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Transcona
Transcona , city, SE Man., Canada. It is a suburb of Winnipeg. ... Read more
Maritime Provinces
Maritime Provinces or Maritimes, Canada, term applied to Nova Scotia , New Brunswick , and Prince Edward Island , which before the formation of the Canadian confederation (1867) were politically distinct from Canada proper. ... Read more
Trans-Canada Highway
Trans-Canada Highway c.4,800 mi (7,700 km) long, S Canada; dedicated 1962; completed 1970. The world's longest national highway, it traverses North America from St. John's, N.L., to Victoria, British Columbia. Ferry routes form vital links at the eastern and western ends of the highway. The Alaska ... Read more
Alert
Alert , settlement, on Ellesmere Island, extreme N Nunavut Territory, Canada, on the Arctic Ocean. It is the most northerly permanent settlement in the world. The settlement has a radio and meteorological station and a landing strip operated jointly by Canada and the United States. ... Read more
Bathurst
Bathurst , city (1991 pop. 14,409), N N.B., Canada, on Chaleur Bay at the mouth of the Nepisiguit River. A popular beach resort, it also has 40% of Canada's reserves of lead, zinc, and silver. Its other industries include lumbering and shipbuilding. ... Read more
Moose Jaw
Moose Jaw city (1991 pop. 33,593), S central Sask., Canada. It is a railroad and distribution center, with oil refineries, meatpacking and dairy-processing plants, flour, lumber, and woolen mills, stockyards, and Canada's largest jet-training base. ... Read more
Saint Elias Mountains
Saint Elias Mountains section of the Coast Ranges, SW Yukon Territory, Canada, and SE Alaska, rising to 19,551 ft (5,959 m) at Mt. Logan, Canada's highest peak. Kluane National Park is there. ... Read more
Sudbury
Sudbury city (1991 pop. 92,884), central Ont., Canada. It is the center of Canada's largest mining region, which produces much of the world's nickel and large quantities of copper, platinum, gold, silver, cobalt, and sulfur. Laurentian Univ. (1960) is there. ... Read more
University of Winnipeg
University of Winnipeg at Winnipeg, Man., Canada; founded 1871. It achieved university status in 1967. It is controlled jointly by the provincial government of Manitoba and the United Church of Canada. It has faculties of arts and science and theology, an Institute of Urban Studies, and a Mennonite... Read more
Canada balsam
Canada balsam yellow, oily, resinous exudation obtained from the balsam fir . It is an oleoresin (see resin ) with a pleasant odor but a biting taste. It is a turpentine rather than a true balsam. On standing, the essential oil in Canada balsam evaporates, leaving behind the resin as a hard, tr... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "BBC Canada"

BBC PRONUNCIATION UNIT
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...and newsreaders, not for other BBC broadcasters, professional or...personal names and titles, the BBC uses the pronunciation preferred...such countries as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US...established gazetteers, and resident BBC colleagues. Names elsewhere...
Tyrone Guthrie
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Glasgow (1926). In 1928 the BBC produced two of Guthrie's radio...London. Guthrie soon left the BBC to become artistic director of...successfully produced by the BBC. Despite Guthrie's primary...popular history, "The Romance of Canada" (1930-1931). Upon returning...
Russell, Anna
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...obituaries, as London, Ontario, Canada. Citing her birth certificate...British Broadcasting Company (BBC) radio network. Russell was employed full-time by the BBC's education department, but...Russell and her mother fled to Canada in 1939 as World War II broke...
Political Warfare Executive
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...who returned to business in Canada soon after SOE was formed. PWE...Aldwych, beside the offices of the BBC that worked into Europe: contacts between PWE and the BBC were constant and necessary...say in forming the outlines of BBC broadcasts into occupied territory...
Lambert, R(ichard) S(tanton) (1894-?)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...published by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (1928-39), then moved to Canada where in 1943 he became supervisor of school broadcasts...the Listener, when one of the governors of the BBC concluded that an interest in the supernatural was...
Saint-Denis, Michel Jacques
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...working with the French section of the BBC during the war, as Jacques Duchesne...adjudicator of the Dominion Drama Festival in Canada, he also helped in the foundation of the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal in 1960, advising particularly...
Richard Hughes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1924. The latter experience cemented an association with the BBC that Hughes would enjoy all his life...on board and off. He also traveled to Canada, Africa, and the Balkans, always preferring...
Selvon, Sam
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...to find fame and fortune, or at least a bed, in the unknown terrain of Earls Court, Notting Hill, and Bayswater. Selvon also wrote many plays for BBC radio before leaving to settle in Canada in 1978. See also Black British literature .
RHOTIC AND NON-RHOTIC
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...communities in the English-speaking world are: (1) Rhotic. Canada; India; Ireland; south-western England; Scotland; the...and from China and Japan, as well as those who have RP ( BBC English) as their model tend to be nonrhotic. See R , R...

