permanent monument of its own to honour the soldiers who served.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/Calgary-Herald-War-monuments-of-southern-Alberta-a]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Historic Thunder Bay manse may be demolished]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of Thunder Bay's oldest churches wants to tear down the house that was built for its minister 100 years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/CBC-News-Historic-Thunder-Bay-manse-may-be-demolis]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Portage Daily Graphic: Military theme for Threshermen’s fair]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede near Austin, Man., is back for its 60th year, which happens to be the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War and the 75th anniversary of the Second World War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/Portage-Daily-Graphic-Military-theme-for-Thresherm]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Nothing archived by province in 10 years, B.C. commissioner says]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There are 33,000 boxes of important provincial documents abandoned in a warehouse, orphaned by a lack of government interest and funding, says British Columbia’s information and privacy czar.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/The-Canadian-Press-Nothing-archived-by-province-in]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Crucifix unearthed in Newfoundland after 400 years underground]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An archeology student made a small discovery on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula that has made a big splash for early Canadian history. Anna Sparrow, an undergraduate student at Memorial University in St. John’s, unearthed a 400-year-old copper crucifix at the site of the former colony of an early Newfoundland governor, Baron George Calvert of Baltimore.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/CBC-News-Crucifix-unearthed-in-Newfoundland-after]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Muskoka township loses court bid to recognize the public’s right to portage]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An Ontario township in lake-studded Muskoka has lost a court bid to have the government recognize the public’s right to portage a historic canoe route at Bala Falls.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/The-Globe-and-Mail-Muskoka-township-loses-court-bi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Massey Tower rises from historic bank building]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The new Massey Tower will spring skyward from the classical roofline and columns of the historic 1905 Canadian Bank of Commerce building on Toronto’s Yonge Street. The restored bank, which has has been shuttered since 1987, will become the entryway to the condo tower.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/The-Globe-and-Mail-Massey-Tower-rises-from-histori]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Beach Mirror: Art created from felled Maple Leaf Forever tree]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Local artists have transformed Toronto’s Maple Leaf Forever tree into unique works of art one year after the storm that knocked down the silver maple.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/Toronto-Beach-Mirror-Art-created-from-felled-Maple]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Windsor sculptures get $75,000 cleaning]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Statues across the city of Windsor, Ont., are getting buffed and polished. The cleaning is part of a $75,000 pilot project of the cultural affairs department.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/CBC-News-Windsor-sculptures-get-$75,000-cleaning]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: How Kent Monkman’s latest installation blends art history with colonial critique]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It’s hard to suppress a chuckle, even an outright laugh, when confronted by one of Kent Monkman’s intricately detailed, richly coloured paintings or mixed-media installations or videos. Yet for all his puckishness, this Cree-Irish Canadian from St. Marys, Ont., is an artist of very serious intent, his works complex postcolonial acts of revenge – or at least reversal – combining outrage with the outrageous.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/The-Globe-and-Mail-How-Kent-Monkman’s-latest-insta]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Gaelic culture on display in Nova Scotia]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Nova Scotia’s Gaelic history is the focus of a new exhibit in Pictou.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/The-Canadian-Press-Gaelic-culture-on-display-in-No]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Public’s right to portage at heart of Crown-land case]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A township in the heart of Ontario cottage country has asked the province’s top court to overturn a government ban and recognize the public’s right to portage a historic canoe route at Bala Falls.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/The-Globe-and-Mail-Public’s-right-to-portage-at-he]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Archaeologist called in after tunnel found in St. John’s, N.L.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The unearthing of an underground tunnel has delayed construction at Bannerman Park in St. John's, N.L., as city and construction crews try to figure out what to make of the discovery.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/CBC-News-Archaeologist-called-in-after-tunnel-foun]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Debate over dog park in Africville stirs anger in Halifax black community]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Halifax’s refusal to immediately close an off-leash dog park in Africville has stirred up indignation among some members of the black community who say the decision reflects the city’s continuing struggles to make amends with African-Nova Scotians.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/The-Canadian-Press-Debate-over-dog-park-in-Africvi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Oral history goes digital as Google helps map ancestral lands]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As a commercial fisherman and an elder in the Stz’uminus First Nation, Ray Harris has long been a guardian of secrets. But he is now telling tales in the most irretrievably public way, contributing to an indigenous mapping project that imbeds his culture into the digital expanse of Google Earth.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/The-Globe-and-Mail-Oral-history-goes-digital-as-Go]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Portage ban provokes a very Canadian fight]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Legendary cartographer David Thompson once followed the Moon River, one of scores he explored by paddle and boat before Canada became a nation. But portaging around Bala Falls is illegal now, the well-worn route banned by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources for safety reasons.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/The-Globe-and-Mail-Portage-ban-provokes-a-very-Can]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[QMI Agency: Historic War of 1812 battlefield site approved for building development]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A 30-unit apartment complex has been given the green light to be built on the site of one of the bloodiest battles fought on Canadian soil. After years of deliberation over what to do with the site of the Battle of Lundy’s Lane in Niagara Falls, Ont., the Ontario Municipal Board has approved the city’s plan to convert the former school property into apartments, a parking lot and a commemorative park.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/QMI-Agency-Historic-War-of-1812-battlefield-site-a]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Funeral held for author Bern Will Brown]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Bern Will Brown, a man who over the course of his life was a priest, a bush pilot, a dog musher, a painter, a journalist and a storyteller, died at his home in Colville Lake, N.W.T., at age 94.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/CBC-News-Funeral-held-for-author-Bern-Will-Brown]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Canada Post releases 7 new stamps honouring master photographers]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada Post has unveiled seven new stamps honouring the works of noted Canadian photographers of the last 150 years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/CBC-News-Canada-Post-releases-7-new-stamps-honouri]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: P.E.I’s Murray River station demolished]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Murray River Train station has been demolished after standing for close to 110 years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/CBC-News-P-E-I’s-Murray-River-station-demolished]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Thomas Berger’s latest fight: Keeping the Yukon wilderness wild]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It’s been half a lifetime for Thomas Berger since he recommended — successfully — that a proposed pipeline along Yukon’s Beaufort Sea coast be scrapped, and a trunk line from the mouth of the Mackenzie River delta through the Northwest Territories to Alberta be delayed indefinitely. The 81-year-old lawyer’s latest interest in Canada’s North is to test the limits of the government’s authority over Crown land.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Sun: Students keeping memories of two world wars alive]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[At Hamilton’s Waterdown District High School, teenagers and a teacher are being saluted for keeping alive the memories of two world wars by tapping and sharing the recollections of local residents.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/Toronto-Sun-Students-keeping-memories-of-two-world]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: PM Harper, GG Johnston touch on history as Canada celebrates 147th birthday]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Gov. Gen. David Johnston marked key moments in the country’s history as part of this year’s Canada Day celebrations.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/The-Canadian-Press-PM-Harper,-GG-Johnston-touch-on]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Canoe trek traces Métis history in Canada]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Métis are best known in history books through the charismatic political leader Louis Riel, executed on treason charges in 1885 after the failed North-West Rebellion that sought to preserve traditional Métis land claims in the West. But a new canoe expedition taps into a broader and enduring cross-Canada story about the mixing of peoples that began on freshwater trade routes in the 18th and 19th centuries.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/July/The-Globe-and-Mail-Canoe-trek-traces-Metis-history]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Haida Gwaii underwater archeological expedition returns]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Underwater archeologists with Parks Canada have returned from an expedition that took them below the surface in B.C.'s Haida Gwaii region.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/CBC-News-Haida-Gwaii-underwater-archeological-expe]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Historic St. Andrews Rectory restored]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The historic St. Andrews Rectory in the Manitoba RM of St. Andrews is being reopened to the public in July and August.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/Winnipeg-Free-Press-Historic-St-Andrews-Rectory-re]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Saskatoon StarPheonix: Ukrainian Project Cto will commemorate Canadian internment camps]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An upcoming project by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the War Measures Act.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/Saskatoon-StarPheonix-Ukrainian-Project-Cto-will-c]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Wall of Remembrance honours fallen soldiers]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A memorial wall commemorating soldiers from Prince County who died in combat has been unveiled in Summerside, P.E.I..]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/CBC-News-Wall-of-Remembrance-honours-fallen-soldie]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Bluenose II reckoning is coming, promises deputy minister]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Nova Scotia premier’s deputy minister, who is now in charge of the Bluenose II rebuild, says there will be a reckoning once the project is over.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/CBC-News-Bluenose-II-reckoning-is-coming,-promises]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Canadian’s remains identified 72 years after WWII death]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The remains of a 22-year-old Second World War airman found in 2008 in a lake in Germany have been identified as Canadian Flight Sergeant John Joseph Carey of Ottawa.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/CBC-News-Canadian’s-remains-identified-72-years-af]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Historic Château Frontenac hotel unveils renovations]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The modernization of Fairmont’s Le Château Frontenac hotel in Quebec City has been done with respect for the past.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/Montreal-Gazette-Historic-Chateau-Frontenac-hotel]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Petrolia Topic: Fairbank Oil to open unique nature trail ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A one-of-a kind nature trail opening near Oil Springs, Ont., combines displays of oil history, art and nature – all within a working oil property.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/Petrolia-Topic-Fairbank-Oil-to-open-unique-nature]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Canadians honoured for WWII rescue of Italian boy]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, ceremonies have been held and tributes paid to a little known chapter in Canada’s Second World War history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/CBC-News-Canadians-honoured-for-WWII-rescue-of-Ita]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Bluenose II restoration costs $19-million and climbing, Nova Scotia says]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The cost of restoring the Bluenose II has risen to $19-million, and that figure is likely to keep climbing as a result of invoice disputes with contractors and numerous changes to a troublesome steel rudder, the Nova Scotia government said.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/The-Canadian-Press-Bluenose-II-restoration-costs-$]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Walking tour offers delicious way to experience historical Halifax]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[New tasting tours of Halifax include the chance to pass by the 200-year-old town clock, one of the most recognizable landmarks in the historic urban core, and to hear about the history of the signature timepiece nestled on the edge of Citadel Hill.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/The-Canadian-Press-Walking-tour-offers-delicious-w]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Yukon ‘forest’ of 75,000 signs designated a historic site]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An unusual forest that has lured thousands of visitors to the town of Watson Lake has received official recognition as a Yukon Historic Site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/The-Canadian-Press-Yukon-‘forest’-of-75,000-signs]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Hiding in plain sight — creating office space from historic property]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of the tallest buildings on the main street of Kitchener, Ont., a 12-storey, 1960s-era, glass office tower, was half-vacant and overlooked by prospective tenants as a dated space. But with a new owner and $4-million in renovations, the building has taken on new life as a loft-like, “cool” space for, among others, young entrepreneurs.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/The-Globe-and-Mail-Hiding-in-plain-sight-—-creativ]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Bridges over historic Rideau Canal in bad shape: Parks Canada report]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Rideau Canal is a world heritage site, but its picturesque waters flow under troubled bridges.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/The-Canadian-Press-Bridges-over-historic-Rideau-Ca]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: One-of-a-kind Vancouver home saved from demolition]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A one-of-a-kind Arts and Crafts house has not only been discovered, it’s been saved from the wrecking ball.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/The-Globe-and-Mail-One-of-a-kind-Vancouver-home-sa]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: D-Day memories still raw for Canadian veteran]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When the green light came on, Lance Cpl. John Ross tumbled through the hatch in the belly of a lumbering Albemarle, the Royal Air Force’s transport workhorse, and disappeared into the muggy, cloud-ripped darkness. Now living in Lethbridge, Alta., Ross, 93, is one of only two surviving members of his regiment.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/The-Canadian-Press-D-Day-memories-still-raw-for-Ca]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Restored Windsor mansion hosted Al Capone and Paul Martin Jr.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Prohibition-era bootlegger’s mansion that heritage buffs feared would be demolished has regained its Roaring Twenties dazzle thanks to the owner of a kitchen cabinet company.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/June/The-Globe-and-Mail-Restored-Windsor-mansion-hosted]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: As pace of home demolitions quickens, Vancouver protest grows ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[More than 200 people showed up to protest the demolition of the heritage “A” listed Legg Residence in Vancouver’s west end. It is the second A-listed building to be demolished in the past two years, which goes to show that even valued historic treasures are not safe.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-As-pace-of-home-demolitions-qui]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Group of Seven work surpasses $900,000 at auction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A painting by Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris fetched just under $1 million at the Heffel Fine Art auction in Vancouver.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Boat tours to be offered this summer on Montreal’s historic Lachine Canal]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Boat tours will be offered along a five-kilometre portion of Montreal’s Lachine Canal this summer, with commentary provided on the history on the waterway.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/The-Canadian-Press-Boat-tours-to-be-offered-this-s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Hamilton heritage committee backs preservation of mansion]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hamilton’s heritage committee has endorsed a council motion to suspend the partial demolition of an eight-decade-old mansion and declare the house a heritage property.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Sudbury cruise boat renamed after early surveyor]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After three decades as a tourist attraction in Sudbury, Ont., the Cortina cruise boat on Ramsey Lake is now called The William Ramsey to honour a surveyor who helped to build the rail line through Sudbury and for whom the lake was named.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/CBC-News-Sudbury-cruise-boat-renamed-after-early-s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: ‘Forgotten Empress’ sank 100 years ago, took 1,012 lives]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[People are travelling to Rimouski, Que., to mark the centenary of Canada’s deadliest maritime disaster during peacetime, and there are special exhibits about the Empress of Ireland at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., and the Maritime Museum of British Columbia in Victoria.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/Postmedia-News-‘Forgotten-Empress’-sank-100-years]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre saved in scaled-down condo project ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[David Mirvish and world-renowned architect Frank Gehry have dramatically altered plans for their King Street West condo project in Toronto, saving the Princess of Wales Theatre and heritage buildings on the block.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Residential school students honoured with monument in Winnipeg]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A monument to honour those who attended residential schools in Canada was unveiled in Winnipeg near the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/CBC-News-Residential-school-students-honoured-with]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Vancouver heritage home demolition raises protests]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Protesters say the demolition of a 115-year-old mansion in Vancouver's West End is sending another chunk of the city's history to the landfill — a trend they say is happening at an alarming rate.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/CBC-News-Vancouver-heritage-home-demolition-raises]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: 70 years on, Air Force vet meets missing friend's family]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[At a ceremony at the Canada Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Second World War veteran Fraser Muir finally met the family of John McLea, a Royal Canadian Air Force tail gunner who disappeared in November 1944 when his Halifax bomber crashed in Germany.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/CBC-News-70-years-on,-Air-Force-vet-meets-missing]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Sun: Doors open to the past in Ontario's Stratford]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The doors to 14 sites with “intriguing heritage stories and architectural details” of Stratford, Ont.’s 19th-century Victorian past swing open to the public for free tours on June 7.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/Toronto-Sun-Doors-open-to-the-past-in-Ontario-s-St]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: B.C. regiment that once forced out the Komagata Maru is now commanded by a Sikh]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The significance is not lost on Harjit Sajjan, a Sikh, that the regiment he now commands is the same that was involved in forcing the Komagata Maru out of Vancouver Harbour 100 years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-B-C-regiment-that-once-forced-o]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Empress of Ireland, ‘Canada’s Titanic,’ finally getting its due after 100 years]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Dubbed “Canada’s Titanic,” the sinking of the Empress of Ireland on May 29, 1914, stands as one of the country’s worst maritime disasters, though a surprising number of Canadians have never heard of it.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/The-Canadian-Press-Empress-of-Ireland,-‘Canada’s-T]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Art collection saved from Calgary flood donated to university gallery]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A valuable collection of Canadian art that was at risk of being lost in last summer’s flood is on display at the University of Calgary.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/CBC-News-Art-collection-saved-from-Calgary-flood-d]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Prince Charles, Camilla reflect on Canada’s history, achievements]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Prince Charles reflected on Canada’s contribution to the Second World War as he and his wife Camilla were greeted by hundreds of people in Halifax on the first full day of a visit to Canada. A number of significant anniversaries will be commemorated over the next few years, including the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War and the 150th anniversary this year of the Charlottetown Conference, which led to Confederation in 1867.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/The-Canadian-Press-Prince-Charles,-Camilla-reflect]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: History museum plans raise concern about focus on military]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In response to a written question from Liberal MP Stéphane Dion, the Canadian Museum of History revealed that it is spending more than $8.8 million on commemorations surrounding the 150th anniversary of Confederation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/Ottawa-Citizen-History-museum-plans-raise-concern]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: New exhibition brings Emily Carr’s artwork to place of conception]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In likely the early summer of 1928, at the age of 56, an intrepid Emily Carr found someone to boat her into the remote Nass Valley in northwestern British Columbia, home to the Nisga’a Nation. She was looking for totem poles to sketch and paint.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-New-exhibition-brings-Emily-Car]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: B.C. dam would drown several sites of historical significance]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Sacred native sites that date back thousands of years and a fort that was the first European settlement in mainland British Columbia are among the historically valuable places that would be drowned if the Site C dam is built.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-B-C-dam-would-drown-several-sit]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: B.C. premier apologizes for province’s historical wrongs against Chinese immigrants]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[B.C. Premier Christy Clark formally apologized for more than 100 racist laws, regulations and policies imposed starting over 140 years ago against Chinese immigrants.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/The-Canadian-Press-B-C-premier-apologizes-for-prov]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Sun: Heritage Park set for golden celebrations]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Heritage Park, the southwest Calgary attraction billed as Canada's largest history museum, will celebrate 50 years with fireworks, shows and new family-friendly pricing.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/Calgary-Sun-Heritage-Park-set-for-golden-celebrati]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Global News: Museums celebrate Manitoba Day]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Manitoba Day was marked by special exhibits and free entry at some museums in the province.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/Global-News-Museums-celebrate-Manitoba-Day]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Portage Daily Graphic: Manitoba museum to honour veterans]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the First World War and the 75th anniversary of the Second World War, the Manitoba Agricultural Museum will exhibit the country’s military heritage at this year’s Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/Portage-Daily-Graphic-Manitoba-museum-to-honour-ve]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Canadian selling original 1936 Olympic gold-medal basketball]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Canadian is auctioning off the game ball used in the first Olympic gold medal basketball game, where Canada lost to the U.S.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/CBC-News-Canadian-selling-original-1936-Olympic-go]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Quebec church organ gets new life across Atlantic]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For close to a century, the mighty organ at Saint Charles de Limoilou Church in Quebec City stirred the faithful with sounds so rich and powerful they helped make Sunday mass a moving experience. Now the organ is part of a moving experience again — all the way to Norway.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-Quebec-church-organ-gets-new-li]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Sarnia This Week: Sarnia on display at Lambton Heritage Museum ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Lambton Heritage Museum is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Sarnia becoming a city with a new feature exhibit entitled Sarnia: We Built this City.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/Sarnia-This-Week-Sarnia-on-display-at-Lambton-Heri]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Victoria Times-Colonist: A history of Vic High — and the horrors of war]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Publisher Heritage House is set to launch Barry Gough’s latest work, From Classroom to Battlefield, Victoria High School and the First World War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/Victoria-Times-Colonist-A-history-of-Vic-High-—-an]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Truro Daily News: Students show off Heritage Fair projects]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[About 150 students in grades four to nine to represented schools throughout the Chignecto-Central Regional School Board at the Truro campus of the Nova Scotia Community College at a regional Heritage Fair.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/Truro-Daily-News-Students-show-off-Heritage-Fair-p]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Lethbridge Herald: Students dig in to history at Heritage Fair]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[History was the focus as students participated in the 19th annual Southern Alberta Regional Heritage Fair.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/Lethbridge-Herald-Students-dig-in-to-history-at-He]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Lake Huron hunting wall existed before the lake]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Archaeologists have discovered sophisticated prehistoric stone walls deep beneath the surface of Lake Huron that give the clearest portrait yet of the mysterious people who lived in the Great Lakes region at the end of the Ice Age.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/The-Canadian-Press-Lake-Huron-hunting-wall-existed]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Delta Optimist: Students explore history at Heritage Fair]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One hundred creative projects on a variety of themes from Canada's history were displayed at the 12th annual Richmond Delta Regional Heritage Fair.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/Delta-Optimist-Students-explore-history-at-Heritag]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Hamilton Spectator: Fly the Lanc to England for $40,000]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Warplane Heritage museum is offering a one-time opportunity to fly as a crew member in its Avro Lancaster’s journey to England this August.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/May/Hamilton-Spectator-Fly-the-Lanc-to-England-for-$40]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Ghost stories, unsolved mysteries in the spotlight at Doors Open Toronto]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The former McLaughlin Planetarium, now owned by the University of Toronto, is one of the stops on the Mysteries of the University of Toronto walking tour offered as part of the annual Doors Open Toronto festival on May 24 and 25.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/April/The-Canadian-Press-Ghost-stories,-unsolved-mysteri]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Bell of Batoche really the Bell of Frog Lake]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The director of Le Musée de Saint-Boniface Museum said he’s satisfied the famed Bell of Batoche sitting in his museum is really the Bell of Frog Lake.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/April/Winnipeg-Free-Press-Bell-of-Batoche-really-the-Bel]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[St. John’s Telegram: N.L. coin sells for more than $100,000]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Newfoundland coin minted in 1865 sold for US$102,812.50 at a major auction in Chicago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/April/St-John’s-Telegram-N-L-coin-sells-for-more-than-$1]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Historic Montreal building collapses]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Engineers are inspecting a historic Montreal community centre that partially collapsed to determine the building’s fate.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/April/CBC-News-Historic-Montreal-building-collapses]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Glenbow CEO sets new course for museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Donna Livingstone is happily taking on the job of implementing a new vision for the downtown Calgary museum and gallery.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/April/Calgary-Herald-Glenbow-CEO-sets-new-course-for-mus]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Wild wedding stories shared by New Brunswick Museum archives]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[With wedding season quickly approaching, the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John is featuring some of the wild and wacky nuptual tales from its archives.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/April/CBC-News-Wild-wedding-stories-shared-by-New-Brunsw]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[National Post: Vancouver Island First Nation recovers historic blanket at Paris auction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A treasured cedar blanket, lost for more than 100 years, has returned home to a Vancouver Island First Nation after locals received a last-minute tip that it was hours away from going on the auction block in Paris.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/April/National-Post-Vancouver-Island-First-Nation-recove]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Examiner: Historian laureate is getting to know the City of Champions as it is and as it was]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Edmonton’s newest historian laureate is hoping new media will help reconnect Edmontonians with their past.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/April/Edmonton-Examiner-Historian-laureate-is-getting-to]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Regina Indian school cemetery may not get heritage protection]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The owner should be required to cut the grass, but heritage status should not be sought for the cemetery of the former Regina Indian Industrial School, a City Hall report says.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/April/CBC-News-Regina-Indian-school-cemetery-may-not-get]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Historic building in Halifax being torn down for new condos]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After more than two decades of neglect, and battles over height restrictions and heritage designations, Halifax’s Barrington Street is changing.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/April/The-Globe-and-Mail-Historic-building-in-Halifax-be]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Nunavut dinosaur fossil is most northern ever found]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A dinosaur fossil from the Canadian High Arctic is the most northern ever discovered.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/April/CBC-News-Nunavut-dinosaur-fossil-is-most-northern]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Daryl (Doc) Seaman receives Sir Arthur Currie Award]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The General Sir Arthur Currie Award is presented annually to an individual who has made a significant contribution to Canadian military history and heritage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/April/Calgary-Herald-Daryl-(Doc)-Seaman-receives-Sir-Art]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada's History: Quebec religious figures declared saints]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An Ursuline nun and the first bishop of Quebec have been declared Canada’s newest saints. They are Marie de l'Incarnation, a French Ursuline who led a group of nuns to Quebec in 1639, and Francois de Laval, who arrived in Quebec in 1659 and became the colony’s first bishop.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/April/Canada-s-History-Quebec-religious-figures-declared]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Sealing disaster’s 100th anniversary remembered in N.L.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[People in Newfoundland and Labrador are remembering the worst tragedy in a long and dangerous history of seal hunting.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/March/CBC-News-Sealing-disaster’s-100th-anniversary-reme]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Regina Leader-Post: Western Development Museum grows with Saskatchewan]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Like museums worldwide, Saskatchewan's Western Development Museum is striving to ensure that the wonders of the past remain relevant and inclusive.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/March/Regina-Leader-Post-Western-Development-Museum-grow]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Gastown renewal project fuses heritage with hip]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Vancouver commercial redevelopment project that will get under way this spring is a unique fusion of old and new, heritage and high tech that may well offer a new neighbourhood model.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-Gastown-renewal-project-fuses-h]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Church Point lighthouse destroyed by storm]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fierce winds during a powerful spring storm have taken down the 140-year-old Church Point lighthouse in the southwestern part of Nova Scotia.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/March/CBC-News-Church-Point-lighthouse-destroyed-by-stor]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[National Post: How Canada became home to some of the world’s more visually stunning — and fun — heraldry]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada may have put a leaf on its flag and picked a beaver for its national animal, but along the way it became home to some of the world’s most visually stunning heraldry.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/March/National-Post-How-Canada-became-home-to-some-of-th]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Newfoundland peacekeeping veteran brings long-lost UN insignia back to its rightful owner]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[During a return trip to Cyprus marking the 50th anniversary of Canada’s peacekeeping deployment to the Mediterranean island, Newfoundland peacekeeping veteran Garry Best buried a long-lost UN insignia at the gravesite of its original owner: a fellow Newfoundlander killed in a jeep rollover in 1967.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/March/Postmedia-News-Newfoundland-peacekeeping-veteran-b]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Cadillac Fairview to restore Windsor Station as part of Montreal project]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Cadillac Fairview Corp. says it plans to restore Montreal’s historic Windsor Station as part of a sprawling mixed-use development project for the city’s downtown.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-Cadillac-Fairview-to-restore-Wi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Author, journalist, historian Heather Robertson’s career spanned decades]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Author, journalist and historian Heather Robertson has died of cancer on her 72nd birthday. Among other projects, Robertson wrote award-winning history books and contributed regularly to Canada’s History magazine.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Collector donates rare photos to University of British Columbia ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A renowned art collector and antiques specialist has donated a collection of more than 18,000 historical images of British Columbia to the University of B.C.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-Collector-donates-rare-photos-t]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Historian saves thousands of Environment Canada files at risk of government purge]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Environmental historian Alan MacEachern has hatched a plan to save observations from thousands of weather stations across Canada dating back to 1840 — data that could be used to chart changes in the climate of this country since decades before Confederation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: The Royal Ontario Museum celebrates 100 years]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto turns 100 this month.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Oakville landmark restored to original splendour]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Victorian mansion at 43 Dunn St. in Oakville, Ont., was built for Cecil Marlatt in 1880.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Historic hockey stick staying in Canada]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A hand-hewn wooden object with a credible claim to being the world’s oldest hockey stick has been pulled from a week-long eBay sale and will be sold directly to “a national museum,” its Nova Scotia owner has revealed.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Author Thomas King takes home $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Thomas King has won the $25,000 RBC Charles Taylor Prize for his book The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Placement of ‘Mother Canada’ statue has Cape Bretoners on war footing]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A massive monument to honour war dead, featuring a 10-storey-high statue called “Mother Canada,” is igniting a fierce battle among Cape Bretoners living near and along the ruggedly beautiful Cabot Trail on the island’s east coast.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-Placement-of-‘Mother-Canada’-st]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[North Shore Outlook: Transportation history buff helming capital campaign for new North Vancouver museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Don Evans, a transportation history buff who brings Harvard University-learned business acumen, has been chosen by the city of North Vancouver to ignite interest in a $10-million museum project for the Lonsdale waterfront.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Huffington Post: Frozen Niagara Falls: A look into the pretty past]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The winter chill might have most travellers thinking twice about venturing outside to visit Niagara Falls, but it wasn't always like that. If anything, these vintage photos suggest there might have even been a time when people enjoyed travelling out in the cold to marvel at the three waterfalls.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/March/Huffington-Post-Frozen-Niagara-Falls-A-look-into-t]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: After the deluge, High River’s museum thaws out Alberta’s history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Textile specialist Gail Niinimaa is undertaking a groundbreaking project to reanimate part of Alberta’s history that was nearly wiped out by the summer 2013 floods.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-After-the-deluge,-High-River’s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Port Colborne Leader: Historic cabin rolls into town]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Port Colbrone museum has welcomed a new addition to its property, a cabin built in Humberstone in the early 1800s.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/March/Port-Colborne-Leader-Historic-cabin-rolls-into-tow]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: A sad string of losses for Modernist Toronto]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Coca-Cola’s former headquarters in Toronto is threatened by Costco, which desperately wants to demolish the stunning Mad Men-era building for a big-box complex.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-A-sad-string-of-losses-for-Mode]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Petition urges government to reinstate former curator to Canadian Museum of History]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Nearly 2,000 people have signed a petition calling on the federal government to reinstate fired archeologist Patricia Sutherland in her position at the Canadian Museum of History so she can resume her groundbreaking research on contact between Europeans and the Dorset, the ancient, vanished people of the Arctic.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Georgia Straight: Black Strathcona project rediscovers a piece of Vancouver history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ten video clips have been produced for the online archive Black Strathcona — and if you head down to the corner of Union and Main in Vancouver you can use your smartphone or iPad to lead you on an interactive walking tour meant to illuminate a long-hidden part of Vancouver’s history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Brant News: Local connection to military history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Bob Ion, director and volunteer at the Canadian Military Heritage Museum, wants to bring a local connection to war with the museum’s two new exhibits, a Military History of Brant County Through Uniforms and the 100th Anniversary of the First World War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Molly Lamb Bobak, Canada's first female overseas war artist, dead at 95]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Molly Lamb Bobak, who was the first Canadian woman to be sent overseas as an official war artist, has died.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/March/CBC-News-Molly-Lamb-Bobak,-Canada-s-first-female-o]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Victoria Times-Colonist: Painting on War of 1812 earns student a trip to Toronto]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Saanich, B.C., student who painted a portrait of a 19th-century First Nations figure is being honoured at a ceremony in Toronto.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Descendants of former slaves keep black history alive]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Spencer Alexander, assistant curator at the Buxton National Historic Site and Museum in North Buxton, Ont., is one of a number of descendants of former slaves who have taken it upon themselves to preserve an important moment in Canadian history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Dark history may temper public input on former hospital at Riverview]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[B.C. Housing, the ministry in charge of the Riverview Hospital grounds in B.C.’s Lower Mainland, is holding open houses to present and discuss plans for the future of the park-like surroundings of the facility, which for a century has been a crucible for the evolving attitudes about mental illness, the people who suffer from it and their treatment.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/February/The-Globe-and-Mail-Dark-history-may-temper-public]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Thomas King wins $40,000 B.C. non-fiction prize for The Inconvenient Indian]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Thomas King has won British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/February/The-Globe-and-Mail-Thomas-King-wins-$40,000-B-C-no]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: ‘Gargantuan’ pachyrhinosaur skull found near Drumheller]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[University of Calgary paleontologists have unveiled a “gargantuan” pachyrhinosaur skull that was found in October during a routine fossil search near Drumheller, Alta. The rare discovery is the first of its kind in the area in 50 years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Second World War soldier reunited with helmet after 70 years]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Jordan Chiasson bought an old military helmet in an army surplus store in Moncton, N.B., for $30 last August, but he only recently discovered the name GW Johnston and a number scratched into the inside of it.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Thunder Bay’s Lyceum Theatre gets no bids in tax sale]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There were no suitors in the tax sale of Thunder Bay’s former Lyceum Theatre, located in the city’s north core.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Ottawa’s plan to mark world wars has DND wary of spending backlash]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Department of National Defence fears public denunciation over government spending on the centennial of the First World War and the 75th anniversary of the Second World War, with senior officials harbouring concerns that Ottawa will be pilloried for wasting money that should go to veterans instead.