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Excerpt: The first Europeans to inhabit what is now Canada came from Norse countries about 1000 AD to spend at least two winters at L’Anse aux Meadows, on the northwestern tip of Newfoundland.
Badley, Ken
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This forward, written ten years after the adoption of the Constitution of Canada, draws sharp comparisons between Canada’s constitution and the United States’ original governing document, the Articles of ...
Van Alstyne, William W.
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Current knowledge of the Canadian bristletail (Archaeognatha) fauna is summarized and compared with Tomlin’s 1979 chapter on the group in Canada and Its Insect Fauna. Since that time the number of species known from Canada has increased from three to eight. While much work remains to be done to document an estimated eight additional species from Canada,
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The Next Generation Very Large Array [PDF]
The next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) is a transformational radio observatory being designed by the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). It will provide order of magnitude improvements in sensitivity, resolution, and uv coverage over the current Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) at ~1.2-50 GHz and extend the frequency range up to 70-115
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Public servant schools in Canada: A concept for reconciliation [PDF]
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has called on federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments of Canada to educate public servants about the history and legacy of Indian residential schools and related topics, such as the ...
Weiler, Mark
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Exuberance, A Motivation for Language [PDF]
The following is part of the presidential address from Allen Walker Read, given before LACUS (Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States) at its annual meeting, August 7, 1987, at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is reprinted by
Read, Allen Walker
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Field-calibrated model of melt, refreezing, and runoff for polar ice caps : Application to Devon Ice Cap [PDF]
Acknowledgments R.M.M. was supported by the Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES). The field data collection contributed to the validation of the European Space Agency Cryosat mission and was supported by the Natural Sciences ...
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Theory @ Hard Probes 2015 [PDF]
Overview of the latest theory developments presented at the Hard Probes 2015 conference, held at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in July 2015.
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Toward the design principles of molecular machines [PDF]
Living things avoid equilibrium using molecular machines. Such microscopic soft-matter objects encounter relatively large friction and fluctuations. We discuss design principles for effective molecular machine operation in this unfamiliar context.
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My Encounters --- as a Physicist --- with Mathematics [PDF]
25th anniversary and new building dedication Centre de Recherches Math\'{e}matiques Montr\'{e}al, Canada, October ...
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