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Grierson, John
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...40; Film Commissioner of Canada, helped establish National Film Board of Canada, 1939–45; Co...Barbados (Wright) (pr) 1934 BBC: Droitwich (Watt) (pr...Weather Forecast (pr) 1935 BBC: The Voice of Britain (co...
Kris, Ernst (1900-1957)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...with the British Psycho-Analytical Society, and he worked with the BBC on the scientific analysis of Nazi propaganda. After 1940 he continued this propaganda work in Canada and the United States, where he settled in New York. In September 1940...
Leonard, Lawrence
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Leonard, Lawrence ( b London, 1925). Eng. conductor. Ass. cond. BBC Northern SO. Assoc. cond. Hallé 1964–6; cond. and mus. dir. Edmonton SO, Canada, 1969–74. Cond. f.p. in Eng. of West Side Story , 1958.
de Francia, Peter
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...service in the Second World War, at the Slade School. After working in Canada and the USA, 1948–51, he was in charge of planning and production of art programmes at BBC Television, 1951–3. Subsequently he taught at several...
Tretchikoff, Vladimir
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...Africa, he organized several tours of his work in Britain, Canada, and the USA between 1953 and 1973 (the peak period of his...several books and documentary films, including one for the BBC. To most critics, however, his work is excruciatingly vulgar...
Wordsworth, Barry
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Wordsworth, Barry ( b Worcester Park, Surrey, 1949). Eng. conductor. Freelance cond. of ballet in Amer. and Canada. Cond. BBC Concert Orch. 1989–91. Mus. dir. Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet from 1991. CG opera début 1991.

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Christian calling to take BBC's Gav to Canada.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales); 5/30/2008; 354 words ; ...2008 Championships. The former Chelsea and Newcastle striker is moving to Canada to study religion in preparation for a career in the church. Once he's hung up his BBC mike for the last time, the 40-year-old will emigrate with his wife and...
BBC Library Sales and Spafax Canada win major airline award in Seattle.
M2 Presswire; 10/11/2002; 700+ words ; M2 PRESSWIRE-11 October 2002-BBC: BBC Library Sales and Spafax Canada win major airline award in Seattle (C)1994...COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10112002 Programming from BBC Library Sales, a division of the corporation...
British Broadcasting Corporation BBC and SYSCO Food Services of Canada Named 2008 International ICF Prism Award Recipients.
Newspaper article from: Food Weekly News; 12/11/2008; 700+ words ; The BBC and SYSCO Food Services of Canada were recognized earlier...Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the ICF Annual...the industry, the BBC introduced coaching...Kelly, Director, BBC People. After a...have achieved in Canada, there is no doubt...
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and SYSCO Food Services of Canada Named 2008 International ICF Prism Award Recipients.
PR Newswire; 11/26/2008; 700+ words ; ...PRNewswire/ -- The BBC and SYSCO Food Services of Canada were recognized...Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the ICF Annual...the industry, the BBC introduced coaching...Kelly, Director, BBC People. After a...have achieved in Canada, there is no doubt...
Wales rugby summer tour of USA and Canada live on BBC Wales and S4C.
M2 Presswire; 5/15/2009; 700+ words ; ...rugby summer tour of USA and Canada live on BBC Wales and S4C(C)1994...Toronto in Scrum V Live: Canada v Wales on BBC Two Wales (kick-off 7...games on BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru. Live coverage of the Canada v Wales game on Saturday...
Olympic hopeful daley grabs gold in Canada after lifting BBC prize
Newspaper article from: Plymouth Evening Herald, The; 12/11/2007; 700+ words ; ...against a world-class field in Canada. Just hours after being unveiled as the BBC Young Sports Personality of...his award by video link from Canada on the Beeb's flagship programme...importance was greater at the Canada meet. Plymouth Diving's...
CINAR, BBC and HALO Explore Teenage Angst in Treasure-YTV to Broadcast in Canada.
Business Wire; 1/11/2000; 700+ words ; ...anticipated to air on BBC Primetime in late 2000...has been sold to YTV in Canada. CINAR has most worldwide...British audiences by the BBC, said David Ferguson...is our first official Canada-U.K co-production...Head of Animation for BBC Animation. CINAR Europe...
Broadcast giant BBC will make about 40 video news clips available daily in the US and Canada.(movements)
Magazine article from: Telecom Asia; 2/1/2006; 491 words ; * Broadcast giant BBC will make about 40 video news clips available daily in the US and Canada for Internet and mobile subscribers through a deal with ABC News.
RUGBY UNION: WALES v CANADA: MILLENNIUM STADIUM, TODAY, K.O. 4.30P M LIVE ON BBC 2 WALES FROM 4.15: JAMIE WARNING FOR CANADA: I'LL GET EVEN BETTER; Robinson ready to back up super show against Fiji.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 11/16/2002; 700+ words ; ...who wins his eighth Wales cap against Canada today. "I damaged my ankle ligaments...we will be looking to take the game to Canada. "They will ask questions of us in the...quick possession has been a problem. "Canada have players in their side who either...
RUGBY UNION: WALES v CANADA: MILLENNIUM STADIUM, TODAY, K.O. 4.30P M LIVE ON BBC 2 WALES FROM 4.15: Merv plea for Scott to have the final say.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 11/16/2002; 698 words ; ...play his final match for his country today when Wales take on Canada at the Millennium Stadium. The Lions back row star is planning...mind that dictates his decision." Ironically, it was against Canada that Quinnell made his debut for Wales in 1993. CAPTION(S...