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/February/The-Globe-and-Mail-Ottawa’s-plan-to-mark-world-war]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Digby Courier: Museum gets grant for new microfilm reader]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[West Nova MP Greg Kerr attended a heritage tea at the Admiral Digby museum and officially announced a federal grant to help them preserve, present and exhibit Digby, N.S.’s history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Louis Riel celebrated during Manitoba holiday]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Since 2008, the third Monday in February has been celebrated as Louis Riel Day in Manitoba.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/February/CBC-News-Louis-Riel-celebrated-during-Manitoba-hol]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Shawn Atleo urges Harper government to release residential school records]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Harper government must release its archival files on the residential schools saga or the full truth will remain hidden from Canadians, says the head of the country’s largest aboriginal group.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: New fossil bed found by scientists hailed as 'motherlode' ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Scientists say a recently located fossil site on the Alberta-B.C. border is already yielding major new discoveries about early animal evolution.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/February/CBC-News-New-fossil-bed-found-by-scientists-hailed]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Internal report says Parks Canada buildings in worse shape than claimed]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Parks Canada’s crumbling forts, historical houses and other heritage structures are in much poorer shape than the agency estimates, according to an independent consultant.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Pierre du Calvet house on heritage group’s annual list of endangered landmarks]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fifty years after Old Montreal was designated a provincial historic site, heritage advocates are worried about the fate of one of the district's oldest houses.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/February/Montreal-Gazette-Pierre-du-Calvet-house-on-heritag]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Glenbow rethink is the latest step in Calgary’s art-scene renaissance]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Glenbow president and CEO Donna Livingstone has outlined a new future for the museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/February/The-Globe-and-Mail-Glenbow-rethink-is-the-latest-s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Management change for Community Pastures land worries First Nations]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Management of five federally run Saskatchewan pastures is to be transferred to the province, and some Aboriginal groups who use and have lived on the land say they’re worried about the fate of historic First Nations sites and their ability to purchase the land in the future.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/February/Postmedia-News-Management-change-for-Community-Pas]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: North American Black Historical Museum honours Underground Railroad history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In the 1850s, as many as 30 blacks a day sought to escape slavery by crossing the Detroit River for Amherstburg, Ont., says Terran Fader, the curator and administrator of the North American Black Historical Museum in Amherstburg.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/February/The-Canadian-Press-North-American-Black-Historical]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Cookbook celebrating historic food of Fort York offers glimpse into past culture]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Members of the Volunteer Historic Cooks at Toronto’s Fort York have been culling recipes for years from British, American and Canadian cookbooks of the late-18th and 19th centuries.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Historic buildings may make Thunder Bay heritage list]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Thunder Bay, Ont.’s heritage registry could gain some new properties. There’s a proposal to add St. John’s Anglican Church on Pearl Street, the old Times-Journal Building on May Street and the Cenotaph in front of city hall.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/CBC-News-Historic-buildings-may-make-Thunder-Bay-h]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Halifax power station’s old bones get new heart]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The bones of the Halifax generating station are the same, but it’s got a new heart. Today, it’s Nova Scotia Power’s award-winning corporate headquarters and the first LEED platinum-certified building in Atlantic Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/The-Globe-and-Mail-Halifax-power-station’s-old-bon]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Province: Sikh Heritage museum hosts exhibit on Komagata Maru tragedy]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[This year marks 100 years since one of Canada’s dark moments in history — the Komagata Maru tragedy. In honour of its centennial, Abbotsford, B.C.’s Sikh Heritage Museum is launching a year-long exhibit that takes an extensive look at the infamous event.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/Vancouver-Province-Sikh-Heritage-museum-hosts-exhi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Victoria Times-Colonist: Museum CEO is bringing B.C.'s past into the future]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Royal B.C. Museum CEO Jack Lohman wants to bring the museum to the world stage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/Victoria-Times-Colonist-Exhibit-brings-to-light-It]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Bay Today: Exhibit brings to light Italian Canadian strife during WWII]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Times: Italian Canadian Experiences During World War II is a bilingual touring exhibit by the Columbus Centre of Toronto that has landed in North Bay, Ont.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/Bay-Today-Exhibit-brings-to-light-Italian-Canadian]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: B.C. coin discovery renews interest in Drake’s ‘secret voyage’ of 1579]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The discovery of a 16th-century coin buried in clay on a Vancouver Island shoreline is rekindling interest in a controversial theory that English explorer Sir Francis Drake made a secret voyage to Canada’s Pacific Coast in 1579 — two centuries before Spanish sailors and the legendary British navigator Capt. James Cook made their famous “first” European visits to the future British Columbia in the 1770s.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/Postmedia-News-B-C-coin-discovery-renews-interest]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: That’s no way to treat a library, scientists say]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Federal scientists are concerned about the fate of research books and periodicals — some of them a century old — following the federal government’s decision to quickly close Fisheries and Oceans Canada library branches across the country.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/Toronto-Star-That’s-no-way-to-treat-a-library,-sci]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Sir John A.’s relationship with Aboriginals needs a closer look]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One the eve of Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017, now is the time to begin an in-depth study of our first prime minister’s relationship with Aboriginal Canada, says Don Smith.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/The-Globe-and-Mail-Sir-John-A-’s-relationship-with]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: A look into B.C.’s history of racism, and its pursuit of a white man’s province]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[While British Columbia is often celebrated for its physical beauty and a laid-back, open-minded culture, it is a province rooted in a little-discussed but hard-to-ignore bigoted past, says Gary Mason.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/The-Globe-and-Mail-A-look-into-B-C-’s-history-of-r]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Commemorations of historic military events could put current force at risk, internal documents say]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The federal Conservative government’s plan to commemorate a large number of military battles and accomplishments in the coming years poses a threat to the Canadian Force’s ability to do its job, according to internal Defence Department documents.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/Postmedia-News-Commemorations-of-historic-military]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Last chapter for many Environment Canada libraries]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Environment Canada, like the department of Fisheries and Oceans, is closing and consolidating its science libraries to the dismay of some observers who worry valuable books and materials are being lost.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/Postmedia-News-Last-chapter-for-many-Environment-C]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: We can all be inspired by Sir John A. Macdonald]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The 200th anniversary of our first prime minister’s birth is now only a year away, and it provides all Canadians – particularly young people – with an important opportunity to share Canada’s national story with each other, say former prime ministers.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/The-Globe-and-Mail-We-can-all-be-inspired-by-Sir-J]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Heritage Minutes series features Canada’s nation-builders]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The country’s founding prime minister is finally getting his own Heritage Minute — a starring role in one of those iconic, 60-second educational vignettes that have probably taught more Canadians about their nation’s past than all of the history books and full-length TV documentaries ever made.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/Postmedia-News-Heritage-Minutes-series-features-Ca]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Suspects caught in museum watch heist]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Royal British Columbia Museum discovered there’s no honour among thieves as a pair of bandits made off with a collection of prized watches, including a gold pocket watch that once belonged to legendary train-robber Bill Miner. But Victoria Police said they have recovered the watches, including Miner’s 1901 model.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/The-Canadian-Press-Suspects-caught-in-museum-watch]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: McGill-Queen’s wins history publishing prize]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The 2013 Wilson Prize for Publishing Canadian History has been awarded to McGill-Queen’s University Press. The Wilson Institute awarded the $10,000 prize to MQUP in recognition of “the quantity of Canadian history it publishes, but also the quality and variety.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/Canada’s-History-McGill-Queen’s-wins-history-publi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: B.C. NDP releases files on 1876 Asian ‘head tax’ ahead of formal apology]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[More than 100 archival records of government-sanctioned discrimination against Canadians of Chinese, Japanese and South Asian descent were released to the public by the B.C. New Democrats.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/The-Canadian-Press-B-C-NDP-releases-files-on-1876]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: The case for George Brown as Confederation’s true father]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[John A. Macdonald’s dominance of the post-Confederation political scene in Canada obscures the extent to which George Brown held the key to bringing it all about, says Barbara Messamore.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/The-Globe-and-Mail-The-case-for-George-Brown-as-Co]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Purge of Canada’s fisheries libraries a ‘historic’ loss, scientists say]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Scientists knew last spring that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans was closing seven of its 11 regional libraries housing decades of aquatic research. But it was not until they saw the shelves being cleared, the books and journals being scooped up for free by private companies, and the scientific reports being hauled off to the dumpster that the magnitude of the purge hit home.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/The-Globe-and-Mail-Purge-of-Canada’s-fisheries-lib]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: B.C.’s apology for treatment of Chinese may get skeptical response]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It is a sordid chapter of British Columbia’s history that has yet to be closed: more than 160 pieces of legislation and regulation passed in the provincial legislature more than a century ago designed to discriminate against the province’s Chinese community. This spring, B.C.’s legislature is set to apologize for those actions.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/The-Globe-and-Mail-B-C-’s-apology-for-treatment-of]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Burst pipe floods Montreal’s historic St. James United Church]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Montreal’s St. James United Church is assessing the damage after a burst pipe sent a torrent of water cascading through the historic building.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2014/January/CBC-News-Burst-pipe-floods-Montreal’s-historic-St]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[London Community News: Late London artist helps launch national art history project]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The book Jack Chambers: Life & Work is the first of 50 free, online art books to be published over the next five years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/London-Community-News-Late-London-artist-helps-lau]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Thorold News: Esther Summers, local historian, dies at 100]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Thorold, Ont.’s official historian will be remembered for her razor-sharp mind and her generous spirit. Esther Summers, who died Dec. 26 at the age of 100, was famous for her hospitality and her knowledge of local history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/Thorold-News-Esther-Summers,-Thorold-historian,-di]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Inuit Cree Reconciliation: A documentary built on oral history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The war in northern Quebec began before there was a Quebec, before anyone but Cree and Inuit lived there, and it ended more than two centuries ago. But, as filmmakers Zacharias Kunuk and Neil Diamond discovered, the long conflict between the two native peoples still echoes through their present-day relations.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/The-Globe-and-Mail-Inuit-Cree-Reconciliation-A-doc]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Chief executed in 1864 grouped in with the wrong crowd]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[“We do not know his name: Klatsassin and the Chilcotin War” is one of a series of Canadian mysteries featured, detective-style, in a project developed by Canadian Heritage and the University of Victoria.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/The-Globe-and-Mail-Chief-executed-in-1864-grouped]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: First Nations struggle to save traditions while profiting from boom]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Established by fur traders in 1788, Fort Chipewyan is Alberta’s oldest settlement and one of its most remote. As an aboriginal community downstream from the oilsands, it shares a quandary with other First Nations communities that are prospering while in a life-and-death struggle to retain their cultural identities.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/Edmonton-Journal-First-Nations-struggle-to-save-tr]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Toronto’s restored downtown abbey]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In 1899, Rupert Simpson, a businessman and co-owner of Toronto’s first knitting mill, hired architect Charles Gibson to design a house and stable in an area where many business titans had grand estates.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/The-Globe-and-Mail-Toronto’s-restored-downtown-abb]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Heritage activists dismayed at plan to destroy Vancouver tunnel]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A 2,400-foot tunnel that runs from Vancouver’s behemoth main Canada Post office on Georgia Street to the Waterfront train station, an early example of mail-delivery technology rendered obsolete, is to be filled in, sealing off a piece of the city’s history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/The-Globe-and-Mail-Heritage-activists-dismayed-at]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Calgary’s King Eddy hotel dismantled, pieces stored meticulously]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Calgary landmark is gone — but not for good. The King Edward Hotel has been almost completely disassembled, its pieces set aside while the National Music Centre is constructed around it.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/CBC-News-Calgary’s-King-Eddy-hotel-dismantled,-pie]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Hundreds give enthusiastic reception to Domtar lands plan]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[If enthusiasm in the present provides a hint of the future, then Ottawans might well have a “world-class” project on their collective hands in the proposed redevelopment of Chaudière island and other river-area properties.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/Ottawa-Citizen-Hundreds-give-enthusiastic-receptio]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Civilization museum now the Canadian Museum of History]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Que., has officially become the Canadian Museum of History.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/CBC-News-Civilization-museum-now-the-Canadian-Muse]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Comedian-actor-musician Steve Martin is taking Lawren Harris to L.A.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto has announced that actor-comedian-author Steve Martin will co-curate an unprecedented major exhibition of paintings by Group of Seven founder Lawren Harris at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, opening in the fall of 2015.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/The-Globe-and-Mail-Comedian-actor-musician-Steve-M]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[National Post: Conservatives ask public how we should celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary in 2017]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[With three and a half years still to go, the federal government is seeking the public’s advice on how to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/National-Post-Conservatives-ask-public-how-we-shou]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Humboldt Journal: Local project gets a national nod]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Humboldt & District Museum & Gallery and its Original Humboldt committee were given an honourable mention for the 2013 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Museums: History Alive!, an initiative established in 2011 by the Canadian Museums Association and Canada’s History Society to “honour significant achievement in the historical field.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/Humboldt-Journal-Local-project-gets-a-national-nod]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: Students get creative with Sandwich Towne landmarks ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Although Janelle Achioso has been studying at the University of Windsor for four years, it took a student project aimed at revitalizing Olde Sandwich Towne for her to appreciate the local history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/Windsor-Star-Students-get-creative-with-Sandwich-T]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: National Gallery of Canada’s new show: an ambitious Canadian epic]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The National Gallery of Canada’ newest show, Artists, Architects and Artisans: Canadian Art 1890-1918, is an ambitious, historic, Canadian-themed epic buttressed by considerable scholarship and accompanied by a hefty, heavily illustrated, densely annotated catalogue.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/The-Globe-and-Mail-National-Gallery-of-Canada’s-ne]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Ontario premier to apologize for Huronia]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is to apologize on behalf of the province to former residents of a provincial institution for the developmentally disabled who have alleged abuse.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/The-Canadian-Press-Ontario-premier-to-apologize-fo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Norfolk News: Hand-on heritage at Delhi Tobacco Museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Some thread, some flour and some brightly coloured eggs helped students at Delhi Public School connect with their roots at the Delhi Tobacco Museum and Heritage Centre in Delhi, Ont., south of Brantford.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/Norfolk-News-Hand-on-heritage-at-Delhi-Tobacco-Mus]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Heritage activists fret as old homes fill Vancouver landfills]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two neighbouring historic mock-Tudor houses nicknamed “the Dorothies” look like they might be saved due to an effort by the developer and an architect to relocate them, but other beautiful historic Vancouver houses aren’t so lucky.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/The-Globe-and-Mail-Heritage-activists-fret-as-old]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[New Glasgow News: Ship of Fate exhibit at Museum of Industry]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new exhibit at the Museum of Industry in Stellarton, N.S., examines a dark chapter in Canadian history when 907 passengers were denied a last chance for a safe haven from war and genocide.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/New-Glasgow-News-Ship-of-Fate-exhibit-at-Museum-of]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Windmill group signs deal to purchase historic Domtar lands]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Chaudiere islands appear set for a “new life” under a newly completed purchase deal between Domtar and Windmill Development Group of Ottawa. The site has been referred to as the cradle of Canadian history, given its proximity to Parliament Hill, its roots in Canada’s early economic development and its significance as an aboriginal gathering place.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/Ottawa-Citizen-Windmill-group-signs-deal-to-purcha]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: DNA profile of 24,000-year-old skeleton sheds light on links to New World peoples]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The surprise discovery of traces of European ancestry in the 24,000-year-old bones of a boy unearthed in the heart of Siberia has caught the attention of Canadian experts, who say the find could rewrite the story of the people who first populated ancient Canada and the rest of the Americas.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/December/Postmedia-News-DNA-profile-of-24,000-year-old-skel]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Bank of Canada renewal plan stirs controversy]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Bank of Canada is about to embark on an unchecked $610-million renovation of its world-class headquarters — a move that is sparking urgent calls for the protection of what is considered one of the best buildings ever designed and built in 20th-century Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Ottawa-Citizen-Bank-of-Canada-renewal-plan-stirs-c]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Rebirth of a century-old B.C. theatre signals sea change for the arts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The plush red seats are draped in plastic, workers are erecting the large replica sign and on the sidewalk a little mosaic welcome mat is being power vacuumed. The York Theatre, 100 years after it first opened, is preparing for another premiere – its own.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/The-Globe-and-Mail-Rebirth-of-a-century-old-B-C-th]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Emily Carr painting sale sets auction record]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A record amount paid for a painting by Canadian artist Emily Carr helped the Heffel Fine Art Auction House set a sales record in its fall auction.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/CBC-News-Emily-Carr-painting-sale-sets-auction-rec]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Ottawa-Citizen-Museum-of-Civilization-lifts-veil-o]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Museum of Civilization lifts veil on its new Canadian history hall]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of Civilization has pulled back the curtain on its planned new Canadian history hall, billed as the largest and most comprehensive permanent exhibit about Canada’s history yet.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Ottawa-Citizen-Museum-of-Civilization-lifts-veil-o]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/CBC-News-P-E-I-museum-foundation-frustrated-by-lac]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: P.E.I. museum foundation frustrated by lack of progress]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation is looking for a firm commitment from the government to build a central museum for the province.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/CBC-News-P-E-I-museum-foundation-frustrated-by-lac]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Georgia Straight: B.C. book unearths Chinese labourers’ secret role in First World War]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A secretive mass western outsourcing of jobs to China took place almost a century ago when at least 140,000 Chinese labourers were shipped to Europe to help the British and French armies defeat the Germans in the infamous European trench battles of the First World War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Georgia-Straight-B-C-book-unearths-Chinese-laboure]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Summerside-Journal-Pioneer-Mural-depicts-Alberton]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Summerside Journal Pioneer: Mural depicts Alberton Fathers planning town’s future]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Another painting has been added to Alberton, P.E.I.’s long list of historical murals.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Summerside-Journal-Pioneer-Mural-depicts-Alberton]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Century-old Winnipeg building damaged in fire]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A fire caused $100,000 in damage to Winnipeg’s Electric Railway Chamber building, which was built in 1913.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/CBC-News-Century-old-Winnipeg-building-damaged-in]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/The-Globe-and-Mail-How-the-Art-Canada-Institute-is]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: How the Art Canada Institute is breathing digital life into Canadian art]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Art Canada Institute is a bilingual, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination and promotion of Canadian art history “to as broad an audience as possible.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/The-Globe-and-Mail-How-the-Art-Canada-Institute-is]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: U of T acquires General Wolfe’s letters for almost $1.5-million]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Almost $1.5 million was paid via Christie’s auctioneers to an unidentified British family that has held the letters of Major-General James Wolfe, whose victory on Quebec’s Plains of Abraham assured British domination over most of North America.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/The-Globe-and-Mail-U-of-T-acquires-General-Wolfe’s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Saint John’s Martello Tower crumbling]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Time and the elements are taking their toll on the Martello Tower that has guarded Saint John, N.B.’s harbour since the War of 1812.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/CBC-News-Saint-John’s-Martello-Tower-crumbling]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Stories worthy of recognition from Canada]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Twelve-year-old Winnipegger Kelsey Omaga is the 2013 English-language winner of the Kayak Illustrated History Award. Meanwhile, Winnipeg teacher Matt Henderson received a Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Teaching.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Winnipeg-Free-Press-Stories-worthy-of-recognition]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Canada’s parks and historic sites now on Google Street View]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hikes through spectacular national parks such as Banff and tours of historic sites such as the Viking settlement at L’anse au Meadows in Newfoundland are now available on Google Street View.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/CBC-News-Canada’s-parks-and-historic-sites-now-on]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Cowichan Valley Citizen: Is a for sale sign the future of historic Keating Farm Estate?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Mortgage problems for The Land Conservancy have raised the grim possibility that it may have to sell some of its historic properties to raise cash.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Cowichan-Valley-Citizen-Is-a-for-sale-sign-the-fut]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Book sheds light on ship lost in Franklin expedition search]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[While the long-running search for Sir John Franklin’s lost ships Terror and Erebus continues after nearly 170 years of mystery and frustration, a new book celebrating Parks Canada’s 2010 discovery of the sunken HMS Investigator details how the stunning Arctic find took place mere moments after the hunt officially began.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Postmedia-News-Book-sheds-light-on-ship-lost-in-Fr]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Biological station earns historic status]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After years of lobbying, Nanaimo's Pacific Biological Station has been given the status of a National Historic Site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Nanaimo-Daily-News-Biological-station-earns-histor]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Residents try to save crumbling cenotaph]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A piece of Alberta’s military history is starting to crumble away in one of Edmonton's poorest neighbourhoods.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/CBC-News-Residents-try-to-save-crumbling-cenotaph]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: New spirit for redundant religious properties]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As faith congregations amalgamate because of dwindling attendance, hundreds of surplus religious properties are expected to hit the Canadian real estate market over the next decade.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/The-Globe-and-Mail-New-spirit-for-redundant-religi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Victoria News: Military history passed down within family]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Connections made between his family and friends have opened up a supply of military collectables for Art Lyon.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Victoria-News-Military-history-passed-down-within]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[St. Albert Gazette: Musée showcases local involvement in Korean War]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Musée Héritage Museum has brought in a temporary exhibit as a way of commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/St-Albert-Gazette-Musee-showcases-local-involvemen]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Manitoba names lakes for Victoria Cross recipients]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Four Victoria Cross recipients from Manitoba have been recognized by having lakes named in their honour.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Winnipeg-Free-Press-Manitoba-names-lakes-for-Victo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Architect Peter John Stokes brought heritage to life]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Peter John Stokes sought to save and restore this country’s built heritage at a time when more people were interested in progress and looking forward than preserving the past.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/The-Globe-and-Mail-Architect-Peter-John-Stokes-bro]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[St. Albert Gazette: Exhibit highlights Canada's last 100 days of the First World War]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Historian David Haas spent four years studying the First World War and curated an exhibit entitled C100: Canada’s Last Hundred Days at the Loyal Edmonton Regiment Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/St-Albert-Gazette-Exhibit-highlights-Canada-s-last]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Bill to create new Canadian Museum of History passes]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Conservative government used closure to push through a bill that changes the name and mandate of the Canadian Museum of Civilization.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Ottawa-Citizen-Bill-to-create-new-Canadian-Museum]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Global News: Canadian Museum for Human Rights to open in September 2014]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A decade after the project was first announced, there is finally an opening date for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights: Sept. 20, 2014.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Global-News-Canadian-Museum-for-Human-Rights-to-op]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Heritage community seeks to save Dalnavert]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Dalnavert’s friends are willing to help keep the National Historic Site open as a portal into the past.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Winnipeg-Free-Press-Heritage-community-seeks-to-sa]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: P.E.I. to celebrate 150 years since Fathers of Confederation meeting]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Prince Edward Island is planning a year-long party for 2014 to celebrate its role as the cradle of Confederation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/The-Canadian-Press-P-E-I-to-celebrate-150-years-si]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Vintage ads at risk, says Saskatoon Heritage Society]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It was the discovery of a vintage ad hidden away for years behind the modern sign for an Italian restaurant downtown that got the Saskatoon Heritage Society thinking about the significance of old hand-painted ads.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/CBC-News-Vintage-ads-at-risk,-says-Saskatoon-Herit]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Petrolia Topic: Oil producer wins heritage award]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Charlie Fairbank, an oil producer in Oil Springs, Ont., has won the prestigious Lieutenant Governor’s Award from the Heritage Canada Foundation for his decades of work in heritage conservation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Petrolia-Topic-Oil-producer-wins-heritage-award]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: ‘Give a Vimy for Vimy:’ Fundraising campaign highlights battlefield image on $20 bill]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A national history foundation that promotes remembrance of the 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge — the landmark First World War victory widely viewed as a major milestone for Canadian nationhood — is launching a centennial campaign to convince the country to adopt the nickname “Vimy” for the new polymer $20 bills, which feature an image of the towering Vimy Ridge battlefield memorial in France.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Halifax Chronicle Herald: Maritime Museum to get more storage space]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[At the Nova Scotia-run Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, notable nuggets of history getting more storage space.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Halifax-Chronicle-Herald-Maritime-Museum-to-get-mo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Historic Dalnavert shuttered]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Quietly and without notice, Dalnavert Museum was closed over the Labour Day weekend.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 02 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/November/Winnipeg-Free-Press-Historic-Dalnavert-shuttered]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Restaurant, winter wonderland possible for a revitalized Casa Loma]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Restaurant, winter wonderland possible for a revitalized Casa Loma]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Associated Press: Explorers find 97-year-old shipwreck of Canadian steamer in Lake Ontario ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A U.S. team has discovered the shipwreck of the Roberval, a 39-metre Canadian steamer that sank nearly a century ago, killing two of the vessel’s nine crew members.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/The-Associated-Press-Explorers-find-97-year-old-sh]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Maple Ridge News: New heritage plan ready]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Maple Ridge, B.C., is soon to have a blueprint for saving its history as growth continues, thanks to the Community Heritage Commission Heritage Plan.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Emily Carr painting expected to go for $1.6 million at auction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A classic Emily Carr canvas featuring one of her trademark depictions of a West Coast aboriginal community — with dramatic splashes of Pacific greenery, a crooked staircase and a looming totemic figure — is set to fetch up to $1.6 million as the highlight of Heffel’s fall sale of Canadian art.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/Postmedia-News-Emily-Carr-painting-expected-to-go]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Haida master carver gets his due more than 90 years after his death]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Haida chief and master carver, Charles Edenshaw was a prolific artist who created exquisite works during a lifetime that coincided with a devastating smallpox epidemic that came close to wiping out his people.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/The-Globe-and-Mail-Haida-master-carver-gets-his-du]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Effort to save Vancouver heritage homes fails, demolition looks certain]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Another little piece of old Vancouver will soon vanish when two Kerrisdale houses, both on the Heritage Registry, are demolished to make way for new, bigger houses.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/The-Globe-and-Mail-Effort-to-save-Vancouver-herita]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Sister of first victim speaks out about rare disease’s Canadian connection]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A virus that grabbed headlines south of the border in August has a tragic Canadian connection that explains its name and still haunts a Northern Ontario family that, in 1958, suffered the sudden loss of a four-year-old son and brother from what was then an unknown infectious agent.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/Postmedia-News-Sister-of-first-victim-speaks-out-a]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Orangeville Citizen: Shelburne teacher wins Governor General’s History Award]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Neil Orford, a beloved and inspirational history teacher at Centre Dufferin District High School in Shelburne, Ont., is one of seven Canadian teachers who are 2013 winners of the Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Teaching.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/Orangeville-Citizen-Shelburne-teacher-wins-Governo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Relocated train station is the latest attraction in Canada’s ‘prettiest town’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Entrepreneur Herb Marshall of Goderich, Ont., spent $1.8 million to pick up an abandoned, 106-year-old railway station and move it to the edge of Lake Huron.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/Postmedia-News-Relocated-train-station-is-the-late]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Public Works unveils design for Sir John A. Macdonald Building]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The design of a two-level extension to the former Bank of Montreal on Ottawa’s Wellington Street facing Parliament Hill “respects the heritage character” of the existing 1930s building, says the federal department of public works.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/Ottawa-Citizen-Public-Works-unveils-design-for-Sir]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Heritage building collapses in massive New Westminster fire]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A massive fire swept through a number of older buildings along New Westminster’s waterfront, destroying several businesses.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/The-Globe-and-Mail-Heritage-building-collapses-in]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Museum of Civilization eyes Inuit drawings acquired after arduous four-month dogsled trip]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of Civilization is eyeing the acquisition of a unique collection of 1,863 drawings — described as being “of outstanding significance and national importance” — created by Inuit in northern Baffin Island nearly half a century ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/Postmedia-News-Museum-of-Civilization-eyes-Inuit-d]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: ‘Holy Grail’ of hockey cards among ultra-rare collection up for auction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[What’s being described as the greatest collection of vintage hockey cards ever assembled is being sold by a Montreal-area auction house for an expected windfall reaching into the millions of dollars.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/Postmedia-News-‘Holy-Grail’-of-hockey-cards-among]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Franklin searchers find bones, artifacts but no ships]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[This year’s Arctic search led by Parks Canada for the ships lost in the mid-19th century Franklin expedition turned up more human bones and about 200 small artifacts on King William Island but offered no new hints about the fate of the reinforced wooden vessels.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/CBC-News-Franklin-searchers-find-bones,-artifacts]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Musical based on 1864 Charlottetown conference founders shelved for lack of funds]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Confederation Centre of the Arts in P.E.I. has pulled the plug on a new musical telling the story of the historic Charlottetown conference.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/The-Canadian-Press-Musical-based-on-1864-Charlotte]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canadian Jewish News: N.B. Jewish museum seeks $100,000 to survive]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A major fundraising event in Saint John, N.B., is expected to raise more than $100,000 for the long-range survival of the community’s Jewish Historical Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/Canadian-Jewish-News-N-B-Jewish-museum-seeks-$100,]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Massive dinosaur fossil unearthed by Alberta pipeline crew]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A large dinosaur fossil has been found by a pipeline crew near Spirit River, Alta.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/CBC-News-Massive-dinosaur-fossil-unearthed-by-Albe]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Metro Winnipeg: Website makes time travel easy]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new online portal from Canada’s longest-running historical magazine is giving vacationers the chance to travel through time.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/Metro-Winnipeg-Website-makes-time-travel-easy]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Sudbury Star: Local 15-year-old to receive national history prize]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Grade 10 student Brandan Wilson will be presented with an award in Aboriginal arts and stories as part of the Governor General’s History Awards.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/Sudbury-Star-Local-15-year-old-to-receive-national]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Burnaby Now: Opera singer explores the Japanese Canadian experience]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[What began as a few unconnected projects ended as an exploration of one Canadian's cultural heritage and his family’s story.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/Burnaby-Now-Opera-singer-explores-the-Japanese-Can]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[St. Albert Gazette: Muralist makes big statement in Boian, Alta.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new mural sponsored by the Canadian Romanian Society focuses on the harvest and the history of the Romanian settlers around the Boian, Alta., area.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/St-Albert-Gazette-Muralist-makes-big-statement-in]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Titanic photo shows rare glimpse of burial at sea]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A rare, dark glimpse of the days that followed the sinking of the Titanic is being sold off by an English auction house.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/October/CBC-News-Titanic-photo-shows-rare-glimpse-of-buria]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Residential school exhibit documents ‘pain’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A major exhibition about residential schools is taking place at Laurentian University in Sudbury.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/CBC-News-Residential-school-exhibit-documents-‘pai]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: TVO film brings ‘real’ War of 1812 to life]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A two-hour film about the War of 1812 and its effects on the people and communities of southwestern Ontario is being aired by Ontario’s education channel.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Postmedia-News-TVO-film-brings-‘real’-War-of-1812]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: CMHR, Manitoba Museum to partner on exhibits, programs]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Manitoba Museum have signed an agreement to collaborate in areas such as marketing, educational programs, collections, exhibits and knowledge.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Winnipeg-Free-Press-CMHR,-Manitoba-Museum-to-partn]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: An era’s buildings face the wrecking ball]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The modernist buildings built between 1945 and 1975 are now at the same point in their lifespan as the Victorian and Edwardian buildings they replaced, which means their owners are, right now, deciding their fate.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/The-Globe-and-Mail-An-era’s-buildings-face-the-wre]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Petrolia Topic: Virtual exhibit to feature oil drillers ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Oil Museum of Canada will present a new virtual exhibit entitled The Untold Story of Canada’s International Oil Drillers: The Canadians are Coming!]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Petrolia-Topic-Virtual-exhibit-to-feature-oil-dril]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: In long-lost interview, John Lennon dishes on ’69 Canadian peace mission, meeting Pierre Trudeau]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A reel-to-reel radio relic that preserves a long-lost Canadian interview with John Lennon vividly recalls the musician’s December 1969 peace mission in Canada that culminated with a private meeting between the pop superstar and then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Postmedia-News-In-long-lost-interview,-John-Lennon]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: N.S. man given nine-year sentence in stolen artifacts case]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A man whose home was filled with hundreds of stolen historical artifacts pleaded guilty to 40 charges in the case and was sentenced to nine years in prison.