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Shawinigan (/ ʃ ə ˈ w ɪ n ɪ ɡ ən /) is a city located on the Saint-Maurice River in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada. It had a population of 49,620 as of the 2021 Canadian census . Shawinigan is also a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and census division (CD) of Quebec , coextensive with the city of Shawinigan.
Brevoort Island is a small, uninhabited island located in the Davis Strait off the eastern coast of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Canada's territory of Nunavut. The island is a member of the Arctic Archipelago and lies north of Cape Murchison , opposite the Cumberland Peninsula .
Steinbach (/ ˈ s t aɪ n b æ k / ⓘ) is the third-largest city in the province of Manitoba, Canada, and with a population of 17,806, the largest community in the Eastman region. [3]
Welcome sign to Nain. On December 1, 2005, Nain became the administrative capital [17] of the autonomous region of Nunatsiavut which is the name chosen by the Labrador Inuit when the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act was successfully ratified by the Canadian Government and the Inuit of Labrador. [18]
Google Maps first started as a C++ program designed by two Danish brothers, Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, and Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, at the Sydney-based company Where 2 Technologies, which was founded in early 2003.
Lac de Gras is a lake approximately 300 kilometres (190 mi) north east of Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Lac de Gras was the centre of the diamond rush of the 1990s. There are two working, and one closed, diamond mines in the area, Diavik Diamond Mine , Ekati Diamond Mine , and the care and maintenance Snap Lake Diamond Mine .
Emily Stowe. The cause of women's suffrage began in 1876, when Dr. Emily Stowe came to Toronto to practice medicine. [8] She was the first, and for many years the sole, woman physician in Canada. [9]