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Ottawa
Ottawa ŏt´ewe , city (1991 pop. 313,987), capital of Canada, SE Ont., at the confluence of the Ottawa and Rideau rivers. Hull , Que., just across the Ottawa at the mouth of the Gatineau River, forms part of the metropolitan area. The Rideau Canal separates the city into upper and lower ...
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Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie , 1938-, Israeli-Canadian architect, b. Haifa. He grew up in Israel, moved to Canada with his family at 15, studied architecture at McGill Univ. and with Louis Kahn , and later opened an office in Montreal. Safdie attracted early acclaim as the designer of Montreal's revolutionary "H...
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British Library
British Library national library of Great Britain, located in London; one of the world's great libraries. Long a part of the British Museum , the library collection originated in 1753 when the government purchased the Harleian Library , which belonged to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton , and groups of m...
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catalog
catalog descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. BC The library at Pergamum also had a catalog. E...
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Library of Congress
Library of Congress national library of the United States, Washington, D.C., est. 1800. It occcupies three buildings on Capitol Hill: The Thomas Jefferson Building (1897), the John Adams Building (1938), and the James Madison Building (1981).
Thomas Jefferson while vice president was a prime m...
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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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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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University of Alberta
University of Alberta at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered 1906, opened 1908. It has faculties of arts, engineering, medicine, agriculture, law, dentistry, education, pharmacy and pharmaceutical science, science, graduate studies and research, business, and...
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Henry Stevens
Henry Stevens 1819-86, American bookdealer and bibliographer, b. Barnet, Vt. After attending college and law school, Stevens went to Europe as agent for several important libraries of the United States and remained in England to collect Americana for the British Museum. While there he made catalogs...
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Mesa Verde National Park
Mesa Verde National Park , 52,122 acres (21,109 hectares), SW Colorado; est. 1906. It includes the most notable and best-preserved cliff dwellings (see cliff dwellers ) and relics in the United States, covering four archaeological periods. There are museums and a library. Canyons of the Ancients Na...
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