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/The-Canadian-Press-N-S-man-given-nine-year-sentenc]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Lancaster bomber marks 25 years back in the sky]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Hamilton Warplane Heritage Museum’s Lancaster is one of only two in the world still flying.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/CBC-News-Lancaster-bomber-marks-25-years-back-in-t]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Linear Mounds one of Manitoba’s best-kept archeological secrets]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A culture that predated the indigenous people encountered by the first Europeans to venture onto the North American plains erected a series of mounds across southern Manitoba and North Dakota. Yet because they moved earth instead of stone, few people ever stop to consider what was once one of North America’s dominant civilizations.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Winnipeg-Free-Press-Linear-Mounds-one-of-Manitoba’]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: After decades in a basement, Emily Carr’s Alaska diary sees the light of day]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Emily Carr scholars have always known that the artist created a journal documenting her 1807 trip to Alaska, but for decades it was considered lost.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/The-Globe-and-Mail-After-decades-in-a-basement,-Em]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Old Grist Mill cashes in on interest in eating local]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[B.C.'s hot new foodie destination has been supplying locavores since 1877.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Postmedia-News-Old-Grist-Mill-cashes-in-on-interes]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Historic Nanaimo building now headed for demolition]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An historic building in Nanaimo, B.C.'s south end and a link to the city’s past appears to be facing dwindling days.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Nanaimo-Daily-News-Historic-Nanaimo-building-now-h]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: A stirring exhibit explores the cultural fallout of residential schools]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia presents Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/The-Globe-and-Mail-A-stirring-exhibit-explores-the]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Alberta Lancaster bomber is one of four working worldwide]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A restored Lancaster bomber in Nanton, Alta., is one of only four in the world with working engines.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/CBC-News-Alberta-Lancaster-bomber-is-one-of-four-w]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Historic records lost in Grand Forks city hall fire, officials fear]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A suspicious fire that raced through the main floor of city hall in Grand Forks, B.C., seriously damaging the 101-year-old building and forcing council to scramble to find a temporary home, may have irreparably harmed the region’s historic records.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/The-Globe-and-Mail-Historic-records-lost-in-Grand]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: Former residents of Ontario institution agree to financial settlement]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[From its opening in 1876 to its closure in 2009, an Orillia, Ontario, institution for the mentally challenged has had a long and difficult history. Now, former residents of the institution have agreed to a $35-million out-of-court settlement.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Canada’s-History-Former-residents-of-Ontario-insti]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Heritage experts concerned for future of Memories building, Tin House Court]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The National Capital Commission is reviewing the future of the former Memories Restaurant building in Ottawa’s Byward Market — a move that has raised concerns about possible demolition and impact on the adjacent Tin House Court.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Ottawa-Citizen-Heritage-experts-concerned-for-futu]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Public Works gears up for costly repairs to historic wall behind Centre Block]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The federal government is poised to proceed with the multimillion-dollar rehabilitation of a crumbling century-old wall behind the Parliament Buildings.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Ottawa-Citizen-Public-Works-gears-up-for-costly-re]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Take a trip through the history of train travel in Quebec]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The iron and steel titans in Canada’s biggest railway museum are scuffed in some spots with the effects of an honest day’s work and they reek with the history of the country in its formative years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/The-Canadian-Press-Take-a-trip-through-the-history]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[McGill Daily: The canal below the hill —St. Henri’s history lives on]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[St. Henri is a Montreal district – nay, a Montreal institution — which has fought hard for its place in history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/McGill-Daily-The-canal-below-the-hill-—St-Henri’s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Detroit Free Press: Exploring freedom's crossroads — the Canadian stops on the Underground Railroad]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In the cornfields of Ontario, one of Canada’s most significant Underground Railroad sights is tucked behind tall grass and a red metal fence.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Detroit-Free-Press-Exploring-freedom-s-crossroads]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Exhibit on First World War internment camps opens in Banff, Alta.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A little-known dark period of Canadian history is now a permanent exhibit in Banff National Park.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/The-Canadian-Press-Exhibit-on-First-World-War-inte]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Etobicoke Guardian: Heritage bus tour of north Etobicoke to reveal ‘lots of secrets along the way’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Heritage Toronto is showcasing a rare historical and architectural tour of north Etobicoke in an effort to augment its popular Toronto walking tours and expand outside the city’s downtown core.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Etobicoke-Guardian-Heritage-bus-tour-of-north-Etob]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Time for one more heritage walking tour with historian Tom Paterson]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Author, activist and historian Tom Paterson is presenting his final heritage walking tour of the year, where he will share his knowledge of central Vancouver Island’s coal mining history, including its culture, conditions and challenges.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Nanaimo-Daily-News-Time-for-one-more-heritage-walk]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[North Bay Nipissing News: Museum funding ensures archive preservation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Ontario Trillium Foundation has stepped in to ensure archives and historical artifacts will not be destroyed by damp, heat or cold while they are housed at the Discovery North Bay Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/North-Bay-Nipissing-News-Museum-funding-ensures-ar]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Sam’s sign won’t return to Toronto’s Yonge Street]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The neon records that adorned Toronto’s legendary Sam the Record Man store might spin again one day, but the chances they will light up Yonge Street are slim.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/The-Globe-and-Mail-Sam’s-sign-won’t-return-to-Toro]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Toronto’s St. Clair community celebrates 100 years of streetcar line]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A week-long celebration hosted by the Wychwood Barns Community Association marks the 100th anniversary of Toronto’s northernmost streetcar line.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/The-Globe-and-Mail-Toronto’s-St-Clair-community-ce]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Halifax Chronicle Herald: Group working to bring historic hockey trophy home to Windsor, N.S.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of the oldest trophies for competitive hockey in Canada may be coming home to Nova Scotia.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Halifax-Chronicle-Herald-Group-working-to-bring-hi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[St. Albert Gazette: Museum exhibit shows the history of skating]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Musée Héritage Museum in St. Albert, Alta., is hosting the exhibit Lace Up: Canada’s Passion for Skating.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/St-Albert-Gazette-Museum-exhibit-shows-the-history]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Franklin search waiting for new high-tech tools]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Parks Canada is spending $475,000 to buy two high-tech research tools it hopes could help crack the mystery of the lost 19th-century ships of the Franklin expedition and reveal other sunken secrets of the country's underwater cultural heritage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/CBC-News-Franklin-search-waiting-for-new-high-tech]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Bluenose II launched in N.S. after 3-year, $16M refit]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Bluenose II is back in the water, three years after it was dry-docked for restoration.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/CBC-News-Bluenose-II-launched-in-N-S-after-3-year,]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Halifax Chronicle Herald: Army display gets reinforcements]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Nova Scotians, and visitors from across the country, will have an opportunity to learn about Canada’s First World War triumphs and sacrifices through new stories and artifacts that will be part of an exhibit opening next year at the Halifax Citadel National Historic Site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Halifax-Chronicle-Herald-Army-display-gets-reinfor]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: Residents fighting to preserve World War II POW camp]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In Bowmanville, Ont., where the shell of what was once a major prisoner of war camp languishes among the trees and country roads, the Germans have long ceased being the enemy. Now the threat is much more difficult to pin down: anonymous vandals and scavengers, who over the past few years have chipped away at a key part of the area’s history. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Toronto-Star-Residents-fighting-to-preserve-World]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Publisher unveils title, release date of Harper’s hockey book]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Stephen Harper’s long-anticipated hockey history book will hit the shelves on Nov. 5.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/The-Globe-and-Mail-Publisher-unveils-title,-releas]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Developer finds value in brick-and-beam Saint John]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Historica Developments Inc. has spent the past five years redeveloping heritage buildings in Canada’s oldest incorporated city, Saint John, N.B.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/The-Globe-and-Mail-Developer-finds-value-in-brick]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Petrolia Topic: Pierre Berton Award shortlist announced]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The three finalists unveiled by Canada's History Society for Canada’s top history prize, the Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Popular Media—The Pierre Berton Award, have a lot in common: They all specialize in Canada’s military past.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/September/Petrolia-Topic-Pierre-Berton-Award-shortlist-annou]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Spruced-up King Estate offers fresh view of history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The reopened Mackenzie King Estate, nestled in the beauty of Gatineau Park, gives visitors a better experience of the country retreat of former prime minister Mackenzie King.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/Ottawa-Citizen-Spruced-up-King-Estate-offers-fresh]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Dinosaur skeleton flies to new home]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The most complete dinosaur skeleton ever discovered in British Columbia was recently airlifted to a paleontology museum in Tumbler Ridge.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/The-Globe-and-Mail-Dinosaur-skeleton-flies-to-new]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Winnipeg historic signs stolen ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Police are investigating the disappearance of two plaques that had been mounted to the front of a historic building in Winnipeg's Exchange District.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/CBC-News-Winnipeg-historic-signs-stolen]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Museum site excavation unearths 400,000 artifacts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The archeological dig conducted at the site of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg uncovered the largest concentration of pre-European encampments anywhere in Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/Winnipeg-Free-Press-Museum-site-excavation-unearth]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Archeologists unearth charred remains of books from Canada’s pre-Confederation parliament in Montreal]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Archeologists have uncovered a reminder of the heritage items lost by the destruction of Canada’s pre-Confederation parliament in Montreal.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/The-Canadian-Press-Archeologists-unearth-charred-r]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Associated Press: Tall ships converge on Lake Erie to re-enact historic War of 1812 battle]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Cannon fire will ring out again on the waters of Lake Erie when tall ships re-enact a battle that marked a turning point in the War of 1812.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/Associated-Press-Tall-ships-converge-on-Lake-Erie]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Ostrich-egg globe showing Newfoundland hailed as ‘oldest’ New World orb]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A European collector of antique maps claims to have identified the oldest known globe depicting the New World — including the future Canada — after spending a year researching what he concluded is a 509-year-old ostrich egg transformed into a one-of-a-kind cartographic orb from the first decade of the 16th century.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/Postmedia-News-Ostrich-egg-globe-showing-Newfoundl]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Pre-Viking find on Faroes puts patina of proof on St. Brendan’s discovery of Canada]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The startling discovery of a pre-Viking presence on the Faroe Islands — a well-known North Atlantic “stepping stone” for medieval Norse sailors who eventually reached northern Newfoundland about 1,000 years ago — is prompting archeologists to take a second look at ancient stories about seafaring Irish monks, including the legendary “Saint Brendan the Navigator.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/Cowichan-Valley-Citizen-Historic-Postmedia-News-Pr]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Cowichan Valley Citizen: Historic Victoria mansion recalls tragic sea captain and his wife]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Wentworth Villa is significant enough to have been one of the first buildings placed on Victoria’s heritage register. One of Victoria's oldest and most historically significant houses, it could be slated for conversion to condominiums.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/Cowichan-Valley-Citizen-Historic-Victoria-mansion]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Comox Valley Echo: Decorated WWII ace takes off again in historic plane]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[He’s a character in video games he’ll never play. There are countless websites about him that he’ll never visit. But this was of no concern to 92-year-old James Francis “Stocky” Edwards as he prepared to fly in the plane that launched his distinguished World War II service, where he made a name for himself as Canada’s highest-scoring ace in the Western Desert Campaign.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/Comox-Valley-Echo-Decorated-WWII-ace-takes-off-aga]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: 350 years later, women re-enact arrival of King’s Daughters at Montreal port]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Over the span of a decade in the second half of the 17th century, nearly 800 women arrived in New France under the patronage of Louis XIV. Three dozen women reenacted the epic journey these pioneers took, sailing into Montreal’s Old Port to mark the 350th anniversary of the first arrival.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/The-Canadian-Press-350-years-later,-women-re-enact]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Historic downtown church looking to make significant changes]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[St. Paul’s Anglican Church has graced the north entrance to Nanaimo, B.C.’s downtown since 1931. Now there are major plans for the largest addition to the building to date.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/Nanaimo-Daily-News-Historic-downtown-church-lookin]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Rare Canadian stamp could be worth $1 million]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A green-hued 145-year-old stamp features a profile portrait of Queen Victoria and was printed, perhaps by mistake, on “laid” paper — commonly used for stationery, and which has alternating light and dark lines — at a time when printers were transitioning to “wove” paper.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/CBC-News-Rare-Canadian-stamp-could-be-worth-$1-mil]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Scientists resume search for lost Franklin expedition ships]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The search for the wreckage of the ill-fated Franklin expedition in Canada’s Arctic is resuming.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/The-Canadian-Press-Scientists-resume-search-for-lo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: In search of old life, fossils hunters unearth more questions than answers ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fossil hunters Jean-Bernard Caron and Robert Gaines have found about 10 creatures no one had ever seen before. They occasionally find fossils with prey trapped in the bellies of predators – last meals consumed 500 million years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/The-Globe-and-Mail-In-search-of-old-life,-fossils]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Discovery of 19th century document sheds light on the unearthing of astrolabe reportedly used by Samuel de Champlain]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An Ottawa historian’s discovery of a 19th-century manuscript previously unseen by scholars has shed new light on the 1867 unearthing of “Champlain’s Astrolabe,” the navigational instrument famously — though controversially — believed to have been lost by French explorer Samuel de Champlain during his pioneering journey up the Ottawa River four centuries ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/Postmedia-News-Discovery-of-19th-century-document]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: From endangered to extinct: the tragic flight of the Eskimo curlew]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It is — or was — a long-legged shorebird about the size of a mourning dove, with mottled brown feathers and a distinctively long, thin, downward-curving beak. But before the end of this summer, exactly 50 years will have passed since the last time an Eskimo curlew was seen alive anywhere in its vast range between Arctic Canada and its winter home on the pampas of Argentina.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/August/Postmedia-News-From-endangered-to-extinct-the-trag]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Critics press Ottawa to recognize wrongs against First Nations as genocide]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[First Nations leaders and human rights experts will press the federal government to recognize that Canada’s historical treatment of native people, including nutrition experiments conducted on children at aboriginal residential schools, constituted a genocide.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/The-Globe-and-Mail-Critics-press-Ottawa-to-recogni]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: March honours Canadians’ role in WWII Sicily liberation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian military’s crucial role in the World War II Allied invasion of Sicily was overshadowed by British and American troops and then largely forgotten, but a group of Canadians have set out to change that.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/CBC-News-March-honours-Canadians’-role-in-WW-II-Si]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Alberta comes full circle with ‘crown’ tour]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The self-guided Crown of the Continent Circle Tour combines Alberta’s historic sites with spectacular, world-class historic and scenic destinations in and near the southern Rockies.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Calgary-Herald-Alberta-comes-full-circle-with-‘cro]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Maclean’s: How Stephen Harper is rewriting history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of Civilization, the country’s biggest and most-visited museum, is being rebranded as the Canadian Museum of History, but the revamping of this major federal institution is just one element in the Conservatives’ wider strategy for changing the way Canadians perceive their past.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Maclean’s-How-Stephen-Harper-is-rewriting-history]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Totem pole marks return of ancient tradition to Haida Gwaii]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For the first time in 130 years, a monumental totem pole carved by aboriginal artists is set to rise on British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii islands.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Postmedia-News-Totem-pole-marks-return-of-ancient]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Owen Sound Sun Times: Work in Grey County’s black history honoured ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Guardians of the Old Durham Road Pioneer Cemetery near Priceville, Ont., have been recognized for their efforts in promoting and preserving the cultural heritage of the first black pioneers in the former Artemesia Township, the first non-native settlers in Grey County.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Owen-Sound-Sun-Times-Work-in-Grey-County’s-black-h]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Alberta town trades airplane engines and history with Newfoundland]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Historic Canso airplanes in St. Anthony, Alta., and Fairview, N.L., recently led to a unique Canadian collaboration to get one of the old warbirds in the sky again.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Edmonton-Journal-Alberta-town-trades-airplane-engi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Harbour Breton Coaster: Heritage Society telling story of resettlement]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Heritage Society of Milltown-Head Bay d’Espoir, N.L., has begun work on an online exhibit to capture and preserve the distinct cultural, economic and social way of life that made up the fabric of the small isolated south coast communities of Grole, Round Harbour, Pushthrough Muddy Hole and others.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Harbour-Breton-Coaster-Heritage-Society-telling-st]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Iconic WWII photo to be immortalized in sculpture]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An iconic photo of a little boy dashing out toward his father as he marches off to war is going to be immortalized on the B.C. street corner where it was taken more than 70 years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/CBC-News-Iconic-WWII-photo-to-be-immortalized-in-s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Environmentalists sound alarm about Canada’s boreal forest]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[At least half of Canada’s vast boreal forest should be strictly protected from any kind of development and the rest should be carefully managed to preserve or restore its ecological integrity, a panel of top North American researchers argues in a report on “the world’s last great forest.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Postmedia-News-Environmentalists-sound-alarm-about]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Trio of cabins marks Japanese internment camp]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Anchored by a tuberculosis sanatorium that housed many of their elders and a community where two cultures had learned to co-exist, a large number of Japanese families stayed on in New Denver, B.C., after being housed in an internment camp during the Second World War. Three of the original huts form the keystone of New Denver’s captivating but wrenching Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre, situated where the former camp stood.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/The-Globe-and-Mail-Trio-of-cabins-marks-Japanese-i]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Gaspe’s Reford Gardens evolves with times]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The historic Reford Gardens, also known as Les Jardins de Métis, a landmark of Quebec’s Gaspé region, embraces much more than flowers and shrubs. It’s a genteel theme park where nature, culture, design, history and cuisine converge on the banks of the St. Lawrence River.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Montreal-Gazette-Gaspe’s-Reford-Gardens-evolves-wi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: First Nations leaders demand apology for nutritional experiments]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[First Nations leaders are demanding an apology from the federal government after it was revealed that Canada ran nutritional experiments on malnourished aboriginal children and adults during and after the Second World War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/CBC-News-First-Nations-leaders-demand-apology-for]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: New smartphone app to help users explore Canadian history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[National online voting is underway as Canadians help choose the content for a new smartphone app developed to help us appreciate the unique places that make Canada Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Calgary-Herald-New-smartphone-app-to-help-users-ex]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Canadian government withheld food from hungry aboriginal kids in 1940s nutritional experiments, researcher finds]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Recently published historical research says hungry aboriginal children and adults were once used as unwitting subjects in nutritional experiments by Canadian government bureaucrats.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/The-Canadian-Press-Canadian-government-withheld-fo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Call goes out for support to help preserve coal tipple]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Morden Mine coal tipple has existed for 100 years now, and conservationists are campaigning to keep it standing.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Nanaimo-Daily-News-Call-goes-out-for-support-to-he]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Canada’s Arctic islands yield new clues in ancient mass extinction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canadian scientists probing two sites in the High Arctic have found fresh evidence pointing to a fiery Siberian suspect in the greatest mass extinction of all time — a planet-wide cataclysm that wiped out more than 90 per cent of the Earth’s species about 250 million years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Postmedia-News-Canada’s-Arctic-islands-yield-new-c]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Latest batch of post-Confederation debates brings ‘acrimonious’ 2nd Parliament to life]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Courtesy of the Library of Parliament, a brand new batch of reconstituted debates is available for reading online.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/CBC-News-Latest-batch-of-post-Confederation-debate]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Ancient Canada’s herbivores ‘divvied up’ veggies]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two Canadian scientists who examined the fossilized skulls of 82 individual dinosaurs from ancient Alberta have gathered powerful new evidence about how such a startling variety of enormous, plant-eating species was able to survive in the same geographically restricted habitat about 75 million years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Postmedia-News-Ancient-Canada’s-herbivores-‘divvie]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Shorter Green Gables hours upset tourism industry]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Tourism Industry Association of P.E.I. is fighting to change a recent Parks Canada decision to reduce hours at the Green Gables historic site. The site was the home of the aunt and uncle of Lucy Maud Montgomery and was the inspiration for the setting of her landmark novel, Anne of Green Gables.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/CBC-News-Shorter-Green-Gables-hours-upset-tourism]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Brewery planned for former Fredericton roundhouse]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fredericton's Northampton Brewery will be building a new brewery inside the former Gibson Roundhouse site after a land deal with the city. Northampton Brewery will transform the historic property into a brewery and a tourism centre.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/CBC-News-Brewery-planned-for-former-Fredericton-ro]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Brampton Guardian: Federal government partners to create Terry Fox exhibit]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The federal government has announced the development of an exhibition featuring the story and legacy of Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope. In a partnership agreement between the friends of the Terry Fox Collection and the future Canadian Museum of History, the exhibition will open at the museum in 2015, in conjunction with the 35th anniversary of the Marathon of Hope.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Brampton-Guardian-Federal-government-partners-to-c]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Breakthrough DNA study links B.C. woman, 5,500-year-old ‘grandmother’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A groundbreaking genetic study has traced a direct DNA link between the 5,500-year-old remains of an aboriginal woman found on a British Columbia island, a second set of ancient female bones from a nearby 2,500-year-old site and — most stunningly — a living Tsimshian woman from the Metlakatla First Nation, located close to both of the prehistoric burials along B.C.’s north coast near the city of Prince Rupert.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Postmedia-News-Breakthrough-DNA-study-links-B-C-wo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Victoria Times Colonist: CBC unearths controversy as First Nations artifact considered for TV]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After a Comox, B.C., woman brought a rare First Nations artifact to Victoria during to be considered for a new CBC TV reality show based on buying and selling unique objects, the curator of archeology at the Royal B.C. Museum said he was shocked that the CBC would be involved in a show that could merchandise ancient artifacts.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Victoria-Times-Colonist-CBC-unearths-controversy-a]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Archivists worry they’re excluded from planning Canada’s 150th celebration]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canadian archivists say they’re worried they may be cut out of the planning for the 150th anniversary of Confederation and say the minister of Canadian Heritage has done little to address their concerns. Without archivist input, the celebrations won’t reflect Canada’s history to the fullest, warns the Canadian Council of Archives.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Postmedia-News-Archivists-worry-they’re-excluded-f]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Mapping Fort York’s legacy with 21st-century tools]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A recently launched website includes almost 60 pages of maps of Toronto’s Fort York and the properties situated on the surrounding military reserves. Serving up history as a captivating cartographic mash-up, the website vividly illustrates how a rapidly industrializing city nosed its way up to the very walls of the garrison, finally choking it off with landfill, industry and transportation infrastructure.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/The-Globe-and-Mail-Mapping-Fort-York’s-legacy-with]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Cape Breton Post: Fate of museum artifacts raising questions]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The whereabouts of at least one pump organ, a spinning wheel and other artifacts from Nova Scotia's North Sydney Museum has its historical society answering questions about how it handles, and disposes of, pieces it no longer wants as part of its collection.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Cape-Breton-Post-Fate-of-museum-artifacts-raising]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Ex-Canadian warship and luxury yacht on sale for $34M]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Canadian warship that helped launch the historic D-Day assault before its transformation into the world’s most luxurious yacht has been put up for sale by its current ownership consortium — 70 years after beginning its storied life at a Montreal shipyard.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Postmedia-News-Ex-Canadian-warship-and-luxury-yach]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: New museum preserves Bedeque history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Bedeque Area Historical Museum in P.E.I. celebrated its official opening on Canada Day.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/CBC-News-New-museum-preserves-Bedeque-history]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Veterans of famed Canada-U.S. ‘Devil’s Brigade’ to receive Congressional Gold Medal]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A group of Second World War veterans who served together in the elite commando unit known as the Devil’s Brigade are to be awarded a U.S. Congressional Gold Medal in honour of their battlefield heroics and sacrifices 70 years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/July/Postmedia-News-Veterans-of-famed-Canada-U-S-‘Devil]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Arctic team to retrace landmark 1913 expedition, search for lost sailor’s bones]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Members of a scientific expedition heading to a remote corner of the Canadian Arctic will attempt to unravel a century-old mystery about a lost sailor and — if their luck and the weather hold out — recover his bones.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Postmedia-News-Arctic-team-to-retrace-landmark-191]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Former PM Paul Martin lets Sir John A. Macdonald lead him around]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The In Sir John A’s Footsteps walking tour tells the story of our first prime minister in a theatrical way that informs as it entertains, ensuring that Sir John A. Macdonald is not forgotten as we near the 200th anniversary of his birth.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/The-Globe-and-Mail-Former-PM-Paul-Martin-lets-Sir]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Campbell River Courier-Islander: B.C. teacher nominated for major history award]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Wayne Demerse has been selected as one of 25 finalists for the Governor General’s History Awards for Excellence in Teaching.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Campbell-River-Courier-Islander-B-C-teacher-nomina]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Newfoundland fossil shines light on origins of animal life]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Newfoundland’s fossil-rich southeast coast has produced another major discovery shedding light on the origins of animal life on Earth.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Postmedia-News-Newfoundland-fossil-shines-light-on]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: 1867 competes with 1812, 1608 and 1982 as ‘founding’ dates in Canadian history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As Canada approaches the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017, a bare majority of citizens considers the 1867 deal struck by Sir John A. Macdonald and his fellow architects of the BNA Act the “founding” event in the country’s history, according to a new national survey.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Postmedia-News-1867-competes-with-1812,-1608-and-1]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Labrador’s Red Bay whaling site earns coveted UNESCO heritage designation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The remains of a 16th-century Basque whaling station on the Labrador coast, hailed as one of the earliest and best preserved traces of a European presence in Canada, has been granted prestigious status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Postmedia-News-Labrador’s-Red-Bay-whaling-site-ear]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Comox Valley Echo: Comox council delays decision to demolish historic home]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two well-known local organizations have joined Comox, B.C., residents in their fight to preserve Hamilton Mack Laing’s original 1923 heritage home Baybrook.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Comox-Valley-Echo-Comox-council-delays-decision-to]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Historic Waterloo railway route stays — for now]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The historic trains of the Waterloo Central Railway in Ontario will stay on their regular route for another year, but the railway's future is still uncertain due to Waterloo Region's light rail transit development plans.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/CBC-News-Historic-Waterloo-railway-route-stays-—-f]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Montreal mystery woman is the face of Laura Secord in new War of 1812 stamp]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[No one knows what Laura Secord actually looked like at the time of her fabled 20-kilometre dash on June 22, 1813, to warn British commanders of an impending enemy attack near present-day Niagara Falls, Ont. But a stamp issued by Canada Post to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Secord’s shining moment has spawned a new mystery.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Postmedia-News-Montreal-mystery-woman-is-the-face]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Two Canadian sites in running for World Heritage status ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Basque whaling station that dates to the 1500s and a largely unspoiled expanse of boreal forest where five First Nations have existed for six millenniums are among the international sites being considered for coveted World Heritage designation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/The-Globe-and-Mail-Two-Canadian-sites-in-running-f]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Métis ready to ring bell again]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After decades of secrecy surrounding its whereabouts, an important piece of Métis history is ready to go public again. The mysterious case of the Bell of Batoche appears to be coming to a conclusion.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Winnipeg-Free-Press-Metis-ready-to-ring-bell-again]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Banff exhibit shining a light on dark chapter in war years]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Standing in picturesque Banff National Park, nestled between dizzying mountains and surrounded by a mix of wildlife and luxurious tourist attractions, “forced labour,” “enemy aliens” and “suicide” might not be the first words that come to mind. And yet that was the reality for hundreds of eastern-European immigrants interned there at a work camp during the First World War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Calgary-Herald-Banff-exhibit-shining-a-light-on-da]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Library and Archives Canada buys War of 1812 memorabilia for almost $700,000]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Cash-strapped Library and Archives Canada — with help from the future Canadian Museum of History — has dug deeply into its coffers and acquired a pricey but unique treasure trove of Canadian history at a British auction of rare books and manuscripts.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Postmedia-News-Library-and-Archives-Canada-buys-Wa]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Queen Victoria’s father deserves greater role in Canadian history, new biography says]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new biography of Queen Victoria’s father argues that Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, should occupy a much larger place in Canada’s history as an early shaper of the country’s constitutional monarchy and coiner of an expanded sense of the term “Canadian.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Postmedia-News-Queen-Victoria’s-father-deserves-gr]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Toronto’s historic Masonic Temple sold to consultancy firm]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Toronto’s storied Masonic Temple has found a new owner in an Ontario-based technology consulting firm after Bell Media decided to sell the former concert hall earlier this year.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/The-Canadian-Press-Toronto’s-historic-Masonic-Temp]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Ottawa boosts funding for Canadian history programs]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Harper government has announced $12 million in funding for promoting learning about this country’s past. Among other items, the Conservatives announced they are creating a new annual history award for high school students and teachers who demonstrate excellence on the topic. The awards will be administered by Canada’s History Society.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/The-Globe-and-Mail-Ottawa-boosts-funding-for-Canad]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Heritage minister looks at restoring local archives program]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Heritage Minister James Moore will ask Library and Archives Canada to consider restoring a program eliminated during recent federal budget cuts that helped hundreds of small museums across the country preserve local history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/CBC-News-Heritage-minister-looks-at-restoring-loca]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Dilapidated, ‘spooky’ Toronto landmark is getting a $50-million facelift]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For 138 years, the building at 1 Spadina Cres. has been an oddity in Toronto’s streetscape: a Gothic dinosaur in the middle of Spadina Avenue eliciting stories of ghosts and death, but also of healing and creativity. Now the University of Toronto’s architecture school is poised to move in and make this 1875 building a site for education, research, and public discussion about cities.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/The-Globe-and-Mail-Dilapidated,-‘spooky’-Toronto-l]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Civilization museum sends Nishga Girl home]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of Civilization is under fire for disposing of a high-profile West Coast fishing boat as part of its transformation of the current Canada Hall into a new history hall.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Ottawa-Citizen-Civilization-museum-sends-Nishga-Gi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Controversy dogs exhibit on First World War internment]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A 1,000-square-foot pavilion titled Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War: Canada’s First World War Internment Operations 1914-1920 is opening in the birthplace of the national parks system, and some experts are calling its content a government whitewash.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/The-Globe-and-Mail-Controversy-dogs-exhibit-on-Fir]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Research sheds new light on Viking travels in N.L.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An American researcher has found new information about the movement of the Vikings in Newfoundland and Labrador that suggests they may have moved further inland than previously thought, and may even have travelled to other parts of Atlantic Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/CBC-News-Research-sheds-new-light-on-Viking-travel]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Former CEO decries ‘parochial’ mandate for renamed museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The new mandate being proposed for a rebranded Canadian Museum of Civilization is “narrow and parochial,” says the man who was president and CEO of the museum from 2000 to 2011.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Ottawa-Citizen-Former-CEO-decries-‘parochial’-mand]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: Juno Beach Centre in France celebrates 10th anniversary]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Juno Beach Centre, a Canadian museum on the coast of France, is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a special commemorative ceremony and other events.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Canada’s-History-Juno-Beach-Centre-in-France-celeb]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Redeveloping U of T’s Back Campus a break with history ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Few today have reason to know about the University of Toronto’s military history. The proposal to convert its Back Campus into two artificial field hockey surfaces threatens to change, drastically and irrevocably, one of the last parts of the university’s original landscape, says Eric McGeer.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/The-Globe-and-Mail-Redeveloping-U-of-T’s-Back-Camp]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: The Royal BC Museum: Getting the word out on ‘one of the world’s great treasure houses’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[From the Vancouver Island Treaties, to works by Emily Carr, to antiquities from Canada’s oldest Chinatown, to mammoth tusks, the Royal BC Museum houses some jaw-dropping stuff among its seven million items.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/The-Globe-and-Mail-The-Royal-BC-Museum-Getting-the]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Group opposed to dam demolition hires lawyer]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A member of the Colliery Dams Preservation Society says the group has retained a lawyer to provide advice and help the group navigate the complicated issues surrounding the planned removal and replacement of the middle and lower Colliery dams.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Nanaimo-Daily-News-Group-opposed-to-dam-demolition]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Calgary couple save a cherished ‘trend’ house]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Michael Kurtz and Jennifer McColl restored and refined their 1950s Calgary “trend house” and assisted the City of Calgary in listing their home on the Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/The-Globe-and-Mail-Calgary-couple-save-a-cherished]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Groups submit plans to save 128 'surplus' lighthouses]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Community groups and municipalities in eight provinces have come forward with business plans to save only a fraction of the lighthouses that Ottawa says are no longer needed for navigational purposes.