Canadian Museums
Canada has this number of federally funded national museums.
Nine
On August 22, the CBC re-broadcast this concert, originally viewed by a third of Canada's population
The Tragically Hip's final concert
The Mayfair holds the world record for the longest-running screenings of this cult classic
The Room
It is the 50th anniversary of this major international sporting event.
The Montreal Summer Olympics
This almost-king performed a surprise, secret after-party show at Oliver's Pub in 2002
Prince
This national organization is often credited with the beginning of Canada's museum history
The Geological Survey of Canada
The longest-running television series in Canadian history, its final broadcast was June 14, 2026
Hockey Night in Canada
Ottawatourism's Instagram touts the city as being the "future home" of this fictional character
Ilya Rozanov
It is the 150th anniversary of the passing of this Canadian federal law.
The Indian Act
This true comrade-in-chief was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1993
Mikhail Gorbachev
The oldest museum in Canada is located in this province
Québec
Chinese tourism to Atlantic Canada has significantly increased in the past decade thanks to the 2011 Mandarin translation of this Canadian classic
Anne of Green Gables
This was the most common cause of death of workers during the construction of the Rideau Canal
Malaria
It is the 150th anniversary of this historic treaty signing.
Treaty Six
This founding SNL cast member was a Carleton drop-out
Dan Ackroyd
This Canadian museum was the first to repatriate Indigenous objects to their source community
Canadian Museum of History
Billionaire Charles Bronfman originally financed this project after a survey showed poor historical knowledge among Canadians
Heritage Minutes
An Sparks street pub gets its name from this Father of Confederation, assassinated outside his boarding house on the same street
D'Arcy McGee
It is the 300th anniversary of this series of treaties.
The Peace and Friendship Treaties
This former Prime Minister became a professor at Carleton after retiring from his political career
Lester B. Pearson
A Government of Canada survey and estimates from the Canadian Museums Association estimate that Canadian institutions hold approximately this many Indigenous cultural artifacts and ancestral remains
6.7 million
One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, this Canadian won Best Actress in a Leading Role at the second ever Academy Awards, making her the first Canadian Oscars winner
Mary Pickford
Ottawa's first lesbian organization shared a name with this bird
LOON (Lesbians of Ottawa Now)
It is the 25th anniversary of this important event in Canadian space history.
The first spacewalk by a Canadian astronaut
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