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Transcona
Transcona , city, SE Man., Canada. It is a suburb of Winnipeg.
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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