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/The-Canadian-Press-Groups-submit-plans-to-save-128]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun: A quick taste of village life in charming Fort Langley]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[British Columbia’s Fort Langley is a National Historic Site re-constructed on the exact location where a fur-trading post was built 150 years ago to trade with First Nations.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Vancouver-Sun-A-quick-taste-of-village-life-in-cha]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Winnipeg prof studies history of Canadian junk foods]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The snack food industry provides a rich history of business, labour and consumerism in Canada that’s worth exploring, says University of Winnipeg history professor Janis Thiessen.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/CBC-News-Winnipeg-prof-studies-history-of-Canadian]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nunatsiaq News: Tug inspection keeps Amundsen’s Maud in Nunavut for another year]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The famous Norwegian sailing vessel the Maud, once sailed by Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen but wrecked off Cambridge Bay more than 80 years ago, won’t be leaving Nunavut for Norway in 2013.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/June/Nunatsiaq-News-Tug-inspection-keeps-Amundsen’s-Mau]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Toronto church lofts package heritage and unique spaces]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A century ago, Toronto’s Perth Avenue Methodist Church was a landmark destination where religious followers gathered. Though the congregation has grown and moved on, a trio of developers found a different crowd to worship the space as a new loft conversion project.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-Toronto-church-lofts-package-he]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Campbell River Courier-Islander: Boat tour explores salmon history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Museum at Campbell River, in British Columbia, is offering a historical boat tour that will feature a local First Nations guide.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Campbell-River-Courier-Islander-Boat-tour-explores]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Times of Israel: Canada’s oldest synagogue celebrates 150 years]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A grand ceremony to dedicate British Columbia’s first synagogue is being reenacted exactly 150 years to the day following the establishment of Congregation Emanu-El in downtown Victoria.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Times-of-Israel-Canada’s-oldest-synagogue-celebrat]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal: Canadian architect Arthur Erickson’s imperiled future]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Architect Arthur Erickson’s endangered former home is an exaggerated version of a dilemma that has played out in Vancouver as well as a number of other North American cities where the market is booming. As home prices jump, land becomes so valuable that classic homes get razed.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Wall-Street-Journal-Canadian-architect-Arthur-Eric]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: U.S. auction to sell ‘unknown’ 1758 document on proposed French Canada exodus to Louisiana]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A New York auction house has revealed the discovery of a previously unknown document from a pivotal moment in Canadian history — a handwritten report detailing an “obscure” and startling December 1758 proposal by an unnamed French official to relocate the 60,000 people of New France to Louisiana in the event of a British victory in the Seven Years War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Postmedia-News-U-S-auction-to-sell-‘unknown’-1758]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Survival of Canada’s oldest lighthouses in question despite legislation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Passage of the Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act in May 2008 was supposed to enable non-profit groups, municipalities and provinces to acquire lighthouses deemed suitable for tourism.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-Survival-of-Canada’s-oldest-lig]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Niagara This Week: Champion of history turns 100]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Esther Summers, the celebrated Niagara, Ont., woman who’s been credited with preserving a wealth of historic information for future generations, is turning 100 years old.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Niagara-This-Week-Champion-of-history-turns-100]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Alberta couple’s backyard dig fuels scientific debate over mammoth extinction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Canadian couple’s archeological retirement project has produced artifacts that are now at the centre of one of science’s most controversial debates: whether a massive comet or meteorite struck a glacier-encased Hudson Bay about 13,000 years ago, wiped out the mammoths and other Ice Age “megafauna” and destroyed the Clovis culture.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Postmedia-News-Alberta-couple’s-backyard-dig-fuels]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Metro Winnipeg: Historic St. Charles Hotel needs the ‘right owner’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A proposed City of Winnipeg move to take over a downtown landmark is being heralded by the head of an organization tasked with the preservation of the city’s historic buildings.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Metro-Winnipeg-Historic-St-Charles-Hotel-needs-the]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Postmedia-News-American-wreck-hunters-set-to-searc]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: American wreck hunters set to search for 17th-century Griffon in Lake Michigan]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A team of U.S. wreck hunters, backed by the governments of France and Michigan, has revealed plans to dive to a site on the bottom of Lake Michigan where one of the most important ships in Canadian history — the 17th-century barque Griffon — is believed to be lying.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Postmedia-News-American-wreck-hunters-set-to-searc]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Banff Springs Hotel, rail baron’s castle of dreams, celebrates 125 years]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When first built in 1888, the Victorian-styled structure looming above the Bow River was an anomaly in Banff, which only had a few log structures, dirt streets and mountain men eking out a living as best they could.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Postmedia-News-Banff-Springs-Hotel,-rail-baron’s-c]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Toronto works to save its postcard views]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Maintaining historic “view corridors” is becoming increasingly difficult as condo-obsessed Toronto grows, recently surpassing Chicago as the fourth most populated city in North America.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-Toronto-works-to-save-its-postc]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Postmedia-News-Huge-cache-of-Canadian-history-hits]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Huge cache of Canadian history hits U.K. auction block, tests Library and Archives]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A huge cache of Canadian history, stored for 200 years in three wooden chests held at a British estate, is set to be auctioned in London — a possible test of whether the controversy-plagued, funding-challenged Library and Archives Canada is still in the business of acquiring newly available treasures of documentary heritage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Postmedia-News-Huge-cache-of-Canadian-history-hits]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Ottawa-Citizen-Heritage-Minister-defends-creation]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Heritage Minister defends creation of new history museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The proposed name and mandate change of the Canadian Museum of Civilization will give museums across the country access to the Gatineau institution’s 3.5 million artifacts, 90 per cent of which are now in storage, says Heritage Minister James Moore.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Ottawa-Citizen-Heritage-Minister-defends-creation]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Group willing to use occupy tactics to save dams]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The fight to preserve the lower and middle Colliery dams is not over yet, says the group formed to safeguard the historic landmarks. Meanwhile, a separate group says it is waiting in the wings to take over if the Colliery Dams Preservation Society is unable to persuade Nanaimo, B.C.’s council to revisit the issue and delay demolition of the 102-year-old structures.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Nanaimo-Daily-News-Group-willing-to-use-occupy-tac]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Canadian walrus that wowed Queen Victoria to star in art exhibit]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Hudson Bay walrus that was shot, stuffed and became one of Canada’s star attractions at an 1886 colonial exhibition in Britain has been moved from its fake-ice pedestal at a London museum for the first time in more than a century to headline a contemporary art show.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Postmedia-News-Canadian-walrus-that-wowed-Queen-Vi]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Postmedia-News-Baptism-record-that-solved-mystery]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Baptism record that solved mystery of Champlain’s birth arrives in Canada]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A time-yellowed, 439-year-old baptismal registry from 16th-century France, recently found to contain long-sought clues about the birth and family history of the famed New World explorer Samuel de Champlain, has arrived in Canada to help mark a major milestone in this country’s own birth.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Postmedia-News-Baptism-record-that-solved-mystery]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Canada’s-History-Student-videos-celebrate-centenni]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: Student videos celebrate centennial of Canadian Arctic Expedition]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Students across Canada are travelling back in time to celebrate the Canadian Arctic Expedition by researching and making videos with themes that relate to the history of Canada’s North. Their historical video stories are part of a special version of the Young Citizens program, organized by Canada’s History.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Canada’s-History-Student-videos-celebrate-centenni]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Edward Scissorhands actor Johnny Depp ‘immortalized’ in sharp-clawed Canadian fossil find]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Edward Scissorhands actor Johnny Depp has been immortalized in the name of a newly discovered fossil species from ancient Canada — a 505-million-year-old marine creature with “scissor-like claws” found by a British researcher in British Columbia’s Kootenay National Park.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Postmedia-News-Edward-Scissorhands-actor-Johnny-De]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Canadian mine yields world’s oldest free-flowing water: new research]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Locked deep in the the impermeable granite of the Canadian Shield lies a reservoir of water so ancient it may have been cut off from the surface for more than half the age of Earth itself.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-Canadian-mine-yields-world’s-ol]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Sandwich post office condition ‘shocks’ MP Masse]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The state of the Canada Post office on Sandwich Street in Windsor, Ont., shocks NDP MP Brian Masse.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/CBC-News-Sandwich-post-office-condition-‘shocks’-M]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Campbell River Courier-Islander: Shipmaster relives the Uchuck years]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[David Essson Young, the former shipmaster of the Uchuck and author of The Uchuck Years: A West Coast Shipping Saga, will be reading tales and showing photos at the Museum at Campbell River, B.C.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Campbell-River-Courier-Islander-Shipmaster-relives]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Historic dams will be torn out and rebuilt]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The middle and lower Colliery dams will be removed and Nanaimo city staff will take steps to outline steps for building two new dams to replace the historic structures, city council decided.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Nanaimo-Daily-News-Historic-dams-will-be-torn-out]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Portage Daily Graphic: Woman searches for her past]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Although her mother had been collecting documents for years, it was the War of 1812 and the British treaties that followed that got Geneva Smoke really interested in her family history and wanting to research it.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Portage-Daily-Graphic-Woman-searches-for-her-past]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Day of reckoning coming for Morden Mine]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There’s a day of reckoning coming soon for Morden Mine, a provincial “historic” park located not far from the edge of the Nanaimo, B.C.’s southern boundary.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Nanaimo-Daily-News-Day-of-reckoning-coming-for-Mor]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Historic brick factory opens for guided tours in Medicine Hat clay district]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A brick and tile factory that was forced to close because of flooding in 2010 will open for guided tours this summer in Medicine Hat’s Historic Clay District.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/The-Canadian-Press-Historic-brick-factory-opens-fo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Leap of faith gives convent new life in Guelph]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Sisters of Loretto Convent was never the architectural superstar of Catholic Hill, a collection of 19th century limestone religious and educational buildings perched high above the city of Guelph, Ont., but the former convent is now basking in the spotlight as the new home of the Guelph Civic Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-Leap-of-faith-gives-convent-new]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Plans underway to commemorate centennial of Turner Valley oil discovery]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A plan to create a museum/interpretive centre in Turner Valley, Alta., could be ready in time to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the initial discovery of oil there on May 14, 1914.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Edmonton-Journal-Plans-underway-to-commemorate-cen]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: Montreal in 50 objects]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Gazette assembled a panel of experts to identify 50 objects that tell the story of Montreal.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Montreal-Gazette-Montreal-in-50-objects]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Plans for flagship exhibit of new History museum include references to Trudeaumania, peacekeeping, and free trade]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The revamped Canadian Museum of History plans to highlight “Trudeaumania” and may even put the former prime minister’s tie on display as part of a permanent display on modern Canada, according to documents that lay out a rough plan for its exhibits.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Ottawa-Citizen-Plans-for-flagship-exhibit-of-new-H]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Eccentric community museums near Ottawa are worth a visit]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Smaller museums that showcase the communities around them pepper the Ottawa Valley. Some are mildly eccentric, others have remarkable collections.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Ottawa-Citizen-Eccentric-community-museums-near-Ot]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Toronto Police's Division 11 headquarters in historic building wins design award]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Division 11 incorporates a large portion of the 100-year-old exterior of Carleton Village Public School, an iconic structure in the west-end neighbourhood.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-Toronto-Police-s-Division-11-he]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: New ‘bone-headed’ dinosaur named after Alberta rancher whose land yielded key fossil]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Alberta cattle rancher Roy Audet says he’s proud to have the world’s newest fossil species named after him — even if the Canadian scientists who unearthed it on his property just north of the Montana border have identified the long-extinct creature as a “bone-headed dinosaur.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Postmedia-News-New-‘bone-headed’-dinosaur-named-af]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Conservatives’ interest in Canadian history raises eyebrows]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The House of Commons heritage committee has launched a study of how Canadian history is taught in schools and how easily Canadians can access historical information, but the opposition has accused the government of intruding on provincial jurisdiction and of wanting to revise history in its own image.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/CBC-News-Conservatives’-interest-in-Canadian-histo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Historic sites, national parks look for new revenue to make up for cuts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In an effort to boost visitor numbers and revenue streams, cash-strapped Parks Canada is offering a number of new initiatives just in time for its huge summer season.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-Historic-sites,-national-parks]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Nova Scotia shipwrecks swallowed by sea, ignored by government]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The rugged coastline of Nova Scotia is home to more than 10,000 shipwrecks — a coveted treasure of sailing ships, steamships and paddlewheelers, most from the 1700s and 1800s. Yet, if the delicate vessels are left unrecovered for too long, they risk becoming lost to the frigid Atlantic waters in which they dwell.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/The-Globe-and-Mail-Nova-Scotia-shipwrecks-swallowe]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Heritage fair students resurrect Canadian Avros]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Brandon Dyck and Luke Thiessen got seriously into their study of the demise of the Avro aircraft company under the Diefenbaker government, describing in intricate detail the engine design and flight capabilities of both the Arrow fighter and the Avro Car, better known as the flying-saucer project.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Winnipeg-Free-Press-Heritage-fair-students-resurre]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Canadian history comes under Conservative review in Parliament]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Federal politicians have launched a “thorough and comprehensive review of significant aspects in Canadian history” in Parliament that will be led by Conservative MPs, investigating courses taught in schools, with a focus on several armed conflicts of the past century.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Postmedia-News-Canadian-history-comes-under-Conser]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: Waterloo history conference tackles digital issues]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A talk by Canada’s chief archivist on the challenges that face memory institutions in the digital age kicked off a military history colloquium at the University of Waterloo.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Canada’s-History-Waterloo-history-conference-tackl]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: P.E.I. fossil footprints could be 290 million years old]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A geology student from Halifax is investigating a set of fossil tracks he found on the South Shore of P.E.I. that may be 290 million years old.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/CBC-News-P-E-I-fossil-footprints-could-be-290-mill]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Metro Edmonton: Royal Alberta Museum gets new POW collection]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Royal Alberta Museum has a new collection of artifacts related to the 35,000 prisoners of war that called Canadian prison camps home during the Second World War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Metro-Edmonton-Royal-Alberta-Museum-gets-new-POW-c]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Donations will keep North America’s only airworthy Lancaster bomber flying]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fundraising efforts to keep Hamilton's Lancaster bomber in the air are ahead of schedule.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/CBC-News-Donations-will-keep-North-America’s-only]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Comox Valley Echo: Battle of the Atlantic remembered in displays at Berwick]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Berwick Comox Valley is hosting The Alberni Project’s commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Comox-Valley-Echo-Battle-of-the-Atlantic-remembere]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: Shed your parka, don your sneakers: It’s Jane’s Walk weekend]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Jane’s Walks began in Toronto in 2007 and are now annual events held the first weekend of May. Named after the late urban thinker and Toronto resident Jane Jacobs, the walks have spread across Canada and to 18 countries and 90 cities, with 550 walks happening worldwide, including 148 in Toronto alone.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Toronto-Star-Shed-your-parka,-don-your-sneakers-It]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Bridge River Lillooet News: New Miyazaki House Society being formed]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Plans are underway to create a new society to restore the Miyazaki Heritage House and give it a new role in Lillooet, B.C.’s community life.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/May/Bridge-River-Lillooet-News-New-Miyazaki-House-Soci]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Metro Winnipeg: Province of Manitoba moves to protect heritage trees]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Province of Manitoba is branching out with first of its kind in Canada legislation to protect and recognize heritage trees.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Metro-Winnipeg-Province-of-Manitoba-moves-to-prote]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Comox Valley Echo: Settlers Cairn cleaned up after years of neglect]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Settlers Cairn is a historical landmark in Courtenay, B.C., but it has been a neglected heritage site for quite some time.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Comox-Valley-Echo-Settlers-Cairn-cleaned-up-after]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: 2013 Macdonald Prize finalists announced]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Historical Association has announced the finalists for the 2013 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for non-fiction Canadian history books, also known as the Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research. This year’s winner will be announced at the association’s annual meeting in June, with the Governor General’s History Awards handed out later in the year in Ottawa.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Canada’s-History-2013-Macdonald-Prize-finalists-an]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Museum paid $1.75 million for Empress of Ireland collection]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of Civilization paid $1.75 million last year to acquire artifacts recovered from the Empress of Ireland, which sank in 1914 in what is still the worst naval disaster in Canadian history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Ottawa-Citizen-Museum-paid-$1-75-million-for-Empre]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[North Shore News: Vancouver museum’s mobile app a sign of the times]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Museum of Vancouver is launching a new virtual exhibition and mobile app that's intended to encourage users to look at the history of Vancouver’s downtown neighbourhoods in a new light.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/North-Shore-News-Vancouver-museum’s-mobile-app-a-s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Toronto’s 1812 battlefield should be a memorial, not a casino]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Torontonians rarely celebrate their city and country’s history with the same splendour as our American cousins. But while Toronto residents might not always demonstrate their civic and national pride with such fervour, they certainly value our heritage and trust it will be protected and preserved by our civic leaders, says Mike Layton.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/The-Globe-and-Mail-Toronto’s-1812-battlefield-shou]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Curator numbers down sharply at civilization and war museums]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The number of curators working at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and its associate museum, the Canadian War Museum, has fallen by more than one third since 2005.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Ottawa-Citizen-Curator-numbers-down-sharply-at-civ]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Brooks Aqueduct becoming an unlikely tourist attraction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When it opened for business in 1910, the Brooks Aqueduct in southeast Alberta was the world's longest elevated concrete structure. It was an engineering marvel near the start of the last century and even today it’s an awe-inspiring sight for those who dare venture a few kilometres off the Trans-Canada Highway.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Postmedia-News-Brooks-Aqueduct-becoming-an-unlikel]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CTV News: Cool new website rewinds Toronto’s cartographic past ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new website gathers historical maps of Toronto in one location.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/CTV-News-Cool-new-website-rewinds-Toronto’s-cartog]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Celebrating a centennial with a walk through Leaside]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The formerly independent Town of Leaside, Ont., officially celebrated its 100th birthday on April 23.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/The-Globe-and-Mail-Celebrating-a-centennial-with-a]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Fish fossil from ancient Canada sheds new light on human ancestors]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A fossilized fish from ancient Canada is being hailed in a new British study as a rare portal to a key moment in evolution, when humanity’s primitive ancestors were “experimenting” with traits that would become fundamental to the diverse family of vertebrate animals.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Postmedia-News-Fish-fossil-from-ancient-Canada-she]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Soo Today: Historic chapel to receive facelift]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Bishop Fauquier Memorial Chapel, a designated Ontario historical landmark in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., is getting a makeover.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Soo-Today-Historic-chapel-to-receive-facelift]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Terrace Standard: Heritage park growing steadily]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Terrace Heritage Park Museum curator Kelsey Wiebe announced that that Terrace, B.C., has been chosen to host the BC Museums Association annual general meeting.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Terrace-Standard-Heritage-park-growing-steadily]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Agassiz Observer: Regional heritage fair winners announced]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Winners have been announced at the 17th annual Fraser Valley Regional Heritage Fair.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Agassiz-Observer-Regional-heritage-fair-winners-an]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Comox Valley Echo: Restaurant ready to move to historic Old House]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After months of painstaking work and a multitude of TLC, the Old House building is ready to receive Locals Restaurant. The property owners and restaurant owners have partnered with a contractor to bring the 1937 Comox Valley, B.C., heritage building to life again.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Comox-Valley-Echo-Restaurant-ready-to-move-to-hist]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Feds spending $1.3M on fort’s 300th anniversary]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The federal government is providing $1.3 million towards celebrations of the 300th anniversary of the founding of Louisbourg.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Postmedia-News-Feds-spending-$1-3M-on-fort’s-300th]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Refurbished train station wins heritage award]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Building projects in Nanaimo, B.C., earned six of the 11 top honours at the annual Vancouver Island Real Estate Board’s Commercial Building Awards. The Island Corridor Foundation’s refurbished heritage train station won in the heritage category and was also named the winner of the Judge’s Choice Award at the event.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Nanaimo-Daily-News-City-projects-haul-in-big-award]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Rare ‘dotted’ Canadian penny from 1936 sells for $250,000]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An ultra-rare Canadian penny has been sold at a U.S. coin auction for more than 25 million times its face value — about $253,000 Cdn.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Postmedia-News-Rare-‘dotted’-Canadian-penny-from-1]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canadian Jewish News: Jewish heritage week focuses on past and present]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The people who work daily to preserve the records of Jewish Montreal hope to change the image of archives as dusty relics of little interest to anyone but scholars of an obscure past. The first annual Jewish Montreal Heritage Week aims to raise awareness of the treasures the community holds and that modern technology is making them accessible like never before.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Canadian-Jewish-News-Jewish-heritage-week-focuses]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: History’s alive in professor’s favourite room]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A University of Calgary professor has a room in his house that is rich in history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Calgary-Herald-History’s-alive-in-professor’s-favo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Sable Island national park would allow gas drilling]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Proposed government legislation to create a new national park on Atlantic Canada’s famed Sable Island will still allow for fossil fuel exploration and drilling deep underground, Environment Minister Peter Kent told a Senate committee. Gerard Julian, co-chair and chief of the Paq’tnkek First Nation, said his people were concerned the government would fail to adequately study the historic Mi’kmaq presence on the island.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Postmedia-News-Sable-Island-national-park-would-al]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Google to map Canada’s national parks]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A deal between Parks Canada and Google Maps is allowing the global Internet giant to take its special cameras to natural and historic wonders, from L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland to British Columbia’s Pacific Rim National Park.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/The-Canadian-Press-Google-to-map-Canada’s-national]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[St. Albert Gazette: Oblate may be Western Canada's first saint ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A missionary colloquially known as “Brother Ave” is on the path toward becoming Western Canada’s first saint.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/St-Albert-Gazette-Oblate-may-be-Western-Canada-s-f]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: James Wolfe’s boyhood home evokes an important moment in Canada's history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Quebec House, a venerable red brick building, was James Wolfe’s childhood home.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Historian wants to share city’s stories]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Nanaimo, B.C., has a rich, colourful past that historian Dave Hobson wants to share.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Nanaimo-Daily-News-Historian-wants-to-share-city’s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Toronto teens win Heritage Minute contest with epic trek story]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A video by two Toronto teenagers has been crowned the best submission to The Historica-Dominion Institute’s Got a Minute? contest.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/CBC-News-Toronto-teens-win-Heritage-Minute-contest]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Kootenay News Advertiser: Rail museum head to retire]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Garry Anderson, the driving force behind the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel and the Cranbrook Archives, Museum and Landmark Foundation, will retire on April 30.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Kootenay-News-Advertiser-Rail-museum-head-to-retir]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Abbotsford-Mission Times: Heritage fair brings history to life]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canadian history came alive at a regional heritage fair in Abbotsford, B.C.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Abbotsford-Mission-Times-Heritage-fair-brings-hist]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: HMCS Sackville: a window into Canada’s naval history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Floating on the Halifax harbour is a living naval time capsule — a window into one of Canada’s great contributions to the Allied cause during the Second World War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/The-Canadian-Press-HMCS-Sackville-a-window-into-Ca]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Future of Colliery dams remains undecided]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Key presentations on the future of Nanaimo, B.C.’s middle and lower Colliery dams are expected to outline options the city could take to demolish, rebuild or restore the historic structures.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Nanaimo-Daily-News-Future-of-Colliery-dams-remains]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Victoria News: Roundhouse project courting tenants]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Victoria developer plans to transform a hundred-year-old roundhouse building into an urban magnet over the next two years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Victoria-News-Roundhouse-project-courting-tenants]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Study debunks lead poisoning theory in Franklin mystery]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A long-standing Arctic mystery has become even more baffling with research that appears to debunk a common theory about the demise of the Franklin expedition.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/The-Canadian-Press-Study-debunks-lead-poisoning-th]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Two-cent stamp worth $1M to highlight sale of Canadian postal treasures]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The greatest collection of Canadian stamps ever assembled will be split up and sold in a series of auctions beginning this fall, but only the most serious and deep-pocketed philatelists are likely to vie for pieces of the multimillion-dollar treasure of postal history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Postmedia-News-Two-cent-stamp-worth-$1M-to-highlig]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Builder seeks an accommodation with an historic Toronto street]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Toronto’s little Lombard Street offers a fascinating two-block walk.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Builder-seeks-an-accommodation-with-an-historic-To]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Many Parks Canada heritage buildings, highways in ‘poor’ condition]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Parks Canada is warning that deteriorating heritage buildings, visitor centres and other assets in Canada’s national parks and historic sites are at “significant risk” and in desperate need of repair.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Postmedia-News-Many-Parks-Canada-heritage-building]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: Canadian Encyclopedia’s founding editor retires]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After 33 years with The Canadian Encyclopedia, editor-in-chief James Marsh has retired.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Canada’s-History-Canadian-Encyclopedia’s-founding]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: UWindsor to make use of historic downtown buildings]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[By September, 2014, the University of Windsor expects to offer programs in three heritage buildings being renovated and expanded to serve 2,000 students and faculty.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/The-Globe-and-Mail-UWindsor-to-make-use-of-histori]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Historic Calgary apartments to shelter women fleeing violence]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A brick-and-sandstone building built by druggist James Findlay in 1909 is being turned into social housing for single women.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/CBC-News-Historic-Calgary-apartments-to-shelter-wo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Ancient Ellesmere Island fish fossil honours scientist Martin Bergmann]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The discovery of a fish fossil on Ellesmere Island that’s around 375 million years old has led a team of U.S. researchers to identify a new, metre-long predator from Paleozoic Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/April/Postmedia-News-Ancient-Ellesmere-Island-fish-fossi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Long-shot longhouse dreams gain support ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Coast Salish village of Xwáýxway, or Place of Masks, is thought to have stood for thousands of years on Burrard Inlet near Vancouver’s Lumberman’s Arch, before it was knocked down in the 1800s. A proposal being discussed within the urban native community, and with city planning groups, would see up to six longhouses built in the city’s Downtown Eastside.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-Long-shot-longhouse-dreams-gain]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Downtown building to be restored to former glory]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A historic downtown Nanaimo, B.C., building is going to be restored to its former glory by a local tech entrepreneur.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Nanaimo-Daily-News-Downtown-building-to-be-restore]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Grey Nuns leave historic Montreal convent for university students]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Concordia University bought a century-old Grey Nuns convent six years ago, with the caveat that some sisters would live in a portion of the building till 2022. But on the eve of Good Friday, the last of the elderly nuns left the mother house forever.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-Grey-Nuns-leave-historic-Montre]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Hamilton to host tall ships, battle re-enactments as part of War of 1812 bicentennial]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Tall ships. Military bands. Battle re-enactments. All of these attractions and more will be on display in Hamilton as part of the continuing observances surrounding the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/CBC-News-Hamilton-to-host-tall-ships,-battle-re-en]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Alberta’s Badlands get tourism push]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hoodoos, coulees, and dinosaur bones will be this summer's must-see tourist attractions, if Canadian Badlands has anything to say about it. The non-profit corporation has channelled $15 million into building up southeast Alberta’s tourism potential over the past seven years and is being praised by the provincial government as a “new model for tourism development.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Calgary-Herald-Alberta’s-Badlands-get-tourism-push]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Arthur Erickson’s home faces the wrecking ball]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Once the beloved refuge of acclaimed architect Arthur Erickson, a modest Vancouver cottage will face the wrecking ball unless preservationists find donors to combat a mountain of debt.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-Arthur-Erickson’s-home-faces-th]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Rare 1936 Canadian ‘dot cent’ set to sell at U.S. auction for pretty penny]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Just weeks after the Canadian penny was pulled out of circulation, the single most famous one-cent coin ever produced in this country — an “exceedingly rare” and valuable 1936 “dot cent” stolen from a U.S. collector in 1964, then mysteriously returned to him — is set to be sold at an American auction for at least $250,000.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Postmedia-News-Rare-1936-Canadian-‘dot-cent’-set-t]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: A ship’s prow breaks through on Toronto’s King Street]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The shape of a hulking four-tonne cast-bronze sculpture at the northwest corner of Toronto’s Charlotte Street and King Street West is derived from the profile of a Great Lakes freighter of the sort that plied the waters of Lake Ontario at the turn of the last century.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-A-ship’s-prow-breaks-through-on]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Dawson City preserves its golden memories]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[At Dawson City, people enthusiastically immerse themselves in grit of the enduring gold rush ambience.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Postmedia-News-Dawson-City-preserves-its-golden-me]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Regina Leader-Post: Sask. government offers $50,000 for military history project]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The military history project announced in a single sentence of the latest provincial budget could be educating Saskatchewanians long after some other provisions in the document are forgotten.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Regina-Leader-Post-Sask-government-offers-$50,000]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Predicting future climate change may lie in the past ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The key to predicting future climate change may lie buried in some of Canada’s oldest weather records, including the 1745 observations of a Montreal doctor and logbooks from William Parry’s 1819 voyage to the Arctic.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-Predicting-future-climate-chang]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: College program aims to preserve and promote culture]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Museum curators might need gloves to handle the treasures behind the glass, but it also takes an artful hand to balance the books.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Toronto-Star-College-program-aims-to-preserve-and]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Wetaskiwin Times: Alberta museum adds unique airplane to its large collection]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Reynolds-Alberta Museum has reached a significant milestone when it comes to its aircraft collection.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Wetaskiwin-Times-Alberta-museum-adds-unique-airpla]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Rebuilt Canadian ‘Wooden Wonder’ flies again]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When the world’s last airworthy Mosquito fighter-bomber crashed at a British air show in 1996, the tragic deaths of the two men on board the Second World War-era plane were compounded by the heartbreaking loss to global aviation heritage. But another of its kind has soared back into the sky after an eight-year, multinational, multimillion-dollar restoration.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Postmedia-News-Rebuilt-Canadian-‘Wooden-Wonder’-fl]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: War of 1812 memorial artists caught off-guard by change in competition rules]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Artists who were recently dropped from a competition to create a monument commemorating the War of 1812 say they are surprised that the selection process was changed after they spent months working on their designs and that the government, and not a jury of experts, will choose the ultimate winner]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-War-of-1812-memorial-artists-ca]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[South Shore Now: Bridgewater museum readies for re-enactment]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A heritage project showcase and a war history education re-enactment are on the agenda of the Bridgewater, N.S., museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/South-Shore-Now-Bridgewater-museum-readies-for-re]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Shaunavon Standard: Colossal dinosaur fossil unveiled at Saskatchewan museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A massive skeleton replica of Scotty the T.rex has been officially unveiled at the T.rex Discovery Centre in Eastend, Sask.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Shaunavon-Standard-Colossal-dinosaur-fossil-unveil]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: History recovered as RCMP find artifacts in Halifax home]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Police allege a Nova Scotia man has for more than 20 years decorated his walls and bookcases with rare books, antiques and historic pieces from all over Atlantic Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-History-recovered-as-RCMP-find]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Long-struggling Vancouver Maritime Museum charts new course]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For many, the Vancouver Maritime Museum is about one thing: the St. Roch, an RCMP schooner that was the first ship to completely circumnavigate North America and the first to sail west to east through the Northwest Passage. But the museum is trying to make waves with out-of-the-ship-bottle programming as it charts a course for new relevancy.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-Long-struggling-Vancouver-Marit]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Montreal Gazette: City’s natural history shaped today’s urban mix]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Montreal is unmatched for its rich heritage, unique natural setting, vibrant neighbourhoods and cultural effervescence. An island tilted toward the morning sun, a succession of plateaus descending from the mountain to the river — until a century ago, much of present-day Montreal was dotted by apple orchards and melon patches, and crossed by winding country roads.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Montreal-Gazette-City’s-natural-history-shaped-tod]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Comox Valley Echo: Another historic home moves to valley]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Comox Valley is becoming known as a destination for century-old heritage homes, after the third such home in under a year arrived on a barge before being trucked to its new lot.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Automatiste Marcel Barbeau among winners of GG for art]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Automatiste painter and sculptor Marcel Barbeau is among the latest winners of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/CBC-News-Automatiste-Marcel-Barbeau-among-winners]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: New logo, old name: The Bay returns to its roots]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hudson’s Bay Co. has unveiled a large-scale rebranding of its company and store logos, retiring the highly recognizable big B logo that has been the face of its flagship stores since 1965.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-New-logo,-old-name-The-Bay-retu]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: U.S. historians shed light on young slave’s 1860 escape — to Vancouver Island]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two U.S. historians have shed new light on a little-known but powerful story from 19th-century Canada, when black settlers on Vancouver Island orchestrated the dramatic escape of a 12-year-old slave from his master in Washington territory, on the U.S. side of the border.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Postmedia-News-U-S-historians-shed-light-on-young]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Chinese-Canadian researcher honours her heritage]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Vancouver Island University anthropology chair Imogene Lim’s projects focus on preserving the culture of Chinese Canadians.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Nanaimo-Daily-News-Chinese-Canadian-researcher-hon]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Parks Canada to outsource tours at Yukon historic sites]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Private business operators will be able to provide guided tours at two national historic sites in the Yukon.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/CBC-News-Parks-Canada-to-outsource-tours-at-Yukon]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: A Métis victory 140 years in the making]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada’s Métis people are rejoicing, but the federal government could be looking at a multibillion-dollar bill to compensate for its wrongdoing more than a century ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-A-Metis-victory-140-years-in-th]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Historic Manitoba photos repatriated]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A key historic photo of Louis Riel has been returned to Manitoba.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Winnipeg-Free-Press-Historic-Manitoba-photos-repat]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Public will get say in War of 1812 monument, government pledges]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The public may yet get a chance to weigh in on the competing designs for the new monument to the War of 1812 on Parliament Hill.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Ottawa-Citizen-Public-will-get-say-in-War-of-1812]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Culture24: Pitt Rivers takes Canadian tribal attire to Oxford in The Blackfoot Shirts Project]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The detective work required to trace the trail spun by the Blackfoot shirts, a set of three eye-catching robes collected from a Canadian tribe in 1841, is an intricate business.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Culture24-Pitt-Rivers-takes-Canadian-tribal-attire]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Supreme Court backs Métis in historic Manitoba land claim]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In a case that looks back to the time of Louis Riel and Sir John A. Macdonald, the Supreme Court has determined that the Government of Canada failed in its obligations to the Métis under the 1870 agreement that brought Manitoba into Confederation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-Supreme-Court-backs-Metis-in-hi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Vancouver preservationists lament a tide of bulldozers]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There is a quiet war being waged against Vancouver’s fine old houses, which are coming down at such an alarming rate that the Kerrisdale neighbourhood looks like it’s under siege. The destruction of beautifully crafted, perfectly sound houses — many of them renovated and upgraded — is a loss of heritage and an inconceivable waste, too.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-Vancouver-preservationists-lame]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Historic jellybean houses likely unsalvageable]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It is unlikely Saint John, N.B.’s jellybean buildings will be saved by private sector developers, says a city councillor.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/CBC-News-Historic-jellybean-houses-likely-unsalvag]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Stompin’ Tom: Canada’s rough-cut bard leaves behind a rich folk-music legacy ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Stompin’ Tom Connors leaves behind a legacy as rich as could ever be thought possible for a folk-music composer.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-Stompin’-Tom-Canada’s-rough-cut]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: The Bay unveils history-inspired rebranding]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Bay is going back to its roots under a plan to rebrand its operations with a different name and new logo.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/CBC-News-The-Bay-unveils-history-inspired-rebrandi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Next stop on the camel caravan: Canada’s High Arctic]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Camels used to live in Canada’s High Arctic. It seems unlikely, but 3½ million years ago Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island was a totally different place.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/CBC-News-Next-stop-on-the-camel-caravan-Canada’s-H]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Century-old set of hockey cards tops $100K at sports auction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A complete set of 45 of the earliest known hockey cards produced in Canada sold for more than $100,000 through an online sports memorabilia auction in Quebec.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Postmedia-News-Century-old-set-of-hockey-cards-top]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Naval memorial in Halifax gets funding from Ottawa]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The federal government is making a financial contribution to preserve HMCS Sackville in Halifax as a naval memorial.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/CBC-News-Naval-memorial-in-Halifax-gets-funding-fr]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Are video games like Assassin’s Creed rewriting history?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[If you know the American Revolution, Assassin’s Creed may have you twitching. A Mohawk fighting for the Americans against the Redcoats? Very, very unlikely: The British promised natives could keep their land, whereas the Americans wanted to (and did) take it away.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-Are-video-games-like-Assassin’s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Canada’s golden immigrants from China remembered in exhibit]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The golden history that links British Columbia and China is on display through a new exhibit of photographs.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/CBC-News-Canada’s-golden-immigrants-from-China-rem]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: ‘Triumph’ of 1901 Winnipeg lecture helped launch Winston Churchill on path to greatness: author]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new biography chronicling the early years of Winston Churchill’s political career has turned a spotlight on the future British prime minister’s 1901 speaking tour across Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/Postmedia-News-‘Triumph’-of-1901-Winnipeg-lecture]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: The Charles Taylor Prize finalists on truth, history and writing]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The five writers on this year’s Charles Taylor Prize short list talk about the trials of crafting non-fiction and whether the truth can ever be told.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-The-Charles-Taylor-Prize-finali]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Sir John A. Macdonald had family ties to slave trade]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Sir John A. Macdonald is best known to Canadians as the country’s first prime minister and a father of Confederation. He also had a family connection to the slave trade, and a new database shows just how much his father-in-law received in compensation from the British government in return for freeing roughly 100 slaves in 1833.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/March/The-Globe-and-Mail-Sir-John-A-Macdonald-had-family]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Why turf an oasis of Toronto’s urban heritage?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada’s largest university, set in the heart of downtown Toronto, is preparing to drastically shrink its campus green space to build new artificial-turf playing fields for elite athletes.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/The-Globe-and-Mail-Why-turf-an-oasis-of-Toronto’s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Glasgow memorial still planned for Sir John A. despite sale of possible birthplace]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The City of Glasgow has pledged to carry through with a planned downtown memorial to native son Sir John A. Macdonald despite the expected sale of a derelict property that’s long been touted as the possible birthplace of Canada’s founding prime minister.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/Postmedia-News-Glasgow-memorial-still-planned-for]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Richard Serra’s installation Shift set to become a site of ‘cultural heritage value’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A sprawling outdoor concrete installation by one of the world’s most famous living sculptors, New York’s Richard Serra, is going to be designated a site of “cultural heritage value” by the Ontario municipality in which the work, called Shift, is found.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/The-Globe-and-Mail-Richard-Serra’s-installation-Sh]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Will proposed building take glow away from Vancouver’s City Hall? ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There is a fear that Vancouver’s historic art-deco City Hall, which sits on a north-facing slope where it dominates views from the city’s downtown, is about to get a very large neighbour.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/The-Globe-and-Mail-Will-proposed-building-take-glo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Oakville Beaver: Residents recognized for keeping past and present alive]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Oakville, Ont., residents who work to preserve the town’s heritage were recognized with the Ontario Heritage Trust Awards during a ceremony at Town Hall.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/Oakville-Beaver-Residents-recognized-for-keeping-p]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Author preserved Canadian soldiers’ stories]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Reginald Roy wrote or edited a dozen books of biography and military history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/The-Globe-and-Mail-Author-preserved-Canadian-soldi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Annapolis County Spectator: Sinclair Inn earns Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia award]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Sinclair Inn Museum, a Provincial Heritage Site and National Historic Site of Canada in Annapolis Royal, is the winner in the institutional category in preserving Nova Scotia’s built heritage for 2012 by Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/Annapolis-County-Spectator-Sinclair-Inn-earns-Heri]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Owen Sound Sun Times: Milestone for black history journal ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The only ongoing black history journal in Canada hit a milestone this year with the release of its 10th volume.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/Owen-Sound-Sun-Times-Milestone-for-local-black-his]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Canadian stamp that sold for 12 cents in 1851 nets $225,000 at auction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An unidentified buyer has paid one of the biggest prices ever for a single Canadian stamp, shelling out about $225,000 at a sale in Halifax for a 162-year-old rarity that cost just 12 cents when it was issued in 1851.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/Postmedia-News-Canadian-stamp-that-sold-for-12-cen]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: War of 1812 extravaganza failed to excite Canadians, poll shows]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The year-long celebration of the War of 1812’s bicentennial is over, and Canada is $30-million poorer, but many Canadians say they feel no greater sense of affinity for their country as a result of the federally instigated hoopla]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/The-Globe-and-Mail-War-of-1812-extravaganza-failed]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CTV News: Parliament Hill renovations unearth amazing historic discovery]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Restoration crews have discovered frescoes hidden for decades in the walls of an office formerly belonging to long-time prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/CTV-News-Parliament-Hill-renovations-unearth-amazi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: First inductees into Manitoba Business Hall of Fame named]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Manitoba has become the seventh province to get its own Business Hall of Fame.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/Winnipeg-Free-Press-First-inductees-into-Manitoba]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Lumpy, deflated basketball of Canadian Olympic lore hits U.S. auction block]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The game ball from the first-ever Olympic gold-medal basketball match, where the United States defeated Canada 19-8 at the 1936 Berlin Games, is being given up by the son of a losing Canadian player who secretly “swiped” the mud-splattered souvenir after the final whistle blew.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/Postmedia-News-Lumpy,-deflated-basketball-of-Canad]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Canada’s oldest shipwreck to be resurrected in replica of 16th-century Basque galleon]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The oldest shipwreck ever found in Canada and one of the most important in the world, a 16th-century Basque whaling galleon that lies at the bottom of Labrador’s Red Bay, is to be resurrected by a team of Spanish maritime heritage experts planning to construct a full-scale, seaworthy replica of the original 16-metre, three-masted vessel.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/Postmedia-News-Canada’s-oldest-shipwreck-to-be-res]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: High-tech safe houses in Ontario bring new meaning to sustainable archeology]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Archaeologists are working to launch new facilities to sort and store Ontario’s historical treasures and give researchers easy access to them.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/The-Globe-and-Mail-High-tech-safe-houses-in-Ontari]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: New study slams theory that meteorite struck ice-age Canada and killed off mammoths]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A controversial theory that a massive meteorite struck Canada about 13,000 years ago — then wreaked havoc on global climate, Ice Age mega-mammals and early human occupants of North America — has taken yet another scientific hit, perhaps dooming the impact hypothesis to the same fate as the woolly mammoths whose extinction it purportedly helped explain.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/Postmedia-News-New-study-slams-theory-that-meteori]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Newfoundland birds were the heart of extinct Beothuk nation’s religion, study says]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Archeologists have shed stunning new light on the extinct Beothuk nation of Newfoundland, revealing that the ill-fated people placed birds at the centre of their complex religious cosmology, believing the winged creatures were “spiritual messengers” that carried the souls of the dead to an “island afterlife.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/Postmedia-News--Newfoundland-birds-were-the-heart-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: ‘Starchitect’ to pay homage to Old Stock Exchange Building in Vancouver]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Take a $200-million development proposal, add Swiss expertise to Canadian know-how, then let the planning begin in earnest to preserve and expand Vancouver’s Old Stock Exchange Building.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--‘Starchitect’-to-pay-homage-to]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Vancouver developers of heritage properties convert homes and hearts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It’s a natural that the conversion of big old mansions into multiple-unit housing can boost density and protect our heritage in the process As one of Vancouver’s developers found out the hard way, one of the biggest sticking points is if the neighbourhood will allow it.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--Vancouver-developers-of-herita]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Bridgepoint Hospital shines light on a dark past]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Toronto’s historic Don Jail used to be a place of darkness, virtually a fortress, cut off from the rest of the city by the Don River. It was the site of several hangings — but it’s now a place of healing, refurbished and connected by a glass bridge to the new Bridgepoint Hospital.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--Bridgepoint-Hospital-shines-li]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: PM Harper’s history of hockey book debuts in November]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s long-awaited book about hockey will debut in November, publisher Simon & Schuster has announced.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/CBC-News--PM-Harper’s-history-of-hockey-book-debut]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Burnaby NewsLeader: Historical photos of Japanese-Canadian internment now accessible online]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Historical photographs depicting the Japanese-Canadian internment are now available for viewing online through the Burnaby-based Nikkei National Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/Burnaby-NewsLeader--Historical-photos-of-Japanese-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Victoria Times Colonist: Victoria’s Chinatown shares its rich history in exhibit at Royal B.C. Museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Tradition in Felicities, an exhibit at the Royal B.C. Museum, features historic maps and photos as well as video interviews about life in the country’s oldest Chinatown and how Chinese New Year was celebrated in the mid-20th century.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/Victoria-Times-Colonist--Victoria’s-Chinatown-shar]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: 35 years on, St. Lawrence is a template for urban housing ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A downtown Toronto neighbourhood crafted in the 1970s shows that the magic is in the mix.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--35-years-on,-St--Lawrence-is-a]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Black History Month celebrated in Nanaimo]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Along with the opportunity to learn the stories of notable local black pioneers, month-long events offer the chance to take in some musical and literary acts presented by the Nanaimo African Heritage Society.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/Nanaimo-Daily-News--Black-History-Month-celebrated]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Why Canada’s A-list wants to save Al Purdy’s A-Frame ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Out of an alarm about the imminent destruction of the famous backwoods cabin where poet Al Purdy magically emerged as the seminal voice of a new Canadian literature, the Al Purdy A-Frame Association has spent years scavenging support in hopes of saving the cabin and giving it new life as a retreat for emerging writers.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--Why-Canada’s-A-list-wants-to-s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: New history museum will ‘pleasantly surprise’ Canadians, CEO predicts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For the past three months — since Minister of Canadian Heritage James Moore announced that the capital’s most popular museum would be getting a new mandate and new name, the Canadian Museum of History — Mark O’Neill and his officials have travelled the country, attending nine public meetings to hear the views of about 500 Canadians about the pending change.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/Ottawa-Citizen--New-history-museum-will-‘pleasantl]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Lancaster repair costs soar, warplane museum appeals for help]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hamilton’s warplane museum is making a public plea for donations to help keep its famous World War II Lancaster bomber flying.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/CBC-News--Lancaster-repair-costs-soar,-warplane-mu]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Canadian family, researcher key to dramatic announcement: Richard III’s remains found]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Canadian family’s ancient royal bloodline has proven crucial in finally resolving a 528-year-old mystery surrounding the whereabouts of King Richard III’s remains.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/Postmedia-News--Canadian-family,-researcher-key-to]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: A rich heritage is celebrated with Black History Month ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It’s February, and students across Canada are celebrating Black History Month and the rich heritage, achievements and contributions of African and Caribbean Canadians.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/Toronto-Star--A-rich-heritage-is-celebrated-with-B]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[St. Catharines Standard: Embracing Niagara’s black history ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[February is Black History Month — and it’s a history in which Ontario’s Niagara region played a big role. St. Catharines was a stop on the Underground Railroad for slaves escaping the U.S.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/February/St--Catharines-Standard--Embracing-Niagara’s-black]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[London Community News: Searching for the Avro Arrow: Diver on cusp of supersonic discovery]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A London, Ont., diving instructor believes she is “this close” to finding at least one long-lost test model of the legendary Avro Arrow.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/London-Community-News--Searching-for-the-Avro-Arro]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Restoration project aims to breathe new life into Victoria’s Old Town]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There are new plans to convert the long-abandoned warehouses of Victoria’s Old Town into restaurants with patios and also to create a waterfront boardwalk that would be open to the public.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/The-Globe-and-Mail--Restoration-project-aims-to-br]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Princely car from 1927 royal visit to Canada emerges at U.K. auction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A customized, Canadian-built luxury car that was used to ferry two royals, including a future king, during their 1927 tour of Canada has emerged from the obscurity of a private collection in Britain to be auctioned in March at a Bonhams sale of antique automobiles.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/Postmedia-News--Princely-car-from-1927-royal-visit]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Tafelmusik seeks $2.5-million to transform Toronto church into concert hall]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra is looking for $2.5 million to make a church sound more like a concert hall, while preserving its religious functions and historic architecture.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/The-Globe-and-Mail--Tafelmusik-seeks-$2-5-million-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: 249-year-old home moved through Halifax streets]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It's not often you see a 249-year-old home making its way through the winding streets of Halifax, but Morris House has done just that. Moved with painstaking care, the house will breathe new life as affordable housing.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/The-Canadian-Press--249-year-old-home-moved-throug]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: A suit of armour, General Wolfe letter in collection of stolen goods, police say ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[RCMP held a show-and-tell featuring some of the nearly 1,300 items seized from a two-storey home in Fall River, N.S., believed to be from universities, libraries, museums, antique dealers and private collections and worth more than $500,000. The Mounties say their investigation began when officers pulled over a car last July and found a letter written by Gen. Wolfe. The one-of-a-kind note, dated 1758, had disappeared from Dalhousie University’s archives years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/The-Canadian-Press--A-suit-of-armour,-General-Wolf]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Canada Post building in downtown Vancouver sold]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Vancouver’s distinctive main Canada Post office has been sold to a giant B.C.-based pension and government fund manager. The 1958 modernist building has been designated as an endangered historic site by Heritage Vancouver, ever since Canada Post announced two years ago that it was building a new mail-processing plant close to the Vancouver International Airport that would open by 2014.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/The-Globe-and-Mail--Canada-Post-building-in-downto]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Canadian troops’ Korean War hockey games inspire commemoration 60 years later]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canadian and South Korean officials are preparing to rekindle 60-year-old memories of morale-boosting hockey games played by Canadian troops on a frozen river amid the battlefields of the Korean War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/Postmedia-News--Canadian-troops’-Korean-War-hockey]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Vancouver mayor hopes city can help save Waldorf]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has moved to try to resolve the uncertainty swirling around the future of the much-loved Waldorf Hotel on East Hastings Street, which has become a cultural hotspot in recent years. In a statement released Friday, following meetings with many of those involved with the property, the mayor said he is taking action to protect the hotel and “its heritage values.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/The-Globe-and-Mail--Vancouver-mayor-hopes-city-can]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Sir John A. Macdonald statue vandalized: ‘This is stolen land’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Sir John A. Macdonald statue, located in a park in Kingston, Ont., was splattered with paint. The words “This is stolen land,” “murderer” and “colonizer” were sprayed on the statue’s base.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/The-Canadian-Press--Sir-John-A--Macdonald-statue-v]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Vandalism mars funding announcement for John A. Macdonald bicentennial]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Plans for a major federal announcement about the upcoming 200th anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald’s birth in 2015 were marred after the Kingston, Ont., statue of Canada’s first prime minister was defaced with red paint and the words “This is Stolen Land,” “Murderer” and “Colonizer.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/Postmedia-News--Vandalism-mars-funding-announcemen]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Hamilton planes play role in Air Aces WWII documentary]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[If you catch the History Channel’s new WWII documentary series Air Aces, watch for the Lancaster bomber and Spitfire fighter from Hamilton’s Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/CBC-News--Hamilton-planes-play-role-in-Air-Aces-WW]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Charles Taylor Prize short list announced]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Biographies of National Ballet of Canada founder Celia Franca and poet P.K. Page, as well as a book about Canada’s wartime prime ministers, are among the finalists for the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/CBC-News--Charles-Taylor-Prize-short-list-announce]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: First Regina legion to be partially demolished]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Cherished photos are packed away, the dance hall is long silent and the lights are about to be turned off for the last time in the auditorium of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 001 Regina.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/CTV-News--First-Regina-legion-to-be-partially-demo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Halifax Chronicle Herald: Big plans in store for historic corvette]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Much has been done to commemorate and preserve HMCS Sackville, the Second World War navy corvette that is berthed on the Halifax waterfront. Now the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust, the group that restored the ship after saving it from the scrapyard, is embarking on a much bigger project: a complete naval heritage centre built around the vessel.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/Halifax-Chronicle-Herald--Big-plans-in-store-for-h]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: To treasure or tear down Hamilton’s Victorian storefronts? The debate rages]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Near the heart of Hamilton sit four Victorian commercial buildings, forming an even street wall on the south side of Gore Park. Two of these storefronts were designed in the 1840s by William Thomas, the storied architect responsible for Toronto’s St. Lawrence Hall; the others were constructed some thirty years later.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/The-Globe-and-Mail--To-treasure-or-tear-down-Hamil]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Halifax Chronicle Herald: Pictou, N.S., bids farewell to old house]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A dusting of snow coating the debris from the demolition of a 203-year-old Pictou, N.S., mansion didn’t make the loss of the landmark any easier to bear.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/Halifax-Chronicle-Herald--Pictou,-N-S-,-bids-farew]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Ski Museum narrows search for new home]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Ski Museum has narrowed its search for a new home to one of five potential locations, all outside Ottawa. The museum, which also includes the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame, has more than 15,000 artifacts but most of those are currently in storage lockers.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2013/January/CBC-News--Ski-Museum-narrows-search-for-new-home]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Putting Vancouver’s history online]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Surrounded by battered volumes of Vancouver directories from the early 20th century, bronze busts, and old maps, the three people who lead the Vancouver Archives can’t stop talking about the future.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/The-Globe-and-Mail--The-new-Canadian-Museum-of-(1)]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Citizens push back at Saint-Lambert’s plan to raze ‘modern cathedral’ of hockey]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Barring a last-minute intervention, the Eric Sharp Arena in Saint-Lambert, Que., will be demolished to make way for a spiffy $10.8-million rink.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/The-Globe-and-Mail--Citizens-push-back-at-Saint-La]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Time to get the BNA Act into Canadian hands, former archivist says]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The piece of legislation from which all of modern Canadian history flows is kept at the Palace of Westminster, Britain’s parliamentary precinct in downtown London.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Postmedia-News--Time-to-get-the-BNA-Act-into-Canad]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Once upon a time, ‘coalition’ wasn’t a dirty word in politics]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In the summer of 1864, three men held the future of a backwoods colony in their hands. Fortunately, they put aside their political, religious and ethnic differences and joined hands to create what was then called a “Great Coalition” in Central Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Postmedia-News--Once-upon-a-time,-‘coalition’-wasn]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Perils and petticoats]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The commemoration of the War of 1812 offered a chance to remember some of the remarkable women from that time in Canada’s history, writes Kurt Johnson.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Ottawa-Citizen--Perils-and-petticoats]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Ethnic communities to mark 150th by focusing on ‘Canadian’ values]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As Canada contemplates its sesquicentennial in 2017, ethnic communities say official commemorations ought to be inclusive and reflective of the immigrant experience — the good, the bad and the ugly.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Postmedia-News--Ethnic-communities-to-mark-150th-b]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Postmedia-News--Government-urged-to-get-planning-f]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Government urged to get planning for party]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It isn’t yet clear what the federal government thinks the country’s sesquicentennial will look like. And many provinces haven’t started their own planning for 2017, with some indicating they’re waiting on federal funding announcements and others saying it’s too early.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Postmedia-News--Government-urged-to-get-planning-f]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Celebration tempered with sadness for indigenous peoples]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[How does a nation adequately temper its celebratory instincts to also honestly, solemnly acknowledge that during the past century and a half not everything has gone well, particularly for the indigenous inhabitants of the sprawling land that would become modern Canada?]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Postmedia-News--Celebration-tempered-with-sadness-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Let’s rethink Louis Riel’s role, says Metis president]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[High school students across the country could be forgiven for thinking Louis Riel’s main role in Canadian history is as the subject of dry essay questions.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Postmedia-News--Let’s-rethink-Louis-Riel’s-role,-s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Rare items held in Calgary’s Glenbow Museum storage]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Calgary's Glenbow Museum displays many stories of Canada, but in the back room there are artifacts from thousands of other tales that are carefully catalogued, studied and stored away.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/CBC-News--Rare-items-held-in-Calgary’s-Glenbow-Mus]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Parkdale-Villager--Construction-underway-on-Fort-Y]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Parkdale Villager: Construction underway on Fort York visitor centre]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The 43 acres in Toronto’s downtown west end that make up the Fort York National Historic site are of huge civic significance in Toronto’s founding landscape.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Parkdale-Villager--Construction-underway-on-Fort-Y]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Postmedia-News--The-politics-of-celebrating-our-hi]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: The politics of celebrating our history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The approaching 150th anniversary of Confederation has already inspired one showcase sesquicentennial project and, just as quickly, sparked the event’s first controversy: the Conservative government’s decision not to appoint an independent commission to oversee what promises to be the biggest cross-Canada celebration since 1967.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Postmedia-News--The-politics-of-celebrating-our-hi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Citizen movement may define the party in the West]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Western provinces were not originally part of Confederation in 1867, yet there is no shortage of enthusiasm or ideas about how the West can put its stamp on Canada’s 150th birthday celebrations in 2017.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Postmedia-News--Citizen-movement-may-define-the-pa]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Youth travel programs needed to ‘build Canadians,’ Michael Bliss says]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Forty-five years ago, a young graduate student named Michael Bliss arrived in Victoria, taking in the West Coast landscape and the Pacific Ocean for the first time. Canada’s centennial was what brought the then-26-year-old out west.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Postmedia-News--Youth-travel-programs-needed-to-‘b]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Getting paid to dig up the past]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Most archaeology in Canada is performed not by academics, but by private firms examining building sites before the developers move in with bulldozers.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/The-Globe-and-Mail--Getting-paid-to-dig-up-the-pas]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC Hamilton: Old downtown church gets big reno]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[All Saints Anglican church rose at the corner of King and Queen in 1872. The congregation has just invested nearly $2 million to give a 130-year-old building a future.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/CBC-Hamilton--Old-downtown-church-gets-big-reno]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/CBC-News--Laurier-LaPierre,-ex-senator-and-broadca]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Laurier LaPierre, ex-senator and broadcaster, dies at 83]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Retired senator Laurier LaPierre, who co-hosted CBC Television's influential and controversial current affairs program This Hour Has Seven Days in the 1960s, has died at age 83.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/CBC-News--Laurier-LaPierre,-ex-senator-and-broadca]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: The new Canadian Museum of History: Whose history will it tell?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of Civilization will emerge from renovations in 2017 to become the new Canadian Museum of History just in time for the 150th anniversary of Confederation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/The-Globe-and-Mail--The-new-Canadian-Museum-of-His]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/The-Globe-and-Mail--Special-Insert---Governor-Gene]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Special Insert - Governor General's History Awards]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The next few years will see historical commemorations like never before. And controversies? Those too.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/The-Globe-and-Mail--Special-Insert---Governor-Gene]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Good riddance, Disneyland North]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The image of Canada presented in the Museum of Civilization is mealy-mouthed and out of date, writes Charlotte Gray.
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     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Ottawa-Citizen--Good-riddance,-Disneyland-North]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: Canadian Museum of History: A chance to embrace our national narrative]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It’s hard to believe, but Canada has never really had a national museum about its history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Toronto-Star--Canadian-Museum-of-History--A-chance]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Halifax Explosion memories recorded on Twitter]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Nova Scotia Archives are turning to a modern use of communication to mark the 95th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/CBC-News--Halifax-Explosion-memories-recorded-on-T]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Halifax-Chronicle-Herald--History-video-earns-nati]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Halifax Chronicle Herald: History video earns national honours for boy]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Brandon Snyder, 11, was one of the six young students from across Canada to have their video featured at the National History Forum in Ottawa.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Halifax-Chronicle-Herald--History-video-earns-nati]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Cowichan-Valley-Citizen--Historic-Old-Esquimalt-Ro]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Cowichan Valley Citizen: Historic Old Esquimalt Road to be officially honoured]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Vancouver Island’s first real road is set to become its first road to receive heritage status.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Cowichan-Valley-Citizen--Historic-Old-Esquimalt-Ro]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Met Theatre’s faded beauty restored by renovations]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Winnipeg’s nearly 93-year-old Metropolitan Theatre, now to be known as the Met Entertainment Centre, has been fully restored.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/December/Winnipeg-Free-Press--Met-Theatre’s-faded-beauty-re]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: 18th-century P.E.I. estate targeted by descendents]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Descendents of one of P.E.I.'s earliest European settlers are working to purchase his 18th-century estate and have it designated a national historic site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/CBC-News--18th-century-P-E-I--estate-targeted-by-d]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Oldest wooden church in Canada designated a national historic site]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Sainte-Croix-de-Tadoussac Mission Church, built between 1747 and 1750 at the confluence of the Saguenay and St. Lawrence rivers in Quebec and considered Canada's oldest wooden church, has been designated a national historic site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/The-Canadian-Press--Oldest-wooden-church-in-Canada]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: New hotel at CNE to tell story of early Toronto]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new hotel to be built on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto will give visitors a rare glimpse of the city’s military history by incorporating the archeological remains of an old barracks long buried under a parking lot.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/The-Globe-and-Mail--New-hotel-at-CNE-to-tell-story]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: La Liberté set to celebrate its 100th anniversary]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Manitoba’s only French weekly newspaper is set to mark its 100th anniversary with a series of events in 2013.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/Winnipeg-Free-Press--La-Liberte-set-to-celebrate-i]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Shipwreck from 1908 found in South Saskatchewan River]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Archeologists say they have found what they believe is the wreck of a steamship that sank in the South Saskatchewan River more than a century ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/The-Canadian-Press--Shipwreck-from-1908-found-in-S]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Assassin’s Creed III video game distorts history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Assassin’s Creed III is an historical-action video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal in which players join the “continental army in a war for freedom.” The goal of this Canadian-developed game is to “hunt down the British redcoats.” Whose side is Ubisoft Montreal on, anyway?]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/The-Globe-and-Mail--Assassin’s-Creed-III-video-gam]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: Canadian Air and Space Museum seeks a soft landing at Toronto’s Pearson Airport]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Greater Toronto Airports Authority has agreed to help the struggling, and currently homeless, Canadian Air and Space Museum find a new site for its aircraft and artifact collection — including a replica of the legendary Canadian-built Avro Arrow fighter jet — at Pearson International Airport.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/Toronto-Star--Canadian-Air-and-Space-Museum-seeks-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: A.Y. Jackson canvas shows Canadian mine that fuelled atomic bomb]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An all-but-forgotten painting by the Group of Seven’s A.Y. Jackson, a large canvas on which the renowned artist depicts the Northwest Territories mine that produced uranium for the world’s first atomic bomb, has emerged from the obscurity of a private collection.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/Postmedia-News--A-Y--Jackson-canvas-shows-Canadian]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Kitchener-Waterloo Record: Explore Canada’s storied military past at museums]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Superb collections of armoured vehicles, historic aircraft and military artifacts of all kinds can be found within a few hours of Waterloo, Ont., at some of the best military museums in Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/Kitchener-Waterloo-Record--Explore-Canada’s-storie]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Iconic ‘La Maison des Canadiens’ overlooking Juno Beach pays tribute to D-Day troops]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hervé Hoffer, an optometrist in Caen, France, has for nearly 30 years lovingly maintained the spirit, and the bricks and mortar, of “La Maison des Canadiens” — the iconic D-Day house that overlooks the sands of Juno Beach.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/Postmedia-News--Iconic-‘La-Maison-des-Canadiens’-o]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: A 1960s swoosh of modernism preserved at a Canadian Tire gas bar]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Thanks to the efforts of a few aficionados, a Mississauga, Ont., Canadian Tire gas bar has retained and restored its swooping, retro-futuristic, concrete canopy over the gas pumps.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/The-Globe-and-Mail--A-1960s-swoosh-of-modernism-pr]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Korean War’s Kapyong should rank among great Canadian battles: filmmaker]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Toronto filmmaker who has revived the story of a pivotal, against-all-odds victory by Canadian soldiers in a 1951 battle in the Korean War is making the case for Kapyong to take its place alongside Vimy Ridge, Juno Beach and Queenston Heights in the annals of great Canadian military triumphs.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/Postmedia-News--Korean-War’s-Kapyong-should-rank-a]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Scientists spot new Alberta dinosaur species on Ottawa museum shelf]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canadian scientists who “stumbled upon” fragments of unidentified fossils at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa have determined that they came from a previously unknown species of dinosaur from southern Alberta.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/Postmedia-News--Scientists-spot-new-Alberta-dinosa]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Victoria Crosses on display together]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A collection of all three Victoria Cross medals awarded during the First World War to residents of Winnipeg’s Pine Street, later renamed Valour Road, has been unveiled at the Canadian War Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/Winnipeg-Free-Press--Victoria-Crosses-on-display-t]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Kirstin Evenden out as head of Calgary’s Glenbow]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Kirstin Evenden has resigned as president and CEO of Calgary’s Glenbow Museum, less than two months after declaring she was confident the museum’s woes could be turned around.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/The-Globe-and-Mail--Kirstin-Evenden-out-as-head-of]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Mall plan could speed up demolition of historic Ottawa store]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The City of Ottawa is set to speed up the demolition of an historic building that used to house a department store as part of the Rideau Centre's expansion plan.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/CBC-News--Mall-plan-could-speed-up-demolition-of-h]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/CBC-News--Will-Hamilton’s-Tivoli-rise-again-]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Will Hamilton’s Tivoli rise again?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Tivoli theatre, a heritage building in downtown Hamilton that has been called an eyesore since part of it collapsed eight years ago, is attracting buyer attention.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/CBC-News--Will-Hamilton’s-Tivoli-rise-again-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Wetaskiwin Times: HMCS Wetaskiwin model unveiled]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Alberta’s Wetaskiwin Heritage Museum is giving a special to salute to our country’s naval heroes.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/Wetaskiwin-Times--HMCS-Wetaskiwin-model-unveiled]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Painting Canada: ‘With Thomson’s trees, it’s different’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Tom Thomson’s death at Canoe Lake in 1917 was the traumatic catalyst for the formation of the Group of Seven, and in Painting Canada — a touring show at the McMichael Canadian Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario — the artist is awarded appropriate pride of place.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/The-Globe-and-Mail--Painting-Canada--‘With-Thomson]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Sudbury art gallery exhibit explores roots of mining]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A photo exhibit on mining — currently on display at the Art Gallery of Sudbury — features underground photos from across northern Ontario.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/November/CBC-News--Sudbury-art-gallery-exhibit-explores-roo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Museum of history timeline draws fire before feedback tour]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Museum of Civilization wants the public to weigh in on what a history museum should contain, but the website it created to collect feedback is raising some eyebrows.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/CBC-News--Museum-of-history-timeline-draws-fire-be]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Thunder Bay movie theatre needs preservation, advocate says]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The group in charge of preserving historic buildings in Thunder Bay, Ontario, is worried about the state of a historic movie theatre.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/CBC-News--Historic-movie-theatre-needs-preservatio]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: New find bolsters case for Viking presence in Canadian Arctic]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An archeologist searching for traces of Viking encampments in the Canadian Arctic has found tantalizing new evidence to bolster the case that Norse seafarers from Greenland were trading goods and even inhabiting sites on Baffin Island.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/Postmedia-News--New-find-bolsters-case-for-Viking-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Sotheby’s to auction up to $11-million worth of Canadian art]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A painting by influential Ontario artist Tom Thomson headlines a collection of Canadian art set to go to auction by Sotheby’s Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/The-Canadian-Press--Sotheby’s-to-auction-up-to-$11]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Historic Manitoba church restored in time for 100th anniversary]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Roman Catholic church in south-central Manitoba has been restored to its original condition, just in time for its centennial celebration.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/CBC-News--Historic-Manitoba-church-restored-in-tim]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: New ‘Heritage Minute’ highlights former slave who fought in War of 1812]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore is shining the spotlight on a lesser-known story about the War of 1812: a former U.S. slave who petitioned the British to let him join the fight against U.S. invaders.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/The-Globe-and-Mail--New-‘Heritage-Minute’-highligh]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: Civilization ends, history begins at Canada’s biggest museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has ushered in the end of civilization — at least when it comes to the name of Canada’s largest museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/Toronto-Star--Civilization-ends,-history-begins-at]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Plan hands over half of Museum of Civilization’s permanent space to Canadian ‘national treasures’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Harper government is calling on the Canadian Museum of History to dedicate half of its permanent space to a new gallery honouring Canadian heroes, achievements and milestones at a cost of $25 million in an era of cultural cuts.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/The-Globe-and-Mail--Plan-hands-over-half-of-Museum]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: At Vancouver’s Park movie house, last picture show is inevitable]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Like some rare, endangered species, the stately Park movie house — a much-loved, refurbished, art-deco facility — is living out its days as one of a diminishing number of single-screen theatres in Canada, a throwback to an age of movie ushers with flashlights, union projectionists and $2 matinees.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/The-Globe-and-Mail--At-Vancouver’s-Park-movie-hous]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Saskatchewan celebrates 100th anniversary of legislative building]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Saskatchewan Legislature is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the opening of the legislative building in Regina with a number of activities, including the creation of a new time capsule to be opened in 100 years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/CBC-News--Saskatchewan-celebrates-100th-anniversar]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Canadian-built Hurricane from Second World War expected to fetch $2.5 million at U.K. auction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Canadian-built fighter plane from the Second World War — a rare, surviving Hawker Hurricane Mk XIIa that’s been meticulously restored and flies as well today as it did when it rolled off the assembly line 70 years ago — is set to be sold at a British auction in December for up to $2.5 million.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/Postmedia-News--Canadian-built-Hurricane-from-Seco]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Canadian Heritage Minute comeback a jolt of nostalgia]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada’s history-inspired Heritage Minutes are returning after a seven-year absence, with the premiere of the first of two new spots to celebrate the bicentennial of the War of 1812.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/CBC-News--Canadian-Heritage-Minute-comeback-a-jolt]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Renovation is part of Old City revitalization]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An historic fixture in Nanaimo, B.C.’s Old City quarter has undergone a $150,000 facelift to restore and accentuate its original appearance and set the tone for new retail space planned for the lot next door.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/Nanaimo-Daily-News--Renovation-is-part-of-Old-City]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Vancouver’s Canada Post building: A broker’s dream, a heritage advocate’s nightmare ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The downtown Vancouver Canada Post building — a modernist-era structure that Heritage Vancouver put at the top of its endangered-sites list for 2012 — is on the block.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/The-Globe-and-Mail--Vancouver’s-Canada-Post-buildi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: **UPDATED** Stolen pieces returned to Halifax Public Gardens fountain]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Thieves who stole pieces of a newly-restored fountain in the Halifax Public Gardens — less than a day after the scaffolding was removed — appear to have had a change of heart.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/CBC-News--Newly-restored-Halifax-Public-Gardens-fo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[New York Times: Canada puts spotlight on War of 1812, with U.S. as villain]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Although it produced “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the War of 1812 does not get much attention in the United States. In Canada, however, the federal government is devoting surprising attention to the bicentennial of the conflict, which it describes bluntly in a new television commercial as an act of American aggression against Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/New-York-Times--Canada-puts-spotlight-on-War-of-18]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Tom Thomson appears in newly unearthed pictures ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two rare pictures of the artist Tom Thomson have been unveiled at the Art Gallery of Ontario.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/The-Globe-and-Mail--Tom-Thomson-appears-in-newly-u]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: 19th-century tale from the crypt at heart of Robert Baldwin biography]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new biography of Robert Baldwin by Nova Scotia historian Michael Cross places a truly unexpected incident — one equally poignant and macabre — at the very centre of the “courageous and tragic” life story of perhaps the most pivotal figure in Canada’s pre-Confederation political evolution.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/Postmedia-News--19th-century-tale-from-the-crypt-a]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Hunting hockey’s ghosts in Montreal, the birthplace of the modern game]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It’s considered by many as the cradle of modern hockey — a city that hosted the first-known organized match, witnessed the creation of the National Hockey League and cheered as local teams captured 41 Stanley Cups including the very first one.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/October/The-Canadian-Press--Hunting-hockey’s-ghosts-in-Mon]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Thousands on hand for relaunch of restored Bluenose II ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Onlookers clapped, small boats sounded their horns, and a light drizzle gave way to a Nova Scotia sunrise as the newly restored Bluenose II made its historic relaunch.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/The-Canadian-Press--Thousands-on-hand-for-relaunch]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Halifax Chronicle Herald: Canadian icon back on water]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Bluenose being re-launched in Lunenburg allows Nova Scotians to reconnect to a storied past when they were at the centre of the seafaring world.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Halifax-Chronicle-Herald--Canadian-icon-back-on-wa]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Unsung hero of Queenston Heights finally gets his due ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A uniform and sword once belonging to Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe, the unsung hero of the War of 1812 Battle of Queenston Heights, is returning to Ontario for permanent display.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/The-Globe-and-Mail--Unsung-hero-of-Queenston-Heigh]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Former premier’s daughter donates Riel rope]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A few months after Duff Roblin died, the former Manitoba premier's daughter visited the St. Boniface Museum carrying an important historical artifact.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Winnipeg-Free-Press--Former-premier’s-daughter-don]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Alberta park's vandalized ancient etchings undergo repairs]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Efforts are underway to repair vandalized native art at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in southeastern Alberta — an important endeavour that could determine the park's future as a world heritage site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/CBC-News--Alberta-park-s-vandalized-ancient-etchin]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Legendary war artist Bruno Bobak has died]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Legendary Canadian war artist Bruno Bobak has died in Fredericton. Bobak and his wife, Molly Lamb, were both enlisted by the federal government to detail its efforts in the Second World War after placing first and second in an art competition in 1944.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/CBC-News--Legendary-war-artist-Bruno-Bobak-has-die]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Restored N.L. church burns]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The leader of a group that was restoring an old wooden church in Western Bay, said he has his suspicions about the cause of a fire which burned the church to the ground. Leonard Tobin said his group had a government grant to fix up the 138-year-old building and turn it into a small library and museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/CBC-News--Restored-N-L--church-burns]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Winnipeg researchers net $500K for residential schools study]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The University of Winnipeg has received a $500,000 grant to study the intergenerational impacts of Canada's residential schools system. The university announced that its Oral History Centre has received the grant from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation to produce a digital storytelling project.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/CBC-News--Winnipeg-researchers-net-$500K-for-resid]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: ‘Small chance’ that Franklin ships have already been found, scientist says]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Maybe, just maybe, the 160-year dream of discovering one of the lost ships of the Franklin Expedition has already been realized, and the Parks Canada-led team that completed a month-long search last week just doesn’t know it yet.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Postmedia-News--Small-chance’-that-Franklin-ships-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Government opted for ‘younger’ Laura Secord for 1812 commemoration]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Federal government officials decided against using a historical image of War of 1812 icon Laura Secord in favour of creating a “younger” version to commemorate the conflict’s 200th anniversary this year, newly disclosed records show.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Ottawa-Citizen--Government-opted-for-‘younger’-Lau]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Material history: The rope that hanged Louis Riel]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that Métis leader Louis Riel was hanged for treason at the North West Mounted Police barracks in Regina on Nov. 16, 1885. What isn’t so certain, however, is what happened to the rope that was used to hang Riel.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/The-Globe-and-Mail--Material-history--The-rope-tha]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: An exhibit of Hamilton’s mansions for the inner voyeur ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Graham Crawford’s sixth architectural video-exhibit, The Grand Durand — Hamilton’s Mansions, is on until Dec. 14 at Hamilton’s HIStory + HERitage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/The-Globe-and-Mail--An-exhibit-of-Hamilton’s-mansi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[National Post: Alberta aboriginal rock etchings defaced with drill, power washer, acid]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ancient aboriginal pictograms and petroglyphs on an Alberta rock formation have been systematically destroyed by cultural vandals using a rock drill, acid and a power washer.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/National-Post--Alberta-aboriginal-rock-etchings-de]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Franklin artifacts ‘very exciting’ find for archeologists]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[While the marine search for Sir John Franklin's lost ships has come up dry so far this summer, land-based sites have yielded a bonanza of artifacts that could help shed further light on what happened after the vessels were abandoned in the Arctic.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/CBC-News--Franklin-artifacts-‘very-exciting’-find-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Titanic-era ship anchors port redevelopment ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A development company spent millions to buy the SS Keewatin, dredge a mile-long path out of the silt-choked Kalamazoo River, and tow it back to Port McNicoll, Ont. The Keewatin is the only surviving ship from Canadian Pacific Railway’s Great Lakes Steamship fleet.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/The-Globe-and-Mail--Titanic-era-ship-anchors-port-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Historic hotel in B.C.’s Dawson Creek destroyed by fire ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A historic hotel that was the heart of the northern B.C. community of Dawson Creek has been destroyed by fire.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/The-Canadian-Press--Historic-hotel-in-B-C-’s-Dawso]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Hamilton Spectator: Prince Edward crowns Rileys’ 150th celebration]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry celebrated its 150th anniversary with a Trooping of the Colour ceremony at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Hamilton-Spectator--Prince-Edward-crowns-Riley’s-1]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Postmedia-News--Peckford-convinces-Canadian-Encycl]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Peckford convinces Canadian Encyclopedia to rewrite Constitution entry]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Former Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford has literally rewritten Canadian history, prompting the venerable Canadian Encyclopedia to substantially revise its entry on the 1982 “Patriation of the Constitution” to highlight Peckford’s central role in shaping the historic deal and downplay the significance of the famous “Kitchen Accord” as the breakthrough moment in the constitutional saga.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Postmedia-News--Peckford-convinces-Canadian-Encycl]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Comox-Valley-Echo--Nazi-swastika-in-history-displa]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Comox Valley Echo: Nazi swastika in history display draws a complaint]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A complaint nearly sank The Alberni Project, a memorial for the World War II warship HMCS Alberni, before it actually began.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Comox-Valley-Echo--Nazi-swastika-in-history-displa]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Monument to mark War of 1812 planned]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Harper government wants to commemorate the War of 1812 in stone and has asked for artists who want to design a national monument to step forward with their qualifications.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/The-Canadian-Press--Monument-to-mark-War-of-1812-p]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CTV News: Bluenose II to relaunch Sept. 29]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The official relaunch of Nova Scotia’s famed schooner has been set for Sept. 29 in Lunenburg.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/CTV-News--Bluenose-II-to-relaunch-Sept--29]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Postmedia-News--American-town-marks-a-dark-episode]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: American town marks a dark episode from War of 1812]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The December 1813 burning of Lewiston, a U.S. village located directly across the Niagara River from Upper Canada’s Queenston, left not only a torched pioneer settlement but also at least a dozen American civilians dead and mutilated — an attack described by the leading chronicler of the incident as a “massacre” by “unrestrained British-Canadian troops” and the aboriginal warriors under their command.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Postmedia-News--American-town-marks-a-dark-episode]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Kamloops Daily News: Walking on the wild side]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Sylvia Gropp tries to bring the characters of Kamloops, B.C.’s past to life when she gives historic walking tours for the Kamloops Museum and Archives.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Kamloops-Daily-News--Walking-on-the-wild-side]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Tugging a long-lost ship back to its Norwegian homeland ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After years of trying to persuade Ottawa to allow Norway to reclaim the famed schooner sailed by legendary polar explorer Roald Amundsen – and which is currently resting partially submerged in Nunavut’s Cambridge Bay – Norwegians have set their plans to retrieve the ship from its resting place of 82 years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/The-Globe-and-Mail--Tugging-a-long-lost-ship-back-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Franklin search turns up human remains, artifacts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Searchers looking for the lost ships of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Arctic expedition have discovered small artifacts and bits of human remains connected to the doomed polar mission.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/CBC-News--Franklin-search-turns-up-human-remains,-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[QMI Agency: Pretty Normandy village honours ‘father of New France’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Even for English Canadians, much of our collective history is found in France.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/QMI-Agency--Pretty-Normandy-village-honours-‘fathe]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: The search for Franklin an enduring Canadian ghost story]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Somehow, the story of explorer Sir John Franklin has become woven into our culture, fiction, poetry and film — perhaps even into our politics.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/CBC-News--The-search-for-Franklin-an-enduring-Cana]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Exhibit plays with notions of Winnipeg’s history, mythology]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[My Winnipeg, which takes its name from Guy Maddin’s mythologizing film, includes a room-filling “image essay” by curator Sigrid Dahle that immerses the viewer in the city’s history and culture. It’s a collage of archival photos, ephemera such as postcards and posters, and artworks both historical and contemporary.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Winnipeg-Free-Press--Exhibit-plays-with-notions-of]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada's History: Pierre Berton Award winner Bob Johnstone dead at 82]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Former Pierre Berton Award winner Bob Johnstone has died at age 82 after a lengthy battle with cancer.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Pierre-Berton-Award-Winner-Bob-Johnstone-dead-at-8]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Memorial for first Canadian serviceman killed in Second World War]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A small group of people from both sides of the Atlantic gathered to unveil a memorial cairn to the Second World War’s first two Commonwealth fallen on a rugged Scottish slope that, remarkably, is still strewn with wreckage from the crash 73 years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Postmedia-News--Memorial-for-first-Canadian-servic]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Lord’s descendant helps mark 200th anniversary of Selkirk Settlers’ arrival]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two hundred years after his ancestor arrived on the shores of what is now known as the Red River, one of Lord Selkirk’s descendants made the trek to Winnipeg to help celebrate the bicentenary of the Selkirk Settlers’ arrival in Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/Winnipeg-Free-Press--Lord’s-descendant-helps-mark-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Development decision looms over Richmond Hill observatory lands]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The fight to save a swath of wooded conservation land surrounding a historic telescope observatory in Richmond Hill, Ont., is nearing a close – but it remains unclear if the lone group fighting plans for a housing development on the property will prevail.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/September/The-Globe-and-Mail--Development-decision-looms-ove]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Why did we name a street after this guy?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Next time you step around a pile of upchuck in front of Toronto’s Brunswick House, take a moment to let it remind you of how the history of Bloor Street is inextricably linked with the history of beer in the city.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/The-Globe-and-Mail--Why-did-we-name-a-street-after]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Lifelong friendship forged in the crucible of war]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It was an enduring friendship forged in fiery skies above the English Channel nearly 70 years ago, a Canadian pilot and Scottish navigator renowned for their breathtaking seek-and-destroy pursuits of German V-1 pulse jets bound for targets in London and elsewhere in southeast England.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Postmedia-News--Lifelong-friendship-forged-in-the-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: War of 1812 tough to recognize, recall for Canadians]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Harper government has been highlighting a war with our American neighbours 200 years ago, but the relevance of commemorating the event seemed lost on almost all of those who participated in a comprehensive survey for National Defence.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/The-Canadian-Press--War-of-1812-tough-to-recognize]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Ancient marine creatures likely ancestor to today’s mollusks]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Canadian scientist probing 500-million-year-old rocks from B.C.’s famous Burgess Shale fossil site has solved an enduring mystery about the origins of mollusks, the hugely successful group of species that ranges from the tiniest slugs to the giant squid.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Postmedia-News--Ancient-marine-creatures-likely-an]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Life in the Arctic: Where old ways and new collide]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In the heart of Canada’s North, Cambridge Bay is a community caught at a crossroads. Evidence of habitation in the Kitikmeot Region where Cambridge Bay is situated goes back as far as 2000 B.C. (about 4,000 years), to the pre-Dorset people.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/CBC-News--Life-in-the-Arctic--Where-old-ways-and-n]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Arctic search for ill-fated Franklin ships renewed]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The search for the remnants of an ill-fated British expedition that failed to cross the Northwest Passage — and a seminal moment in Canada’s history on Arctic sovereignty — will start anew.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Postmedia-News--Arctic-search-for-ill-fated-Frankl]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Victoria Times Colonist: The politicization of Canada’s history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The federal government has a peculiarly partisan view of Canada’s past, but a mature people rejects the politicization of history, writes Andrew Cohen.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Victoria-Times-Colonist--The-politicization-of-Can]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: Historica-Dominion Institute names incoming president]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Former journalist Anthony Wilson-Smith will be the new president of the Historica-Dominion Institute.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Canada’s-History--Historica-Dominion-Institute-nam]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Canadian and British veterans of Dieppe raid gather for 70th anniversary ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A contingent of more than 20 Canadian and British veterans of the Dieppe raid were welcomed back as heroes during sombre 70th-anniversary commemorations.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/The-Globe-and-Mail--Canadian-and-British-veterans-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Dieppe veterans recall fateful WWII battle]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The debate about both whom to blame for the disaster at Dieppe and about the goal of the invasion continues through the 70th anniversary of the fateful World War II raid.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/CBC-News--Dieppe-veterans-recall-fateful-WWII-batt]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canadian Press: Relic canoe from 18th century a ‘stunning find’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Transported in a sailing ship more than 200 years ago from North America to England, where it wound up neglected in a barn in Cornwall, a six-metre-long birchbark canoe made its return trip this summer, joining the Canadian Canoe Museum’s permanent collection.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Canadian-Press--Relic-canoe-from-18th-century-a-‘s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: One man’s quest to recover artifacts from Lake Ontario shipwreck]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Twenty-two years after finding the remains of HMS Speedy off Presqu’ile Point in Brighton, Ont., wreck hunter Ed Burtt believes it’s high time artifacts from the ship were recovered so everyone can appreciate a little-known part of Canada’s heritage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Toronto-Star--One-man’s-quest-to-recover-artifacts]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Huge dinosaur fossil found near Drumheller, Alberta]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A dinosaur dig team has unearthed the skeleton of a massive triceratops just east of Drumheller, Alta.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/CBC-News--Huge-dinosaur-fossil-found-near-Drumhell]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Fate of fabled sunken ship still in limbo]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian government will embark on a new round of negotiations with British officials this fall in a bid to determine the future of a storied 19th-century Arctic shipwreck: HMS Investigator.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Postmedia-News--Fate-of-fabled-sunken-ship-still-i]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Canada to finally award ‘battle honours’ to War of 1812 soldiers]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[After more than a year of fierce, back-channel debates among historians and government officials, Canadian military regiments with links to 200-year-old units that fought in the War of 1812 have finally begun receiving so-called “battle honours” that formally recognize Canadian soldiers’ contributions in at least five major engagements from the war.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Postmedia-News--Canada-to-finally-award-‘battle-ho]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Repair heritage homes, even for social housing]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Among the many properties in Toronto Community Housing Corp.’s portfolio are 40 significant heritage buildings that have been allowed to fall into severe disrepair. Both the city and TCHC need to give priority to repairing these buildings before they fall into further decay, says heritage advocate Rick Hall.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/The-Globe-and-Mail--Repair-heritage-homes,-even-fo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Sir John A. gets a new road as Tories paint Ottawa blue ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has announced that the Ottawa River Parkway will be renamed in honour of Canada’s first prime minister.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/The-Globe-and-Mail--Sir-John-A--gets-a-new-road-as]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Comox Valley Echo: Historic church becomes designated RCMP chapel]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A memorial service at St. Andrew’s Church in Courtenay, B.C., marked the small church as the local RCMP’s official community chapel. St. Andrew’s is the oldest church and oldest building on Vancouver Island north of Nanaimo.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Comox-Valley-Echo--Historic-church-becomes-designa]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Building on the foundations of history ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Israeli-born real estate mogul Gil Blutrich is an entrepreneur with a keen sense of history. While his firm has a portfolio of modern hotels, condos and resorts, it also owns a number of historically significant properties, including Toronto’s majestic King Edward Hotel.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/The-Globe-and-Mail--Building-on-the-foundations-of]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Herald: Heritage Park CEO feels at home in history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Securing a firm grasp on the hearts of Calgarians, as Heritage Park has managed over almost five decades, is both a blessing and curse to CEO Alida Visbach.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Calgary-Herald--Heritage-Park-CEO-feels-at-home-in]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: No ‘free ride’ for businesses near historic sites]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Businesses located near national parks, historic sites and canals run by Parks Canada could be asked to pay fees to help offset upkeep and operating costs.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/The-Canadian-Press--No-‘free-ride’-for-businesses-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Plaques stolen from Scottish monument in Winnipeg]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Scottish organization in Winnipeg is offering a reward after someone pried off eight bronze plaques from a monument honouring the Selkirk Settlers.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/CBC-News--Plaques-stolen-from-Scottish-monument-in]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: A new uprising at Montgomery’s Tavern ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Toronto politician Mike Colle is fomenting an uprising of his own, 175 years after William Lyon Mackenzie’s rebels fled from British artillery fire. An art deco building called Postal Station K is one of three in Toronto the Crown corporation is considering selling as it looks for newer locations that fit its modern operation requirements.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/The-Globe-and-Mail--A-new-uprising-at-Montgomery’s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: U-boat search in Labrador river remains murky ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A search for a suspected Second World War German submarine in a Labrador river has turned up only a sandy mound of frustration and an unresolved military mystery.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/CBC-News--U-boat-search-in-Labrador-river-remains-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: The real legacy of 1812? It never happened again]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The real legacy of the War of 1812, says Peter Jones, is simply that there was never a repeat.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/The-Globe-and-Mail--The-real-legacy-of-1812--I-(1)]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Colonel By Day celebrations offer trip back in time]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For the thousands of people who ventured onto the grounds of the Bytown Museum and the Ottawa Locks, it felt as if they had taken a step back in time.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Ottawa-Citizen--Colonel-By-Day-celebrations-offer-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Rockies, other geography made Canada’s West a dinosaur hotbed]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Western Canada’s remarkable dinosaur riches can be traced in large part to the birth of the Rocky Mountains and other geological forces that combined to create a multitude of isolated animal habitats in the region about 75 million years ago, according to a new U.S.-led study.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Postmedia-News--Rockies,-other-geography-made-Cana]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Key part of Canada’s rail history found in rural N.B.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The golden age of train travel may be long gone, but a significant piece of Canada’s railway legacy remains open for visitors at the historic station in McAdam, N.B.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/The-Canadian-Press--Key-part-of-Canada’s-rail-hist]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Sherwood Park News: Rail museum celebrates CN history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[During this year’s Heritage Day weekend, the Alberta Railway Museum is focusing on the CN timeline to offer a look at the development of railways in Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Sherwood-Park-News--Rail-museum-celebrates-CN-hist]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Viking statue to be centrepiece of L’Anse aux Meadows makeover]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Travellers retracing the medieval voyage of the Vikings to North America will now encounter a significantly overhauled tourist site in northern Newfoundland, including a dramatic sculpture looming on a hillside above the L’Anse aux Meadows World Heritage site.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Postmedia-News--Viking-statue-to-be-centrepiece-of]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun: Red tape blocks online view of 1597 globe in B.C.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A $30,000 plan to digitize a 415-year-old Elizabethan globe for three-dimensional online viewing by British Columbians has been sunk by the Royal B.C. Museum, says Sam Bawlf, the former provincial heritage minister who organized the project.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Vancouver-Sun--Red-tape-blocks-online-view-of-1597]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Aldergrove Star: Brigade Days festival brings fort heritage alive]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Period re-enactors from all over British Columbia and Washington convene for three days of 1800s living, live music and a traditional cook-off during the annual Brigade Days festival at Fort Langley National Historic Site, August 4-6.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/August/Aldergrove-Star--Brigade-Days-festival-brings-fort]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Lansdowne’s Coliseum demolition begins in Ottawa]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Demolition of the Coliseum building at Ottawa’s Lansdowne Park has begun, marking the end of a landmark that has stood, in one form or another, for more than 100 years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/CBC-News--Lansdowne’s-Coliseum-demolition-begins-i]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: Hobbyist’s websites document historical plaques all over Toronto and Ontario]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For the past eight years, Toronto resident Alan Brown has photographed all the plaques he knows about that have been erected by municipal, provincial and federal governments over several decades.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Toronto-Star--Hobbyist’s-websites-document-histori]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Victoria Times Colonist: Historic city hall given new life]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Victoria’s city hall building has undergone a refurbishment that comes as the city celebrates its 150th anniversary.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Victoria-Times-Colonist--Historic-city-hall-given-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Remains recovered from WWII seaplane in Quebec]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A special U.S. military team has almost finished its month-long mission off Quebec's north shore to recover the bodies of five crew who drowned 70 years ago when their U.S. Army seaplane slid into the waters.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/CBC-News--Remains-recovered-from-WWII-seaplane-in-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Victoria Times Colonist: Fixing an ‘archivist’s nightmare’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The office created 45 years ago by Ainslie Helmcken, the City of Victoria’s first archivist, is still delivering, in ways Helmcken could never have imagined.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Victoria-Times-Colonist--Fixing-an-‘archivist’s-ni]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Heritage of the Chinese restaurant is both sweet and sour]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Before Canada thought of itself as multicultural, the most visible signs of Chinese immigration were restaurants.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Winnipeg-Free-Press--Heritage-of-the-Chinese-resta]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Maritime Korean War vets honour 59th anniversary]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Korean war veterans from around the Maritimes gathered in Summerside, P.E.I., to remember the 59th anniversary of the end of the Korean War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/CBC-News--Maritime-Korean-War-vets-honour-59th-ann]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Comox Valley Echo: Cumberland council wants museum open on Sundays]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Cumberland Council and the Coal Creek Historic society are putting pressure on the Cumberland Museum and Archives to open their doors Sundays for the rest of the summer, but the museum says it simply doesn't have the money to do so.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Comox-Valley-Echo--Cumberland-council-wants-museum]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: N.B. WWII plane lands at Shearwater museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The last of the Grumman TBM Avenger aircraft has left its New Brunswick home for the last time to land permanently at the Shearwater Aviation Museum in Nova Scotia.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/CBC-News--N-B--WWII-plane-lands-at-Shearwater-muse]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: German U-boat may be at bottom of Labrador river]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Searchers believe they’ve found a German U-boat buried in the sand on the bottom of the Churchill River in Labrador.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/CBC-News--German-U-boat-may-be-at-bottom-of-Labrad]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Comox Valley Echo: 100-year old Denman Island Hall undergoing major renovations]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Denman Island Community Hall has been a community hub since its construction a century ago and is now getting a makeover.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Comox-Valley-Echo--100-year-old-Denman-Island-Hall]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Re-enactors stage the War of 1812, one battle at a time]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Parks Canada and local authorities are staging re-enactments through 2013 as part of bicentennial celebrations for the War of 1812.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Postmedia-News--Re-enactors-stage-the-War-of-1812,]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CTV News: Honouring the soldiers of Operation Husky]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Steve Gregory is making it his mission to honour the troops that helped liberate Italy.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/CTV-News--Honouring-the-soldiers-of-Operation-Husk]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: War of 1812 symbol of friendship returns to First Nations home]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A 200-year-old symbol of peace and friendship between First Nations and the British Crown — lost for nearly 100 years — is back in the hands of a Six Nations community in southern Ontario.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Postmedia-News--War-of-1812-symbol-of-friendship-r]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Ottawa-area house is a piece of history still in the making]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Located on the Ottawa River in Ontario’s Renfrew County, about a 45-minute drive from Parliament Hill and just west of Arnprior, historic McDonell House was built by the lumber baron Alexander McDonell, a Scottish-born Canadian politician, and his Montreal-born wife Janet, circa 1832.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/The-Globe-and-Mail--Ottawa-area-house-is-a-piece-o]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Nanaimo Daily News: Restored railway station retains strong connection to city’s history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Island Corridor Foundation is set to reveal the new E&N Railway Station, which has undergone dramatic improvements. Rebuilding the historic station has been a priority for the ICF, the City of Nanaimo and members of the community since the fire almost destroyed the building five years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Nanaimo-Daily-News--Restored-railway-station-retai]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: First Nations contribution in War of 1812 recognized at Toronto ceremony ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[First Nations leaders and supporters stood steps from where their ancestors fought bloody battles against American invaders during the War of 1812 as they called for greater recognition of aboriginals as Canadians pause to remember the conflict’s bicentennial.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/The-Canadian-Press--First-Nations-contribution-in-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Tory MP calls Bethune memorial a ‘bow’ to China]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Calgary MP says members of his own party have tried to hush him up over his criticism of federal funding for a memorial to Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor considered a communist hero in China.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/CBC-News--Tory-MP-calls-Bethune-memorial-a-‘bow’-t]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Parliament tours fall prey to budget cuts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[More guided tours of the historic Parliament Buildings are being chopped in the latest round of federal budget cuts. Summer visitors to Ottawa will no longer be able to peek into Sir John A. Macdonald’s office or the first office of the governor-general, when tours of the East Block are eliminated beginning next July.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/The-Globe-and-Mail--Parliament-tours-fall-prey-to-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Baird defends Tory tribute to Maoist Norman Bethune]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird defended the Harper government’s decision to spend millions of dollars upgrading a memorial to a Canadian doctor who became a hero to China’s communist revolutionaries.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/The-Globe-and-Mail--Baird-defends-Tory-tribute-to-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Fugitive slave life remembered in Hamilton]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[More than 200 descendants of fugitive slave Thomas John Holland  reunited in Hamilton.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/CBC-News--Fugitive-slave-life-remembered-in-Hamilt]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: A guided tour of Riel’s North Dakota hideout]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[With his provisional government in disarray and Gen. Garnet Wolseley’s army in hot pursuit, Louis Riel fled Fort Garry, which became Winnipeg, to a fur-trading post in North Dakota run by his friend, Antoine Blanc Gingras. The trading post is a tourist site and has tour guides, yet the Canadian government has cut funding for tour guides at the Winnipeg family home of the man dubbed the Father of Manitoba.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Winnipeg-Free-Press--A-guided-tour-of-Riel’s-North]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Olympic welcoming ceremony rekindles questions about Canadians’ WWII deaths]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canadian soldiers killed in a German air attack along the English Channel coast during the Second World War are to be remembered as part of a unique artistic welcome for Olympic nations arriving in Britain for London’s 2012 Summer Games.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Postmedia-News--Olympic-welcoming-ceremony-rekindl]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[BBC News: Americas ‘settled in three waves’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The biggest survey of Native American DNA has concluded that the New World was settled in three major waves. The second and third migrations have left an impact only in Arctic populations whose languages belong to the Eskimo-Aleut family and in the Canadian Chipewyan who speak a language that belongs to the Na-Dene family.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/BBC-News--Americas-‘settled-in-three-waves’]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Clovis people not first to arrive in North America]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Spearheads and DNA found at the Paisley Caves in Oregon suggest that a separate group of people using different hunting tools arrived in North America several hundred years prior to the Clovis, long thought to be the first to migrate to North America from Asia.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/CBC-News--Clovis-people-not-first-to-arrive-in-Nor]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Bethune’s birthplace: a worthy investment, not a slippery slope toward communism]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Looking at the controversy sparked by the opening of a $2.5-million federal enhancement to his birthplace in Gravenhurst, Ont., it appears there are enough Norman Bethunes to fit most any Canadian’s ideology, political stripe, belief system and hall of heroes or villains.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/The-Globe-and-Mail--Bethune’s-birthplace--a-worthy]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winkler Times: Writer preserving railway heritage]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ron Brown’s latest book, Rails Across the Prairies, takes a close look at the influence of rail construction and travel on development in Canada’s heartland.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Winkler-Times--Writer-preserving-railway-heritage]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Banff Crag and Canyon: Parks Canada launches youth ambassador program ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In an effort to get youth more involved with Canadian heritage, Parks Canada has begun a youth ambassador program that looks to promote national parks as a tourist attraction for younger generations.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Banff-Crag-and-Canyon--Parks-Canada-launches-youth]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: WWII plane target of huge recovery effort in Quebec waters]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[U.S. Navy divers are attempting to recover the remains of five American airmen who died in a plane crash in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off the Quebec coast during the Second World War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Postmedia-News--WWII-plane-target-of-huge-recovery]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Drumheller’s dinosaurs continue to fascinate visitors]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Drumheller boomed as long as coal was being dug out of the ground, but when that industry collapsed, the Alberta town was able to thrive thanks to another valuable underground resource — dinosaur bones.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Postmedia-News--Drumheller’s-dinosaurs-continue-to]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: John Cabot’s celebrated ship dabbled in smuggling: author]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A British maritime historian leading an international research project on John Cabot’s 15th-century expeditions to the New World has unearthed evidence that the ship — much celebrated in Canadian stamps and coinage, and commemorated with epic splendour in 1997 when Queen Elizabeth watched a replica sail into Bonavista Harbour for the Cabot quincentennial — did an inglorious stint smuggling cargo to English ports in its post-discovery days.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Postmedia-News--John-Cabot’s-celebrated-ship-dabbl]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Rare duck-billed dinosaur fossil destroyed by vandals in Alberta]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Paleontologists were thrilled when they found the fossilized remains of a duck-billed dinosaur in northwestern Alberta last month. But joy turned quickly to despair when they returned to the site near the Red Willow River a few days ago and found that vandals had smashed the Hadrosaur skeleton to pieces.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/The-Canadian-Press--Rare-duck-billed-dinosaur-foss]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: The dilemma of the family memory-keeper]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Joyce Young says learning about Canada’s history through her own family’s past is “like CSI, without the blood.” As a member of the Family History Society of Vernon, B.C., the Montreal native, using her local archives as well as microfilm of ships’ records and census data from Canada’s National Library and Archives in Ottawa, is beginning to piece together her family’s story.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Postmedia-News--The-dilemma-of-the-family-memory-k]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Reserve Mines marks coal heritage with park]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Cape Breton community of Reserve Mines gathered to open a park on the sites of the former No. 5 and No. 10 collieries, which were closed in the 1940s.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/CBC-News--Reserve-Mines-marks-coal-heritage-with-p]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Ottawa’s shock-and-awe film on War of 1812]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new government video advertisement designed to educate Canadians about the War of 1812 throws nuance out the window.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/The-Globe-and-Mail--Ottawa’s-shock-and-awe-film-on]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[EMC Kingston: Historical museum offers a serene setting from the past]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[At the Ameliasburgh Historical Museum, you’ll learn a great deal about the operations of a mill. You'll also discover the 19th-century world in which they operated. The current exhibit at the Ameliasburgh, Ont., museum — Remembering Roblin’s Mill and the heritage of milling in Prince Edward County — runs through September 16.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/EMC-Kingston--Historical-museum-offers-a-serene-se]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Newfoundland fossil discovery unearths ancient animal remains]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A team of British and Canadian scientists probing a famous fossil site in Newfoundland and Labrador has discovered traces of some of the earliest animal remains on Earth — a 579-million-year-old nest of petrified “babies” born to a primitive, fern-shaped marine organism known as a rangeomorph and then promptly buried in ash from a primordial volcanic eruption.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Postmedia-News--Newfoundland-fossil-discovery-unea]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Canadians not up to speed on origins of Confederation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Less than half of the population, 48 per cent, claims to have “a good knowledge of the history of Confederation,” according to a survey commissioned by the Montreal-based Association for Canadian Studies.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/Postmedia-News--Canadians-not-up-to-speed-on-origi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Barlee was the real treasure of B.C.’s gold trails and ghost towns]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Bill Barlee quit a good teaching job to become a writer. In 1969, he launched a history magazine called Canada West that allowed him to share with readers his great passion for the province, its people and its history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/The-Globe-and-Mail--Barlee-was-the-real-treasure-o]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Early Acadian settlement in Nova Scotia recognized as world heritage site]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An important Acadian landmark in Nova Scotia has been recognized by UNESCO as a world heritage site. The National Historic Site of Grand Pré, situated in the province’s picturesque Annapolis Valley, was settled by French colonists in the 17th century who came to be known as Acadians.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/July/The-Canadian-Press--Early-Acadian-settlement-in-No]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: What the 100-year-old Calgary Stampede means to Canada]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When one of North America’s biggest festivals was born in 1912, Calgarians had about as little to do with the Wild West as they do today. The cowboy myth was a way to stitch together a disparate crowd of newcomers.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Globe-and-Mail--What-the-100-year-old-Calgary-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Sudbury to look at historic covenant to answer property questions]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Land deals made more than 50 years ago are becoming the flashpoint in a debate over what to do with the former Sudbury general hospital.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/CBC-News--Sudbury-to-look-at-historic-covenant-to-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Studebaker’s Canadian connection]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Search “Studebaker trees” on Google Earth and it will zoom in on a grove of pines planted 75 years ago, spelling out the name of the now-defunct U.S. auto maker — whose long history in Canada is being celebrated by a gathering of the faithful in Belleville, Ont.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Globe-and-Mail--Studebaker’s-Canadian-connecti]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Capturing the ever-changing face of Hogtown]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Images of Toronto abound in the city’s bookstores and gift shops. But, says John Bentley Mays, there’s never been a pictorial souvenir quite like the new portfolio called Full Frontal T.O.: Exploring Toronto’s Architectural Vernacular. The book is a portrait gallery of the architecturally unimportant elements in Toronto’s pre-1945 urban tapestry.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Globe-and-Mail--Capturing-the-ever-changing-fa]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Barkerville, B.C., bustling ghost town and historic site, brings 1860s to life]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[This August marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Cariboo Gold Rush, and Barkerville, B.C., is celebrating in style, culminating with the Canadian Goldpanning Championships and a two-day celebration Aug. 11 and 12.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Canadian-Press--Barkerville,-B-C-,-bustling-gh]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Terry Fox van displayed in Canadian Museum of Civilization]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The beige Econoline camper van that served as Terry Fox’s home during his 1980 Marathon of Hope is being displayed to the public.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Canadian-Press--Terry-Fox-van-displayed-in-Can]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Grey Cup to embark on anniversary tour]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Grey Cup is going on the road. The CFL has announced the historic trophy will tour Canada by train as part of the Grey Cup’s 100th anniversary celebration.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Canadian-Press--Grey-Cup-to-embark-on-annivers]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Fifty years since mavericks blazed the Bruce Trail]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In 1961, a group called the Bruce Trail Committee announced its intentions to protect a “wild and beautiful” string of rugged hills and forests in Ontario called the Niagara Escarpment by creating a trail through it.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/CBC-News--Fifty-years-since-mavericks-blazed-the-B]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Northrop Frye sculpture garners Toronto interest]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A bronze sculpture of literary icon Northrop Frye, set to be unveiled in Moncton next month, already has officials at the University of Toronto interested in getting a copy.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/CBC-News--Northrop-Frye-sculpture-garners-Toronto-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: CFL to celebrate 100 years of Grey Cup with rail tour]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Choice of train is tip of hat to 1948 Stampeder Special.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Postmedia-News--CFL-to-celebrate-100-years-of-Grey]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Windsor Star: War of 1812 gets an app]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A team of 12 Western University public history students spent their academic year researching and creating a smartphone application called Route 1812.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Windsor-Star--War-of-1812-gets-an-app]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Artist’s lens on War of 1812]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Daguerreotype was not invented until the 1830s, but if chemical photography had been in use during the War of 1812 perhaps the results would have looked like Tod Ainslie’s images.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Globe-and-Mail--Artist’s-lens-on-War-of-1812]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Scrap of European iron unearths 500-year-old Canadian mystery]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Canadian archeologist who excavated the remains of a 500-year-old First Nations settlement near Toronto has revealed a stunning discovery: a carefully buried, European-made metal object that somehow reached the 16th-century Huron village nearly 100 years before the documented arrival of any white man in the Lake Ontario region.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Postmedia-News--Scrap-of-European-iron-unearths-50]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: B.C. Fraser River’s mining history still shaping waterway’s future]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two Canadian scientists have shown how the Fraser River — the waterway at the heart of British Columbia's history — was significantly altered by 19th-century fortune seekers, whose dumped mine tailings from the Fraser’s gold-rich banks and tributaries accumulated at critical points along the southern course of the river and continue inching toward its Pacific outlet today.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Postmedia-News--B-C--Fraser-River’s-mining-history]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: Short list announced for 2012 Pierre Berton Award ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada’s History Society has announced the finalists for the 2012 Pierre Berton Award, Canada’s top honour for writers and producers of Canadian history in popular media, which is now part of the viceregal honours for Canadian history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Canada’s-History--Short-list-announced-for-2012-Pi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: One of Nova Scotia’s oldest homes up for sale]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A home in Avondale, Nova Scotia — believed to be one of the oldest in the province — is up for sale. After searching old maps and books, Owner Sherman Hines has traced the construction back to 1699, when it was built by the French as a mission and a fortification against the English.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/CBC-News--One-of-Nova-Scotia’s-oldest-homes-up-for]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Legendary railway spike thought lost to history — until now]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For more than 125 years, rumours have swirled about the whereabouts of the simple iron spike that Donald Smith (later Lord Strathcona) pounded into a railway tie at Craigellachie, B.C., on Nov. 7, 1885, connecting the eastern and western portions of the Canadian Pacific Railway.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Globe-and-Mail--Legendary-railway-spike-though]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Google cataloguing endangered languages]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Google is attempting to build the world’s most comprehensive resource on the thousands of spoken and written languages currently at risk of extinction. The project could prove a boon to cultural preservation in Canada, where dozens of aboriginal languages are at risk of fading away.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Globe-and-Mail--Google-cataloguing-endangered-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Ottawa an enriching summertime getaway]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ottawa visitors enjoy beautiful scenery and stunning historic sites but also an impressive collection of 29 museums.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Globe-and-Mail--Ottawa-an-enriching-summertime]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Metis Federation steps in to save Riel House]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Manitoba Metis Federation wants to keep Winnipeg’s Riel House from closing, by taking over its operation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/CBC-News--Metis-Federation-steps-in-to-save-Riel-H]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[BBC News: War of 1812: Violence, glory and a new Canadian-ness]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada today is seen as a harmonious nation of hockey, Mounties and maple leaves, in peaceful contrast to its often fractious and noisy neighbour to the south. But Canadian-ness itself was born amid the blood, gunpowder and glory of the War of 1812.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/BBC-News--War-of-1812--Violence,-glory-and-a-new-C]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: War of 1812 reinterpreted over the centuries]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 may be the biggest ever. Certainly it’s much bigger than the sesquicentennial and probably the centennial commemorations.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/CBC-News--War-of-1812-reinterpreted-over-the-centu]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[BBC News: Why the War of 1812 still matters]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[On the bicentennial of America's declaration of war against the United Kingdom, Joan Soley says the War of 1812 still resonates today.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/BBC-News--Why-the-War-of-1812-still-matters]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Reliving the war of 1812 to give the dead their due]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The war of 1812, declared by America to protest a range of issues, ended more than two years later with neither geographical nor policy change. For Canadians, however, this seminal battle represents an inspirational back story to nationhood.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Globe-and-Mail--Reliving-the-war-of-1812-to-gi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Spy dossiers on Diefenbaker and Pearson destroyed in late 1980s]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canadian security agents compiled dossiers on former prime ministers John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson but the secret files were destroyed in the late 1980s, newly declassified records show.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Canadian-Press--Spy-dossiers-on-Diefenbaker-an]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Victoria’s historic Janion building will once again be ‘a hive … of people’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A decrepit former hotel in Victoria has a new owner who will be renovating it and other historic buildings and constructing a new retail and residential complex.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Globe-and-Mail--Victoria’s-historic-Janion-bui]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: My ancestors and the worst thing that has ever happened to this country]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Some terrifying events took place not during the War of 1812 but two decades later. To my ancestors and most of their well-heeled neighbours, the war had not really ended, writes Doug Saunders.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Globe-and-Mail--My-ancestors-and-the-worst-thi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: Voices from Canada’s past being silenced]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The news that the 132-year-old Riel House in St. Vital, Manitoba — where Louis Riel’s mother lived and where his body lay in state for two days in 1885 — will be among 27 Parks Canada National Historic Sites moving to “self-guided” tours next year was mourned by both staff and history buffs as a loss for the country.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Toronto-Star--Voices-from-Canada’s-past-being-sile]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Conservatives draw fire for War of 1812 spending]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government is spending more than $28 million on a war that happened 200 years ago, leaving no doubt it takes the War of 1812 bicentennial very seriously. But some have questioned the price tag, particularly at a time when the government is slashing spending and laying off public servants.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/CBC-News--Conservatives-draw-fire-for-War-of-1812-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Remember the native warriors during War of 1812 bicentennial]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ontario, and probably a good part of the rest of present-day Canada, would now be part of the United States were it not for the native warriors who overwhelmingly came to the defence of the British Crown in the first year of the War of 1812–1814, writes James Bartleman.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Globe-and-Mail--Remember-the-native-warriors-d]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Forgotten ‘Red Haired Man’ played pivotal role in War of 1812]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[On June 18, 1812, a courier who’d trekked thousands of kilometres with a secret letter from Upper Canada’s military commander, Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock, finally reached the intended recipient: Robert Dickson, a 46-year-old, Scottish-born fur trader from Niagara who was known as “Red-Haired Man” among his many aboriginal friends.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Postmedia-News--Forgotten-‘Red-Haired-Man’-played-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Journal: Futuristic pool now heritage site]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Peter Hemingway Fitness and Leisure Centre in Edmonton will be honoured by both the Heritage Canada Foundation and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada as a national landmark and awarded their Prix du XXe siecle as one of Canada’s most important buildings of the 20th century.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Edmonton-Journal--Futuristic-pool-now-heritage-sit]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[660 News Calgary: Last spike on display]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Calgary rail enthusiasts are getting a brief chance to see a crucial piece of Canadiana, the last spike that built the Canadian Pacific Railway.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/660-News-Calgary--Last-spike-on-display]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Ceremonial ‘Last Spike’ to land in Canada's main history museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of Canadian history’s most enduring mysteries has been solved after the descendants of William Van Horne — the builder of the Canadian Pacific Railway — finally acknowledged that a silver, ceremonial “Last Spike” has been in the family’s possession for the past 127 years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Postmedia-News--Ceremonial-‘Last-Spike’-to-land-in]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Fort York targeted for rejuvenation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Toronto’s Fort York, a long-neglected patch of green between a highway and condo towers, is gaining a new life, both as a reminder of past battles and as a public space for the surrounding neighbourhoods.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Globe-and-Mail--Fort-York-targeted-for-rejuven]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: History sent packing by federal cuts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A large part of Manitoba’s history is about to be boxed up and shipped off, likely to a warehouse in Quebec, as part of the Harper government's recent budget cuts. Archaeologists in Winnipeg aren’t so sure this isn’t a step toward killing off Canada’s history, piece by piece.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Winnipeg-Free-Press--History-sent-packing-by-feder]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Jewish News: Archivists denounce federal budget]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The scrapping of a federal program that supports small community archives and museums will have a serious impact on the preservation and dissemination of Canadian Jewish historical records, community archivists say.
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     <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Canadian-Jewish-News--Archivists-denounce-fede]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Art Threat: Pioneer ladies (of the evening) subject of exhibit]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An exhibition at Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts in Winnipeg is testing the sexualized and gendered boundaries of Canadian history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Art-Threat--Pioneer-ladies-(of-the-evening)-subjec]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Budget cuts close door on guided tours of Louis Riel’s house]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Louis Riel is considered a Father of Confederation, founder of Manitoba and a significant figure in Canadian history. But his family home in Winnipeg is facing a more modern-day challenge — budget cuts.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Prized native Canadian carvings sold at Paris auction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A mysterious pair of wooden figures from 19th-century Canada — created by First Nations carvers on the B.C. coast, and originally obtained more than 100 years ago by an infamous American collector — was sold for about $40,000 at a major sale of aboriginal art in France.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Postmedia-News--Prized-native-Canadian-carvings-so]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Closing archeology lab against UN spirit, says prof]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Nova Scotia archeologist says Ottawa's plan to close the Dartmouth lab contradicts the spirit of UN rules.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/CBC-News--Closing-archeology-lab-against-UN-spirit]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: The War of 1812 explodes on TV]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new documentary, Explosion 1812, argues that the intentional detonation of Upper Canada`s main ammunition supply at present-day Toronto in April 1813 is a greatly underappreciated moment in history that was key to thwarting the U.S. conquest of Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Postmedia-News--The-War-of-1812-explodes-on-TV]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Brantford Expositor: Museum takes a trip back in Canadian history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Waterford Heritage and Agricultural Museum is presenting an exhibit — entitled Glorious and Free: 1812 to 2012 — that takes a nostalgic look at the things that have shaped Canada over the last 200 years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Brantford-Expositor--Museum-takes-a-trip-back-in-C]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Tyee: Library and Archives cuts frustrate users]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The ongoing cuts and changes to service delivery at Library and Archives Canada continue to be a source of consternation for Canada's archival community and to the users of Canada's documentary heritage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/The-Tyee--Library-and-Archives-cuts-frustrate-user]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Korean War vet’s painting will commemorate struggle against communism]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Sixty years after shipping off to Asia to fight in Canada’s “forgotten war,” the dwindling ranks of veterans from the Korean conflict are raising funds for a planned artistic tribute to their 1950s battle against communism.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Postmedia-News--Korean-War-vet’s-painting-will-com]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[National Post: A D-Day survivor’s lifetime of service]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The string of medals on Jan de Vries’ burgundy blazer attested to his service and bravery as a youth, but the intensity of the auditorium spotlight at Agincourt Collegiate in east-end Toronto revealed the lines in his aging face — lines that were likely first drawn by the severity of his experience on June 6, 1944.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/National-Post--A-D-Day-survivor’s-lifetime-of-serv]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Immigrants give Canadian history exam’s ‘picky’ questions a failing grade]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Prospective immigrants who took this country’s new citizenship test and were then asked about the experience in focus groups have met at least one key criteria for being Canadian: They’ve echoed complaints from native-born citizens that questions requiring them to memorize “specific names and dates” from Canada’s early history seem picky and pointless.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Postmedia-News--Immigrants-give-Canadian-history-e]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Calgary Sun: History’s port of call]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Military Museums unveiled the port propeller from the HMCS Huron, a Tribal-class Destroyer that protected Canada’s waters between 1972 and 2005.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Calgary-Sun--History’s-port-of-call]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Billion-year old meteorites, found in Canada, go on auction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A slice of one of Canada’s most famous meteorites is to be sold for up to $8,000 at a Bonhams auction in New York.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Postmedia-News--Billion-year-old-meteorites,-found]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Queen’s jewel-studded ‘Maple Leaf’ dress takes spotlight at Museum of Civilization]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Details have quietly emerged about how Canada’s main history museum will mark this year’s Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth’s reign.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Postmedia-News--Queen’s-jewel-studded-‘Maple-Leaf’]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[National Post: Ottawa’s Château Laurier celebrates 100 years of celebrity]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Château Laurier cost $2 million to build, opened with 302 rooms that rented for two bucks a night and transformed Ottawa from a backwater into a destination]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/National-Post--Ottawa’s-Chateau-Laurier-celebrates]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: B.C. encyclopedia project underway as historical federation turns 90]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As the British Columbia Historical Federation celebrates its 90th anniversary this year the organization is involved in an ambitious project to make the province’s history more accessible on the Internet.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Canada’s-History--B-C--encyclopedia-project-underw]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Indian residential school deaths found by Ontario coroner]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An intensive review of Ontario records going back to the 19th century has so far turned up more than 100 possible cases of previously unidentified child and youth deaths linked to Indian residential schools.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/The-Canadian-Press--Indian-residential-school-deat]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Rare artwork damaged in deluge]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hundreds of works of rare art have been damaged at one of Montreal’s main museums by heavy rains that battered the city.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/The-Canadian-Press--Rare-artwork-damaged-in-deluge]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Brantford Expositor: War of 1812 exhibit at military museum ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Weaponry, uniforms and the spartan lifestyle of soldiers during the War of 1812 are featured at a display at the Canadian Military Heritage Museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/June/Brantford-Expositor--War-of-1812-exhibit-at-milita]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Putting things back on track for train station]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It began life 100 years ago as Ottawa’s imposing new train station. A recently completed heritage conservation plan, commissioned by the federal government, provides a blueprint for restoring and preserving the structure.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Ottawa-Citizen--Putting-things-back-on-track-for-t]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: Macdonald Prize goes to Codex Canadensis]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Historical Association’s top prize — the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for the best non-fiction work of history — went to François-Marc Gagnon and his colleagues for The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Canada’s-History--GG’s-History-Award-goes-to-Codex]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: CFL turns to the past to celebrate the present]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As part of the build-up to the landmark 100th Grey Cup game this fall, the CFL will try to recreate the infamous Mud Bowl of 1950.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/The-Globe-and-Mail--CFL-turns-to-the-past-to-celeb]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Researcher looking for info behind Canadian soldiers’ WWII tree carvings]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[British archeologist Chantel Summerfield is trying to unravel the mystery behind three carvings by Canadians who trained for battle 70 years ago in the South England woods near Stonehenge.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Postmedia-News--Researcher-looking-for-info-behind]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Diamond Jubilee a chance for youth to honour Canada’s Queen]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Young members of the Monarchist League of Canada say the monarchy is not an outdated tradition but an important part of Canadian heritage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/CBC-News--Diamond-Jubilee-a-chance-for-youth-to-ho]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: War of 1812 flag being restored for N.B. exhibit]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A flag carried from Frederiction, N.B., to Kingston, Ont., during the War of 1812 is being restored at a New Brunswick museum.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/CBC-News--War-of-1812-flag-being-restored-for-N-B-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Plaques honour Valour Road’s war heroes]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Plaques were unveiled at a memorial plaza in Winnipeg to honour the Pine Street boys, who all lived on the same street and earned Victoria Crosses in the First World War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Winnipeg-Free-Press--Plaques-honour-Valour-Road’s-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: P.E.I. church needs more money for facelift]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The second-oldest Roman Catholic church in P.E.I. needs more money to finish a restoration project.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/CBC-News--P-E-I--church-needs-more-money-for-facel]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Burial ceremony honours mystery victim of crashed nuclear bomber]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The remains of an American airman found 60 years ago in Canada have finally been laid to rest, along with one of the Cold War’s most enduring mysteries: the identity of the only recovered victim from the so-called “Broken Arrow” incident of February 1950, when a crippled U.S. bomber dropped an atomic bomb into the Pacific Ocean before crashing into a British Columbia mountaintop.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Postmedia-News--Burial-ceremony-honours-mystery-vi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: ‘Mother of Confederation’ made no mention of the event in her diary]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Queen Victoria, the so-called “Mother of Confederation,” made no mention of the event in her diary that day.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Postmedia-News--‘Mother-of-Confederation’-made-no-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: War Museum exhibition shows Chinese-Canadians’ plight, fight]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For the 800 Chinese-Canadians who volunteered to fight in the Second World War, the battle was about more than securing an Allied victory.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Ottawa-Citizen--War-Museum-exhibition-shows-Chines]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Gothic landmark throws open its doors]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Winnipeggers who have always wanted to explore the majestic Westminster United Church now have an opportunity.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Winnipeg-Free-Press--Gothic-landmark-throws-open-i]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Spy’s book illustrates Canada-U.S. tensions post War of 1812]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[While both the Canadian and U.S. governments have framed this year’s bicentennial of the War of 1812 as a celebration of two centuries of postwar friendship, a rare, 164-year-old book to be auctioned in Britain is a reminder of just how fragile the peace between the two countries has sometimes been.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Postmedia-News--Spy’s-book-illustrates-Canada-U-S-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Parks Canada staffing cuts spark worry]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[CBC News has learned that Parks Canada may cut 10 out of 14 cultural heritage positions at its Calgary office.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/CBC-News--Parks-Canada-staffing-cuts-spark-worry]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: B.C. Doukhobors seek redress from government]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Children of a group of Russian immigrants called the Sons of Freedom Doukhobors were sent to residential schools in British Columbia in the 1950s and are now seeking restitution.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/The-Canadian-Press--B-C--Doukhobors-seek-redress-f]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Doors opened and a phenomenon was born]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When Doors Open began in 2000 as a one-time millennium event to celebrate Toronto’s architectural heritage, organizers never imagined the enthusiasm with which residents would greet it.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/The-Globe-and-Mail--Doors-opened-and-a-phenomenon-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Dominion: Cuts to Library and Archives Canada fighting words for archival community]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Librarians, archivists, historians and antiquarian booksellers across the country — not generally known for raising a ruckus — are sounding a battle cry against the Conservatives’ “war on culture, history and, ultimately, Canada.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/The-Dominion--Cuts-to-Library-and-Archives-Canada-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Reward set for lost Stampede posters ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Calgary Stampede celebrates its 100th anniversary on July 6 and is offering a reward for three lost pieces from the archive of its colourful history: the posters from 1922, 1926 and 1930.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/The-Globe-and-Mail--Reward-set-for-lost-Stampede-p]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Goodbye live interpreters, hello smart-phone apps ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Across the country, dozens of soldiers, farmhands and shopkeepers — Parks Canada staff who dress in period garb and welcome visitors to historic sites — will disappear as part of a transition that will see about 30 national historic sites move from guided to self-guiding facilities by 2013.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/The-Globe-and-Mail--Goodbye-live-interpreters,-hel]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Ottawa puts $17.6-million price tag on Kingston Penitentiary ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ottawa has put a price on Canada’s oldest prison, the 177-year-old Kingston Penitentiary that will be closed down in the next two to three years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/The-Globe-and-Mail--Ottawa-puts-$17-6-million-pric]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Future dim for lighthouses across Canada]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Community groups across the country are scrambling to save some 500 lighthouses the federal government has recently declared surplus.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/CBC-News--Future-dim-for-lighthouses-across-Canada]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Rowland Caldwell Harris shaped 20th-century Toronto]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Rowland Caldwell Harris — who began a 33-year term as works commissioner a century ago — left his civic fingerprints all over Toronto, building hundreds of kilometres of sidewalks, sewers, paved roads, streetcar tracks, public baths and washrooms, landmark bridges and even the precursor plans to the GO commuter rail network.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/The-Globe-and-Mail--Rowland-Caldwell-Harris-shaped]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: 800-year-old cedar taken from B.C. park]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A giant 800-year-old red cedar tree has been poached from a B.C. provincial park on southern Vancouver Island, but the culprits who repeatedly returned to the site to hack it down may never be brought to justice.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/The-Canadian-Press--800-year-old-cedar-taken-from-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Hockey researchers rag the puck back to 1796 for earliest-known portrait of a player]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two Swedish researchers compiling an encyclopedia of hockey history have scored a hat trick of significant new discoveries, including what they’re calling the earliest known image of a hockey player — a well-dressed skater with a curved stick and flat-edged puck striding along England’s ice-covered Thames River in December 1796.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Postmedia-News--Hockey-researchers-rag-the-puck-ba]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CTV News: Much has changed since the Queen took the throne in 1952]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The monarchy has changed its role in the 50 years since Elizabeth II took the throne.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/CTV-News--What-s-changed-since-the-Queen-took-the-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Second World War plane winging into town]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A 1943 plane that was used to train airmen in the Second World War is visiting Winnipeg's Western Canadian Aviation Museum.
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     <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Winnipeg-Free-Press--Second-World-War-plane-wings-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[National Post: Newfound plane wreck may solve mystery of missing Canadian First World War pilot]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Swaths of academics and historians have descended upon the Greek island of Thasos to investigate newfound airplane wreckage on the side of a mountain. But it is a local amateur sleuth who may be the closest to solving a 95-year-old mystery involving the disappearance of a Canadian First World War pilot.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/National-Post--Newfound-plane-wreck-may-solve-myst]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: ‘Megan Calvet’? Mad Men’s attention to detail is faltering]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Mad Men’s famous attention to detail has faltered in much to do with Québécoise character Megan and her family. To begin with, what kind of name is Megan for a Québécoise born during the Duplessis era?]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/The-Globe-and-Mail--‘Megan-Calvet’--Mad-Men’s-atte]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Campaign on to name bridge after War of 1812 skirmish]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A campaign is on to rename an Essex County, Ont., bridge in honour of some little-known figures from the War of 1812.
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     <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/CBC-News--Campaign-on-to-name-bridge-after-1st-War]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Winnipeg-Free-Press--Lord-Selkirk-returns-for-bice]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Lord Selkirk returns for bicentennial bash]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The current Lord Selkirk will be visiting Winnipeg in September to honour the bicentennial of the Selkirk Settlers. In 1812, the fifth Earl of Selkirk brought a group of settlers from Scotland to establish the Red River Colony.
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     <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Winnipeg-Free-Press--Lord-Selkirk-returns-for-bice]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CTV News: Peggys Cove lighthouse in danger of demolition]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada's iconic Peggys Cove lighthouse and hundreds of others like it across Canada could face the wrecking ball if community groups don't step forward with plans to save them by the end of May.

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     <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/CTV-News--Peggys-Cove-lighthouse-in-N-S--in-danger]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada's History: Winners of the Ultimate Class Field Trip announced]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada’s History Society has officially announced the winners of the Ultimate Class Field Trip.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Canada-s-History--Winners-of-the-Ultimate-Class-Fi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Discovery of buried warplane puts Canada’s aviation buffs on Cloud 9]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Second World War fighter plane, just discovered in the Egyptian desert 70 years after it was crash-landed there by its British pilot, is generating excitement among vintage aircraft experts in Canada who suspect the long-buried Kittyhawk P-40 — literally unearthed from the sands of time — was once flown by one of this country’s great aces in the air battles of North Africa: Saskatchewan-born James “Stocky” Edwards, now 90 and living in Comox, B.C.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Postmedia-News--Discovery-of-buried-warplane-puts-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: New Toronto condo is a chip off the old block ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The small office block that stands on the eastern edge of Toronto’s financial district is surely not one of the city’s shiniest architectural treasures, but it rates at least a footnote in the story of downtown development. Crafted around 1950 by architect James Allen Parrott, the sturdily graceful limestone and red granite cladding of a very ordinary frame eloquently recalls the Art Deco styling known as stripped classical.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/The-Globe-and-Mail--New-Toronto-condo-is-a-chip-of]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Winnipeg Heritage group to get piece of streetcar rail]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Heritage advocates may want a streetcar museum but for now they are happy getting some of the rails they used to run on.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Winnipeg-Free-Press--Tracking-Winnipeg-s-history]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: B.C. apologizes for Japanese-Canadian internments]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[British Columbia has made a formal apology to the 22,000 Japanese-Canadians who were put in internment camps in the Second World War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/CTV--B-C--apologizes-for-Japanese-Canadian-interme]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Aboriginal pictographs digitally enhanced]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new technology is helping preserve Aboriginal pictographs in Alberta and British Columbia. One of the goals for the project is to get Aboriginal youth in touch with their heritage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/CBC--Aboriginal-pictographs-digitally-enhanced-bac]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Metro Vancouver: Antique wallet offers snapshot of 1949 life]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A wallet found in a Whistler, B.C., antique store has brought together estranged family members.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Metro-News--Antique-wallet-connects-family-and-off]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Winnipeg novelist's 1896 Bible discovered]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Bible of bestselling author Ralph Connor was found while a volunteer was sorting books for a sale at a Winnipeg church. Connor was arguably the most popular Canadian fiction writer in the early 1900s.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/CBC-News--Winnipeg-novelist-s-Bible-from-1896-disc]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CTV News: Canadians see Twin Towers, pornography in $20 bill design]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Many Canadians don't know that the Vimy Memorial in France even exists, with many mistaking the monument -- shown on Canada's forthcoming new $20 bills -- for the Twin Towers, new documents show.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/CTV--Canadians-see-Twin-Towers,-pornography-in-$20]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Historic sites, parks to lose interpreters]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Visitors to national parks and historic sites will find shorter hours and fewer services available in the spring and fall as the federal government cuts $29 million from the Parks Canada budget over the next three years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/Winnipeg-Free-Press--Historic-sites,-parks-to-lose]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Surprising details of a soldier's death]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ron Csillag discovered where his father died in the First World War and where he is buried today.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/The-Globe-and-Mail--Surprising-details-of-a-soldie]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: At the United Nations, updating a modernist icon]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The United Nations Headquarters in New York is being renovated, including work done by Canadian architect Ernest Cormier.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/May/The-Globe-and-Mail--New-UN-HQ]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Portrait of Sir Isaac Brock returns to Canada for 1812 celebrations]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The only known adult portrait of Sir Isaac Brock created from life — a pastel image completed in Quebec just before the War of 1812 made the British general a mythic figure in Canada's history — has been painstakingly restored in his native Guernsey and returns to this country for the first time in 200 years as a bicentennial showpiece.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/Postmedia-News--Portrait-of-Sir-Isaac-Brock-return]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Monument honouring Lord Durham becomes newest U.K. attraction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An enigmatic tribute to one of Canada’s most controversial governors general has become Britain's newest tourist attraction — 86 years after a boy's tragic plunge from the top of the Penshaw Monument ended public access to the soaring, imitation Greek temple honouring Lord Durham.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/Postmedia-News--Monument-honouring-Lord-Durham-bec]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: In Halifax, battle lines drawn in controversy over views and vistas ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For nearly 40 years, the views of downtown Halifax from the city’s historic Citadel Hill have been held sacred, with Haligonians protecting sweeping vistas of their harbour and the peninsula with a series of strict rules. But significant change is in the wind.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/The-Globe-and-Mail--In-Halifax,-battle-lines-drawn]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: History of Canadian Constitution has been ‘badly mangled,’ says former N.L. premier]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Former Newfoundland and Labrador premier Brian Peckford, a key player in the negotiations that led to the patriation of Canada’s Constitution and the adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms 30 years ago, says the history of how the landmark deal was struck has become “badly mangled and distorted” and requires a major rewrite.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/Postmedia-News--History-of-Canadian-Constitution-h]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Yes, Virginia, the Titanic was a real thing]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Kids these days were sailing along through life just fine thinking that James Cameron’s 1997 epic Titanic was a grandiose, if cheesy, love story set on a fictional ship, but with all the news of the disaster’s 100th anniversary came the iceberg of truth — and embarrassing admissions such as this one: “I didn’t know Titanic actually happened, thought it was just a film.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/The-Globe-and-Mail--Yes,-Virginia,-the-Titanic-was]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Constitutional ‘divisions’ keep Harper from celebrating charter]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Conservative government has been notably silent on the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and Stephen Harper says there’s a reason for that.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/CBC-News--Constitutional-‘divisions’-keep-Harper-f]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Conservatives won’t hold formal event to mark Constitution’s 30th birthday]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Harper government says it will mark the 30th anniversary of the patriation of the Constitution – by issuing a couple of news releases.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/The-Canadian-Press--Conservatives-won’t-hold-forma]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Group of Seven and Thomson paintings found at garage sale]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A bargain hunter cruising a Vancouver garage sale has hit the jackpot after spending $100 on artworks that turned out to be by two iconic Canadian painters and are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/CBC-News--Group-of-Seven-and-Thomson-paintings-fou]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Niagara This Week: A look at the printing press]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Grimsby Historical Society has invited a spokesperson for the Mackenzie Printery & Newspaper Museum to give a talk on the history of printing in early Upper Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/Niagara-This-Week--A-look-at-the-printing-press]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: In Manitoba, the mother of all trading posts]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[York Factory, the Hudson’s Bay Company’s biggest and most-fought-over northern trading post, was the headquarters of a fur-trading empire that spread across 3.3 million square kilometres.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/The-Globe-and-Mail--In-Manitoba,-the-mother-of-all]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Tale of Titanic an effective tool for teaching modern lessons]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As the old adage goes, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and for some enterprising authors the tragic sinking of the Titanic represents the perfect tool with which to frame that lesson.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/CBC-News--Tale-of-Titanic-an-effective-tool-for-te]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: Students remember Vimy Ridge]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Like many of the 5,000 other students who gathered at Vimy Ridge, France, to mark the battle’s 95th anniversary, Robert Sweeny had been given a school project months ago — to research two soldiers from the First World War.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Agence France-Presse: Trove of 200,000 Titanic records goes online]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A website has published more than 200,000 documents relating to the sinking of the Titanic to mark the disaster’s 100th anniversary.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/Agence-France-Presse--Trove-of-200,000-Titanic-rec]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Titanic auctions feeding interest in artifacts from iconic shipwreck]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Anything and everything with a genuine link to the world’s most famous shipwreck catastrophe seems to be up for grabs in time for the 100th anniversary of the RMS Titanic’s first and last voyage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Vimy Ridge ceremony draws thousands of Canadians]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Thousands of Canadian students joined the Governor General and the minister of veterans affairs in France to mark the 95th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/CBC-News--Vimy-Ridge-ceremony-draws-thousands-of-C]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Canada’s railway magnate was convinced he would be rescued from Titanic]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Shortly before retiring to his first-class cabin on the Titanic on the night of April 14, 1912, Charles Melville Hays offered a fellow passenger a chillingly timely prophecy about the intense trans-Atlantic steamship rivalry then under way between the White Star, Cunard and Hamburg-American lines.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/Postmedia-News--Canada’s-railway-magnate-was-convi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Ottawa woman alone survives Titanic sinking from her group in steerage]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Mariana Assaf was rescued from a lifeboat she’d been shoved into barely an hour before the world’s largest and most famous passenger ship, the Titanic, disappeared into the depths of the North Atlantic.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/Postmedia-News--Ottawa-woman-alone-survives-Titani]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Vimy Ridge’s shock and awe remembered]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Monday April 9, 2012, marks the 95th anniversary of the beginning of the battle of Vimy Ridge.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/CBC-News--Vimy-Ridge’s-shock-and-awe-remembered]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Titanic sinking foretold in fictional accounts years before disaster]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Titanic’s plunge into the frigid Atlantic was predicted several years before the disaster — not by an oracle or in a conspiracy theory but in seemingly innocuous works of fiction about shipwrecks.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/CBC-News--Titanic-sinking-foretold-in-fictional-ac]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: Newfoundland students pay tribute to the fallen at Beaumont-Hamel]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It’s a battle sacred to Newfoundlanders yet virtually unknown to most other Canadians. But on Easter Sunday, students from across Canada joined together at Beaumont-Hamel, France, to ensure that the memory of the soldiers who fought and died at the 1916 battle would live on.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/Canada’s-History--Newfoundland-students-pay-tribut]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Budget crunch forced Vancouver museum to sell rare Titanic photo]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A haunting photograph of the Titanic, one of the last taken of the doomed ship, has been sold by the Vancouver Maritime Museum for a paltry $4,935.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/Postmedia-News--Budget-crunch-forced-Vancouver-mus]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Titanic disaster’s 100th anniversary a chance to commemorate — and capitalize ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking approaches, events across the world are being planned to commemorate the tragedy that took more than 1,500 lives.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/The-Globe-and-Mail--Titanic-disaster’s-100th-anniv]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Behind the closed doors of Toronto’s most stunning sacred spaces ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Historic treasures are hidden in holy houses across Toronto. Though many congregations are dwindling, and more than a few churches have been reincarnated as condominiums, some places of worship have proven to be protective refuges for things very much in the material realm.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/The-Globe-and-Mail--Behind-the-closed-doors-of-Tor]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: Young Canadians Cross Ocean to Remember Canada’s Veterans ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[They came from across Canada, 1,000 strong, to make a statement — we may be young, but we will remember.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/Canada’s-History--Young-Canadians-Cross-Ocean-to-R]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Diving into the lives of those on the Titanic]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It seems we can’t get enough of the Titanic. How else to explain, in the spate of books marking the centenary of its destruction April 14-15, 1912, that we have not one but two biographies of John “Jock” Law Hume?]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/Postmedia-News--Diving-into-the-lives-of-those-on-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: 140-year-old data taken by Canadian scientist sheds light on global warming]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Nearly 140 years after Canadian-born scientist John Murray began gathering the first comprehensive data on sea water temperatures around the world, a team of U.S. and British researchers has revisited the pioneering discoveries from the famous 1872-76 voyage of the HMS Challenger to create the clearest picture yet of the steady warming trend now threatening the planet's marine environment.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/April/Postmedia-News--140-year-old-data-taken-by-Canadia]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Landmark book about New France up for auction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A rare, 268-year-old first edition of a landmark book of Canadian history — one credited, in fact, with profoundly changing Canadian history after it was published in 1744 — is heading to auction in the U.S. and is expected to fetch up to $10,000.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Postmedia-News--Landmark-book-about-New-France-up-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Canada’s History: New sponsor for museums history award]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new sponsor has signed on in support of the Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Museums: History Alive! Ecclesiastical Insurance Ltd will work with the Canadian Museums Association to present the award, which became part of the Canada’s History Awards program in 2011.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Canada’s-History--New-sponsor-for-museums-history-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Government will designate military events, sites, groups as historic]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The federal government, which has been promoting the bicentennial of the War of 1812, is placing even more emphasis on military history by designating a number of sites, events and groups as historic.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/The-Canadian-Press--Government-will-designate-mili]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Cowichan sweaters: From raw wool to cherished keepsake]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Cowichan elder May Sam is one of several dozen knitters on Vancouver Island who produce durable, weatherproof sweaters in the traditional fashion.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/The-Globe-and-Mail--Cowichan-sweaters--From-raw-wo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Judges must consider history when sentencing aboriginals, Supreme Court rules ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Releasing rulings in a pair of much-anticipated cases that go to the heart of separate treatment for aboriginal offenders, the Supreme Court of Canada said considering factors such as cultural oppression and a history of abuse in the residential school system must be central to the sentencing process.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/The-Globe-and-Mail--Judges-must-consider-history-w]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Canada’s Francis Drake connection being overshadowed, author says]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[With the U.S. government poised to declare a Northern California bay the “official” 1579 landing site of the famous English explorer Sir Francis Drake — who is known to have anchored and repaired the Golden Hind that year somewhere along the U.S. Pacific Coast during his epic circumnavigation of the globe — the question arises: is Canada missing the boat on a landmark moment in world history?]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Postmedia-News--Canada’s-Francis-Drake-connection-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CTV News: Calgary’s Heritage Park serves lockout notice]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Heritage Park, Canada’s largest living history museum and based in Calgary, served its security personnel a 72-hour lockout notice as required by the Labour Relations Code.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/CTV-News--Calgary’s-Heritage-Park-serves-lockout-n]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Interior designers find the value in being true to form ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Granite countertops have no place in a mid-century modern home. Neither do painted brick, vinyl windows, a spa bathroom, or “poufy Roman shades,” for that matter. So say Michelle Gringeri-Brown and Jim Brown — creators of the hit quarterly magazine Atomic Ranch — in their newly released book, Atomic Ranch: Midcentury Interiors.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/The-Globe-and-Mail--Interior-designers-find-the-va]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: King biography makes Dafoe prize shortlist]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Winnipeg historian’s literary take on Canada’s longest-serving prime minister has been shortlisted for the 2012 John W. Dafoe Book Prize.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Winnipeg-Free-Press--King-biography-makes-Dafoe-pr]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Canada Post to mark Titanic anniversary with new set of stamps]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Five stamps commemorating the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic will be released by Canada Post on April 5.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/The-Canadian-Press--Canada-Post-to-mark-Titanic-an]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: A relic of Captain Cook makes its way home ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A small, hand-carved ceremonial club that Captain James Cook collected on Vancouver Island while searching for the Northwest Passage has been returned to the West Coast after a 234-year absence.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/The-Globe-and-Mail--A-relic-of-Captain-Cook-makes-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Butchered sloth bone lends more evidence to early North American settlement]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Canadian scientist’s analysis of ancient animal remains found in Ohio — including the leg bone of an extinct giant sloth believed to have been butchered by an Ice Age hunter more than 13,000 years ago — has added weight to a once-controversial argument that humans arrived in North America thousands of years earlier than previously believed.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Postmedia-News--Butchered-sloth-bone-lends-more-ev]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Government announces funding for War of 1812 bicentennial]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian government has announced close to $5 million in funding for 24 projects commemorating this year’s bicentennial of the War of 1812, including almost $1 million to help create a series of interactive exhibits at Vancouver’s Canada Place to “bring the heroes and stories of the War of 1812 to life” more than 3,000 kilometres west of the conflict’s most famous battlegrounds in southern Ontario.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Postmedia-News--Government-announces-funding-for-W]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Viking invasions brought mice everywhere, except Canada]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An international team of scientists has determined that the Viking invasions throughout the North Atlantic world more than 1,000 years ago were accompanied in almost every case by the introduction of common house mice to the newly established Norse colonies — with the lone exception of Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Postmedia-News--Viking-invasions-brought-mice-ever]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Norwegians set to repatriate Maud after reversing export permit refusal]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The summer of 2013 could see the ship known as the Maud, designed and sailed by famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, raised from the bottom of the Nunavut harbour and floated back to the country of her birth after Jan Wangaard persuaded the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board to reverse an earlier decision denying an export permit.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/The-Globe-and-Mail--Norwegians-set-to-repatriate-M]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: Canadian and Civil War History in Jacksonville, Florida]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As Canadians race along Interstate 95 through Jacksonville, many passing over the St. Johns River and bound for south Florida, they likely have no idea the wide waterway conceals a bit of Canadian history and a huge cache of Civil War artifacts.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Toronto-Star--Canadian-and-Civil-War-History-in-Ja]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Agence France-Presse: Norway wants Arctic explorer Amundsen’s ship back]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Norwegian group has asked the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board to revisit a decision in December denying an export permit for Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen’s three-mast ship Maud from the Arctic, after residents of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, opposed losing a treasured artifact that has become a tourist attraction in the far north.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Agence-France-Presse--Norway-wants-Arctic-explorer]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Madonna to play the hallowed ground of the Plains of Abraham ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As one of the most historic spots in Canada, the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City has long maintained a strict policy to ban commercial, for-profit activities from its hallowed ground. But come September, it will be making an exception — and for none other than the Material Girl.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/The-Globe-and-Mail--Madonna-to-play-the-hallowed-g]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: New dinosaur species help scientists fill in evolutionary gaps]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A team of five Canadian scientists has identified two new species of dinosaurs from the famous fossil beds of southern Alberta, including one that points to the pivotal North American evolution of a family of pint-sized, plant-eating creatures related to the triceratops.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Postmedia-News--New-dinosaur-species-help-scientis]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Ottawa’s Lansdowne Park plan called ‘bland, characterless’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A national group of architects is upset over the updated plan for Ottawa’s Lansdowne Park, claiming it is bland, lacks character and is missing key pieces from its original plan. A letter to Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says the park’s latest blueprints are missing sculptures, a public space and a historical walk.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/CBC-News--Ottawa’s-Lansdowne-Park-plan-called-‘bla]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: The myth of 1812: How Canadians see the war we want to see]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two hundred years ago this June, the still-new nation of the United States reopened hostilities against its bothersome British adversaries, and the War of 1812 began its long march into Canadian history. Recently, on a bitingly cold, sleet-filled day, a University of Guelph lecture-hall complex played the part of an 1812 marketplace.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/The-Globe-and-Mail--The-myth-of-1812--How-Canadian]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Celebrated Gatineau Hills residence threatened with demolition]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In the 1960s, it was a hub for parties, music and intense discussion. Guests included U.S. architect Buckminster Fuller, developer of the geodesic dome, and prominent Canadian artists Michael Snow, Jack Shadbolt and Eleanor Milne. Pierre Trudeau, then Canada’s justice minister, performed elegant late-night dives into the cliffside pool. But today, the house in Aylmer, Que., is boarded up and at risk of demolition by the National Capital Commission.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Ottawa-Citizen--Celebrated-Gatineau-Hills-residenc]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Admirers raise funds to save house of Canadian literary giant, Al Purdy]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The house that was constructed and inhabited for more than 40 years by one of Canada’s finest poets, Al Purdy, soon may be lost to the public, even demolished. Efforts to preserve it have so far failed to raise enough cash.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Postmedia-News--Admirers-raise-funds-to-save-house]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Friends of Upper Fort Garry seek city’s blessing for parking lot]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Four years after dissuading the city from allowing an apartment tower to rise at Winnipeg’s birthplace, the Friends of Upper Fort Garry want to use the same land as a temporary surface parking lot.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Winnipeg-Free-Press--Friends-of-Upper-Fort-Garry-s]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Montreal’s Habitat 67 wins Lego contest]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A quirky Montreal landmark has won an international competition among Lego enthusiasts. Designed by Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie, the Habitat 67 housing complex is a unique project built for the city’s world’s fair in 1967. It was declared a historic site by Quebec in 2009.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/The-Canadian-Press--Montreal’s-Habitat-67-wins-Leg]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/CBC-News--Canadian-WWII-headstones-smashed-in-Liby]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Canadian WWII headstones smashed in Libya melee]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The headstone of a Canadian airman killed in the Second World War was among hundreds smashed in Benghazi, Libya, after a mob angered by the accidental burning of Qur'ans by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan vandalized a Commonwealth cemetery.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/CBC-News--Canadian-WWII-headstones-smashed-in-Liby]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Toronto-Star--Humanity’s-earliest-ancestor-looked-]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: Humanity’s earliest ancestor looked like tiny eel, study finds]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Humankind’s earliest ancestor was a bottom feeder with a primitive backbone — not unlike some who walk the earth today — that swam off Canada’s west coast more than 500 million years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Toronto-Star--Humanity’s-earliest-ancestor-looked-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Shining light on a dark secret: The internment of Italian-Canadians]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In the early hours of June 10, 1940, RCMP officers began rounding up 44 Italian-Canadian men in Vancouver. Canada was at war with Italy, and these men were declared enemy aliens and sent to an internment camp in Kananaskis, Alta. More than 600 Italian Canadians were interned across the country.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/The-Globe-and-Mail--Shining-light-on-a-dark-secret]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/National-Post--Iceland-Canada-connection-has-a-lot]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[National Post: Iceland-Canada connection has a lot to do with Manitoba]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Before Gimli was Gimli, Manitoba, it was known as New Iceland, a name you won’t find in too many Canadian history textbooks, but one most Icelanders know well.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/National-Post--Iceland-Canada-connection-has-a-lot]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/The-Globe-and-Mail--Prestige-returning-to-Old-Mont]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Prestige returning to Old Montreal ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The 350-year-old cobblestone streets of Old Montreal are always good for a romantic walk, but these days they hold some of Canada’s hottest commercial real estate opportunities.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/The-Globe-and-Mail--Prestige-returning-to-Old-Mont]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Postmedia-News--Book-reveals-link-between-Lindberg]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Book reveals link between Lindbergh kidnapping, Parliament fire]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The author of a new book about the history of Parliament Hill has discovered a startling connection between the 1916 fire that consumed the original Centre Block of the national legislature and the infamous Lindbergh kidnapping of 1932.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Postmedia-News--Book-reveals-link-between-Lindberg]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Oakville-Beaver--Town-recognizes-its-preservers-of]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Oakville Beaver: Town recognizes its preservers of the past]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Oakville, Ontario’s protectors and preservers of local heritage were honoured at the 2011 Ontario Heritage Trust Awards ceremony.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Oakville-Beaver--Town-recognizes-its-preservers-of]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Postmedia-News--War-Museum-obtains-Victoria-Cross-]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: War Museum obtains Victoria Cross awarded to fearless medic]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Victoria Cross symbolizing the “absolute fearlessness” of a Canadian medic from the First World War has been acquired by the Canadian War Museum, which now possesses more than one-third of the 94 VCs — historically, the country’s highest award for bravery — ever granted to Canadian soldiers.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/March/Postmedia-News--War-Museum-obtains-Victoria-Cross-]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--Canadians-need-an-aboriginal-h]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Canadians need an aboriginal history lesson]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Among the 20 recommendations recently released by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigating the residential schools scandal, those directed to teaching the history of the period garnered the most attention. The recommendations join a long list of occasions during which Canadians have been reminded of how their educational system is letting them down when it comes to teaching them about their country’s past, says J.D.M. Stewart.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--Canadians-need-an-aboriginal-h]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Petrolia-Topic--Volunteer-honoured-for-heritage-wo]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Petrolia Topic: Volunteer honoured for heritage work]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A passion for history and sharing it with others was recognized and rewarded when heritage work volunteer Bettylou Snetselaar received an Ontario Heritage Trust Heritage Community Recognition Award in the Lifetime Achievement category.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Petrolia-Topic--Volunteer-honoured-for-heritage-wo]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/National-Post--MacDonald-clan-photos-found-by-grea]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[National Post: MacDonald clan photos found by great-great grandson in antique shop]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Wayne MacDonald, an administrator at the University of Alberta, was in Winnipeg for a conference and dressed for warmer weather when the snow struck. To escape it he stepped into an antique store, where he spotted a stack of black and white photographs in Edwardian and Victorian frames. The faces staring up at him belonged to his long dead relatives, an influential Halifax clan of MacDonalds bound by marriage, friendship and political alliance to Sir Charles Tupper.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/National-Post--MacDonald-clan-photos-found-by-grea]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Owen-Sound-Sun-Times--Unique-information-compiled-]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Owen Sound Sun Times: Unique information compiled for journals on black history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The information being compiled each year and released at the annual Grey County Black History Event is like nothing else available in Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Owen-Sound-Sun-Times--Unique-information-compiled-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: After 88 years, Victoria’s Blue Bridge comes down ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Johnson Street Bridge, better known as the Blue Bridge, a long-time Victoria landmark designed by the same man responsible for the Golden Gate Bridge, is to be replaced. Crowds gathered in a downpour to witness the first stage of demolition, the removal of a parallel railroad deck.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--After-88-years,-Victoria’s-Blu]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Vancouver-Sun--Spring-break-with-a-twist-of-ski-hi]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun: Spring break with a twist of ski history]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[This ski season is extra-special, as it includes the celebration of 50 years of skiing in the community of Fernie, B.C.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Vancouver-Sun--Spring-break-with-a-twist-of-ski-hi]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Ottawa, churches withholding documents, residential schools commission says ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ottawa is restricting access to federal archives and withholding several key documents on church-run residential schooling, says the Truth and Reconciliation Commission charged with exposing the dark legacy of this period in aboriginal education.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--Ottawa,-churches-withholding-d]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Black Loyalist museum rising from ashes in Birchtown]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Black Loyalist Heritage Society in Birchtown, N.S., has gathered more than $4 million to build a new interpretive centre.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/CBC-News--Black-Loyalist-museum-rising-from-ashes-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Fabled ex-Canadian frigate turned luxury yacht opens to London sightseers]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Nearly 70 years after it joined the D-Day armada across the English Channel and helped launch the liberation of Europe, a Canadian frigate from the Second World War is back in British waters and open to sightseers at its London mooring for hour-long tours at 15 British pounds a pop.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Postmedia-News--Fabled-ex-Canadian-frigate-turned-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: A Toronto condo hemmed in by heritage ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It’s not entirely bad that Toronto’s insistence on “contextualism” is continuing to remind developers and architects of what their forerunners got right a hundred years ago. The problem with contextualism is that contemporary Toronto architects, while they ought to be good students of the things that have historically made cities work well, should be able to design mid-rises and high-rises without having to worry about forcing their new buildings to curtsey to old ones, says John Bentley Mays.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--A-Toronto-condo-hemmed-in-by-h]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Langley Times: Seniors’ book celebrates food heritage]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Reminiscences, Recipes and Remedies is a compilation of 39 Langley, B.C., authors who dish out words about food heritage.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Langley-Times--Seniors’-book-celebrates-food-herit]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: In Paris, Ont., Drew Skuce finds good karma in old stuff ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[“I like owning this business,” says Drew Skuce after showing off his tidy workshop, Paradigm Shift Customs, where pieces of architectural heritage – windows, mostly – are brought back to life. Skuce is quietly making a name for himself in heritage circles.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--In-Paris,-Ont-,-Drew-Skuce-fin]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Writing prize taps Trudeau, Macdonald biographies]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Biographies of Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and one of the most controversial, Pierre Trudeau, are vying for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/CBC-News--Writing-prize-taps-Trudeau,-Macdonald-bi]]></link>     
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Postmedia-News--New-research-on-origins-of-life-cr]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: New research on origins of life credits long-dead Canadian]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An international team of researchers advancing a new theory about the primordial soup that gave rise to life has paid homage to the “brilliance” of a long-dead Canadian scientist whose insights in the 1920s presciently framed this century’s search for the ultimate origin of species.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Postmedia-News--New-research-on-origins-of-life-cr]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: P.E.I. Lighthouses find new champion]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A P.E.I. man is trying to rally a whole new group of Islanders to preserve the province's lighthouses.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/CBC-News--P-E-I--Lighthouses-find-new-champion]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: The War of 1812: Stupid but important]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The War of 1812 saw the last foreign invasion on Canadian soil. Jeremy Diamond and Davida Aronovitch say it had important effects on geography, people and history.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--The-War-of-1812--Stupid-but-im]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Halifax Chronicle Herald: Halifax honours Titanic centenary ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Halifax is ready for an influx of Titanic enthusiasts and international media this April. The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the famous ocean liner will be commemorated with Titanic Eve — Night of the Bells at Grand Parade on April 14 and an afternoon ceremony on April 15.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Halifax-Chronicle-Herald--Halifax-honours-Titanic-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Petrolia Topic: Natural Resources Minister told Lambton was ‘first’ with oil ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Lambton County, Ontario’s cultural services general manager Robert Tremain didn’t miss an opportunity to set the record straight with federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver after his ministry issued a news release in which the minister stated Imperial Oil’s Leduc No. 1 discovery of crude oil near Leduc, Alberta, 65 years ago “was when Canada’s modern oil industry was born.”]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Petrolia-Topic--Natural-Resources-Minister-told-La]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: In Lunenburg, a new Bluenose gets set for sea]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Bluenose II, the “namesake daughter” of the legendary vessel that gave Canada a sports rivalry with the Americans long before Olympic hockey, was in dire need of repair. Now, work on the hull is complete and the shipwrights’ efforts are focused on laying the top deck of Douglas fir and building the cabins and rooms inside the ship.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--In-Lunenburg,-a-new-Bluenose-g]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: B.C. stone circle a result of natural forces: scientists]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[On a remote, windswept ridge high above the treeline in the Coast Mountains of southwestern B.C., the dull hues of a brownish-green plateau suddenly give way to a bright-white, 50-metre-wide circle of stone. Two scientists from Canada and Britain concluded that the stone circle is the result of natural forces, an extraordinarily geometric gift left in the wake of a retreating glacier about 10,000 years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Postmedia-News--B-C--stone-circle-a-result-of-natu]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Canada’s advertising history no longer collecting dust]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new movement to organize and preserve Canada’s marketing history has taken a step forward: Pirate Toronto has donated a massive catalogue of about 50,000 pieces of advertising to McMaster University in Hamilton, creating the largest industry archive in Canada.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--Canada’s-advertising-history-n]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: War of 1812 important because it kept out U.S. politics – and Snooki: poll ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new survey suggests Canadians and Americans have vastly divergent attitudes towards the border war that broke out in 1812 and bumbled along for three years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/The-Canadian-Press--War-of-1812-important-because-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Edmonton Sun: Alberta man was inspiration for museum]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A well-known Wetaskiwin, Alberta, figure who dedicated his life to preserving Alberta’s agricultural and industrial history has died at the age of 88. Stanley Reynolds is credited with helping to preserve Alberta’s heritage through aviation, industrial and agricultural artifacts.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Edmonton-Sun--Alberta-man-was-inspiration-for-muse]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Laurentian University architecture school preserves heritage building]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of Sudbury, Ontario’s oldest downtown buildings will become part of a new school of architecture.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/CBC-News--Laurentian-University-architecture-schoo]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Paleontologists reveal ancient Arctic ecosystem teeming with life]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Two Canadian scientists have completed a comprehensive portrait of the lush, rainforest-like ecosystem — populated by prehistoric creatures akin to alligators, hippos and flying lemurs — that prevailed some 40 million years ago in what is now Canada’s northernmost land mass: Ellesmere Island.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Postmedia-News--Paleontologists-reveal-ancient-Arc]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Canadian researcher hails discovery as new ‘way to approach paleontology’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hailed as a “first ever” discovery in dinosaur science, a Canadian paleontologist has used fossilized skin rather than bone to differentiate between two species of hadrosaurs — also known as duck-billed dinosaurs — from Alberta and Mongolia.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Postmedia-News--Canadian-researcher-hails-discover]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Census: We’ve come a long way since the days of Sir John A.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The newly revealed Canadian population of 33.5 million would have seemed startlingly large to the country's founding father, Sir John A. Macdonald, who led about one-tenth that many people — some 3.4 million souls — into Confederation in 1867.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Postmedia-News--Census--We’ve-come-a-long-way-sinc]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Black history month a time to remember Joe Fortes]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ninety years ago, Vancouver bade farewell to its favourite citizen with a funeral larger than had ever been held in the city. At the age of 58, Seraphim Fortes, known to locals as Joe, had died of pneumonia and a stroke.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--Black-history-month-a-time-to-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Hockey documentary relives the 1896 Winnipeg Victorias’ Stanley Cup win]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When the hockey puck dropped on February 14, 1896, no one was able to capture the historical game on film. But Winnipeg’s Farpoint Films is set to help relive that moment with a new documentary.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/CBC-News--Hockey-documentary-relives-the-1896-Winn]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Event that wiped out much of Earth’s biology happened slowly: study]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fresh evidence gathered from ancient rocks on an Ellesmere Island fiord has led a 14-member international scientific team — including a University of Calgary researcher — to conclude that the greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history unfolded slowly, possibly over a period of hundreds of thousands of years.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Postmedia-News--Event-that-wiped-out-much-of-Earth]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Through a glass, smartly: Beer today, but not gone tomorrow ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Larry Sherk is one of the world’s foremost brewerianists, a collector of beer stuff who over 40 years has amassed the country’s second-largest private collection of beer labels (about 3,000), many of which date to the late 1800s.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/The-Globe-and-Mail--Through-a-glass,-smartly--Beer]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Rare chronicle of ill-fated Arctic voyage heads to auction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A rare, 158-year-old book detailing the ill-fated, 19th-century voyage of the Franklin Expedition search vessel HMS Investigator — illustrated with eight famous images by one of the ship’s senior officers — has come to auction in Britain, where it’s expected to sell for about $20,000.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/Postmedia-News--Rare-chronicle-of-ill-fated-Arctic]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Stamp honours ex-slave as Alberta pioneer]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada Post is issuing new stamps to mark Black History Month, including one that honours a former American slave who became a pioneer of Alberta’s ranching industry.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/February/CBC-News--Stamp-honours-ex-slave-as-Alberta-pionee]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Evidence for cause of ‘Little Ice Age’ found in Canada’s North]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Melting icefields on Baffin Island, one of the clearest signs of climate change on Earth today, have yielded the strongest evidence yet for the timing and cause of another major climate event from the planet’s past: the so-called Little Ice Age, a sudden and mysterious cooling of the globe that began about 700 years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/Postmedia-News--Evidence-for-cause-of-‘Little-Ice-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Chief Tecumseh may get museum in his honour]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A group in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, wants to build an outdoor museum to celebrate Chief Tecumseh. The $4-million interpretive centre would be built on the site of the Battle of the Thames, where the Shawnee chief was killed during the War of 1812.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/CBC-News--Chief-Tecumseh-may-get-museum-in-his-hon]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Toronto turning purple and green for celebration of War of 1812 bicentennial ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As a celebration to kick off the bicentennial of the War of 1812, Toronto declared January 28 Queen’s York Rangers Day. The Queen’s York Rangers, part of the Army Reserve formation for the GTA, are the regiment most associated with the War of 1812 — they built Fort York, were the first regiment in Toronto, and are credited with taking on a lion’s share of the war’s battles.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/The-Globe-and-Mail--Toronto-turning-purple-and-gre]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Maple Leaf Gardens time capsule offers peek at 1931]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A time capsule buried at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens in 1931 and newly revealed contains an NHL rule book, a municipal code and a tiny carved ivory elephant, the symbolism of which remains a mystery.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/CBC-News--Maple-Leaf-Gardens-time-capsule-offers-p]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Historic flag of War of 1812 flies again]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Windsor, Ontario’s Community Museum will feature an artifact that may have been part of one of the most significant battles fought during the War of 1812.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/CBC-News--Historic-flag-of-War-of-1812-flies-again]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: 1919 film gives insight into life in northern Canada]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A long-lost piece of Canadian cinematic history, rediscovered and repatriated from a British film archive 93 years after it captured some of the earliest footage of daily life in northern Canada, is being shown again in this country as part of a new documentary project that retraces a pioneering film crew's 1919 journey to fur-trading posts on Baffin Island and other remote locations.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/Postmedia-News--1919-film-gives-insight-into-life-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[BBC News: Arctic Canada caught on 1919 silent film]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of the world's early documentaries featured unique footage of the lives of Arctic fur trappers in 1919. After long being forgotten, it's now been restored for modern audiences in Canada, including communities descended from those featured in the silent film.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/BBC-News--Arctic-Canada-caught-on-1919-silent-film]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Toronto Star: Preservation advocates battle to save more than 500 ‘surplus’ lighthouses]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Covehead, directly north of Charlottetown and just down the road from Green Gables, is on what lighthouse preservation advocates call “The Doomsday List.” Along with more than 500 others, it is threatened with being sold off or torn down unless communities step in to save them.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/Toronto-Star--Preservation-advocates-battle-to-sav]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Alexander Graham Bell letter with sketch of telephone sells for $92,000]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A handwritten 134-year-old letter in which Canadian telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell sketches a “one-of-a-kind” picture of his invention has sold for more than $90,000 at a U.S. auction.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/Postmedia-News--Alexander-Graham-Bell-letter-with-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: CBC dismantling LP, CD archives]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The CBC is quietly dismantling its archives of LPs and CDs across Canada — a cultural treasure trove built over decades — even as it prepares to launch a major new music service online.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/The-Globe-and-Mail--CBC-dismantling-LP,-CD-archive]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Maclean’s: Sir John A.’s skills as a consensus builder are lost on our modern leaders]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Can Canadian politics learn anything from old dead prime ministers? Christopher Moore suggests considering how the first prime minister spent his 70th birthday.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/Maclean’s--Sir-John-A-’s-skills-as-a-consensus-bui]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail: Vancouver universities to get $1.7-million Videomatica film collection ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The owners of Vancouver’s beloved and now defunct video rental institution Videomatica have ensured that their enormous and historically important collection will remain intact. The $1.7-million collection of classic, Canadian, foreign, rare, and other films will be housed and preserved by the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, in a donation/purchase deal brokered by one of the city’s leading philanthropists.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/The-Globe-and-Mail--Vancouver-universities-to-get-]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Waterloo Record: War of 1812 celebrations to include dance, stories and presentations]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The War of 1812 may have been 200 years and 100 kilometres removed from Ontario’s Waterloo Region and Wellington County, but the bicentennial of this conflict from Canada’s early history is landing there with a bang, thanks to academic ponderings, myth-busting, imaginings, costumes and dancing.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/Waterloo-Record--War-of-1812-celebrations-to-inclu]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Benjamin West portrait leaves Halifax for auction block]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[He created what may be Canada's single most important artwork — the National Gallery’s The Death of General Wolfe — and now a 232-year-old self-portrait painted by the renowned Anglo-American artist Benjamin West is set to leave the country after spending much of the past century in a posh Halifax social club.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/Postmedia-News--Benjamin-West-portrait-leaves-Hali]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Metro Winnipeg: University of Manitoba seeks funds to hang heritage artwork]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The University of Manitoba could get a grant of $10,000 from the city of Winnipeg to help pay for the installation of a work of art that once hung in the city’s airport terminal.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/Metro-Winnipeg--University-of-Manitoba-seeks-funds]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Volcanic mercury contributed to mass global extinction, Canadian scientists discover]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canadian scientists probing ancient chemical deposits on the shores of a High Arctic lake have shed new light on the greatest mass extinction in Earth history — the “Great Dying” that wiped out about 90 per cent of the planet’s species 250 million years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/Postmedia-News--Volcanic-mercury-contributed-to-ma]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Lighthouse deadline approaching]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Dozens of lighthouses on P.E.I. could be demolished after they are decommissioned by the federal government if no one steps up to care for them before May 31.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/CBC-News--Lighthouse-deadline-approaching]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Eighteenth-century clock returned to P.E.I.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A clock owned by one of P.E.I.’s first Loyalist settlers has come home to Summerside. The 238-year-old mahogany grandfather clock, with a hand-painted face, is on display in the foyer of Summerside City Hall.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/CBC-News--Eighteenth-century-clock-returned-to-P-E]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[CBC News: Canada’s first licensed airfield celebrates 85th year]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Canada’s first licensed airfield — located in Edmonton’s city centre — is celebrating its 85th anniversary.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/CBC-News--Canada’s-first-licensed-airfield-celebra]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: 2012 a historic year for prairie agriculture]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It has been 200 years since the arrival of the Selkirk Settlers, transplanted Scots who faced starvation after they were displaced from their traditional lands by sheep. And this April marks the 100th anniversary of the Canada Grain Act, which established what we now know as the Canadian Grain Commission.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[https://www.greatwaralbum.ca/Community/News/News/English/2012/January/Winnipeg-Free-Press--2012-a-historic-year-for-prai]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Quebec outcry spiked Feds' plan to sell Pellan paintings]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Conservative government quietly planned to sell a pair of historic paintings by Quebec modern master Alfred Pellan after replacing them with a portrait of the Queen in the main reception area at the Department of Foreign Affairs. But it appears that after a public outcry in Quebec over the switch, the plan to sell the valuable works was spiked.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Lake Huron ‘lost world’ theory boosted by find]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The recovery of a mysterious wooden pole at the bottom of Lake Huron is fuelling excitement among U.S. and Canadian researchers that they have found more evidence of a “lost world” of North American caribou hunters from nearly 10,000 years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Winnipeg Free Press: Flood of 2011 was not that unusual after all, researcher argues]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In her exhaustively researched new book Wet Prairie: People, Land and Water in Agricultural Manitoba, environmental historian Shannon Stunden Bower chronicles how the province has always struggled with the competing responsibilities to create drainage to protect upstream private property and to deal with the consequences of that drainage for other private interests downstream.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: U.S. to commemorate British-Canadian soldiers killed during War of 1812 battle]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A magnanimous gesture by U.S. heritage advocates to commemorate enemy soldiers killed during a key War of 1812 battle on American soil is shedding fresh light on the sacrifices of Canadian, British and First Nations troops in the cross-border conflict nearly 200 years ago.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Postmedia News: Long-lost twin emerges for National Gallery’s treasured ‘Ptarmigan Vase’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[It was hailed a year ago by Heritage Minister James Moore as a “unique” work of art with deep connections to Canadian history. The historical link remains, but it turns out the so-called “Ptarmigan Vase” — an elaborate vessel of silver, gold and copper that was purchased by the National Gallery of Canada for a whopping $650,000 at an auction last January in New York — isn’t a one-of-a-kind treasure after all.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Ottawa Citizen: Museum of Civilization To Display Rare Watercolour of HMS Terror]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Museum of Civilization has acquired at auction in Britain a dramatic watercolour by the nineteenth-century Arctic explorer and artist Admiral Sir George Back, whose drawings and paintings are recognized as an invaluable visual record of the early exploration of the Canadian Arctic.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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